Connect Your Summer
Adult Writers' Group
Interested in writing? Join other adults to share your work, get feedback and discuss the craft of writing. We will meet on Saturday, July 28 from 2:00-3:00 PM.
Debut Novelists
Ready player one by Ernest Cline
The family Fang by Kevin Wilson
The tiger's wife: a novel by Téa Obreht
In Zanesville: a novel by Jo Ann Beard
Read a Book While Listening to Music
Read a book while listening to music to earn your Curtains Up badge. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to choose the perfect soundtrack for a book…[inspire by Kassy.Miller is licensed under CC BY-A 2.0]
Write It
Salad Days
Mediterranean fresh: a compendium of one-plate salad meals and mix-and-match dressings by Joyce Goldstein ; photography by Andre Baranowski ; food styling by Melissa Hamilton ; foreword by Dan Barber ; wine essay by Evan Goldstein
Home Improvement
52 weekend makeovers: easy projects to transform your home inside and out
52 weekend decorating projects: a do-it-yourself guide to adding style to your home by edited by Jean Nayar
Refresh your home: simple projects and tips to save money, update, and renovate by editors of the Family handyman
Recipe Exchange
Share your favorite recipes, or discover new ones.
Bring in several copies of your favorite recipe (printed out on an 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper and paper clipped together) to put in the Recipe Exchange kiosk located by the Reception Desk and earn your Chow Down badge. Look at the recipes others have left, and take home a new recipe or two.
If you prefer to share your recipe online, simply add the recipe in a comment to this blog post.
Bon Appetit!
Preserving Summer's Bounty
The preservation kitchen: the craft of making and cooking with pickles, preserves, and aigre-doux by Paul Virant with Kate Leahy
Can it, bottle it, smoke it: and other kitchen projects by Karen Solomon
Backyard harvest by Jo Whittingham
Fiction for Foodies
Baking cakes in Kigali: a novel by Gaile Parkin
Dolci di love: a novel by Sarah-Kate Lynch
Eat cake: a novel by Jeanne Ray
How to eat a cupcake: a novel by Meg Donohue
Emotional Well-Being Audiobooks
Anti-aging cures [sound recording]: life changing secrets to reverse the effects of aging: your key to the real fountain of youth by James Forsythe ; foreword by Suzanne Somers
Don't bite the hook [sound recording]: finding freedom from anger, resentment, and other destructive emotions by Pema Chödrön
Emotional freedom [sound recording]: [liberate yourself from negative emotions and transform your life] by Judith Orloff
Excuses begone! [sound recording]: how to change lifelong, self-defeating thinking habits by Wayne W. Dyer
Flourish [sound recording]: [a visionary new understanding of happiness and well-being] by Martin E.P. Seligman
Healing the shame that binds you [sound recording] by John Bradshaw
Healthy Cooking
Veggie burgers every which way by Lukas Volger ; photographs by Christina Heaston
The get healthy go vegan cookbook by Neal Barnard and Robyn Webb
Chloe's kitchen: 125 easy, delicious recipes for making the food you love the vegan way by Chloe Coscarelli ; foreword by Neal D.
Mysteries for Foodies
Sprinkle with murder by Jenn McKinlay
Chocolate chip cookie murder by Joanne Fluke
Devil's food: a Corinna Chapman mystery by Kerry Greenwood
A good day to pie: a pie shop mystery by Carol Culver
Travel to the Wild
National Geographic guide to national parks of the United States by [Thomas B. Allen ...
Films for Foodies
Ratatouille [videodisc] by Walt Disney Pictures presents a Pixar Animation Studios film
Babette's feast [videodisc] by Just Betzer, præsenterer ; en film af Gabriel Axel ; A-S Panorama Film International
Nina's heavenly delights [videodisc] by a Here! Films/ Regent release of a Scion Films and Scottish Screen production with Kali Films and Priority Pictures in association with Sky Movies present a Pratibha Parmar film
Just Grill It
Emeril at the grill: a cookbook for all seasons by Emeril Lagasse ; with photography by Steven Freeman
Veggie burgers every which way by Lukas Volger ; photographs by Christina Heaston
Good times, good grilling: surefire, fun food for great grill parties by Cheryl and Bill Jamison
Continental Cuisine
Cooking the West African way: revised and expanded to include new low-fat and vegetarian recipes by Bertha Vining Montgomery and Constance Nabwire
Simply Ming one-pot meals: quick, healthy & affordable recipes by Ming Tsai & Arthur Boehm
Madhur Jaffrey's step-by-step cooking: over 150 dishes from India and the Far East . by Jaffrey, Madhur
Chow Down Delights: The Year of Eating Dangerously
The year of eating dangerously: a global adventure in search of culinary extremes by Tom Parker Bowles — In this book, Bowles travels to ‘hot’ culinary locales around the world to sample the unique and sometimes bizarre cuisine. He examines the relativity of food and proclaims that "one man’s pea is another man’s tripe."
Read to Thorndyke
Read a Tumblebook
Read a story in a new way. Tumblebooks is an online database that contains hundreds of well loved children's books told in an animated, interactive format. Many contain games, quizzes or other activities at the conclusion of the story. You can access it from your home computer or iPad or here in the library. If you are reading here in the library don't forget to bring your headphones so you'll be able to listen to the story.
Baseball Reads for Kids
Batter Up! We've got a whole roster full of great reads for kids about America's Favorite Pastime. Check one out today before they're loooong gone.
The boys by Jeff Newman; illustrated by Jeff Newman
Baseball hour by Carol Nevius; illustrated by Bill Thomson
Watch me throw the ball! by Mo Willems







