Hanukkah begins at sundown on December 21. What exactly is Hanukkah, and how is it celebrated? And how and when is Kwanzaa celebrated? These stories and more can be found here at the library!
News from Screven
Want to see a movie, but don’t want to pay for those expensive theater tickets? Come to the library Fridays at 3:30 pm for Free Movie Fridays! This Friday, we’ll be seeing JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH with Brendon Frasier. Next week, it’s high-tech spy shenanigans with GET SMART. It’s on the big screen, and it’s free to all!
Tuesdays at 10 am, bring in the little ones to the library to enjoy our great storytimes! It’s a fun story and a creative craft every week, and it’s a lot of fun for the kids!
Come in and see the works of Dave Horn! He’s displaying his woodworking talents here at the library through the month of December, with everything from Christmas ornaments and manger scenes to plaques to let your nearest and dearest know that you’ve “Gone Fishing”.
News from Jenkins
Wednesdays at 4 pm, bring in the little ones to the library to enjoy our great storytimes! It’s a fun story and a creative craft every week! This Wednesday, December 10 we’ll be doing “12 Days to Christmas”, and next week, December 17 our theme will be “We can cook!”
Saturday, December 20 we're having a special double-feature program! It will start with author Bess Chappas signing and talking about her book "Kiki and the Red Shoes" and then will continue with a showing of the movie SAMANTHA: AN AMERICAN GIRL HOLIDAY. It'll be a lot of fun, and it starts at 12 noon at the Jenkins County Library!
Now, on to the books!
BIG SKY WINTER by Diana Palmer. Now together, two of Palmer’s best – RAWHIDE & LACE, in which a woman whose heart has been broken must save the rancher who had destroyed her life, and UNLIKELY LOVER in which a matchmaking aunt tricks an unsuspecting writer and an oilman into true love.
PALACE COUNCIL by Stephen L. Carter. In the summer of 1952, twenty men meet and form a plot to manipulate President Nixon. Soon after, Harlem writer Eddie Wesley finds the body of one of them. For the next 20 years, Eddie and his lady Aurelia dig for the truth… and try to solve the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Eddie’s sister.
DEATH ANGEL by Linda Howard. Drea Rousseau is a striking beauty with a taste for diamonds and dangerous men. After her last boyfriend, crime lord Rafael Salinas, tries to kill her, she turns to the FBI to help her escape his vengeance.
MORTGAGES FOR DUMMIES by Eric Tyson and Ray Brown. In these troubled times, many people are hesitant about getting or refinancing a mortgage. Here, MBA Eric Tyson gives simple, plain-English advice on how to qualify for a mortgage, figure out what you can afford, how to pick a lender and much more.
THE HERNDONS: AN ATLANTA FAMILY by Carole Merritt. Born a slave and reared a sharecropper, Alonzo Herndon seemed destined for a life of drudgery. But over the course of the next 40 years, he would become one of the wealthiest and most respected African American business figures of his time.
Click to check out these cool links!
Image & Sentiment: Five Publishers of Victorian Holiday Cards
This site features a browsable gallery of images of Victorian Christmas and New Year cards from five publishers. The site also provides users the opportunity to send electronic postcards of the images. Curated and designed by librarian Erika Dowell of the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Consumer Reports Blogs: Tightwad Tod
In this blog feature, launched in October 2008 in response to the U.S. economic downturn, a longtime Consumer Reports researcher and writer will be "posting on the news that affects your pocketbook, sniffing around for great buys, challenging offers that sound too good to be true, and heaping shame on the scams and ripoff artists that abound out there." Part of the Consumer Reports Money blog.
Holiday Survival Guide: Manage Stress and Simplify Your Holiday Season
Advice on reducing stress during the holiday season, including dealing with difficult relatives, loneliness, shopping, and party planning. An About.com site.
Everyday Mysteries: Who Invented Electric Christmas Lights?
This essay explores the invention of electric Christmas lights, noting that "[w]hile Thomas Edison and Edward H. Johnson may have been the first to create electric strands of light in 1880/1882, it was Albert Sadacca who saw a future in selling electric Christmas lights [in 1917]." Includes historic images and links to related websites. From Science Reference Services, Library of Congress.
StoryCorps National Day of Listening
StoryCorps (a nonprofit that has helped more than 40,000 Americans record oral histories) "is declaring November 28, 2008 the first annual National Day of listening." On this day after Thanksgiving StoryCorps "asks you to start a new holiday tradition -- set aside one hour ... to record a conversation with someone important to you." Site features a DIY recording guide and video, question generator, a few online oral histories, and related material.
Energy [R]evolution
"The energy [r]evolution is an independently produced report that provides a practical blueprint for how to half global CO2 emissions, while allowing for an increase in energy consumption by 2050. ... [I]t explains how existing energy technologies can be applied in more efficient ways." Site includes the report, examples of projects, policy recommendations, and related material. From Greenpeace International and the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC).
Well, that’s it for now – see you at the library!
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