Thursday, October 30, 2008

New Books

Adult Fiction:

The Brass Verdict
By Michael Connelly

Grace
By Richard Paul Evans

Quofum
By Alan Dean Foster

Bones
By Jonathan Kellerman

A Cedar Cove Christmas
By Debbie MaComber

Faefever
By Karen Marie Moning

Rough Weather
By Robert Parker

The Pirate King
By R.A. Salvatore

Adult Non-Fiction:

A Promise to Ourselves
By Alec Baldwin

Green Goes With Everything
By Sloan Barnett

Giada's Kitchen
By Giada de Laurentiis

The Green-Collar Economy
By Van Jones

Tried by War
By James McPherson

Ted, White, and Blue
By Ted Nugent

Wesley the Owl
By Stacey O'Brien

Against Medical Advice
By James Patterson

The Snowball
By Alice Schroeder

The Wordy Shipmates
By Sarah Vowell

Pieces of My Heart
By Robert Wagner

The Strongest Tribe
By Francis West

Thursday, October 23, 2008

New DVD's

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

John Adams

The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning

Love's Unfolding Dream

Made of Honor

The Other Boleyn Girl

The Spiderwick Chronicles

The Sword in the Stone

New Books

Adult Fiction:

A Spoonful of Poison
By M.C. Beaton

Paul of Dune
By Brian Herbert

Liberty
By Garrison Keillor

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
By Steig Larsson

Heat Lightning
By John Sandford

The Lucky One
By Nicholas Sparks

Order 66
By Karen Traviss

Hot Mahogany
By Stuart Woods

Adult Non-Fiction:

Mystical Traveler
By Sylvia Browne

The Forever War
By Dexter Filkins

Angler
By Barton Gellman

The Given Day
Dennis LeHane

Mother Warriors
By Jenny McCarthy

Real Life
By Phillip McGraw

Dewey
By Vicki Myron

Acedia & Me
By Kathleen Norris

Boys Will Be Boys
By Jeff Pearlman

Breakthrough
By Suzanne Somers

Through the Storm
By Lynne Spears

The Trouble With Boys
By Peg Tyre

The War Within
By Bob Woodward

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

3rd Annual Harry Potter Night

Harry Potter Night

Saturday, October 25th

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Prattville Public Library


We are please to inform you that you have been invited to attend
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!

After being sorted into your house, you will be able to
attend Hogwarts classes, dine at the Leaky Cauldron, visit Diagon Alley, run Quidditch drills and much more!!

Come dressed as your favorite character!

For children in
grades K-6

For more information, please call the
Children’s Department at 365-3396.

Muggle parents must stay at the library during the activity.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

New Books

Adult Fiction:

Being Elizabeth
By Barbara Taylor Bradford

One Fifth Avenue
By Candace Bushnell

Sweetheart
By Chelsea Cain

Dark Curse
By Christine Feehan

Silks
By Dick Francis

The Keepsake
By Tess Gerritsen

The Other Queen
By Philippa Gregory

Rough Justice
By Jack Higgins

Night of Thunder
By Stephen Hunter

Sunset
By Karen Kingsbury

The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday
By Alexander McCall Smith

Laughter of Dead Kings
By Elizabeth Peters

A Promise to Believe In
By Tracy Peterson

The Letters
By Luanne Rice

Indignation
By Philip Roth

American Wife
By Curtis Sittenfeld

Anathem
By Neal Stephenson

Pecking Order
By Omar Tyree

The Force Unleashed
By Sean Williams

When the Soul Mends
By Cindy Woodsmall

Adult Non-Fiction:

House at Sugar Beach
By Helen Cooper

Hot, Flat, and Crowded
By Thomas Friedman

The One Hundred
By Nina Garcia

We Are Soldier Still
By Harold Moore

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Reading has gone to the dogs!


The P.A.W.S. Therapy Dogs are back by popular demand.
Come join us for a special reading time with the P.A.W.S. dogs every Tuesday and Wednesday beginning Sept. 16th.

Each reading time will be held at the Prattville Library from 3:30-4:30 and is open to all children in grades K-5.

Rheta Grimsley Johnson at the library


Please join us for a book signing with syndicated journalist Rheta Grimsley Johnson, celebrating her new book Poor Man's Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana.

The signing will be held Saturday Sept. 13, at 11:00 a.m. in the library.

Books are for sale at the library for $25.oo. Proceeds from the sales will benefit the Children's Department of the Autauga-Prattville Public Libraries.