Between the Lines . . . by Joan Bryan
June 2008
Between the Lines
The “Catch the Reading Bug” Summer Family Reading Program is underway at the Bitterroot Public Library. Participants exchange hours read for raffle tickets towards prizes. All ages are encouraged to sign up, as hours spent reading to someone count toward raffle tickets. There have been many generous prize contributions from throughout The Bitterroot Valley. Prizes include a bicycle, an iPod Nano, an overnight stay at Rye Creek Lodge, a digital camera, a Schwinn tricycle, fair passes and an artist’s set.
The Summer Reading Program’s Wild Wednesday will take place on Wednesday afternoons at 1:30 on the west lawn of the library. The first Wild Wednesday event will be June 18th and will feature Byron Weber the Bugman. Wild Wednesdays will also include the musical duo Chip and Cove Jasmin, a puppet show with Dixie Stark, Christian Ackerman the mime, the Pea Green Boat’s Annie Garde with story time, and the Super Skippers of Missoula.
The second Bitterroot Public Library art gallery show is now available for viewing. Our current artists on display are Minica Casbara and Rowan McAdoo. Their artwork will be on display through June 25th. On the evening of July 2nd there will be a gallery opening for Robin McAdoo and Danica Loucks. Hors d’oeuvres will be served and the artists will be available to discuss their artwork.
The library will be closed on Friday, July 4th for Independence Day.
Some of our new titles are as follow, and others may be found on the New Book link on our on-line catalog (www.bitterrootpubliclibary.org):
New Non-Fiction:
Home: a memoir of my early years, by Julie Andrews
The Healthy Skeptic: cutting through the hype about your health, by Robert Davis
O Clap your Hands: a musical tour of sacred choral works, by Gordon Giles
What I’d Say to Martians: and other veiled threats, by Jack Handey
Hell Hath No Fury: true profiles of women at war from antiquity to Iraq, by Rosalind Miles
A Life of Picasso, by John Richardson
The Mindful Woman: gentle practices for restoring calm, finding balance and opening your heart, by Sue Patton Thoele
Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis, by Kim Todd
The American Resting Place, by Marilyn Yalom
The Post-American World, by Fareed Zakaria
NEW FICTION
Winter Study, by Nevada Barr
The Gift of Rain, Tan Twan Eng
Pandora’s Daughter, by Iris Johansen
Wild Nights! Stories about the last days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway, by Joyce Carol Oates
Hokus Pokus, by Fern Michaels
Lonely Werewolf Girl, by Martin Millar
Things I Want My Daughter to Know: a novel, by Elizabeth Noble
No Stone Unturned, by Peter Turnbull
The Mercy Oak, by Kathryn Wall