Book Club Picks – It’s All About Love

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The hustle and bustle of summer is over.  It’s a great time to settle in with a warm and fuzzy romance.  Here are a few to choose from.

returnReturn to Tradd Street by Karen White –  Struggling to complete renovations on her house before her baby arrives, single mother and psychic realtor Melanie Middleton seeks help from the man who broke her heart when a series of hauntings plaguing her house turn violent.heartbeats

The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philip Sendker – When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter has any idea where he might be–until they find a love letter he wrote many years before, to a Burmese woman who is unknown to them.

whiskyWhiskey Beach by Nora Roberts – After suffering through an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being wrongly implicated in his fiancâe’s murder, Boston lawyer Eli Landon takes sanctuary in a centuries-old family home and falls in love with resident housekeeper Abra Walsh, with whom he is entangled in an old, life-threatening mystery.someday

Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham – A struggling actress in 1990s New York City searches for work and the perfect hair product while befriending a rival and resisting her father’s pressure to get a “real” job.

sistersThree Sisters by Susan Mallery – Buying one of the famed Three Sisters Queen Anne houses on Blackberry Island, Dr. Andi Gordon, deciding that both her life and home are in need of some major renovations, forms an unbreakable bond with her neighbors–two very different women who are dealing with their own struggles.summer

The Summer Girls by Mary Alice Monroe – Summoned by their Charleston society grandmother to a historic family home on Sullivan’s Island, estranged sisters Carson, Eudora and Harper share a summer of healing and forgiveness while exploring the tenacious complexities of sisterhood and friendship.

hissyHissy Fit by Mary Kay Andrews – Calling off her high-society wedding after discovering her fiancâe’s infidelity, Keely Murdock faces financial ruin before receiving assistance–and an opportunity for revenge–from the new owner of a local bra company.inn

The Inn At Rose Harbor by Debbie Macomber – Jo Marie Rose opens the Rose Harbor Inn bed and breakfast in Cedar Cove in order to start a new life, but the inn and its first guests bring surprises into Jo’s life.

twelveTwelve Times Blessed by Jacquelyn Mitchard – A year in the life of a fortysomething woman reveals the reflections of widow True Dickinson, who has raised a son and built a successful small business while putting off the kind of romance she desperately desires.war

War Brides by Helen Bryan – Five women form a bond of friendship in the English village of Crowmarch Priors as they find their lives altered by loss and love during World War II.

 

 

 

 

Everything You Need to Know About Computers

 

The Cheshire Library has approximately 80 computers and lately it seems like they’re all acting like cranky two year olds!  So if you see an out of order sign, or a frustrated Librarian, please bear with us!  Luckily, we have a great Library Technology Coordinator to trouble shoot for us.  We also have a great selection of books about computers to help educate our patrons.  Do you want to know how to trouble shoot, program or just turn on a computer?  Would you like to know a little history, or benefits of computers?  Check out our computer section (.004-.006.78) downstairs in the Reference Department.

Here’s a small sample of what you can find:

Computing Before Computers

The Plug-In Drug:  television, computers, and family life

Most Human Human: What Talking to Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to be Alive

Dogfight: how Apple and Google went to war and started a revolution

Is This Thing On? : a computer handbook for late bloomers, technophobes, and the kicking & screaming.

Degunking Windows

 

 

 

 

Ahoy, It’s International Talk Like A Pirate Day Again!

Here is it, September 19 and my favorite holiday, International Talk like a Pirate Day! It is a day that always inspires the wearing of pirate hats and much shouting of ‘Ahoy! Matey’ and ‘Shiver me Timbers’ in my house. Thankfully my kids get into the day along side me, and so do a number of my friends and coworkers.
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Last year I created a list of picturebooks and related non-fiction children’s books to celebrate the day. We can revisit that post here. This year I am going to take a different look at pirates, and offer up a selection of adult non-fiction about pirates that will sate your desire for adventure and travel, and perhaps whet your appetite for even more information. If you are still looking for more after reading this post, we do have a display in the lobby, near the adult fiction, of pirate related books that just might catch your eye!

 

empireofbluewater1. The Pirate Hunter: the True Story of Captain Kidd by Richard Zacks

2.The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire by Susan Ronald

3.The Pirates of Somalia: Inside their Hidden World by Jay Bahadur

4.Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan’s Great Pirate Army, the Epic deadmenBattle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe that Ended the Oulaws’ Bloody Reign by Stephan Talty

5.Dead Men Tell No Tales: the Lives and Legends of the Pirate Charles Gibbs by Joseph Gibbs

6.Blackbeard: the Real Pirate of the Caribbean by Dan Parry

7. Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How blackbearda Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved out an Empire in the New World in their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom–and Revenge by Edward Kritzler

For even more pirate information you might want to explore; The World Atlas of Pirates: Treasures and Treachery on the Seven Seas, in Maps, Tall Tales, and Pictures by Angus Konstam, The Pirate Coast: Thomas thepiratecoastJefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805 by Richard Zacks, Expedition Whydah: the Story of the World’s First Excavation of a Pirate Treasure Ship and the Man Who Found Her by Barry Clifford with Paul Perry, The Honourable Company: a History of the English East India Company by John Keay, Savage Kingdom: the True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America by Benjamin Woolley or A Pirate Looks at Fifty by Jimmy Buffett.

 

Do You Want To Blog Like Us?

Since you are reading this blog, you are at least partially aware of how many people, businesses, organizations, and so on have started blogging. Some people blog about their daily life, parenting, working, crafting, reading, or whatever interests they have. Others are blogging to promote themselves, their business, or a cause important to them. It is hard to making blogging fun while still reaching the desired audience.  Striking the balance of hard work and fun is hard, especially when you are hoping that others read and find value in your efforts.

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I find myself, at least on my personal blog, often ignoring the technical advice about SEO, algorithms, and all the important stuff that helps readers find your blog,  and writing what I would like to read. However, knowing the best tools and information, even if you do not necessarily subscribe to it, can only help your efforts. If you are interested in learning more about blogging or trying it out for yourself here are some books you might want to consider checking out.

 

 

 2. The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging by the editors of the Huffington Post

 

 

 

 

  6.Food Blogging for Dummies by Kelly Senyei

 

 7.Blogging for Dummies by Susannah Gardner and Shane Birley

 

 8.Mom Blogging for Dummies by Wendy Piersall

 9.Sams Teach Yourself WordPress 3 in 10 minutes by Chuck Tomasi, Kreg Steppe

 

 10.WordPress for Dummies by Lisa Sabin-Wilson

 

 And for even more information on social media, writing for the web, and blogging in general you might also want to check out; Writing for the Web : Creating Compelling Web Content Using Words, Pictures, and Sound by Lynda Felder, Social Media Marketing all-in-one for Dummies by Jan Zimmerman and Deborah Ng, New Media  edited by Albert Rolls, Get Rich Blogging by Zoe Griffin, Freedom is Blogging in your Underwear by Hugh MacLeod, Blogging by David L. Hudson Jr., Creative Blogging: Your First Steps to a Successful Blog by Heather Wright-Porto, or Blogging America: the New Public Sphere by Aaron Barlow.

Cozy Mysteries for September 2014

cozy mystHere are the newest cozy mysteries for your enjoyment.

Death, Taxes, and Silver Spurs (A Tara Holloway Novel) by Diane Kelly

Book Fair and Foul (An Ashton Corners Book Club Mystery) by Erika Chase

Murder in the Mystery Suite (A Book Retreat Mystery) by Ellery Adams

If Catfish Had Nine Lives (A Country Cooking School Mystery) by Paige Shelton

Murder with a Twist (A Mack’s Bar Mystery) by Allyson K. Abbott

Taken In (Southern Sewing Circle) by Elizabeth Lynn Casey

Well Read, Then Dead (Read ‘Em and Eat Mystery) by Terrie Farley Moran

Death by Devil’s Breath (A Chili Cook-Off Mystery) by Kylie Logan

Death Is Like A Box of Chocolates (A Chocolate Covered Mystery) by Kathy Aarons

Fat Cat At Large (A Fat Cat Mystery) by Janet Cantrell

Murder of a Needled Knitter (A Scumble River Mystery) by Denise Swanson

To Fudge or Not To Fudge (A Candy-Coated Mystery) by Nancy Coco

Nightmares Can Be Murder (A Dream Club Mystery) by Mary Kennedy

Groomed For Murder (A Pet Boutique Mystery) by Annie Knox

To Die Fur (A Whiskey, Tango & Foxtrot Mystery) by Dixie Lyle