Ultimate Grand Prize

The Ultimate Grand Prize for this year's Summer Reading Program "Get Creative @ Your Library" is to be the winner of Designing an original Ice Cream Flavor for Uncle Harry's.


Rules and Eligibility

Children must be entering any grade between kindergarten and grade 12 in the fall of 2009 to be eligible to participate.

Children must complete at least three weeks of the Waterford Library's Summer Reading Program to receive an enty form.

All entries must be fully completed.

The Grand Prize Winner will:

1. Meet Uncle Harry and design the new flavor

2. Mix the new flavor

3. Name the new flavor(with Uncle Harry's approval)

4. See your name and flavor on Uncle Harry's marquee

5. Enjoy three free quarts of the new flavor

All entries must be turned in no later than 8:00 PM on Wednesday, July 22.

The winner will be chosen on Thursday, July 23rd. The winner will be contacted by phone, and announced at the Creative Carnival at 5:00 PM on July 23rd.

Be Creative @ Uncle Harry's!

New Adult Items Added-May 2009

Fiction

FIC ASA
Diamond Star/Catherine Asaro

FIC BAL
Brewed, Crude and Tattooed/Sandra Balzo

FIC BAL
Seducing an Angel/Mary Balogh

FIC BAX
Flood/Stephen Baxter

FIC BRI
Sisters and Husbands/Connie Briscoe

FIC BRO
To Dream/Carolyn Brown

FIC BUN
Gold of Kings/Davis Bunn

FIC COB
Anathema/Colleen Coble

FIC CON
The Puzzle of Piri Reis/Kent Conwell

FIC CON
The Lovers/John Connolly

FIC COS
The Master Plan/Carol Costa

FIC COY
No Warriors, No Glory /Harold Coyle

FIC CUS
Medusa/Clive Cussler

FIC DAV
Undead and Unwelcome /Mary Janice Davidson

FIC DEU
Nightwalkers/P.T. Deutermann

FIC DRA
In the Stormy Red Sky /David Drake

FIC EVA
Reilly's Choice/Rachel Evans

FIC FRA
Thicker than Water/Anthea Fraser

FIC GOR
Mara's Move/Jean C. Gordon

FIC GUL
The Chinese Gold Murders /Robert van Gulik

FIC HOW
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane/ Katherine Howe

FIC IRO
The Shadow Riders/Owen G. Irons

FIC IRV
A Prayer for Owen Meany /John Irving

FIC IRV
Tales of the Alhambra/
Washington Irving

FIC JAC
The Wild Card/Loretta Jackson

FIC JES
Jillian Dare/Melanie Jeschke

FIC LES
A passion Denied/Julie Lessman

FIC MIC
Razor Sharp/Fern Michaels

FIC MIE
The City & the City/ China Mieville

FIC NAR
Armed and Disarming /Rosemarie Naramore

FIC PAL
Heartless/Diana Palmer

FIC PAT
The Lord of Death/Eliot Pattison

FIC RED
Rosemary's Glove/Shirley- Raye Redmond

FIC ROD
The Secret Sisters/Joni Rodgers

FIC RUS
Blackstone and the New World /Alan Rustage

FIC SEF
Dropped Dead Stitch /Maggie Sefton

FIC SHA
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society/Mary Ann Shaffer

FIC SMA
Sapphire Blue/DeAnn Smallwood

FIC TAN
Capture/Robert K. Tanenbaum

FIC THO
Murder on Waverly Place /Victoria Thompson

FIC THR
Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down/edited by Clive Cussler

FIC TUR
Informed Consent/Peter
Turnbull

Large Print Fiction

LP FIC BAR
Borderline/Nevada Barr

LP FIC GRE
Irish Tweed/Andrew M. Greeley

LP FIC JOH
Matt Jensen: the Last Mountain Man Deadly Trail /William W. Johnstone

LP FIC MEY
New moon/Stephenie Meyer

LP FIC MIL
Tyler: Montana Creeds /Linda Lael Miller

LP FIC ROB
Vision in White/Nora Roberts

LP FIC ROB
Glory in Death/J.D. Robb

LP FIC ROS
The Cheater/Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

LP FIC SPA
The Rescue/Nicholas Sparks

Playaways

AUDIO MP3 338.2 BUR
The Big Rich: the Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes/Bryan Burrough

AUDIO MP3 636.0832 GRA
Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best life for Animals/Temple Grandin

AUDIO MP3
The Silent Man/Alex Berenson

AUDIO MP3 DOR
Nuclear Jellyfish/Tim Dorsey

AUDIO MP3 IGG
Genghis: Bones of the Hills/Conn Iggulden

AUDIO MP3 PIC
Handle with Care/Jodi Picoult

AUDIO MP3 QUI
Dog on It/ Spencer Quinn

AUDIO MP3 WHI
Dead Silence/Randy Wayne White

Audiobooks
AUDIO-CD FIC ROB 5-DISCS
Vision in White/Nora Roberts

Software

CD-SOFTWARE EDUCATIONAL ROS-SPANISH 11-P
Rosetta Stone Espanol Level 1

Music CDs

MUSIC-CD MUSICAL AME 1-DISC
An American in Paris/George Gershwin

MUSIC-CD POP AME 1-DISC
History: America's Greatest Hits/America

MUSIC-CD ROCK LEW 1-DISC
Fore!/Huey Lewis and the News

MUSIC-CD ROCK REO 1-DISC
The Hits/ REO Speedwagon

DVDs

VIDEO DVD CUR 2-DISCS
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

VIDEO DVD PAS 1-DISC
Passengers

VIDEO DVD ROM 4-DISCS
Romance classics

VIDEO DVD TAK 1-DISC
Taken

VIDEO DVD UND 1-DISC
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

New OverDrive Media Console

OverDrive Media Console v3.2 Expands iPod® Compatibility with WMA AudiobooksOn Tuesday, June 16, OverDrive released the new version of OverDrive® Media Console. To download the updated software, click here. All new users will automatically download the latest version, and existing users will be prompted to upgrade to the latest and greatest version of OMC (scheduled for late June).Nearly all OverDrive WMA Audiobooks in your download collection are now compatible with the iPod®, iPhoneT, iPod touch®, and iPod nano®, as well as Zune® and thousands of other portable devices, with a simple upgrade of OverDrive Media Console to version 3.2 on Windows® PCs.Premier publishers, including Random House Audio, Hachette Audio, Penguin Audio, BBC Audiobooks America, Brilliance Audio, Tantor Media, and many more, allow this for all of the WMA Audiobooks OverDrive offers. Best sellers such as Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight," Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers," John Grisham's "The Appeal," and Chuck Palahniuk's "Pygmy" will become iPod-compatible downloads, along with highly-anticipated releases like Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol" and Tami Hoag's "The Trouble with J.J."In addition to enhanced transfer functionality, the new version of OverDrive Media Console also offers several highly requested features, which allow users to:-Send MP3 Audiobooks to the iTunes® Library with Transfer Wizard. -Burn audiobook parts to CD in just a few clicks using Burn Wizard--on all supported Windows operating systems. -Perform a test burn. -Enjoy a new playback option wherein OverDrive Media Console automatically resumes playback from the most recently played point. -Let OverDrive Media Console alert them of software releases and news about the software--automatically. -With iTunes v8.1.0.52 (or newer) in place, use Transfer Wizard to send titles to the iPod shuffle®.-The growing collection of Mac®-friendly, iPod-compatible OverDrive MP3 Audiobooks will still be available to help libraries better serve patrons with Apple computers

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President, Mrs. Obama to be Honorary Chairs of National Book Festival

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will serve as Honorary Chairs of the 2009 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress. Now in its ninth year, this popular event celebrating the joys of reading and lifelong literacy will be held on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., between 7th and 14th Streets from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (rain or shine). The event is free and open to the public.
"We are delighted that the President and Mrs. Obama are committed to bringing this inspirational event to people of all ages nationwide," said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. "The National Book Festival has become a true American institution. It is a joyous and very popular celebration of books and reading in the Washington, D.C. area."
The 2009 National Book Festival will feature about 70 award-winning authors, poets and illustrators in pavilions dedicated to book subjects ranging from history and biography to mysteries, thrillers, poetry and prose, and books for families and young people. Festival-goers can meet and hear firsthand from their favorite authors, get books signed, have photos taken with PBS storybook characters and participate in a variety of learning activities.
The Pavilion of the States will represent reading- and library-promotion programs and literary events in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. trusts and territories.
The popular Let’s Read America pavilion will offer reading activities that are fun for the whole family. The Library of Congress Pavilion will showcase the cultural treasures to be found in the Library’s vast online collections and offer information about popular Library programs.
The 2009 National Book Festival will be made possible through the support of Distinguished Benefactor Target and many other generous supporters.
The Library of Congress, the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution, is the world’s preeminent reservoir of knowledge, providing unparalleled collections and integrated resources to Congress and the American people. Many of the Library’s rich resources and treasures may be accessed through the Library’s website, http://www.loc.gov/, and via interactive exhibitions on myLOC.gov.