New Library Board Members

We have two new members on the Library Board. Incoming members are Don Corbitt and Joyce Collins, out going members are Robert Talley and Ron Campbell.

New Books October 2009

 

Fiction
The Inheritance.	Alexander, Tamera
True blue	Baldacci, David
Sheriff Luke Ludd	Bishop, D. J
Breaking the Rules.	Bradford, Barbara Taylor
Wicked All Day.	Carlyle, Liz
Nine dragons: a novel	Connelly, Michael
Spartan Gold	Cussler, Clive
The Palace of Illusions: a novel	Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
Aftermath	Drake, Jerry S
Finding Forever.	Ervin, Keisha
Different	Frederick, Michael
The Paper Man	Frederick, Michael
The White Queen.	Gregory, Philip
The Aviary Gate: a novel	Hickman, Katie.
Lady Eugenia's Holiday.	Marks, Shirley
Everything But a Christmas Eve.	Jacobs, Holly
Blood game	Johansen, Iris
The Cowboy	Johnston, Joan
Other Men's Horses	Kelton, Elmer
Shades of Blue	Kingsbury, Kare
Tempt Me At Twilight.	Kleypas, Lisa
Frankenstein: Prodigal Son	Koontz, Dean R
Frankenstein: Dead and Alive.	Koontz, Dean R
Bryson City tales	Larimore, Walte
A Man To Call My Own.	Lindsey, Johann
The Perfect Christmas	Macomber, Debbie
Appomattox Saga.	Morris, Gilbert
Run	Patchett, Ann
A Promise To Believe In.	Peterson, Tracie
The bachelor	Phillips, Carly
Cross my heart	Phillips, Carly
The heartbreaker	Phillips, Carly
The playboy	Phillips, Carly
The Madcap.	Poppen, Nikki
Green Luck	Pratt, Gaby.
Sapphire	Quick, Kathryn
Angel time	Rice, Anne
Bed of Roses.	Roberts, Nora
Outback Hero.	Rose, Elisabeth
Rough country	Sandford, John
Rooftops of Tehran.	Seraji, Mahbod.
Southern lights	Steel, Danielle
House of Reckoning	Saul, John
The Hot Flash Club	Thayer, Nancy
The Apostle	Thor, Brad.
Train to Cheyenne	Unruh, David.
Mystery
13 1/2	Barr, Nevada
The Scarpetta Factor.	Cornwell, Patricia
Death in Paradise	Flora, Kate Clark
The Associate	Grisham, John
The Nanny Murders.	Jones, Merry Bloch
Evidence: an Alex Delaware novel	Kellerman, Jonathan
Death Song.: A Kevin Kerney Novel.	McGarrity, Michael
Tularosa	McGarrity, Michael
Locked in	Muller, Marcia
The professional	Parker, Robert
Can't Never Tell.: A Southern Fried Mystery	Pickens, Cathy
Large Print
Creede of Old Montana	Bly, Stephen A.
The Hearse You Came In On	Cockey, Tim
The Scarpetta Factor.	Cornwell, Patricia
The Warrior	Everett, Wade
The Apache Kid	Henry, Will
Pilgrims: a Wobegon romance	Keillor, Garris
Bad Company	Luckey, William
A Conspiracy of Ravens.	Morris, Gilbert
The professional	Parker, Robert
Bed of Roses.	Roberts, Nora
Hothouse orchid	Woods, Stuart
Nonfiction
Have a little faith: a true story	Albom, Mitch
Change We Can Believe In	Obama, Barack
The Frugal Senior: hundreds of creative ways to stretch a dollar!	Gray, Rich
Live Your Life for Half the Price: without sacrificing the life you love	Hunt, Mary
Silent grief: living in the wake of suicide	Lukas, Christopher
The gift of fear: survival signals that protect us from violence	De Becker, Gavin
Den Of Thieves.	Stewart, James
Genius Denied.: How To Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds.	Davidson, Jan.
Two old women: an Alaska legend of betrayal, courage, and survival	Wallis, Velma
Test success: test-taking techniques for beginning nursing students	Nugent, Patricia
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.	Roach, Mary.
Mistaken identity.: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope.	Van Ryn, Don
Pecans: the story in a nutshell	Manaster, Jane.
Amazing Gracie: a dog's tale.	Dye, Dan.
Just Gus.: A Rescued Dog And the Woman He Loved.	Williams, Laurie
Julie and Julia.: My year of cooking Dangerously	Powell, Julie.
Off the tourist trail: 1,000 unexpected travel alternatives
The murder of King Tut: the plot to kill the child king : a nonfiction thriller	Patterson, James
From Baghdad, with love: a Marine, the war, and a dog named Lava	Kopelman, Jay.

Summer Reading Program 2009

This year's Summer Reading Program for Gibbs Memorial Library was "Libraries...Deep in the Heart of Texas" with a total of 269 children registered. For those who were registered and turned in a reading log, they received a certificate and for those who reached their reading goal, they received a certificate and a book bag. We also had a bookmark contest with 30 winners. A copy of their bookmarks are available at the library for a limited time. The library also gave out certificates for the Most Books Read and Most Time Read. First place awards went to Rachelle Curry for 525 books read and Carson Cotton for 31 reading hours. Reading goals for ages 3-7 were 100 books and 8-up were 12 hours by the end of the reading program.
We had storytime on Tuesdays and Thursdays with crafts on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Our storytellers were Nan Brown, Glenda Nelson, Officer Jameson, Jan Miller, Orma from LARA's House and Michelle from the Girl Scout Council.
Friends of the Library provided the books that were given away at storytime and bookbags as well as refreshments and Puppet Show at the End Party.
We had a lot of fun with... stories, knowing how to take care of our pets, and finding out what a Police officer does. We made fun crafts...paperbag puppets, rainbow windsocks, waterbottle piggybanks, sea shore sticker pages, and Texas bugs.

How to log on to Library Catalog

You will be delighted to know that you can now log on to both the library's catalog and your own account.
This enables you to:
1) See what books and materials the library has & see if it is checked in or out
2) Manage your own account
~ Update phone #, e-mail
~ Renew books
~ Recommend the library get a book, movie, etc.
~ Place a hold (reserve) on an item
How to log on:
Click here to go to Gibbs Memorial Library's online catalog
~ In the top right corner of the page, click Log in to Library Account
~ Type in your entire library card number (no spaces)
~ And, type in your entire (10 digit) phone number (no spaces or -s)
~ Click Log In