Library News
by Margaret Woodruff

Our “flock” of chickens has been named! Many thanks to all the kids who offered suggestions, including our winner, Rayona Silverman. Thanks to Rayona, our happy flock will now go by Snuggle, Edeo, Jeffrey and Mili.

Gingerbread houses to go! Call and reserve your gingerbread house kit before they are all gone. Pick up dates are December 6 through 13. Return the house in time for our Gingerbread House Party on December 17 at 4 p.m. when you can enter to win a gingerbread animal kit & decorate some gingerbread folks to take home. Registration required, please call the Library to sign up.

Lonely Mittens? We’re building an “art” exhibit of solo mittens to decorate the Children’s Room. Bring in your mateless mittens to add to our display. Mittens can be dropped off during Library Hours beginning December 5.

Charlotte Food Shelf
As every day passes, we hear or read about our neighbors going hungry. In response to the critical need for food products The Charlotte Library is now a drop-off site for The Charlotte Food Shelf. The following donations are most wanted: boxed cereal, canned fruit and vegetables, pasta, mayonnaise and peanut butter. Thank you in advance for your generosity and caring.

Are you looking for a way to cut costs? Use your library!
• How about checking out a CD (audio book) for that long holiday car ride?
• Check out magazines you’d like to read but don’t want piling up in your house.
• Stop by and take out a DVD for the kids or yourself.
• Get on the list for newly released best sellers.
• Add some variety to your nightly bedtime stories by checking out a few picture books.

Cookie Swap - Saturday, December 13, 10:30 a.m.
Register now for a festive morning with your neighbors and friends and leave with an assortment of holiday cookies. If you’ve been to an exchange, you know it’s a good time, and if you haven’t, you’re in for a treat. Call the library for details.

Digital camera needed
We currently have the basic Kodak Easy/Share C310 but would love to upgrade. If you have a digital camera that is in great working condition, please consider donating it to the library. Your donation is tax deductible.

New Audio Books on CD
Fiction
The Book of Lies, Brad Meltzer
Bones, Jonathan Kellerman
The Brass Verdict, Michael Connelly
Devil Bones, Kathy Reichs
Heat Lightning, John Sandford
The Heretic’s Daughter, Kathleen Kent
Lion Among Men, Gregory Maguire
The Lucky One, Nicholas Sparks
Rough Weather, Robert B. Parker
Silks, Dick Francis
Supreme Courtship, Christopher Buckley
Testimony, Anita Shreve
Nonfiction
The Assault on Reason, Al Gore
Letter to My Daughter, Maya Angelou
Planet Google: One Company’s Audacious Plan
to Organize Everything We Know, Randall Stross

New Fiction for Adult Readers
Bones, Jonathan Kellerman
Dewey: A Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched
the World, Vicki Myron
Gargoyle, Andrew Davidson
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
The Given Day, Dennis Lehane
Heat Lightning, John Sandford
Home, Marilynne Robinson
Indignation, Philip Roth
Lace Reader, Brunoina Barry
Liberty: A Lake Wobegon Novel, Garrison Keillor
Lion Among Men, Gregory Maguire
Lucky One, Nicholas Sparks
The Meaning of Night, Michael Cox
19th Wife, David Ebershoff
Other Queen, Philippa Gregory
Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh
Supreme Courtship, Christopher Buckley
Sweetheart, Chelsea Cain
Nonfiction for Adult Readers
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of
Human Waste and Why It Matters, Rose George
Bob Schieffer’s America, Bob Schieffer
Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-Up’s
Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents, Nina
W. Brown.
Dewey, Vicki Myron
Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance:
Reflections on Raising Chickens, Martin Gurdon
Letter to My Daughter, Maya Angelou
Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of
Life, Alice Schroeder
The War Within: A Secret White House History
2006-2008, Bob Woodward

Books on order – call to add your name to the reserve list!
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White
House, Jon Meacham
AntiCancer: A New Way of Life, David Servan
Schreiber
Arctic Drift: A Dirk Pitt Novel, Clive Cussler
Bakewise: the Hows and Whys of Successful
Baking with over 250 Great-
Tasting Recipes, Shirley Corriher
Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics: How to Get
Great Flavor from Simple Ingredients, Ina
Garten
Between Here and April, Deborah Kogan
Bodies Left Behind, Jeffrey Deaver
Book of Love, Kathleen McGowan
Butcher’s Hill, Laura Lipman
Call Me Ted, Ted Turner (large print)
Christmas Cookies: Recipes to Treasure for the
Holiday Season, Lisa Zwirn
Christmas Grace, Anne Perry
Christmas Sweater, Glenn Beck
Cookwise: Hows and Whys of Successful Cooking,
Shirley Corriher
Ender in Exile, Orson Scott Card
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a
Changing China, Leslie T. Chang
Fire, Katherine Neville
Forever War, Dexter Filkins
Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American
Prisoners During the Revolutionary War, Edwin
Burrows
Freeman Walker, David Cates
Glory Game: How the 1958 NFL Championship
Changed Football Forever, Frank Gifford
Hardly Knew Her, Laura Lippman (large print)
The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb
I See You Everywhere, Julia Glass
John Lennon: The Life, Philip Norman
Hurry Down Sunshine, Michael Greenberg
Likeness: A Novel, Tana French
Longest Trip Home, John Grogan
Looking For Lincoln, the Making of An American
Icon, Philip Kunhardt
Memorist, M.J. Rose
Pagan Stone, Nora Roberts
Private Patient, P.D. James
Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation
Design and Delivery, Garr Reynolds
Second Violin: An Inspector Troy Thriller, John
Lawton
Selected Poems: A New Selection, James Merrill
Serena: A Novel, Ron Rash
Songs for the Missing, Stewart O’Nan
Splendid Table’s How to Eat Supper: Recipes,
Stories, and Opinions, Lynn Kasper
Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder
and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective,
Kate Summerscale
Swallowing Darkness, Laurell K. Hamilton
Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare
and How it Changed America, David Hajdu
Testimony, Anita Shreve
Wettest County in the World, Matt Bondurant
Wine Trials, Robin Goldstein
Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell