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The Civil War Sesquicentennial
2011 Annual Report: You Belong at Your Library
Uniquely Fredericksburg 2012: Call for Entries
eBooks AND audiobooks now available!
Cultivating Community & The BIG Read
All CRRL Branches are SeniorNavigator Centers
The Civil War Sesquicentennial

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Porter Branch Vegetable Garden
Cultivating Community, Eagle Scout Projects, LibraryPoint Blog, Martha Hutzel, North Stafford Rotary, SERVE food pantry, vegetable gardening, Volunteer efforts, Home & Garden
05/17/2012 - 2:36pm
Porter Branch Vegetable Garden

While discussing the idea of the series of library programs under the umbrella of Cultivating Community, it suddenly hit me that we could have a vegetable garden on the grounds of the Porter Branch! The next thought was...we could give the bounty of fresh vegetables to the Stafford County food pantry, otherwise known as S.E.R.V.E. The idea was to help the community, teach young people about fresh food and where it comes from, and allow those families who use the food pantry to obtain some fresh produce, locally grown.

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Chomp by Carl Hiaasen
Action & Adventure, Angela Critics, Everglades, Florida -- fiction, LibraryPoint Blog, Shelf Life Blog, unRequired Reading Blog, Book Buzz Blog, Kids Blog, Teen Blog
05/17/2012 - 3:31am
Chomp by Carl Hiaasen

Wahoo Cray’s yard is a zoo, literally. That’s where his dad, Mickey, keeps all of their animals, including pythons, monkeys, and an alligator named Alice. Mickey is the best animal wrangler in Florida...or he was until he got hit on the head by a frozen iguana. Since then he hasn’t been able to work. Money is so tight that Mickey accepts a job offer from the Expedition Survival TV series with Wahoo as his assistant. Things get off to a bad start when the show’s bumbling but egotistical star, Derek Badger, gets bitten by a snapping turtle and then an alligator. And that’s before he even leaves the safety of the Cray’s yard in Chomp by Carl Hiaasen.

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The Song is You by Megan Abbott
Hollywood -- fiction, LibraryPoint Blog, Meg Raymond, Noir fiction, Shelf Life Blog, Mystery & Thrillers
05/15/2012 - 8:39am
The Song is You

Jean Spangler disappeared on the night of October 7, 1949. She applied her lipstick, straightened the seams on her stockings and kissed her daughter good-bye. Jean was beautiful and ambitious - and was never seen again after that night. Her broken purse and a cryptic note, found in a park, were the only clues. The case has never been solved.

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Insurgent by Veronica Roth
Angela Critics, Dystopian Fiction, LibraryPoint Blog, Shelf Life Blog, unRequired Reading Blog, Seriously Sci-Fi
05/14/2012 - 8:02am
Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Insurgent is the sequel to the science fiction bestseller Divergent and picks up Tris Prior’s story immediately where the first book left off. Tris, Tobias, and the other Dauntless members who have not allied with the Erudites after the massacre of the Abnegation faction seek shelter with other factions, trying to find a place to regroup and recover. But Jeanine, the Erudite leader, and the Dauntless “traitors” give them no peace. One by one, their potential allies fall away until the only remaining option is to join forces with the previously despised Factionless.

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If you like Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig
Book Match, Civil War - U.S. -- fiction, LibraryPoint Blog, Mary Buck, Shelf Life Blog
05/11/2012 - 7:21am
Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig

This readalike is in response to a patron's book-match request. If you would like personalized reading recommendations, fill out the book-match form and a librarian will email suggested titles to you. Available for adults, teens, and kids.  You can browse the book matches here.

Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig: "Through Rhett's eyes we meet the people who shaped his larger than life personality as it sprang from Margaret Mitchell's unforgettable pages: Langston Butler, Rhett's unyielding father; Rosemary his steadfast sister; Tunis Bonneau, Rhett's best friend and a onetime slave; Belle Watling, the woman for whom Rhett cared long before he met Scarlett O'Hara at Twelve Oaks Plantation, on the fateful eve of the Civil War. Of course there is Scarlett. Katie Scarlett O'Hara, the headstrong, passionate woman whose life is inextricably entwined with Rhett's: more like him than she cares to admit; more in love with him than she'll ever know." (Book summary)

If you like Rhett Butler's People, then you may also like:

These titles are works that offer new takes on classic books:

March by Geraldine Brooks
Imagines the Civil War experiences of the father of the "Little Women" family.
 

 

 

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Did you ever wonder what caused Mr. Rochester's wife to go mad? This novel tells her story.

 

 

 

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