Library News
By Wilma Gainey Branch Manager

Have you joined the Friends of the Jenkins County Memorial Library? Are you interested in becoming a Friend of the Library? Do you know about our Friends Group? Whatever the case may be we would love you to join us at our very first Friends of the Library meeting at 9:00 AM, Wednesday, April 18, here at the library. Consider this your own personally engraved invitation!

The library has several surplus computers for sale. Come by the library for more information or call 478-982-4244.

Don't forget to come in and see our latest exhibit! Donny Humes' sculpture is like nothing you've ever seen. It's all made from found objects, but in his talented hands what other people call junk bursts into life. It's a stunning exhibit from a truly creative artist. His work will be on exhibit throughout April and May.

Don't forget to check out our blog! It's at sjrls.blogspot.com and it has links to all of the cool websites in this article, to the catalog so that you can request one of the books reviewed here, and pictures and information you can't get anywhere else!

New Books at JCML

THE FIRE ARROW by Richard S. Wheeler. It's the middle of winter when Barnaby Skye's Crow wife is injured in a raid, leaving them stranded with no horses or food. As if that weren't bad enough, they've been dragooned into helping a pack of renegade white men sell cheap and poisonous whiskey. Can Skye sabotage the bootleggers and save his wife?

THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN by Claire Messud. Three college friends find themselves in a complicated relationship that quickly becomes dangerous when the idealistic nephew of one of them drops out of college and comes to New York to make his mark.

SIMPLY LOVE by Mary Balough. Return to the Regency period as four remarkable women - teachers at Miss Martin's School for Girls - help one of their own find love.

MONTH-BY-MONTH GARDENING IN GEORGIA by Walter Reeves & Erica Glasener. When should you plant tomatoes in the spring? When should you prune your roses? When should you bring your houseplants in for the winter? All these questions and more are answered here.

Links to the following sites can be found at www.sjrls.org and at our blog at sjrls.blogspot.com:

Fooling With Words With Bill Moyers is a companion to a documentary that visited the 1998 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, held in Waterloo Village, New Jersey. The website features the poetry of Amiri Baraka, Marge Piercy, Robert Pinsky, and others. Includes audio and video clips of readings, photos, teaching materials, and related resources. From Thirteen/WNET.

URL: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ foolingwithwords/

Prevent Child Abuse America works toward "building awareness, providing education and inspiring hope to everyone involved in the effort to prevent the abuse and neglect of our nation's children." Its website features a description of advocacy efforts, research publications (such as fact sheets and reports), materials for Child Abuse Prevention Month (April), and prevention tips. Also includes event listings and links to local chapters. Access to some material requires free registration.

URL: http://www.preventchildabuse. org