Library News
By Sharon Blank

Summer's over, the kids are back in school - so why not take advantage of the quieter days to beat the heat with some cool reads? We've gotten a lot of new books in lately, and the daytime is the perfect time to enjoy them, or to pop onto one of our computers to check your email.

People have been asking if the online driver's education classes we've been talking about are free. Unfortunately, no. All we can offer is a chance to work on your driver's ed class and a couple of pointers on which course is the cheapest. However, it does keep you from having to wait in line to get to a computer when things are busy, and we won't kick you off when time's up!

Bring your kids in Wednesday at 4 p.m. for story time. It's a great chance for them to listen to a story and do something creative, so don't miss it!

Many thanks to the Camellia Garden Club for donating the school supplies that we will be giving away in our special backto school drawing today, Wednesday, Aug. 15.

Now, on to the books!

PEONY IN LOVE by Lisa See. Travel back to 17th century China and meet Peony, a girl betrothed from birth to a suitor she has never met. See how her cloistered life changes when she is given the chance to see the epic opera "The Peony Pavilion," and finds love in the most unexpected and forbidden of places.

THE FOURTH ORDER by Stephen Frey. When businessman Michael Rose pushes his company's board to acquire global informational technology company CIS, he's just after the big score - the one which will put him in the CEO's chair. But what he doesn't know is that CIS is the cover for The Order, an ultra-secret government agency that dates back to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln… and which is sanctioned to defend the country and itself by any means necessary.

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

Hitchcock's Style "Alfred Hitchcock is perhaps Britain's most famous and highly regarded film director, yet he is best known today - even in Britain - for the films he made after he left the country in 1939 for a career in Hollywood." This site describes how the style ("the themes, preoccupations, tricks and techniques") of this "Master of Suspense" was in place by the time he went to Hollywood. Clips only available to British educational users.

Keeping Memories Alive: Peace Archives

This site, created in 2005, (60 years after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945,) describes "numerous radio and TV programs relating to the atomic bombings and peace ever since those tragedies occurred. Approximately 400 such programs are stored in the NHK Archives." Also includes selected video clips. In English and Japanese. From NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation).

Well, that's it for now - see you at the library!