Happy New Year!

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Books that Can Change Your Life





The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World

Happy: simple steps to get the most out of life

Where There's a Will There's a Way

29 Gifts: how a month of giving can change your life

Uncommon: finding your path to significance

Made for Goodness

Mandela's Way

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Last Minute Holiday Mysteries

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Check out these websites for some suggested reading!

Cozy Mystery List

Library Booklists

Amazon Holiday Mysteries

Mystery Guild

New Year's Resolutions

Time to start thinking about the New Year!
Click on pic below for a list of resources.

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Gift Book Program

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A gift of $25 or more entitles you to a book plate to be placed inside an item chosen by the library. All gifts will be recorded in the Library Gift Register and appropriate acknowledgements will be sent.

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Click on the present below for the Gift Book Program Form.

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Holiday Cooking

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Click on the pic below for Holiday Cooking Books!

Try these websites for delicious recipes!

CopyKat Recipes

Recipe Source

Internet Chef

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Biographies

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Located in the upstairs loft area of the Bethel Park Library is a large collection of biographies and autobiographies for any fan of sports, the arts, history, or pop culture!

Also check out the Library database Biography in Context. Search biographies by name, nationality, or occupation. Choose from primary resources, academic journal articles, magazine features and more!

To access Library databases follow these directions:

Go to www.bethelparklibrary.org

Click on Article & Database Search in the middle of the page.

Contact the Library at 412.835.2207 if you have any questions. a
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Library E-books for Kindle

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Finally Here!

Check out Ebooks for your Kindle!

Go to the Bethel Park Library Website: www.bethelparklibrary.org

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Scroll down the page, on the right-hand side, click on OVERDRIVE

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Also available for other e-readers such as Nook, Kobo and the Sony Reader.

Please call the Library at 412.835.2207 if you have any questions!

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Banned Books Week

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September 24th thru October 1st, 2011 is Banned Books Week
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Celebrate the power of the written word and the First Amendment.

Anti-Censorship Center

Banned and Challenged Classics

List of Challenged Books

Office for Intellectual Freedoma

LOCAL AUTHOR VISIT

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Hear the basics of how to write a novel!
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Presented by
Richard S. Wahlberg

Author of

"The Quick are the Dead"

A tale of thrills, adventure and romance

Wednesday, September 21st
at 7 p.m.

Register at the front desk.

What to Read?

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Not sure what to read next? Try one of these websites below!
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BookRabbit - Debate and review books!

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GNOOKS - Tell this site what you like and discover new authors!

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Literature-Map - Part of gnooks. Enter an author and explore the possibilities!

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Library Thing - Free to join! Connect with other book lovers, read reviews, and so much more!

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ALSO TRY THE NOVELIST LIBRARY DATABASE!

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1. Go to www.bethelparklibrary.org

2. Click on Article & Database Search

3. Click on the Books & Reading link on the left-side of page.

4. Click on NoveList (enter Library card # when prompted)

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Questions? Call the Library at 412.835.2207.

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EBSCO Ebooks & Audiobooks

The new EBSCO Ebooks & Audiobooks database is available via the Bethel Park Library website. Follow the instructions below to access:

1. www.bethelparklibrary.org

2. Click on the Articles & Database Search link

3. Click on the category Books & Reading

Here you will find the link to this new resource.

This database has replaced netLibrary. All previously established netLibrary accounts have been retired.

For help, click HERE or please call the Library at 412.835.2207

New Books!

CHECK OUT THESE NEW TITLES
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FICTION
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A Time for Patriots by Dale Brown

The Love of My Youth by Mary Gordon

Thunder of Heaven by Tim LaHaye

Cardinal's Blades by Pierre Pevel

While Mortals Sleep by Kurt Vonnegut





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NON-FICTION
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Soul of Leadership by Deepak Chopra

Big Book of Bicycling by Emily Furia

Correcting Bad Habits in Dogs by Claire Arrowsmith

This is NPR

Fallin' Up: My Story by Taboo

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Read Around the World

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Enter the Adult Summer Reading Club!

Visit the Library or sign-up online by clicking here!aa
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Adult Summer Reading Club!

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Plant Swap!

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Plant Swap with the TreeHaven Garden Club

Sunday, May 22nd

Trade plants an ask the TreeHaven Garden Club members your gardening questions.

Set-up begins at 12:30 and swapping begins at 1:00

Fresh flower arranging by Mark Welford and Stephen Wicks







The victory garden companion : America's most popular gardening series offers expert advice for creating a beautiful landscape for your home by Michael Weishan and Laurie Donnelly









Garden design / editor-in-chief, Chris Young








The gardener's practical guide to annuals, bulbs & perennials : an illustrated encyclopedia of flowering plants containing more than 1800 beautiful photographs by Richard Bird and Kathy Brown







The all-new illustrated guide to gardening : planning, selection, propagation, organic solutions / edited by Fern Marshall Bradley, Trevor Cole








Garden plants & flowers through the year by Ian Spence




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BOOK SALE & GALA!

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Sip, Savor & Support Annual Gala
& Book Sale Preview Night

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Book Sale

Saturday, May 7th 9am - 5pm thru

Sunday, May 8th 1pm - 5pm

Call the Library for more details.

One Book, One Community

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The 2011 selection is:

29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life

by Cami Walker

Learn more about One Book, One Community by clicking on the link below, or ask your Librarian today!

a One Book, One Community

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Reading Magazines Online

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Using the Library's MasterFILE Premier database, library card owners can access the full-text (entire article) of nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more.
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Included in this generous collection is Consumer Reports, Computerworld, Harvard Health Letter, Prevention, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, and the New Yorker.
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To access the MasterFile Premier database, following these steps:

1. go to www.bethelparklibrary.org

2. click on the Article & Database Search link at the top of the webpage


3. scroll down the list of databases, and click on the MasterFILE Premier link


4. enter your library card number
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If you have any questions, please call the Library at 412-835-2207.

February is Black History Month

Celebrate Black History Month!
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Check out one of these titles:


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Soldier : the life of Colin Powell by Karen DeYoung







The last hero : a life of Henry Aaron by Howard Bryant



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The bridge : the life and rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick.






Tell all the children our story : memories and mementos of being young and Black in America by Tonya Bolden


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Rosa Parks by Douglas Brinkley




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Brown v. Board of Education : a civil rights milestone and its troubled legacy by James T. Patterson

One shot Harris : the photographs of Charles 'Teenie' Harris by Stanley Crouch ; with a biographical essay by Deborah Willis

Stretch your wings : famous black quotations for teens / selected and edited by Janet Cheatham Bell and Lucille Usher Freeman



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On the line by Serena Williams with Daniel Paisner





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Check out the following websites for more information:

Black History Month - Biography.com
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African American History Month
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African American Odyssey
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