You are invited to the Holiday Open House

You are cor­dially invited to the Delaware County Dis­trict Library’s Hol­i­day Open Houses this week­end, held at all dis­trict library loca­tions. Please help us cel­e­brate another suc­cess­ful year at the library while enjoy­ing refresh­ments and music in a friendly atmosphere.

Hol­i­day Open Houses, gen­er­ously spon­sored by our Friends of the Library and Mei­jer, will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. today at the Orange and Ostran­der branches and from 1 to 3 p.m. Sun­day at the Delaware (Main) Library and the Pow­ell Branch. I hope you plan to stop by to allow us to wish you a won­der­ful hol­i­day season.

While you’re at the library, plan to pick up the lat­est edi­tion of “Check It Out,” the library’s quar­terly newslet­ter. This issue spot­lights teens, in a “teen takeover at the library,” and is pep­pered with pho­tos of pre­co­cious and ener­getic kids. Teen Librar­ian Mandy Hen­ning, who has worked at the library since April, has devel­oped edu­ca­tional (but don’t tell the kids!) and excit­ing pro­grams for tweens and teens — book clubs, gam­ing tour­na­ments with Xbox and Wii, and pro­grams on cup­cake dec­o­rat­ing, can­dle mak­ing, anime, henna, yoga and many more.

Mandy is launch­ing a “Read It First Book Dis­cus­sion Group,” where teens will be able to read and keep copies of books that haven’t even been pub­lished yet. They can write an online review or dis­cuss their book dur­ing a monthly meet-up at the library. If you know a teen who may be inter­ested, con­tact Mandy at 740–362-3861.

At the Delaware County Dis­trict Library, we are work­ing dili­gently to pro­vide you and your fam­ily with the resources, pro­grams, infor­ma­tion and expe­ri­ence that you want. Stop by soon and I think you’ll dis­cover that we’re cer­tainly not your grandfather’s library!

77 Shadow Street by Dean R Koontz: The afflu­ent occu­pants of lux­ury apart­ments, housed in a 200-year-old man­sion with a check­ered past, enter into a ter­ri­fy­ing wak­ing night­mare when the haunted house reawak­ens, leav­ing no one safe from its grip.

Assume Noth­ing by Gar Anthony Hay­wood: Joe Red­dick lived the night­mare of los­ing his fam­ily to a killer once, and now that an intruder has threat­ened his new fam­ily, Joe sends his wife and son to safety and tar­gets a gang of des­per­ate crim­i­nals for his brand of no-mercy justice.

Beyond Reli­gion: Ethics for a Whole World by Dalai Lama XIV: A stir­ring call to move beyond reli­gion for the guid­ance to improve human life on indi­vid­ual, com­mu­nity, and global lev­els includ­ing a guided med­i­ta­tion prac­tice for cul­ti­vat­ing key human values.

Diary of a Player: How My Musi­cal Heroes Made a Gui­tar Man Out of Me by Brad Pais­ley: Deeply per­sonal and reveal­ing, coun­try music’s biggest super­star shares what music means to him, who inspired his love of music and mem­o­rable sto­ries about the many great play­ers in the busi­ness who he encoun­tered over the years.

Home, Sweet Zero Energy Home: What It Takes to Develop Great Homes That Won’t Cost Any­thing to Heat, Cool or Light Up, With­out Going Broke or Crazy by Barry Rehfeld: This prac­ti­cal guide­book to zero energy homes focuses on real costs and sav­ings, explor­ing such top­ics as site selec­tion and pas­sive design, heat­ing and cool­ing, and finan­cial resources and incen­tives. The Inno­cent by Tay­lor Steven. Two for­mer mem­bers of an Argen­tin­ian cult ask Vanessa Michael Munroe to infil­trate the group in order to free a girl who was kid­napped eight years ago.

The Leop­ard by Jo Nesbo: After two young women are found dead, both drowned in their own blood, Inspec­tor Harry Hole is com­pelled to return to Nor­way to see his dying father and to inves­ti­gate the bru­tal crime, which may be the work of a ser­ial killer.

Mur­der in the First-Class Car­riage: The First Vic­to­rian Rail­way Killing by Kate Colquhoun: Recounts the inves­ti­ga­tion of the first mur­der on the Vic­to­rian Rail­way in July 1864.

Sleep­walker by Karen Robards: Try­ing to deny their mutual attrac­tion, a police­woman and a thief find them­selves on the run from killers who want them both dead.

If you have a ques­tion that you would like to see answered in this col­umn, mail it to Mary Jane San­tos, Delaware County Dis­trict Library, 84 E. Win­ter St., Delaware, OH 43015, or call us at 740–362-3861. You can also email your ques­tions by vis­it­ing the library’s web­site, delawarelibrary.org or directly to Mary Jane at mjsantos@delawarelibrary.org. No mat­ter how you con­tact us, we’re always glad you asked!