Come to Community Baby Shower

Are you a new par­ent? Grand­par­ent? Are you expect­ing your first baby soon? Do you have ques­tions or are uncer­tain about the resources our com­mu­nity offers to first-time parents?

The Delaware County Dis­trict Library is here to help. From 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thurs­day, the Delaware Main Library, 84 E. Win­ter St., will hold a Com­mu­nity Baby Shower. Join us as local busi­nesses and orga­ni­za­tions show­case the ser­vices they have to help you care for your­self and your new­born. We’ll have indi­vid­u­als on hand to answer your ques­tions about health, edu­ca­tion, finan­cial plan­ning, safety and much more. And, you can sign your new baby up for his or her own library card, too. It’s never too early to start read­ing to your child, and how spe­cial is it for your baby to have his or her first library card?

Of course, a baby shower should have cake and fun activ­i­ties, and you’ll find those at the Com­mu­nity Baby Shower too, along with take­aways and lots of great information.

The Com­mu­nity Baby Shower is free and open to the pub­lic, and if your sched­ule won’t allow you to join us on Thurs­day, we will host another one at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 27 at the Orange Branch Library, 7171 Good­ing Blvd.

And while you’re in the library attend­ing the baby shower, look for these new titles on the New Book Shelves due out in Sep­tem­ber at all library locations.

• An Apple for the Crea­ture by Char­laine Har­ris. A col­lec­tion of super­nat­ural school sto­ries includes new tales fea­tur­ing tele­pathic wait­ress Sookie Stack­house and Boston’s angelic pri­vate inves­ti­ga­tor, Remy Chandler.

• The Brides­maid by Bev­erly Lewis. Twenty-four-year-old Amish­woman Joanna Kurtz holds two secrets — she wants to be a pub­lished writer and she longs to be mar­ried to an Amish man who lives two states away.

• The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowl­ing. A long-anticipated first adult novel by the award-winning author of the Harry Pot­ter series fol­lows the early death of a small-town coun­cil­man whose demise reveals deep-rooted con­flicts in his seem­ingly idyl­lic com­mu­nity, which rapidly dete­ri­o­rates in the face of cul­tural dis­putes, gen­er­a­tion clashes and a volatile election.

• Inside HBO’s Game of Thrones by Bryan Cog­man. An offi­cial com­pan­ion to the highly rated cable series offers new insights into its char­ac­ters and sto­ry­lines, pro­vid­ing hun­dreds of set pho­tos, designs and insider accounts as well as actor and crew inter­views that describe mem­o­rable scripted and unscripted moments from the first two seasons.

• The Lin­coln Con­spir­acy by Tim­o­thy O’Brien. As the nation mourns the death of Pres­i­dent Abra­ham Lin­coln, Detec­tive Tem­ple McFad­den dis­cov­ers two diaries — one belong­ing to Mary Todd Lin­coln, the other penned by John Wilkes Booth — that reveal a shock­ing con­spir­acy behind Lincoln’s assassination.

• Michael Dou­glas: A Biog­ra­phy by Marc Eliot. A por­trait of the Hol­ly­wood star traces his suc­cess­ful career while offer­ing insight into his com­pet­i­tive rela­tion­ship with father Kirk Dou­glas, his mar­riage to Cather­ine Zeta-Jones, and his health and per­sonal challenges.

• Mirage by Clive Cus­sler. An inves­ti­ga­tion into a 1943 mis­sion dur­ing which a U.S. destroyer van­ished after it was delib­er­ately sent into an obscured field of elec­tro­mag­netic radi­a­tion finds Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Ore­gon uncov­er­ing dis­turb­ing evi­dence of a dan­ger­ous super-weapon.

• The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court by Jef­frey Toobin. Presents an insider’s account of the ide­o­log­i­cal war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama admin­is­tra­tion, trac­ing sev­eral land­mark cases and the strong views that will be shap­ing the Court of the near future.

• One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Base­ball, Ten and a Half Games Back, and One Final Cham­pi­onship Sea­son by Tony La Russa. In this excit­ing come­back story, the leg­endary base­ball man­ager, in his first ever mem­oir, takes read­ers behind the scenes of the St. Louis Car­di­nals 2011 sea­son, detail­ing the extra­or­di­nary jour­ney that resulted in one of the most dra­matic World Series of all time.

• San Miguel by T. Cor­aghes­san Boyle. The lives of three women on turn-of-the-twentieth-century San Miguel are shaped by ambi­tion and cir­cum­stance, includ­ing the wife of a Civil War vet­eran who hopes to recover her health, her rebel­lious daugh­ter and a librar­ian who won­ders if the island’s peace will endure.

• Tim Gunn’s Fash­ion Bible: The Fas­ci­nat­ing His­tory of Every­thing in Your Closet by Tim Gunn. A metic­u­lously researched his­tory of West­ern fash­ion shares author­i­ta­tive insights into every­thing from suits and sports­wear to high heels and blue jeans while assess­ing the con­tri­bu­tions of rev­o­lu­tion­ary designers.

• Win­ter of the World by Ken Fol­lett. Con­tin­ues the sto­ries of five inter­re­lated fam­i­lies who strug­gle with social, polit­i­cal and eco­nomic tur­moil in the mid-twentieth cen­tury, dur­ing which they wit­ness the rise of Nazi Ger­many, the Span­ish Civil War and the hor­rors of World War II.

As a reminder: The library will be closed on Mon­day in obser­vance of Labor Day. We will reopen with our nor­mal hours on Tuesday.

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 740–362-3861. You can also email your ques­tions by vis­it­ing delawarelibrary.org or directly to Mary Jane at mjsantos@delawarelibrary.org. No mat­ter how you con­tact us, we’re always glad you asked!

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