October 2006    in this issue :: Author of New Guide for Teens at the Library :: Lectures on DVD :: Children's Programming :: CD's :: 2006 Massachusetts Book Awards Author of New Guide for Teens at the Library Welcoming Anita Silvey Children’s and young adult book expert Anita Silvey will introduce her newest guide, 500 Great Books for Teens. Anita Silvey is one of the country’s leading authorities on books for young people. At the event in Easton she will answer such questions as: Haven’t teens stopped reading? Are there taboos about subject matter? Should teens just stay with the classics? What if your teenager reads books you don’t like? Call the Ames Free Library for further information 508- 238-2000. 500 Great Books for Teens will be published by Houghton Mifflin in October. Children's Programming Storytime Schedule & Halloween October 26th at 6:30 PM at the Main Library: Halloween Stories and Songs performed by Jeannie Mack Program is suitable for ages 4 to 10. STORY TIME SCHEDULES Story time for children 6 months - 2 years will start Tuesday, October 17 old at the Branch at 10:30 AM. This series will run through Tuesday, November 14. Story time for children 3 - 6 years old will begin Wednesday, October 18 at the Branch at 10:30 AM. This series will run through Wednesday, November 15. 2006 Massachusetts Book Awards Massachusetts Center for the Book Each year, the MassBooks recognize significant achievements in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, and children's literature from the previous calendar year. To be eligible, books must have been written by authors who currently live and work in Massachusetts or must present topics of particular and specific importance to the Commonwealth regardless of their author's residency. Fiction/Winner The Season of Open Water by Dawn Clifton Tripp is a story of a three-generation family in the late 1920s in a Massachusetts seacoast town. Fiction/Honor Hedwig and Berti by Frieda Arkin. Fiction/Honor Flashback by Gary Braver Nonfiction/Winnner The Peabody Sisters is a landmark biography of three women who made American intellectual history. Though theirs may not be household names, Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody had an extraordinary influence on the thought of their day, the movement of intense creative ferment known as American Romanticism. Nonfiction/Honor Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet by Charlotte Gordon Nonfiction/Honor A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit by Alan Lightman Poetry/Winner Zeppo's First Wife: New and Selected Poems by Gail Mazur. The poetry is filled with verbal invention as she confronts the inevitable upheavals of a lived life. Poetry/Honor Natural History by Dan Chiasson Poetry/Honor Habitat: New And Selected Poems, 1965-2005 by Brendan Galvin Children's/Winner Where the Great Hawk Flies by Liza Ketchum Inspired by an incident recorded by her own mixed- race ancestors, Ketchum tackles the theme in prose as sturdy and well crafted as a cedar-frame wigwam or hand-pegged pine barn. Children's/Honor The Old African by Julius Lester Lester Children's/Honor Beneath The Streets Of Boston: Building America's First Subway by Joe McKendry Lectures on DVD By Nationally Top-ranked University Professors Did you ever want to attend Harvard, Yale or Princeton, without the application process, the fees, the required courses, or the pressure of final exams? The library has a solution. We recently acquired DVDs by the Teaching Company which are quality lectures taught by college professors at the college level, and are also appropriate for high school students, especially juniors and seniors. If you are looking for something more stimulating than the usual fare of sitcom television, we might have just the ticket for you. Click on the course titles for full descriptions. HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL Geometry- James Noggle Algebra I- Monica Neagoy Basic Math- Murray H. Siegal Chemistry- Frank Cardulla Early American History: Native Americans through the Forty-Niners- Linwood Thompson HISTORY/PHILOSOPHY History of the United States, 2nd Edition- Patrick N. Allitt, Gary W. Gallagher, Allen C. Guelzo American Mind- Allen C. Guelzo European Thought and Culture - 19th Century Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World- Robert Bucholz LITERATURE Classical Mythology- Elizabeth Vandiver Classics of American Literature by Arnold Weinstein Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies by Peter Saccio Shakespeare: The Word and the Action by Peter Saccio MUSIC Great Masters: Beethoven—His Life and Music by Robert Greenberg Great Masters: Tchaikovsky—His Life and Music by Robert Greenberg How to Listen to and Understand Great Music by Robert Greenberg How to Listen to and Understand Opera by Robert Greenberg Symphonies of Beethoven by Robert Greenberg The Concerto by Robert Greenberg CD's Recently Aquired A Prarie Home Companion - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Andrea Bocelli - Amore Ben Harper - Both Sides of the Sun Bette Midler - Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook Bette Midler - Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook Carly Simon - Moonlight - Serenade Dave Douglas - Keystone Dixie Chicks - Taking the Long Way FabricLive24 - Diplo Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere Kate Bush - King of the Mountain Mary J Blige - The Breakthrough Muse - Black Holes & Revelations Neil Young - Living With War Nelly Furtado - Loose Pearl Jam Phish - New Years Eve 1995 Wilco- Kicking Television - Live in Chicago Thanks for reading our newsletter. If there are events or services you would like to see profiled in the future, email or stop by and let us know. Contact us at info@amesfree library.org Sincerely, Ames Free Library Staff info@amesfreelibrary.org