June is Audio Book Month! Library staff members have our latest books on CD displayed for easy browsing and check out, and new titles arrive every week.
The display of 2009 titles on CD for adults includes:
The Associate by John Grisham
Cemetery Dance by Douglas J. Preston
Drool by Dan Simmons
Fearless by Diana Palmer
First Family by David Baldacci
Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
Lethal Legacy by Linda A. Fairstein
One Day at a Time by Danielle Steel
Summer on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber
Uncommon by Tony Dungy
Vision in White by Nora Roberts
While My Sister Sleeps by Barbara Delinsky
2009 titles on CD displayed for younger readers include:
Annie and Snowball and the Pink Surprise by Cynthia Rylant
Bats at the Beach by Brian Lie
Bats at the Library by Brian Lies
Bear Feels Scared by Karma Wilson
The Boxer and the Spy by Robert B. Parker
The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County by Janice N. Harrington
Dandelion Fire by Nathan D. Wilson
Friend or Fiend? By Judy Blume
The Gooney Bird Collection by Lois Lowry
Haunted Hike by Patrick Carman
Heroes of the Valley by Jonathan Stroud
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
Love, Aubrey by Suzanne M. LaFleur
Lunch Walks Among Us by Jim Benton
The Problem With the Puddles by Kate Feiffer
Scat by Carl Hiaasen
This Full House by Virginia Euwer Wolff
3 Willows by Ann Brashares
Wabi Sabi by Mark Reibstein
The Walnut Cup by Patrick Carman
You Can Do It by Tony Dungy
Audio books that you “read” count toward book bucks for summer reading prizes. You may reserve titles by placing an online request (rowancountylibrary.org) or by calling 784-7137 and asking a Library staff member to place the reserve for you. Miss Donna will be happy to deliver audio books to bookmobile patrons.
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‘I Won’t Be the One’ starts tonight
Starting tonight at the Rowan County Senior High School boy/girl basketball double header, Rowan UNITE and its partners Rowan County Champions, Rowan County Schools Family Resource and Youth Service Centers and the Pathways Regional Prevention Center will be kicking off the “I Won’t Be the One” Campaign.
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Help your child succeed @ YOUR Rowan County Public Library
What is the most important trait you would like to develop in your child? If you are like most parents, intelligence is probably at the top of your list. We all want bright, smart children.
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Youth drinking in Rowan County
What does youth drinking look like in Rowan County? Information about youth alcohol consumption is collected from sixth, eighth, tenth, and twelfth graders every two years in the Kentucky Incentives for Prevention Youth, or KIP, Survey. This last data available is from 2010.
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NEW YA materials @ YOUR Rowan County Public Library
The Teen Area of YOUR Rowan County Public Library is full of new titles for young adults. Stop in and take a look at the titles just waiting to be checked out.
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The café is open! @ YOUR Rowan County Public Library
We’ve been waiting . . . and waiting . . . and we don’t have to wait any longer. The Library Café is open!
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Now is the time! Anti-drug summit set
Rowan UNITE has begun planning our 3rd annual Community Anti-Drug Summit. Mark your calendars for the summit to be held on Thursday, June 14. To help us prepare for speaker list for the summit, Rowan UNITE needs to know what you want or need to hear about substance abuse.
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Seize the opportunity: Time to get to work
The holidays are over, and we are all returning to work . . . serious work – not just the marking of time until the office or store closes for the holidays. So it is time to get to work!
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Get ready for another bumpy ride
Ready or not, they’re coming back to town. At noon Tuesday, lawmakers will convene a General Assembly confronting major problems and which may prove very contentious. Their plates will be full in a budget session with little money in an election year.
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Just say no to New Year’s resolutions
We all have heard the saying “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” The time for “doing nothing” has passed. Without action by good people, Rowan County will continue to face drug problems.
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Help with those resolutions @ YOUR Rowan County Public Library
A brand new year is almost here—an opportunity for us to make choices to be better and to do better than we did during 2011. So, many of us will make New Year’s resolutions, and, although we do so with the best of intentions, we could use a little help.
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‘I Won’t Be the One’ starts tonight
