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Recent Additions: Fiction 1/27/2012
01/27/12 -
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Recent Additions: Non-Fiction 1/27/2012
01/27/12 -
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START: Learning Computer and Resource Skills for Free
The second offering of START (Students Teaching Adults Resources and Technology) begins Thursday, February 2nd.
START is a free collaborative program with the New Hope-Solebury High School designed for those who wish to learn an array of basic computer and resource skills one-on-one with a student tutor.
Subjects include email, searching online, and downloading e-books, and classes meet Thursdays from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the NH-S High School Library.
Contact Eric Jacobson at the public library (215-862-2330) or Mary Schwander at the high school (215-862-2028) to reserve a spot!
01/22/12 -
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Free Seminar on "Science of Breath"
Stress Management Using Breathing Techniques
A two-part seminar taking place Tuesday, January 24th, and Tuesday, January 31st from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
- Learn how breath can be used as a tool to effectively deal with everyday stress
- Discover the hidden laws that govern the mind and learn skills to enhance one's physical, mental, and emotional well-being
- Master simple breathing techniques and experience guided meditation
Call the library at 215-862-2330 or come by the front desk to sign up!
01/22/12 -
11:10:00 -
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LIBRARY CLOSED TODAY (1/21/2012)
The New Hope-Solebury Library is CLOSED today due to inclement weather. Any items due today will instead be due Monday, January 23rd.
01/21/12 -
10:50:45 -
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Recent Additions: Fiction 1/19/2012
01/19/12 -
17:31:54 -
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Recent Additions: Non-Fiction 1/19/2012
Non-Fiction: General
New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009 edited by Teresa Carpenter
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
The Serial Killer Whisperer: How One Man's Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World's Most Terrifying Killers by Pete Earley
I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy by Lori Andrews
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? Trick Questions, Zen-like Riddles, Insanely Difficulty Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You Need to Know to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy by William Poundstone
The Smartest Money Book You'll Ever Read: Everything You Need to Know About Growing, Spending, and Enjoying Your Money by Daniel R. Solin
The Alzheimer's Prevention Program: Keep Your Brain Healthy for the Rest of Your Life by Gary Small, M.D. and Gigi Vorgan
Stunned by Grief: Remapping Your Life When Loss Changes Everything by Judy Brizendine
In the Still of the Night: The Strange Death of Ronda Reynolds and Her Mother's Unceasing Quest for the Truth by Ann Rule
The Prosperous Heart: Creating a Life of "Enough" by Julia Cameron and Emma Lively
Gay Men Don't Get Fat by Simon Doonan
The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It by Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D.
Non-Fiction: Biographies
The Man Within My Head by Pico Iyer
Elizabeth the Queen: the Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith
Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey by Margaret Powell
01/19/12 -
16:59:58 -
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Recent Additions: Fiction 1/6/2012
01/07/12 -
18:22:03 -
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Recent Additions: Non-Fiction 1/6/2012
01/07/12 -
17:43:51 -
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Library Closed 12/31/2011 Through 1/2/2012
The New Hope-Solebury Library will be closed Saturday, December 31st, through Monday, January 2nd.
Items that would normally be due over the New Year's weekend will not be due until Tuesday, January 3rd.
12/28/11 -
18:17:36 -
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Recent Additions: Fiction 12/22/2011
12/22/11 -
12:47:20 -
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Recent Additions: Non-Fiction 12/22/2011
Non-Fiction: General
The Puppy Diaries: Raising a Dog Named Scout by Jill Abramson
Cat Calls: Wonderful Stories and Practical Advice from a Veteran Cat Sitter by Jeane Adlon and Susan Logan
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them by Donovan Hohn
Lilias! Yoga: Your Guide to Enhancing Body, Mind, and Spirit in Midlife and Beyond by Lilias Folan
Indigo: In Search of the Color that Seduced the World by Catherine E. McKinley
Gossip by Joseph Epstein
Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck - Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen
Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety by Sacha Z. Scoblic
Non-Fiction: Biographies
Journey to the Abyss: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918 by Harry Kessler and edited by Laird M. Easton
Sergeant Rex: The Unbreakable Bond Between a Marine and His Military Working Dog by Mike Dowling
My Nine Lives: A Memoir of Many Careers in Music by Leon Fleisher and Anne Midgette
12/22/11 -
12:25:23 -
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Monthly Board Meeting Changed to 12/20/2011
The monthly Library Board of Trustees meeting has been rescheduled to Tuesday, December 20th, at 6 p.m. at the Library. The Board normally meets on the third Wednesday of every month at 5:30 p.m.
All are welcome to attend.
12/19/11 -
23:55:30 -
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Recent Additions: Fiction 12/14/2011
12/14/11 -
20:26:17 -
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Recent Additions: Non-Fiction 12/14/2011
Non-Fiction: General
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything by David Bellos
The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass by Bill Maher
Holidays in Heck: A Former War Correspondent Experiences Frightening Vacation Fun by P.J. O'Rourke
Inside SEAL Team Six: My Life and Missions with America's Elite Warriors by Don Mann and Ralph Pezzullo
The World of Downton Abbey by Jessica Fellowes
Decorating: The Smart Approach to Design
Small Space Decorating
New Decorating Book
Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine by Eric Weiner
Frugavore: How to Grow Organic, Buy Local, Waste Nothing, and Eat Well by Arabella Forge
Murder in the First-Class Carriage: The First Victorian Railway Killing by Kate Colquhoun
Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks by John Curran
Pilgrimage by Annie Liebovitz
Digital Assassination: Protecting Your Reputation, Brand, or Business Against Online Attacks by Richard Torrenzano and Mark Davis
Film School: The True Story of a Midwestern Family Man Who Went to the World's Most Famous Film School, Fell Flat on His Face, Had a Stroke, and Sold a Television Series to CBS by Steve Boman
How the Dog Became the Dog: From Wolves to Our Best Friends by Mark Derr
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos by Dava Sobel
The Handy Personal Finance Answer Book by Paul A. Tucci
Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books edited by Leah Price
The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry edited by Rita Dove
Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir by Rosamond Bernier
Non-Fiction: Biographies
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography by Agatha Christie
Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow
Alice James by Jean Strouse
God, If You're Not Up There, I'm F*cked: Tales of Stand-Up, Saturday Night Live, and other Mind-Altering Mayhem by Darrell Hammond
Audiobooks
The Development of European Civilization by Kenneth R. Bartlett (Great Courses)
Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition by Grant Hardy (Great Courses)
Turning Points in American History by Edward T. O'Donnell (Great Courses)
Memory and the Human Lifespan by Steve Joordens (Great Courses)
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Patrick Allitt (Great Courses)
DVDs
Art Across the Ages
12/14/11 -
13:28:54 -
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Recent Additions: Fiction 12/2/2011
12/08/11 -
14:00:57 -
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Recent Additions: Non-Fiction 12/2/2011
Non-Fiction: General
Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World by Dalai Lama
Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison by Peter Schweizer
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany by Stephen Sondheim
Ciao Italia Family Classics by Mary Ann Esposito
Spontaneous Happiness by Andrew Weil, M.D.
Good Living Street: Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900 by Tim Bonyhady
Art Theft and the Case of the Stolen Turners by Sandy Nairne
Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself- And The Consequences for your Health and our Medical Future by Harriet A. Washington
Inside the Mind of Casey Anthony: A Psychological Portrait by Keith Ablow
Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to do the Right Thing by Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe
Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia by Blake Butler
The Love Lives of the Artists: Five Stories of Creative Intimacy by Daniel Bullen
The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age by Nathan Wolfe
Best Friends, Occasional Enemies: the Lighter Side of Life as a Mother and Daughter by Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella
Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945 by Neill Lochery
A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France by Caroline Moorehead
The Language Wars: A History of Proper English by Henry Hitchings
Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir by John Paul Stevens
That Is All by John Hodgman
Non-Fiction: Biographies
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss
Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, The Most Beautiful in the World by Richard Rhodes
Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life by Ann Beattie
Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life by Lisa Chaney
Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope by Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly
George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
One and Only: The Untold Story of On The Road and Lu Anne Henderson, The Woman Who Started Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady on Their Journey by Gerald Nicosia and Anne Marie Santos
And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life by Charles J. Shields
Then Again by Diane Keaton
How I Got This Way by Regis Philbin
The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World by Derek Chollet and Samantha Power
Audiobooks
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
DVDs
Learn to Dance like a Princess!
Crazy Crafts: Bugs, Lizards, and Dinosaurs
12/08/11 -
12:57:52 -
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Holiday Book Sale
The Friends of the Free Library of New Hope and Solebury
are having our Annual
Holiday Book Sale
Friday, November 25 thru Friday, December 30
Begin your holiday shopping at the Library
Great gift ideas for Dad and Mom and everyone on your list!!
11/17/11 -
11:56:35 -
Eric -
Recent Additions: Fiction 11/11/2011
11/12/11 -
16:39:59 -
Eric -
Recent Additions: Non-Fiction 11/11/2011
11/11/11 -
17:41:15 -
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Board Meeting Changed to 11/17
The monthly Library Board of Trustees meeting has been moved to Thursday, November 17th, at 5:30 p.m at the Library. The Board normally meets on the third Wednesday of every month and all are welcome to attend.
11/05/11 -
11:48:41 -
Eric -
LIBRARY CLOSED TODAY (10/29/2011)
The New Hope-Solebury Library is CLOSED today due to inclement weather.
10/29/11 -
14:48:38 -
Eric -
Recent Additions: Fiction 10/28/2011
10/28/11 -
12:22:18 -
Eric -
Recent Additions: Non-Fiction 10/28/2011
10/28/11 -
11:58:48 -
Eric -
Recent Additions: Fiction 10/21/2011
10/22/11 -
16:38:29 -
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