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Go Beyond the Best Seller
Explore links to book-related resources and view back issues of our Beyond the Best Seller list online. |
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Movie Discussion Group
Help Us Out - It's Easy!
Please fill out the
Online Questionnaire
and help us plan a great new film discussion series. |
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Going on vacation? Bring along a good read...
A selection of fiction, hand-picked by the staff, is available for vacation loan. The books are located behind the reference desk and may be check out all summer.
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Get answers to all of your reference
questions free, online
any time of the day or night with InfoAnytime. |
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Featured Research Database...>
 Military Records Database
Military Records, launched by ancestry.com, is an online searchable database of more than 90 million names from the 1600s to the Korean Conflict. Military Records is a free database for New Canaan Library users, but must be accessed in the building. For more information call the Information Desk at 594-5003.
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JULY AUTHORS ON STAGE
Please call 594-5003 to register
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Amanda Eyre Ward
Forgive Me
Wednesday, July 11
at 7:30 pm
in the Lamb Room
Co-sponsored by
Elm Street Books |
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Lisa Rey Marks
Joy is the Greatest Gift
Saturday, July 14
at 2:00 pm
in the Gallery
Co-sponsored by
Elm Street Books |
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Books ................. More Fiction>> More Non-Fiction>>
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Shannon Hale
Austenland
For every woman who’s read Pride and Prejudice and sighed for Mr. Darcy: a confection of a novel from New York Times-bestselling author Shannon Hale
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Don DeLillo
Falling Man
A magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. |
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Pedro Guerrero
A Photographer's Journey
Spanning nearly a century, Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey is a fascinating memoir illustrated with over 190 of the author's own photographs
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DVDs............... More New DVDs>>
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The Preston Sturges Collection
Sturgess wrote and directed eight original movies unlike anything before or since, and seven of these pictures comprise this boxed set. |
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Miss Potter
The true story of the woman who created some of the most beloved characters in children's literature comes to the screen in this drama leavened with elements of comedy and romance. |
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Ghost Rider
When a motorcycle-riding stuntman offers his soul to Mephistopheles in order to save the life of the one he loves most, he is forced to play host to a powerful supernatural entity whose flaming skull visage strikes fear into the heart of his enemies. |
Compact
Discs............. More New CDs>>
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Paul McCartney
Memory Almost Full
Bearing all the hallmarks of meticulous producer Nigel Godrich, Memory Almost Full is startlingly bright and frequently lively, an album that embraces McCartney's unerring gift for melody.
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Lang Lang
Live at Carnegie Hall
The two-disc set features music by Haydn, Schubert, Schumann, and other classical masters, as well as works from Lang Lang's homeland.
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Police Fingerprinting & Detective Work
Presented by Sgt. Carol Ogrinc of the
New Canaan Police
Department of Youth Division
Friday, July 6
3 to 4 pm
in the Children's Program Room
For ages 7 to 12
Registration Required
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Get a Clue @ Your Library
WEB TRIVIA CLASS
Friday, July 13
2:30 - 3:30 pm and 3:30 - 4:30 pm
in the Library Tech Center
For ages 8 - 13
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Harry Potter Trivia Show
Presented by Christopher Hurlbert
Friday, July 20
at 10 pm
in the Lamb Room
For ages 8 to 13
At 12 midnight checkout the new
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Elm Street Books will have the new book available for purchase, if you prefer
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Mother Goose Rhymes
Friday, July 27
at 10 am
in the Lamb Room
For babies and toddlers up to age 2 & their moms
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Ms. Frizzle from the
Magic School Bus
will visit the Library
Friday, July 27
at 2 pm
in the Children's Program Room
For children ages 5 to 9
The film "Magic Bus Gets Lost
in Space" will be shown. |
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Wings
Hanneke Goedkoop |
How Deep is the Ocean,
How High is Our Sky
Kees De Waal |
Dreams & Reality
Prints and Paintings
by Hanneke Goedkoop and
Kees De Waal
July 7 - August 27
Opening Reception
Saturday, July 7, 3-5 pm
In the H. Pelham Curtis Gallery |
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