Halloween Harvest!

October 31 marked the Green Valley Library's first Halloween with a "Halloween Harvest" and trick-or-treat event at the library. Children came dressed in their best costumes to celebrate the day with crafts, games, spooky stories and plenty of treats!

Above, Miss Pat hosts a round of SCARY (a Halloween version of BINGO), with a full house of costumed kids!

Thanks to all who came and participated with us at the library!

November is National Diabetes Month

November is National Diabetes Month and we're putting together a display of books to help you stay healthy and fight diabetes. You can also checkout our health databases available at:

http://www.mypubliclibrary.com/research/all_databases.html and http://www.stopdiabetes.com for more tips and resources!

Our Next Blood Drive Has Been RESCHEDULED!

Mark your calendars now for our next blood drive! It will take place on Saturday, December 5, 2009 from 10 to 3 PM the Programming Room. You can schedule an appointment at:

https://www.bloodhero.com/index.cfm?group=registration

or call, 702-562-2166

Our sponsor code is: greenvalleylibrary
Thanks in advance for participating in this important effort!

Thrill the World at GVL

Saturday October 24th, 2009

Teens and librarians dance Michael Jackson's Thriller. About 75 people showed up to watch the fun. More photos on the library's Flickr page

Thrill The World is an annual worldwide simultaneous dance of Michael Jackson's “Thriller.”
All official Thrill the World events are included in the numbers for setting and breaking World Records.

Capt. Bill Takes UltraMarathon Man to Luxembourg!

Capt. Bill sent me a picture of his travels with Ultra Marathon Man from Luxembourg. Hope everyone who went to see Dean this past Saturday had a great time!

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National Book Award Finalists Announced

The National Book Award finalists were recently announced. The finalists are:

FICTION

Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (Random House)Daniyal Mueenuddin, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (W. W. Norton & Co.)Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf) Marcel Theroux, Far North (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
FICTION JUDGES: Alan Cheuse, Junot Díaz, Jennifer Egan, Charles Johnson, Lydia Millet

NONFICTION

David M. Carroll, Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)Sean B. Carroll, Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt)Adrienne Mayor, The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy (Princeton University Press)T. J. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Alfred A. Knopf)
NONFICTION JUDGES: David Blight, Amanda Foreman, Steve Olson, Camille Paglia, John Phillip Santos

POETRY

Rae Armantrout, Versed (Wesleyan University Press)Ann Lauterbach, Or to Begin Again (Penguin Books)Carl Phillips, Speak Low (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Open Interval (University of Pittsburgh Press)Keith Waldrop, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (University of California Press)
POETRY JUDGES: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, A. Van Jordan, Cole Swensen, Kevin Young

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE

Deborah Heiligman, Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith (Henry Holt) Phillip Hoose, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)David Small, Stitches (W. W. Norton & Co.) Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic) Rita Williams-Garcia, Jumped (HarperTeen/HarperCollins)
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE JUDGES: Kathi Appelt, Coe Booth, Carolyn Coman, Nancy Werlin, Gene Luen Yang

DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICAN LETTERS
Gore Vidal

LITERARIAN AWARD
Dave Eggers

STATS - In 2009, 193 publishers submitted 1,129 books for the 2009 National Book Awards.
The total number of books by genre:
Fiction, 236
Nonfiction, 481
Poetry, 161
Young People's Lit., 251

More information can be found at: http://www.nationalbook.org/