January is California Dried Plum Digestive Health Month!

Browse our special display at the Green Valley Library of materials on digestive health! Dried Plums have a unique combination of nutrients - fiber, potassium, magnesium and iron - as well as antioxidants that prevent cancer and decrease inflammation.

Discover more about the benefits of dried plums and creative ways to include them in your diet with recipes at http://www.californiadriedplums.org/.

Helping you become healthier!

Perhaps the Henderson Libraries can help you with your New Year's resolutions? CNN thinks public libraries can help you become healthier (for free!) in 2010. Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/12/25/free.healthy.christmas/index.html

Celebrate Rudyard Kipling

Today (December 30) is Rudyard Kipling's birthday! Take time to read one of his many books for children or adults or find out more about his life in our biography database, Biography Resource Center! Several of the articles in the database have a full bibliography of his works.

Next Blood Drive @ Green Valley Library January 9, 2010

Please plan to donate blood on January 9, 2010 at the Green Valley Library. The drive will be held from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM in our Programming Room. You can register in advance by calling 562-2166 or log on to www.bloodhero.com (sponsor code is greenvalleylibrary).

Slate Magazine's Best of '09

In yet another list of the "Best Books of 2009," I give you Slate magazine's picks for 2009 here. Happy Reading!

Grinch-Fest 2009!

Thank you to all who came to our Dec. 26 "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" puppet show! In addition to the Dr. Seuss puppet performance and story reading by Miss Andrea, children created grinch face masks, played a grinchy bingo for prizes, and ended the event with some deliciously green "Who Pudding." Over 40 attendees took part in this fun children's program at the Green Valley Library! We hope to see you again next year!

Winter Staycation Reading List

Don't let the cold weather get you down! Check out this list of "ten tomes that offer tropical settings and enough sun-drenched drama to make Jay-Z's yacht look boring." Included is Love in the Time of Cholera, which we recently discussed in our Fantastic Classic Book Club.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/12/24/tf.staycation.reading/index.html