New Books!

New Books on the Shelf this week:

Below Zero by CJ Box
First Family by David Baldacci
The Lovers by John Connolly
The Scarecrow by Michael Connolly
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Plea of Insanity by Julianne Hoffman
Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg
Brimstone by Robert Parker
The Strain by Guilermo del Toro
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
There's Something about St. Tropez by Elizabeth Adler
Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
Killer Summer by Ridley Pearson
Intent to Kil by James Grippando
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Relentless by Dean Koontz
The 8th Confession by James Patterson
Wicked Prey by John Sanford
The Bourne Deception by Eric Lusbader
Dune Road by Jane Green
Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
Black Hills by Nora Roberts
The Fixer Upper by Mary Kay Andrews
The Doomsday Key by James Rollins
The Help by Katherine Stockett
Fatally Flaky by Diane Mott Davidson
The Devil's Punchbowl by Greg Iles
Look Again by Lisa Scottoline
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
Return to Sullivan's Island by Dorothea Benton Frank

New Audio Books!

These audio books have just arrived:

The Hungry Girl Survival Guide by Lisa Lillien
The Angel Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafron
Home Game: an Accidental Guide to Fatherhood by Michael Lewis
The 8th Confession by James Patterson
Fatally Flaky by Diane Mott Davidson
The Bourne Deception by Eric Lustbader
Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
Mommywood by Tori Spelling
Black Hills by Nora Roberts
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
The Strain by Guillermo del Torro
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Stay tuned more new materials are on the way!

Interested in starting a business?

The Vermont Secretary of State's Office has a new website up for entrepreneurs. www.startabusinessinvermont.net provides check lists, and other information that will get you started on opening your own business.

Weekly Trivia Contest!

Stop by the library this summer to enter into trivia drawings for fun prizes! Questions will change weekly and there's one for kids and one for adults.

ECHO Center and Vermont State Parks Passes Available at the Library!

You can now borrow passes for entry at the ECHO Center and for day use at Vermont State Parks from the Winooski Memorial Library!

The ECHO Center pass allows two adults and three youth entry for $2.00 per admission. The pass is available for Winooski residents only. It can be checked out for two days.

The "Check Out the Parks Pass" admits one vehicle holding up to eight people FREE to any Vermont State Park's Day Use Area for one day. The pass is available to Winooski residents only. There is a three day loan period.

Enjoy these passes this summer! The Vermont State Parks pass has been provided by the Vermont Department of Forest and Park and the Vermont Department of Libraries.

Call the library at 655-6424 for more information!

New Downloads Available on ListenUp! Vermont

There are a lot of new titles available on ListenUp! Vermont. You can download audio books to listen to from your computer, MP3 player, iPod, or burn to CD. All you need to log in is your library card number.

The 8th Confession by James Patterson
The Age of the Unthinkable by Joshua Ramo
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Brimstone by Robert B. Parker
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Deadlock by Iris Johansen
The Element by Ken Robinson, Ph.D. (MP3)
First Family by David Baldacci
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs (MP3)
Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg
House of Cards by William D. Cohan
In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark
Long Lost by Harlan Coben
Look Again by Lisa Scottoline
Losing Mum and Pup by Christopher Buckley
Mr. and Miss Anonymous by Fern Michaels
Multiple Blessings by Jon and Kate Gosselin
Multiple Blessings by Jon and Kate Gosselin (MP3)
My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler
Never Give Up! by Joyce Meyer
Paul Newman by Shawn Levy
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (MP3)
The Perfect Poison by Amanda Quick
Perfectly Imperfect by Lee Woodruff
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee (MP3)
Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas
Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk
Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk (MP3)
Rapt by Winifred Gallagher
Resilience by Elizabeth Edwards
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
Sing Them Home by Stephanie Kallos (MP3)
The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman
Summer on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber
The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle
Vision in White by Nora Roberts
The Yankee Years by Joe Torre

Happy Mother's Day!

School Library Journal put together a list of celebrities with librarian moms.

Resources on Pandemic Flu

There are many great information resources for preventing illness. Here are a few:

Vermont Department of Health

US Department of Health and Human Services

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (great information on all sorts of health-related questions)

This site is helpful in defining the differences between endemic, epidemic, and pandemic.

Green Up Day is Saturday, May 2

Green up day is this Saturday, May 2. Lots of information is available on www.greenupvermont.org

There is also a list of contacts in each town.