Breaking Dawn - Who should Bella choose?

Breaking Dawn, the fourth and final book in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series will be published August 2 and the burning question is: Who will Bella finally choose? Will she end up with Edward the vampire or Jacob the werewolf?

We're inviting you to vote for your choice and be entered to win a copy of Breaking Dawn.
Cast your vote in the library's teen area or by emailing us with your choice.

In the meantime, check out Stephenie Meyer's official website http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/twilightseries.html

Local Author visit

Local author Susanne Markey Bensing will be visiting the library Friday June 27 at 10am to talk about her books Icing on the Cake and That Would Be Great!
Joining Susanne will be her granddaughters, Anya Bensing and Kate Bensing who are the illustrators of That Would Be Great!
They will be sharing their experiences that led to the creation of the books and the process of writing, illustrating and publishing.

T-shirts and totes

Support the summer reading program with a T-shirt and a tote. "Catch the Reading Bug" shirts are available for $7.00. Canvas totes are $10.00 at the circulation desk.

Stonehenge

According to a recent news release Stonehenge has been found to be "domain of the dead". You can find out all the latest information about this enigmatic site by exploring the books available in the non-fiction area of the library. We have the newest National Geographic article along with many books about the history and culture of Britain. If the weak dollar has you staying close to home this summer we have the perfect solution to be an armchair traveler with our wide variety of travel books and videos, too.

Going Green

Visit the Lebanon Library to learn how to incorporate a green lifestyle in your home.




We have added many new books on this topic. They are available near the checkout counter.

Pulitzer Prize winners featured

Looking for a good book? Stay cool this summer by checking out one of our Pulitzer Prize winners. Look for this display in the fiction section of the library.

Library Announces Winners of Poetry Contest

The Lebanon Community Library is pleased to announce the winners of the ninth annual Poetry Contest. Out of the 144 entries received twenty winning poems and poets were chosen. This year’s winners are:

Up to 8th Grade:

A Boy!
Noel Biever
Lebanon Catholic Grade 7

Ode to My Mother
Samantha Charelian
North Annville Elementary Grade 3

The Yeti
Avery Dowd
Cedar Crest Middle School Grade 6

Counting Down
Philanna Emerick
Lebanon Catholic Grade 7

Gregory Can’t Fly
Deryn Fink
Lebanon Catholic Grade 7

The Candle
Haley Johnston
Cedar Crest Middle School Grade 8

A Furry Little Creature
Sophia Jonovich
Homeschooled Grade 3

15 American Troops
Josh Lindenmuth
ELCO Middle School Grade 6

Wrong Way Minny
Holly Marinkov
Lebanon Catholic Grade 7

Pig Round-Up
Challen Yanchuck
Lebanon Catholic Grade 7

9th Grade through Adult:

Trophy Cat
Ruth Ann Boltz

Long Gone
Mike Border

A Time to Weep
Louisa Foster
Faith Tabernacle School Grade 10

104
Casey L. Ilus

Courage
Kyle Kahl
Palmyra Area High School Grade 12

Ghazal from America
Emily Krause
Lebanon Catholic Grade 12

The Underground Game
Richard D. Slick

The Sad Poet
Anne Pierre Spangler

Nightmare or Fun?
Lois Landis Witmer

Origami
Lois Landis Witmer

The general public will have the chance to order a bound volume of the winning entries for purchase. For additional information please contact Michelle Hawk at 717-273-7624 ext. 3, or refdesk@lclibs.org.

Summer Reading Registration starts Monday!

Children, Teens and Adults can all register for Summer Reading starting this Monday, June 9th, 2008 @ The Library!

This year's themes are Catch The Reading Bug @ Your Library for children, the teen theme is a Metamorphosis @ Your Library, and the adults are encouraged to Go Green @ Your Library with their theme.

Educational and entertaining peformers will be stopping @ the library all summer long, plus we will be showing movies and playing B-I-N-G-O! For your own personal summer events brochure (pdf) follow this link http://www.lclibs.org/lebanon/srp_flyer_2008.pdf

Plus local author Susanne Bensing will stop by the library on Friday, June 27 10am. She and her granddaughters Anya and Kate will discuss how they illustrated their own book That Would Be Great. Bensing is also the author of Icing on the Cake: A Most Delicious Life Journey Topped with Laughter and Love.

See YOU @ The Library this summer!

Save the Date for Python!

Mon., June 30 at 6:30pm - Black Knights and Dead Parrots: Monty Python and Philosophy

Gary Hardcastle, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bloomsburg University, will present this program June 30th at 6:30 PM.

As undergraduates at Cambridge and Oxford in the 1960s, the future members of the seminal British comedy troupe Monty Python studied ideas that are at the heart of modern philosophical thinking. Not surprisingly, the philosophy they learned crept into some of their funniest sketches. Gary Hardcastle will use clips of several of Monty Python's best-known skits to illustrate and explain what philosophers do, why they do it and why what they do actually is important—in short, what philosophy is all about. A rare opportunity to learn philosophy while giggling.

This presentation is a program of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, a Federal-State partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The PHC inspires people to come together and share a life of learning. Since 1973, the PHC has provided resources that empower local groups to help their communities explore history, literature, the arts and the ideas that shape the human experience.