Hadley Luzerne Public Library

The Hadley-Luzerne Public Library now has ACT for Youth Grant Applications. Any youth or groups of youth between the ages of 10-19 who reside in Washington and Warren Counties are eligible for grant money. Grant awards are up to $500.00.  These grants are to help young people make a difference in thier school, neighborhood or community-community service opportunities. Come into the library for more information.

We have photos by Nelson Bosford in the community room for the month of March.  Nelson is a 1975 graduate of Hadley-Luzerne Central School.  Nelson has traveled around the country, working for Yellowstone National Park and for the University at Berkeley in California.  He has been an avid photographer for  many years, captuing wildlife and landscapes across the country.

“The Wild Trees” by Richard Preston  will be discussed on March 11th at 6:30pm in the community room at the Hadley-Luzerne Public Library.

This is a non-fiction  adventure story about several young college students who explore the ecology in the redwood treetops in Northern California. The deep redwood canopy is a vertical Eden filled with mosses, lichens, spotted salamanders, hanging gardens of ferns, and thickets of huckleberry bushes, all growing out of massive trunk systems that have fused and formed flying buttresses.  Humans move through the deep canopy suspended on ropes, far out of sight of the ground, knowing that the price of a small mistake can be a plunge to one’s death.

The book club had to cancel Tuesday Feb 12th due to a major ice storm.  The club has rescheduled the meeting to Tuesday Feb 26th at 6:30pm.  At this meeting they will be discussing The River of Doubt by Candice Millard.

Come in and see Stan Burdick’s cartoons in the library’s community room.  Stan is retired and is a staff cartoonist for the Post-Star, The Press-Republican and in the Lake Champlain Weekly.  He has founded and directs activities of a cartoon museum in Ticonderoga where over 700 comic and editorial cartoons are exhibited for public viewing.

Would you like to help the library? Join our friends group.  The friends of the library is a group who helps the library raise funds.  This year we are looking to raise funds for a video drop box.  We also will be selling discount tickets to the Great Escape.

Please contact Cynthia at the library if you are interested.  696-3423

My Brothers Madness by Paul Pines
       Pines presently lives in Glens Falls, NY, with his wife, Carol and daughter, Charlotte, where he teaches American Literature and Creative Writing at Adirondack Community College, practices as a psychotherapist at Glens Falls Hospital, and hosts the annual Lake George Jazz Weekend.  www.paulpines.com

All these books are new additions or have already been ordered. You can place a hold on any one you see and we will call you when the book comes in. 

Pandora’s Daughter by Iris Johansen
Last Noel by H. Graham
Shadow Music by J. Garwood
Blood Dreams by Kay Hooper

Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich
Wife for Hire by Janet Evanovich
7th Heaven by James Patterson
The Secret Between Us by Barbara Delinsky
Lady Killer by Lisa Scottoline
Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella
Betrayal by John Lescroart
The Appeal by John Grisham

All these books are on their way in January & February.  You can put in a request for any of them now and we will call you when it comes in.

Sizzle and Burn by Jayne Ann Krentz
Bleeding Kansas by Sara Paretsky
Hand of Evil by J.A. Jance
Wizard’s Daughter by Catherine Coulter
Beverly Hills Dead by Stuart Woods
The Killing Ground by Jack Higgins
First Patient by Michael Palmer
Heart of Texas, Volume 2 by Debbie Macomber
Rhett Butler’s People by Donald McCaig

On January 8th our book club picked up their new book.  If you are thinking of joining the club you can pick up this book and come to the next meeting on February 12th at 6:30 p.m.  The book is called, “The River of Doubt” by Candice Millard.  At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.

The River of Doubt-is a black, uncharted river that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world.  Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron.

After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon.  Together with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most famous explorer, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it.  In the process, he changed the map of the Western Hemisphere forever.

Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks.  Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide.  The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful non-fiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Ameicans who ever lived.

From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, her is Candice Millard’s dazzling debut.

The author Candice Millard is a former writer and editor for National Geographic magazine.