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OverDrive and Kindle Compatibility!
At long last eBooks are now available for checkout for the Amazon KindleŽ!
Over 900 eBooks are now available for the Kindle through our OverDrive Web site. Our new OverDrive eBook service is popular, so if you see a book that you want, but it's checked out, simply click the "Request It" link to place a hold. You'll be notified as soon as it's available.
All you need is an Amazon.com account (credit card NOT required) and your library barcode & pin to sign into your OverDrive account! (Contact us if you are unable to locate your barcode & pin. It is the same information you use to login to your account when using our library catalog.)
Give it a try! overdrive.librarypoint.org
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Programs @ Your Library
Veterans' Day Exhibit-America as an Emerging Super Power: America Prepares for World War Friday, November 11, 9:00 - 5:30 & Saturday, November 12, 9:00 - 12:00, Headquarters Theater The Museum of Valor shares choice items from their 15,000 piece collection.This year the focus will cover the official role of women in the service. Films at England Run Branch Classics in the Afternoon Thursday, November 10, 2:00 - 4:00,
England Run Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) starring Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur. A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down. Italian Neorealist Films Monday, November 28, 7:00 - 9:00, England Run Umberto D. (1952) directed by Vittorio De Sica An elderly pensioner struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic boom. Alone except for his dog, Flike, Umberto strives to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a city where traditional human kindness seems to have lost out to the forces of modernization. Umberto's simple quest to fulfill the most fundamental human needs-food, shelter, companionship-is one of the most heartbreaking stories ever filmed and an essential classic of world cinema. |
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Featured Book of the Month
At the 14th annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards celebration on October 15, Belle Boggs's Mattaponi Queen won the 2011 award for fiction. A collection of stories set along Virginia's Mattaponi River, the book was listed among Kirkus Reviews' Best Debut Fiction of 2010, and Boggs was recently named Best New Southern Author by Southern Living Magazine. |
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Recently Featured on Shelf Life
These books (and many more) have been featured recently in our Shelf Life Blog, where CRRL staff and volunteers select and review treasures from the shelves.  Long Gone by Alafair Burke
Alice Humphrey--daughter of a world famous film director and his movie star wife--has been unemployed for months yet refuses to ask her wealthy parents for help. When the ideal job as manager of a new NYC art gallery falls into her lap, Alice leaps at the opportunity...without considering the legitimacy of the offer. In Long Gone, by Alafair Burke, Alice has no clue her hasty decision will lead to a murder...or that she will be the main suspect!
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 Doc by Mary Doria RussellNothing came easy to John Henry "Doc" Holliday, not even his birth. Born with a cleft lip and palate, his odds for survival in 1851 were slim, and would have been slimmer still without the intervention of his amazing mother, Alice Holliday. Alice devoted herself to John Henry's care around the clock, feeding him with an eyedropper for eight weeks. His uncle, a noted surgeon, then repaired the cleft palate in an astounding surgery that the family kept secret to protect "family honor." John Henry overcame his speech impediments with this mother's therapy techniques and became proficient in the piano and several classical languages.
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 Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles
Most people know what it feels like to be stuck in limbo somewhere between departure and destination. Even if your journey was perfectly planned, there are so many things that can easily go awry and impede your progress. In Dear American Airlines, that agonizing stasis is symptomatic of much more than an airline's incompetence or a missed connection. It characterizes the 53 years that Benjamin R. Ford has been living and drawing breath.
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Featured Database: Financial Rating Series
Financial Ratings Series, published by Grey House Publishing, combines the strength of Weiss Ratings and TheStreet Ratings to offer the library community with a single source for financial strength ratings and financial planning tools covering Insurance, Banks, Mutual Funds and Stocks. Click here to access Financial Rating Series (you will need to enter your 14-digit barcode).
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Let's Talk About It: Making Sense of the American Civil War
Sign-ups are being accepted now for one of 25 spots in Let's Talk About It: Making Sense of the American Civil War, a series of five reading and discussion sessions moderated by Jeff McClurken, chairman of the Department of History and American Studies at the University of Mary Washington. Participants will read three books: March by Geraldine Brooks; Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam by James McPherson; and an anthology of key documents, America's War: Talking About the Civil War and Emancipation on Their 150th Anniversaries, edited by Edward L. Ayers. Each session will prompt conversation on a different facet of the Civil War experience: Imagining War, Choosing Sides, Making Sense of Shiloh, The Shape of War, and War and Freedom. Meetings take place at Headquarters library on Thursday evenings from 7:00-8:30 on the following dates: November 17, December 15, February 9, March 8, and April 5. To sign up for the series, call 540-372-1144 x277, or come to the Headquarters reference desk. Learn more about the series here.
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National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)
 November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). The concept is easy: devote this November to writing your novel. You know your novel - that one idea floating lazily about in the nether regions of your brain's "bucket list," the one that you've said to yourself, "Wow, that would make a really great book." But you've never quite had the time or the inclination. Well, much like the gym in January, NaNoWriMo gives you the formal opportunity to actually get started.
The library has programs and meeting space dedicated to help you write your novel. Click here for more information.
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