Save the Date, MVLC presentation

On Wednesday May 26th from 1-2pm the library will be presenting information about how to use this region's wonderful public library system. The MVLC (Merrimack Valley Library Consortium) serves 35 Massachusetts communities and provides access to over 5 million items. We will demonstrate how to search the catalog, how to create and save a list of desired materials, how to request the materials, how to renew materials, and answer any questions you might have about using this amazing resource.

Here is a link to more information about the MVLC
http://www.mvlc.org/about.html

Luce Library closes for the summer, but your local public library is open year-round!
This presentation is for faculty, staff, students and any other community members.

New Fiction

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps; Peter Straub (editor)

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now; Peter Straub (editor)

Best Friends Forever, by Jennifer Weiner

Collected Stories, by Raymond Carver

Last Night in Twisted River, by John Irving

The Last Song, by Nicholas Sparks

The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown

Noah’s Compass, by Anne Tyler

The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood

New Non-fiction

Almost Meatless: Recipes that are Better for Your Health and the Planet, by Joy Manning

Amelia Earhart: The Thrill of It, by Susan Wels

Guide to the National Parks of the United States, 6th ed.

Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future, by Tim Flannery

Soccernomics; Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey – and even Iraq – Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World’s Most Popular Sport, by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski

The Tudors: The Complete Story of England’s Most Notorious Dynasty, by G.J. Meyer

World Volunteers: The World Guide to Humanitarianism and Development Volunteering; Fabio Ausenda and Erin McCloskey (editors), 4th ed.

Local Author Wins Pulitzer

Paul Harding, of Georgetown MA, won the Pulitzer Prize for best fiction for his novel, "Tinker"

When local author Paul Harding of Georgetown logged onto the Pulitzer Prize website this week to find out who had won this year’s prize for fiction, he was in for a surprise. Against great odds, his first novel, Tinkers, was the winner. The unpublished manuscript had sat in a drawer for three years before word of mouth finally got Tinkers into the hands of the tiny Bellevue Literary Press, which became the first small publisher to be associated with a Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction in nearly 30 years.
Tinkers is the moving story of an old man facing the end of his life. “I worked on it for five to six years and actually tried to have it published, but couldn’t find an agent or a publisher,” Harding told the Associated Press. “From the moment I saw one copy in between two covers, it was all gravy from there.” The Pulitzer Prize citation calls Tinkers “a powerful celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend their imprisoning lives and offer new ways of perceiving the world and mortality.”
The Luce Library is thrilled to share the news of this local author’s success; a copy of Tinkers is on order.

Blu-Ray

The library now has Blu-Ray discs available. They are shelved just as traditional VHS and DVD features (that means, documentaries will be in their Dewey location, and feature films will be in the browsing collection on the upper level) but the Blu-Ray are marked with a special sticker. Also, if you are looking for a Blu-Ray disc you can use "blu ray" as a search term in the library's online catalog. This will produce a search results list of Blu-Ray discs.

Currently we own

The National Parks; a film by Ken Burns

Persepolis

These are available on both DVD and Blu-Ray.
The more our Blu-Ray discs circulate, the more we will purchase!