We've got more pages than, well, a library!

At the Montana State Library Fall Workshop this last week in Lewiston I took a class in creating a Protopage and Google Page Creator. The Protopage I created for the Whitehall Library is here.
If you'd like to read about Protopages click here. The one I made for the libary will be on all the library computers as a home page and will have all sorts of useful links and info.
Our Google Page Creator is going to be used more like a traditional web page and to see it in all it's glory go thisaway. So between this blog, our Protopage and the Google Page you have absolutely no excuse for not knowing every single thing there is to know about the Whitehall Library.
The drive to Lewiston was really beautiful and I took a few pictures along the way.

Mountains on the way to Lewiston Windfarm at Judith Gap

Man, they are so magnificant! In the web page class

Whitehall Reads!

Whitehall Reads is a book discussion group that meets the fourth Thursday of the month at 6:00 p.m. at the Whitehall Community Library. October 26th we will be discussing "Buster's Midnight Cafe" by Sandra Dallas. Books may be picked up at the library, limited quantities available. For more information call 287-3763.

"Country music between covers…Style, tone, and lesson in one succinct package." —Los Angeles Times Book Review

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A wise and sassy narrator, marvelous characters, and a plot that blends Hollywood scandal, lifelong friendship, mystery and romance—these are the specialties served up in Sandra Dallas’s offbeat, inspired debut novel.
Effa Commander is no spring chicken, but her spirit shines and her smart mouth still puts fools to shame. The fool in question is a gossip hound writing a scurrilous account of her beloved friends who, though departed, remain the most celebrated citizens of Butte, Montana: the great Hollywood legend Marion Street (nee May Anna Kovacks) and Buster Midnight, the boxing champion whose love for Marion led to the notorious “Tinseltown Crime of Passion” and the end of his career.

Prodded by her bosom buddy, Whippy Bird, Effa Commander takes pen in hand to set the record straight and tell what really happened on that violent night. But to do that, Effa Commander must recount the story of all their lives: hers and Whippy Bird’s and May Anna’s, and Buster and Toney McNight’s and Pink Varscoe’s. Childhood friends, they all became wives and husbands—with the exception of May Anna, of course. She went to work in Venus Alley, hitched herself to a big-time director just passing through on his way to Hollywood, and the rest is history.

Narrated by the irrepressible Effa Commander, this wry and loving chronicle of more than fifty years of friendship carries some universal, homespun truths about what’s really important in life.

New books that will knock your socks off!

New Fiction @ the Whitehall Community LIbrary

In plain sight by C. J. Box
Edge of battle by Dale Brown
The hard way by Lee Child
The cold moon by Jeffery Deaver
The whistling season by Ivan Doig
Killer Dreams by Iris Johansen
The husband by Dean Koontz
On, off by Colleen McCullough
Telegraph days by Larry Mcurtry
School's out by James Patterson
The book of the dead Douglas Preston
Ghost force by Patrick Robinson
Dead watch by John Sandford

New videos
Brokeback mountain
Capote
Grizzly man
March of the Penguins
Memoirs of a geisha
Scooby-Doo2
Transamerica
Walk the line

April new books.

Listed below are just a few of new titles we have at the Whitehall Community Library. For a complete list of our new titles visit the Montana Shared Catalog and then choose Jefferson County Library-Whitehall.

Bleeding Hearts by Susan Wittig Albert.
In Albert's engrossing 15th mystery to star China Bayles, herbalist, erstwhile lawyer and occasional gumshoe (after 2005's Dead Man's Bones), everyone in China's charming hometown of Pecan Springs, Tex., is stunned when the high school football coach, Tim Duffy, is murdered.

Circle of Quilters : an Elm Creek Quilts Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini.
Elm Creek Quilt Camp is firmly at the center of her latest novel in the series, though Chiaverini broadens the geography and characters. An ad for an instructor at the camp attracts candidates from near and far, all offering a look at different perspectives on what quilting means in their lives.

Statute of Limitations by Steven Havill.
Things go from bad to worse in Posadas, N.Mex., at the start of Havill's appealing fourth Posadas County mystery (after 2004's Convenient Disposal). First, Chief of Police Eduardo Martinez suffers a heart attack while confronting car thieves on Christmas eve; Sheriff Robert Torrez has a pulmonary embolism Christmas morning; a deputy's fiancée is murdered that afternoon; and former sheriff Bill Gastner is brutally attacked that night. It's enough for under-sheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman to keep up with the medical reports, never mind track down the perps.

Gone by Jonathan Kellerman.
It's a story tailor-made for the nightly news: Dylan Meserve and Michaela Brand, young lovers and fellow acting students, vanish on the way home from a rehearsal. Three days later, the two of them are found in the remote mountains of Malibu - battered and terrified after a harrowing ordeal at the hands of a sadistic abductor.

Sweet Revenge by Fern Michaels.
Isabelle Flanders had everything--her own architectural firm, her fianc Bobby, a life she deserved--until Rosemary Hershey came and stole it all. Took her reputation, her clients, her man, and even framed her for drunk driving--killing three innocent people in the process. The loyal Sisterhood agrees: Rosemary has to be punished, along with the conniving Bobby.

Cage of Stars by Jacquelyn Mitchard.
The author of "The Deep End of the Ocean" delivers a compelling, emotionally charged tale of tragedy, revenge, and redemption, set in a close-knit Mormon community, whose peace is shattered by two brutal murders.

January new books

I am just so sure that one of your New Year's resolutions is to read more! Right? Here is a few of the new books we have at the Whitehall Community Library.

Fiction
Roaring thunder by Walter Boyne
Larry Bond's first team by Larry Bond
Just rewards by Barbara Taylor Bradford
The cat who dropped a bombshell by Lilian Jackson Braun
The protege by Stephen Frey
The life all around me by Kaye Gibbons
The constant princess by Philippa Gregory
The hostage by W.E.B Griffin
Turning angel by Greg Iles
On the run by Iris Johansen
Changelings by Anne McCaffrey
Blindfold games by Dana Stabenow

Non-fiction
She got up off the couch and other heroic acts from Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel
Eating, drinking, overthinking by Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

The see the full list of new books in the Jefferson County Library System go to http://montanalibraries.org/ , choose Montana Shared Catalog and then Jefferson County.

Would you like to read some book reviews? Check out the New York Times Review of Books . You might have to register to gain access but there is no charge. There is an interesting article there about the memoir James Frey wrote called "A million little pieces". Apparently Mr. Frey made up things about his past to make his book more interesting. Just how important is the truth in a memoir? The Whitehall Library has a copy of this book so maybe you should read it and make up your own mind on the importance of truth.

If you are looking for a way out of the hole your life has become you might want to read Haven Kimmel's new memoir, "She got up off the couch : and other heroic acts from Mooreland, Indiana". Haven introduced us to her life in "A girl named Zippy", which I just read and enjoyed very much. It's not your usual tale of dysfunction and despair, rather dysfunction and a verve for living.