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Keep Track of Your Books/Reading with FictionDB and FictFact

book stack imageDo you keep a small spiral notebook full of lists?  Which books you've read, which books are next in a series, new authors you want to check out?  Or maybe you've got an elaborate Excel spreadsheet, tabbed and color-coded by genre?

Well, try out two online databases, FictionDB and FictFact, that not only let you keep track of what you have read, but also what you're reading now and what you're planning on reading.  You can search by author, title, series, and more.  Each database lets you rate the books and has an extensive new release calendar for tracking newly published titles.  

February Adult Programs @ Your Library

The Clear Lake City - County Freeman Branch Library looks forward to its February Programs*.  This includes the under50over, Book Clubs, Crafts-to-Go, Freeman Needlecrafters, MWA Advisors, and various celebrations of Black History Month. All programming is supported by the Friends of Freeman Library. 

For more information on any of our programs in February, please contact the library at (281) 488-1906 or visit us at the upstairs Information Desk. The Clear Lake City - County Freeman Branch Library is located on 16616 Diana Lane, just off of Bay Area Boulevard.

*To print the calendar for February, click on the attachment below.

New Year, New Tokyopop?

TokyopopLast year brought many tears to lovers of Tokyopop, a manga publisher that stopped production in late Spring.

LED Vs. LCD Televisions

tv view clip artI recently started looking for a small flat-screen television to put in our upstairs game room.  I expected to be looking through the traditional LCD and Plasma options when I noticed a third option, LED.  What?  Let me state for the record that I've only bought two TV's in the last two years, and those were purchased after I had two previous TV's for approximately 12 years each.  I still have a humongous 36in. tube television upstairs.  It still works, but it takes up so much physical space I'm considering replacing it.  While I consider myself somewhat of a techie, it doesn't always extend to television technology.  

The perfect gift

Exhausted after Black Friday. Missed Small Business Saturday, Did not get on Cyber Monday. Well, just relax and come to the Friends of Maud Marks Library book sale this Saturday Dec 03, 2011. Nothing is more than $1.00 and there are so many titles to choose from. You might be able to find a popular title in  mint condition, a CD everybody would love to have or a DVD the children would watch over and over again. So come to Maud Marks Library this Sat.  Dec. 03 between 10 am to 4 pm. If you are a member of the Friends, the preview is Friday  from 4:30 pm to 6 pm. 

See you at the Maud Marks book sale!

60 Seconds on the Internet

infographic   I heard this weekend that the world population will reach 7 billion people by the end of the week, so when I stumbled across this "In 60 Seconds" infographic while  browsing the web I stopped and really thought about how communication has grown exponentially in the last 150 years. 

Beekman 1802 Heirloom Recipe Contest

Heirloom Recipe ContestEnter for a chance to win an all expense-paid trip to meet Discovery-Planet Green reality TV stars The Fabulous Beekman Boys in Sharon Springs, NY, take a tour of the Beekman 1802 Farm, and have dinner with Josh and Brent!

Fill out the entry form with your favorite family heirloom recipe and tell us what makes the recipe so special to you, then give it to one of our librarians to be entered for a chance to win a signed copy of The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Cookbook and a grand prize trip, farm tour, and dinner.

Lit Geek Heaven: Pennsound Audio Archive

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Pennsound's mission is to collect, and make available to the public free of charge, recordings of contemporary authors and poets reading their own work, as well as to preserve recordings of authors from the past.

Arrrrrr! Learn to Talk Like a Pirate with Mango Languages!

Talk Like a Pirate screenshotThe pirate speaks: International Talk Like a Pirate Day be September 19th. . . time t' celebrate! If you need t' brush up on pirate, check out Mango Languages! They be offerin' a Pirate Language course in honor o' Talk Like a Pirate Day. (courtesy the English-to-Pirate Translator)

That is to say: International Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19th. . . time to celebrate! If you need to brush up on pirate, check out Mango Languages! They are offering a Pirate Language course in honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Dinner? Done

                                                                                         

 

 

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