Pick of the Week

Whitewash

by Alex Kava

Todays headlines set the stage for the new deadly thriller from Kava, which takes readers into the labyrinth of greed, corporate corruption, and government conspiracy--where getting out alive may be impossible.

Website of the Week

FuelEconomy.gov

Check out the latest addition to Pamunkey Regional Library's Recommended Websites.

fueleconomy.gov is maintained jointly by the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. You can compare makes and models of cars side-by-side, learn more about alternative fuel vehicles, and much,much more!

Today at the Library (12/31/08)

The Library will close at 5:00 p.m. today for the New Year's holiday. We will re-open at our regular business hours on Friday, January 2.

Today at the Library (12/25/08)

The Library is closed. All branches will re-open on Friday December 26. Happy Holidays!

Today at the Library (12/24/08)

The Library is closed today. All branches will re-open on Friday December 26. Happy Holidays!

Pick of the Week

Generation Green : the ultimate teen guide to living an eco-friendly life

by Linda Sivertsen

This book provides information on issues such as global warming and overflowing landfills; offers tips on how to shop, dress, eat, and travel the green way; and shows that being environmentally conscious can be a natural part of life.

Website of the Week

Apartment Therapy Re-Nest

How do I make a difference?
Can you answer this question? We are trying. Every day we provide answers to this question from all angles by covering the intersection of the “green” movement and the “home decor” movement. Core to our mission is the communication of a general overarching sense of intelligence and optimism. Green, to us, is an amazing design challenge which we can solve.

Today at the Library (12/23/08)

Storytimes
Storytimes will resume on Monday January 5.

Today at the Library (12/22/08)

Storytimes
Storytimes will resume on Monday January 5.

Bookmobile Stops
King William County
Guardian Angels (2372 King William Road) 10:30 - 11:15
Mattaponi Indian Reservation (Rt. 640 to Rt. 625) 1:45 - 2:30
King William Courthouse (Rt. 30) 2:45 - 3:15

Today at the Library (12/19/08)

Storytimes
Storytimes will resume on Monday January 5.

Bookmobile Stops
King & Queen County
Kiddie Korner (Rt. 629, Walkerton) 10:00 - 11:15
Scott's Store (Walkerton) 11:20 - 11:45
King & Queen Elementary School (24667 The Trail) 1:15 - 2:15

Testing and Education Reference Center Announces a New Look!

Testing and Education Reference Center, your one stop shop for all things in college and career preparation, now offers improved navigation and layout with faster access to practice tests and a new site search feature.

All content is divided into High School, College Prep, Career, and Graduate School Tools, and includes two new sections, International and Family College Planning Center.

Family College Planning Center includes everything you need to plan for college, including checklists, articles, career exploration tools, links to practice tests and prep tools, a School Search feature, a Resume Builder for College Applications, and information on scholarships & financial aid.

The Career Exploration page contains assessment tools, a resume builder, articles, and a virtual career library featuring a wide range of occupational topics.

Frequent users of the Testing and Education Reference Center will notice a “Recently Visited” feature that conveniently links to places you’ve visited in the site.

You can use the Testing and Education Reference Center in the library or at work, home, or school. Go to www.pamunkeylibrary.org/databases_by_alpha.htm or www.pamunkeylibrary.org/databases_by_subject.htm to log on.

Today at the Library (12/18/08)

Storytimes
Storytimes will resume on Monday January 5.

Bookmobile Stops
Hanover County
Goddard School (Sliding Hill Rd.) 9:30 - 10:45
Omni Park Place(101 Omni Rd.) 11:15 - 12:00
Primrose School of Atlee Commons (Atlee Commons Rd) 2:30 - 3:30

Programs and Events
Atlee Branch Library
Make It and Take It Holiday Ornament 2008
Thursday December 18 at 6:30 p.m.
Adults, teens, and children 10 and over are invited to this fun holiday activity.
Call (804) 559-0654 to register. Limited to 50 people.
Refreshments served.

Pick of the Week

The Gift

by Nora Roberts

Just in time for the holidays--a beautiful volume from the incomparable #1 "New York Times" bestselling master of romance Nora Roberts. This collection contains three classic tales of holiday love, together in paperback for the first time.

Website of the Week

NORAD Tracks Santa

For more than 50 years, NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa’s Christmas Eve flight. While you wait until Christmas Eve to track Santa and his reindeer you can play fun games on the Kids' Countdown page.

Today at the Library (12/15/08)

Storytimes
Storytimes will resume on Monday January 5.

Bookmobile Stops
Please call 804-365-6211 for updates on Bookmobile service today.

Today at the Library (12/13/08)

Programs and Events
Hanover Branch Library
Holiday Movie and Card-making Celebration
Saturday December 13 at 10:00 a.m.
Get into the holiday spirit with some classic movies and make fun cards and gift tags.
Refreshments served. Sponsored by the Hanover Library Friends.

Cochrane Rockville Branch Library
Sit 'n Stitch
Every second Saturday of the month at 10:00 a.m. (new time!)
Next meeting: December 13
Bring a bagged lunch and your current needlework projects. Learn a new skill or brush up on techniques you already know. Discover the perfect place to learn and laugh!
Dessert and drinks provided.

Goochland Branch Library
Saturday Movie Matinee
Saturday December 13 at 2:00 p.m.
Ages 5-10
Make a craft after the movie!
Refreshments served. Sponsored by the Friends of the Goochland Library.

Today at the Library (12/12/08)

Storytimes
Storytime will resume Monday January 5.

Bookmobile Stops
King & Queen County
Cherub School (3263 Old Church Rd.) 10:00 –10:45
King & Queen Senior Ctr. (Bethany Baptist Ch., Rt. 14) 11:15 - 11:45
King and Queen Courthouse (Rt. 14) 1:15 - 2:00

Programs and Events
King and Queen Branch Library
Holiday Storytime
Friday December 12 at 10:30 a.m.
Celebrate the holidays with stories of the season.
Refreshments served. Sponsored by the West Point Parent Child Development Center and Head Start.

Richard S. Gillis, Jr./Ashland Branch Library
Teen Movie Night
Friday December 12 at 6:00 p.m.
Pizza served! Bring a friend!
Sponsored by the Friends of the Ashland Library.

Today at the Library (12/11/08)

Storytimes
Storytime will resume on Monday January 5.

Bookmobile Stops
Hanover County
Tuckaway Day Care (304 Ashcake Road) 10:00 - 11:00
Kiddie Kingdom (813 Thompson Street ) 11:15 - 12:00
Kings Charter Village Center 1:30 - 2:00
All Aboard Child Dev. Ctr.(7147 Stonewall Pkwy.) 2:30 - 3:15

Programs and Events
Atlee Branch Library
Make It and Take It Holiday Ornament 2008
Thursday December 11 at 6:30 p.m.
Children under 10 years old and their parents are invited to this fun holiday activity.
Call (804) 559-0654 to register. Limited to 50 people.
Refreshments served.

Today at the Library (12/10/08)

Storytimes
Storytimes will resume Monday January 5.

Bookmobile Stops
Goochland County
Salem Pre-School (Salem Baptist Ch., Cardwell Rd.) 10:00 - 11:30
Elk Hill Farm 12:45 - 1:45
Courthouse Commons Shopping Center 2:15 - 3:15

Programs and Events
Upper King William Branch Library
Little Elf Workshop
Wednesday December 10 at 11:00 a.m.
Get in the holiday spirit with your little elves. Make some holiday decorations (a great gift for a special someone!) and some edible treats.
Refreshments served. Sponsored by the Friends of the UKW Library.

Pick of the Week

Bon appetit, y'all : stories and recipes from three generations of Southern cooking

by Virginia Willis

Virginia Willis was trained in France, but grew up cooking with her Grandmother and Mother in the Deep South. She combines the skills and tastes that she learned in Europe with the down home cooking of her family to create wonderful dishes.

Website of the Week

Recipe Source

RecipeSource is one of the oldest recipe sites on the Internet. Our collection was started in 1993 by Jennifer Snider when she discovered the wonders of Usenet newsgroups & Internet mailing lists as a student at the University of California at Berkeley. She started saving recipes posted to those sources and soon amassed thousands of recipes. When her friends found out about the collection, we encouraged her to put them on the web, and she agreed, provided we helped her. After several months of hard work, the recipes first appeared on the web in 1995 as SOAR: The Searchable Online Archive of Recipes. From our start with around 10,000 recipes we've grown the collection to 7 times that size, and had our pages accessed millions of times from around the world. Thanks to our popularity, by 2001 we'd outgrown our original home, so moved the collection here to RecipeSource.com.

Today at the Library (12/9/08)

Storytimes
Storytimes will resume on Monday January 5.

Bookmobile Stops
Hanover County
Atlee Christian Academy (Atlee Rd.) 9:15 - 10:30
Rainbow Station (8218 Atlee Road) 10:35 - 11:15
Toddler University (Rt. 301) 11:30 - 12:30
Covenant Woods (7090 Covenant Woods Drive) 2:00 - 2:45

Programs and Events
Hanover Branch Library
Library Lullaby Family Storytime
Tuesday December 9 at 6:45 p.m.
Dress in your PJs for a special evening Storytime.

Today at the Library (12/8/08)

Storytimes
Storytimes will resume on January 5.

Bookmobile Stops
King William County
Guardian Angels (2372 King William Road) 10:30 - 11:15
Mattaponi Indian Reservation (Rt. 640 to Rt. 625) 1:45 - 2:30
King William Courthouse (Rt. 30) 2:45 - 3:15

Today at the Library (12/5/08)

Storytimes
Hanover Branch Library
Family Storytime 10:45 a.m.

Rockville Branch Library
Toddler Storytime 10:00 a.m.
Preschool Storytime 10:45 a.m.

Bookmobile Stops
King & Queen County
Kiddie Korner (Rt. 629, Walkerton) 10:00 - 11:15
Bruington Baptist Church (Rt. 14) 11:30 - 12:00
Walkerton Post Office 1:15 - 2:30

Programs and Events
Goochland Branch Library
Rhythms: A Concert Series @ Your Library
Friday December 5 at 7:30 p.m.
Local harpist, Cynthy Johnson returns to the library for a concert featuring winter and seasonal selections.
Refreshments served. Sponsored by the Friends of the Goochland Library.

Today at the Library (12/4/08)

Storytimes
Atlee Branch Library
Mother Goose Storytime 10:00 a.m.
Family Storytime 10:45 a.m.

Goochland Branch Library
Preschool Storytime 10:00 a.m.
Mother Goose Storytime 11:00 a.m.

Mechanicsville Branch Library
Toddler Storytime 10:00 a.m.
Preschool Storytime 10:30 a.m.
Family Storytime 11:15 a.m.

Bookmobile Stops
Hanover County
Goddard School (Old Hickory Rd.) 9:45 - 11:30
New Hanover Christian School (Chamberlayne Rd.) 1:00 - 2:00
Bon Secours Child Care(8210 Meadowbridge Rd.) 2:30 - 3:45

Programs and Events
Richard S. Gillis, Jr./Ashland Branch Library
Ashland Remembers
Thursday December 4 at 7:00 p.m.
Longtime Center of the Universe residents will share their stories of the town's past, as part of Ashland's 150th Celebration.
Refreshments served. Sponsored by the Friends of the Ashland Library.

Pick of the Week

Martha and Skits

by Susan Meddaugh

Martha's family surprises her with a puppy, Skits, who turns Martha's world topsy-turvy. When Skits does the unforgivable and crashes into Martha's alphabet soup, she must take charge. But when the family insists that Skits be more like Martha, something terrible happens! It's up to Martha to help Skits realize how special he is.

Website of the Week

Dog Scouts of America

Dog Scouts of America is a non-profit, 501 (c) (3) organization, founded for educational and charitable purposes. We promote responsible pet ownership and the importance of the human/companion animal bond. Our mission is to make the world a better place to live, by teaching humane education, and having society as a whole respect ALL life more, and place more value on the dog as a member of the family.

Today at the Library (12/3/08)

Storytimes
Atlee Branch Library
Toddler Storytime 10:00 a.m.
Preschool Storytime 10:30 a.m.

Goochland Branch Library
Toddler Storytime 11:00 a.m.

Mechanicsville Branch Library
Toddler Storytime 10:00 a.m.
Preschool Storytime 10:30 a.m.
Family Storytime 11:15 a.m.

Lois Wickham Jones/Montpelier Branch Library
Mother Goose 9:15 a.m.
Preschool Storytime 10:00 a.m.

Upper King William Branch Library
Preschool Storytime 10:30 a.m.
Mother Goose Storytime 11:30 a.m.

West Point Branch Library
Family Storytime 10:30 a.m.

Bookmobile Stops
Goochland County
Bundle of Joy Day Care (74 Plaza Drive) 10:15 - 11:30
Broadview Shopping Center 1:45 - 2:30
James River Estates (East Brook Run Drive) 3:00 - 3:30

Today at the Library (12/2/08)

Storytimes
Richard S. Gillis, Jr.,/Ashland Branch Library
Toddler Storytime 10:00 a.m.
Preschool Storytime 10:30 a.m.

Bookmobile Stops
Hanover County
Advent Day Care (Christian Church, Studley Road) 9:45 - 10:45Liberty Christian School (8094 Liberty Circle) 11:00 - 11:45Christian Village (Lee Davis Rd.) 1:30 - 2:15Minnieland Private Day School (7386 Creighton Rd.) 2:30 - 3:15

Programs and Events
Hanover Branch Library
Digital TV Transition
Tuesday December 2 at 7:00 p.m.
Do you have one or more analog TVs? Doug Cramer, Manager of Ashland's Radio Shack, will show you how to make the transition from analog to digital before the February 2009 deadline.
Sponsored by Radio Shack.