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AccessMyLibrary uses GPS to find public libraries within a 10-mile radius of the your location, then gives you free, unlimited access to our library's authoritative Gale online resources-- without the need to input your library card information.

See the video, then download the app for free at the Adroid Market app store or the iTunes app store.

If you live by your text messages, you may want to opt-in to this supplementary feature, built into our library catalog.

When you activate this optional feature, you will receive short text messages alerting you to holds ready for pickup, items about to become due, and items overdue. Be aware that messaging charges may apply based on your mobile carrier terms. Read the "Terms and Conditions" page.

You may opt in, and opt out at any time by logging in to your library account (using your barcode and PIN number) and entering your mobile number into a special Mobile Phone record field.

The SMS alerts you receive are NOT item-specific (not the entire notice); therefore, patrons who request SMS alerts will also receive the corresponding circulation notices, either printed or via email.

Sorry, slight change in the dates for our Course 1 (evening) AARP Driving class, because of the county-wide Coliseum/Arena vote that will take place in our space on August 1.

AARP Class for 50+ ($12 with AARP card, $14 without card- check payable to AARP)

Course 1: Mondays, July 25 and August 8, 7 -10 pm
WH Registration: Monday, July 11
Non-WH Registration: Monday, July 18

Course 2: Tuesdays, August 16 and 23, 1:30 - 4:30 pm
WH Registration: Tuesday, August 2
Non-WH Registration: Tuesday, August 9

Summer is here! Need some suggestions on what to read?

Download these Middle School and High School booklists (compiled by the Nassau Library System's Teen and Youth Services) to your smartphone (iPhone, Droid, Blackberry). If it's available as an e-book, you can click on the link and check it out!

Access it on your smartphone by opening your web browser and typing in the address: www.nassaulibrary.org/teenreads

The Romance Writers of America recently announced the winners of their RITA and Golden Heart Awards.

RITA Award for Contemporary Single Title Romance - Simply Irresistible by Jill Shalvis

New books are now available by bestselling authors James Patterson and Janet Evanovich.

Now You See Her, by James Patterson, introduces us to Nina Bloom, a successful lawyer and loving mother. She would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York -including lying about her past. When an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows she can't let him pay for the real killer's crimes. Nina's secret life began 18 years ago in Key West. When she learned she was pregnant with her first child, her happiness was almost overwhelming but she unearthed a terrible secret that caused her to run for her life and change her identity. Now Nina will risk everything she's earned to return to Florida and confront the murderous evil she fled.

Smokin' Seventeen, by Janet Evanovich, is the 17th book in the Stephanie Plum series. Vincent Plum's bail bonds office has burned to the ground and dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot. No one is sure who the killer is or why the victims have been offed. Stephanie faces further complications when her family and friends decide that it's time for her to choose between her longtime off-again-on-again boyfriend, Trenton cop Joe Morelli, and security expert Ranger. And to add to the mix, there's a former high school football star who's just returned to town.

You can reserve these, or any other books, by stopping by or calling the reference desk or by using your online library account.

New bestsellers are now available by J.A. Jance, Barbara Delinksky and Tess Gerritsen.

Betrayal of Trust, by J.A. Jance, is the 19th book in the J.P. Beaumont series. At first glance, a video appears to be showing a childish game: a teenage girl smiles for the camera, a blue scarf tied around her neck. All of a sudden things turn murderous, and the girl ends up dead. The video has been discovered on a phone that belongs to the grandson of Washington State's governor. The governor turns to J. P. Beaumont for help. Along with his partner, Mel Soames, Beaumont soon determines that what appears to be a childish prank gone wrong has much deeper implications. But Mel and Beaumont must follow this path to its end, before more young lives are lost.

In Escape, by Barbara Delinsky, Emily Aulenbach is thirty, a lawyer married to a lawyer, working in Manhattan. An idealist, she had once dreamed of representing victims of corporate abuse, but she spends her days talking on the phone with victims of tainted bottled water - and she is on the bottler's side. She doesn't connect the way she used to with her sister, her friends, or her husband, Tim. Acting on impulse, Emily leaves work early one day, goes home, packs her bag, and takes off. She heads north toward a New Hampshire town tucked between mountains. During her college years, she spent a watershed summer here. Painful as it is to return, she knows that if she is to right her life, she has to start here.

The Silent Girl, by Tess Gerritsen, is the ninth book in the Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series. When a severed hand, clutching a gun, is found in a Chinatown alley in Boston, detective Jane Rizzoli climbs to the adjacent roof-top and finds the hand's owner: a red-haired woman whose throat has been slashed. The only clues to her identity are a throwaway cell phone and an address of a long-closed restaurant. Chinatown is a closed neighborhood of long-held secrets - and nowhere is this more obvious than when Jane meets Iris Fang. Strikingly beautiful, Fang is a renowned martial arts master. Yet, despite being skilled in swordplay, neither she nor her daughter, Willow, will admit any knowledge of the rooftop murder. And pathologist Dr. Maura Isles has determined that the murder weapon was a sword crafted of ancient metal from China.

You can reserve these or any books by stopping by or calling the references desk or by using your online library account.

Mark your calendar for 3 Sundays this summer to enjoy free concerts co-sponsored by the West Hempstead Community Support Association and Astoria Federal Savings.

Sunday, July 10 at 6:30 PM
"NORTH SHORE POPS CONCERT BAND"

Sunday, July 24 at 6:30 PM
"THE NEW YORK CONNECTION"

Sunday , August 7 at 6:30 PM
"THE USUAL SUSPECTS"

They'll be held at the Little League Baseball Field in ECHO PARK, 401 Nassau Blvd.
Call 516-733-0879 for more information.

The Together Book Club is an online reading club for kids and parents, co-sponsored by the New York State Library and the New York Council for the Humanities.

Kids can share their thoughts with other kids from all over New York. Submit your summer reading book review and it will be posted to the Together Book Club blog within a week. You get to see it ONLINE and WIN A FREE BOOK!

Parents, who are encouraged to read and discuss the same books with their children, can increase their quality time as a family, while sharing their love of reading. Read the instructions, and get plenty of booklist suggestions online.

New best sellers by Iris Johansen and Jennifer Weiner will be available on TUESDAY, JULY 12.

Quinn, by Iris Johansen, is the sequel to her book Eve. Former Navy SEAL turned cop, Joe Quinn, met Eve Duncan a decade ago. He never expected to fall in love with a woman whose torment was matched only by her dual desires to bring her missing daughter, Bonnie, home and reveal the truth of her disappearance. With the help of CIA agent Catherine Ling, they make a shocking discovery that sheds new light on young Bonnie's abduction and puts Quinn in the crosshairs of danger. Eve's first love, John Gallo, a soldier supposedly killed in the line of duty, is very much alive---and very much a threat.

In Then Came You, by Jennifer Weiner, Jules Wildgren is a Princeton senior who plans to take the $10,000 she'll receive from donating her eggs and try to save her father from addiction. Annie Barrow is a working-class mother of two. After watching a TV show about surrogates, she thinks she's found a way to recover a sense of purpose and bring in some extra cash. India Bishop, 38 (really 43), believes she's found her happy ending when she marries a wealthy, older man, Marcus Croft, but decides a baby will seal the deal. When her attempts at pregnancy fail, she turns to Annie and Jules to make her dreams come true. Each woman's plans are thrown into disarray when Marcus suddenly dies and his 23-year-old daughter is named guardian of the unborn child. As the baby's due date draws near, the women discover what makes each a mother in her own right.

You can reserve these or any other book by stopping by or calling the reference desk or by using your online library account.

Did you know that you can visit the Library of Congress online? And we're not just talking about searching the catalog. Since 1994, the library has been developing a collection of digitized photographs, manuscripts, maps, motion pictures, books and sound recordings! Yes, there is plenty to see and to read, but you can also listen to rare, historic recordings of music and the spoken word.

Explore this amazing resource by accessing the Library of Congress home page at www.loc.gov, then click on "DIGITAL COLLECTIONS" at the top of the page. Or watch this spot for future tidbits about this oasis that belongs to you, the people!

(This article was written by M.Cole)

One of the most important things you can do to protect yourself is to always choose a secure password for your online accounts. Here are some tips offered as a public service by Mozilla: STRONG PASSWORDS PREVENT IDENTITY THEFT!
(Print the brochure for the details, or pickup a copy at the Reference Desk!)

GOOD PASSWORDS HAVE A SIMPLE SET OF PROPERTIES:
• They have both upper and lower case letters
• They have digits and/or punctuation characters as well as letters
• They are easy to remember, so they do not have to be written down
• They are at least seven or eight characters long, but the longer the better.
• They can be typed quickly, so someone else cannot easily look over your shoulder

The best way to fight internet fraud is to learn how to AVOID BECOMING A VICTIM. However, if you become a victim, there is help available. Click here for a list of official government web resources to help you report and learn about internet fraud.

The 2011 Christy Awards were recently announced. The awards honor the best in Christian fiction in nine categories.

Young Adult - Motorcycles, Sushi and One Strange Book by Nancy Rue

Long Island Talking Book Library (LITBL) is a free library service for individuals who cannot hold, handle or see well enough to use regular print books. LITBL is a subregional library of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), a division of the Library of Congress that produces books and magazines in braille and recorded media for people with visual or physical disabilities.

Downloading is the easiest and quickest way to obtain these National Library Service audio books. Using a blank digital cartridge or USB flash drive, LITBL patrons download books and play them on the digital talking book machine.

In the past, LITBL sent professionally recorded books and magazines as cassettes. Now the service has gone digital with a collection of digital books, which currently number about 25,000, including over 50 magazines. They are available for download via the BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download) web site: https://nlsbard.loc.gov/.

The older cassette collection and the new digital cartridges can still be delivered by mail, but the new players support standard usb memory devices. Once a borrower has established service with LITBL, they may apply for a BARD account to begin downloading books that can be read from the special player lent to the eligible resident.

For information about talking books and magazines, Long Island residents should contact the Long Island Talking Book Library at the Suffolk Cooperative System.
627 North Sunrise Service Road, PO Box 9000, Bellport, NY 11713-9000; telephone: (631) 286-1600, toll-free: (866) 833-1122 (Nassau/Suffolk).
To find out more about braille materials they will be referred to the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library, 40 West 20 Street, NY, NY, 10011-4211.

Our library is a designated polling place. Unless you receive a post card indicating a polling place change, vote at your regular polling place for the
SPECIAL ELECTION on MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011.
Polls Open: 6:00am - 9:00pm

Nassau County residents will vote on a Public Referendum regarding the establishment of the Nassau County Hub Area development program.

Registered voters who anticipate being away on August 1 should apply for their absentee ballot as soon as possible.

IMPORTANT: The application must either be personally delivered to your county board of elections not later than the day before the election, or postmarked by a governmental postal service not later than the 7th day before election day. The ballot itself must either be personally delivered to the board of elections no later than the close of polls on election day, or postmarked by a governmental postal service not later than the day before the election and received no later than the 7th day after the election.

Applications for absentee ballots can be obtained in the library or by visiting the Nassau County Board of Elections, 240 Old Country Road, 5 Floor, Mineola, NY 11501. Applications are also available online at http://www.elections.state.ny.us/NYSBOE/download/voting/AbsenteeSmaller04252010.pdf.
For more information, please call the Board of Elections at 571-2411.

Author: Tina Fey - Title: Bossypants

"Hilarious - I LOVED this book. I think Tina Fey is very talented. Great Autobiography." Review by Darcie Tracey.

Library Journal Reviews: In this big biggie, as the publicist puts it, Fey doesn't give a blow-by-blow account of her life but reflects on the joys (ha, ha) of balancing work, marriage, and motherhood. Watch her agonize drolly over finding the perfect beauty routine and embodying Sarah Palin.

Author: Laurell K. Hamilton - Title: Hit List

"Couldn't put it down. If you're an Anita fan you'll love it!!" Review by Marlene D. Tapley.

Publishers Weekly Reviews: As punchy as her first foray, Anita Blake's 20th adventure (after 2010's Bullet) finds the intrepid vampire hunter far from her familiar St. Louis environs. Someone is slaughtering weretigers just outside of Tacoma. When Anita recognizes the handiwork of the Harlequin, ninja-like paranormal assassins, she suspects they're in the employ of the Mother of All Darkness, the legendary vampire queen who wants to reincarnate herself in Anita's body and take advantage of her mingled vampire and lycanthrope bloodlines. Complicating matters are a marshal who detests Anita for no apparent reason and a psychopathic deputy who wants to kill her. The action occasionally bogs down in the sexual trysts Anita indulges in to stoke her supernatural abilities, but for the most part, Hamilton goes back to basics and delivers a sleek, hard-boiled page-turner.

Author: Stephen King - Title: Under the Dome

"Another great book by King! A town held captive under glass for one week. The strong of mind & heart survive. A hero always comes to the surface - great read!" Review by Denise Criollo.

BookPage Reviews: Small-town life with a King-size twist. Under the Dome opens with a signature Stephen King moment: a woodchuck, foraging for food, hides from a passing human--and is chopped in half as an impenetrable dome appears around the city limits.
As in his epic The Stand, King uses his characters' predicament to address major questions about human nature. The emphasis here is on compassion--or, sparing that, pity. What makes us stop seeing people as people, and why? These deeper themes combined with King's trademark suspense and folksy charm keep the almost 1,100 pages turning and make Under the Dome a novel readers will relish.

(W.Osorno coordinates the Adult Summer Reader Program)

The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume of the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien, was published on July 19, 1954. This high fantasy epic is a sequel to The Hobbit. and discribes the adventures of the inhabitants of Middle Earth, a fictional world with fantastical characters. A group of heroes try to save the world from evil.

Come to the library and read the books or take out the movies.

New York State's Regents Advisory Council for Libraries (RAC) is asking New Yorkers to tell them what library services they will need in their local communities by 2020. Please respond by August 5; click on the image below to take the survey.

New books are now available by Catherine Coulter, Danielle Steel and Eric Lustbader.

"Split Second," by Catherine Coulter, is the 15th book in the FBI series. A female serial killer is on the loose, and it's up to FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock to track her down. There's evidence that the woman, Kirsten Bolger has a connection to the notorious Ted Bundy. At the same time, Special Agent Lucy Carlisle learns from her dying father that her grandfather didn't simply walk away from his family 22 years earlier: he had been murdered by his wife, Lucy's grandmother. Determined to uncover the truth, Lucy moves into her grandmother's Maryland mansion, where she finds a skeleton in a steamer trunk. As the hunt for Bolger escalates, Savich and Sherlock find themselves in her crosshairs. It's up to Lucy to stop this deranged woman and save Savich and Sherlock before it's too late.

In Happy Birthday, by Danielle Steel, Valerie Wyatt is the queen of gracious living and the arbiter of taste and she is turning 60. Valerie's daughter, April, is turning 30 and has no love life and no prospect of that changing in the foreseeable future. Her popular one-of-a-kind restaurant in downtown New York, where she is chef and owner, consumes every ounce of her attention and energy. Twelve years after retiring from the NFL, Jack Adams is the most charismatic sports analyst on TV and has his pick of the desirable women. But after a memorable Halloween party, Jack wakes up on his fiftieth birthday, his back thrown out of whack, feeling every year his age. An act of violence, an out-of-the-blue blessing, and two unlikely love affairs turn lives inside out and upside down.

The Bourne Dominion, by Eric Van Lustbader, is the 9th book in the Bourne series. Jason Bourne is searching for terrorists planning to destroy America's most strategic natural resources. He needs the help of his long-time friend, General Boris Karpov, the head of Russia's spy agency, FSB-2. But in order for Karpov to remain the head of FSB-2, he must hunt down and kill Bourne. Now, these two trusted friends are on a deadly collision course. From the Colombia to Munich, Cadiz, and Damascus, the clock is counting down to a disaster that will cripple America's economic and military future. Only Bourne and Karpov have a chance to avert the catastrophe - but not if they destroy each other first.

You can reserve these or any other books by stopping by or calling the reference desk or by using your online library account.

The International Thriller Writers recently announced the 2010 Thriller Awards.

Winner of Best Hard Cover Novel - Lisa Gardner for The Neighbor.

Winner of Best Paperback Original - Tom Piccirilli for The Coldest Mile.

Winner of Best First Novel - Jamie Freveletti for Running From the Devil.

Aldous Huxley (Brave New World), George Bernard Shaw (My Fair Lady), Beatrix Potter (The Tale of Peter Rabbit) and Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights) all have birthdays this week. Why not come to the library and read one of the classics written by these famous authors?

Bestselling author Brad Thor has a new book available.

Full Black is the 10th book in the Scot Harvath series. A former Navy SEAL turned covert counterterrorism operative, Scot Harvath launches a plan to infiltrate a terrorist network to prevent one of the biggest threats the United States has ever faced. At the same time, while working on a secret documentary project, movie producer Larry Salomon has unknowingly exposed one of the world's wealthiest and most politically connected powerbrokers - a man with a radical anti-American agenda. As the plots rocket to their conclusion and the identities of the perpetrators are laid bare, Harvath will be left with only one means to save America.

You can reserve this book or any other titles by stopping by or calling the reference desk or by using your online library account.

Award winning author, J.K. (Joanne Kathleen) Rowling, was born on July 31, 1965 in England. Before becoming an author, she was a teacher in both Scotland and Portugal. She is now one of the most popular writers of all time. Over 400 million copies of her books have been sold. They have been translated into 64 languages. Today, Harry Potter is a household name.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last book in the series, sold over 8.3 million copies in 24 hours!

Come to the library where we have the books, in both regular print and large type, in both English and Spanish. We have DVDs and CDs of the series, along with biographies of J.K. Rowling.

In the online catalog, type in "harry potter" as a keyword and see what you'll find!