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Save Money! Save Energy! Make Yours a Long Island Green Home

2012-02-03T19:23:57Z

75% of Long Island homeowners have taken the first step by investing in more insulation in their homes. Learn how you can improve the energy performance of your home and get the best benefits and incentives possible from State and utility energy efficiency programs! The Long Island Green Homes (LIGH) Program provides residents the opportunity to save money, create jobs and to improve our environment by implementing energy efficiency improvements to their homes. Start by getting a comprehensive Home Energy Audit - it's free or at a reduced cost for most Long Islanders. The LIGH program is a publicly-funded effort through a New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA).

West Hempstead's 2012 WEAR RED Photo!

2012-02-02T21:20:57Z

We want you to JOIN US this year in our 5th Annual Photo supporting the GO RED For WOMEN campaign to alert women about the dangers of heart disease. (See the American Heart Association video.) We've been participating by WEARing RED every year since 2008 and this year, we'd like you to be a part of our event by joining our staircase photo at 3 pm on Friday, February 3, 2012, or if that time does not work for you, just WEAR RED in the library on Friday, and we'll photoshop or collage you into the group photo! Here we are last year in 2011:

Kristin Hannah to speak in Huntington

2012-02-02T16:22:36Z

Bestselling author Kristin Hannah will be speaking about and signing her new book, Home Front, at the Book Revue in Huntington on Tuesday, Feb. 14th at 7 p.m. In Home Front, by Kristin Hannah, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all: a great marriage, exciting careers, and children they adore. But after twelve years, they are unhappy and edging toward divorce. Then the Iraq war starts. An unexpected deployment will tear their family apart, sending one of them into harm's way and leaving the other at home. When the worst happens, each must face their darkest fear and fight for the future of their family. All books signed must be purchased at the Book Revue. For more information, call 631-271-1442.

New bestsellers available

2012-01-31T18:38:01Z

New books from best-selling authors Kristin Hannah and Elizabeth George are now available. In Home Front, by Kristin Hannah, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all: a great marriage, exciting careers, and children they adore. But after twelve years, they are unhappy and edging toward divorce. Then the Iraq war starts. An unexpected deployment will tear their family apart, sending one of them into harm's way and leaving the other at home. When the worst happens, each must face their darkest fear and fight for the future of their family. Believing the Lie, by Elizabeth George, is the 17th book in the Inspector Lynley series. Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man's uncle, the wealthy Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning but when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging reveals the Faircloughs are awash in secrets and motives. Deborah's investigation of the prime suspect - Bernard's son Nicholas, a recovering drug addict - leads her to Nicholas's wife, a woman with whom she feels a kinship. Lynley and Simon search for information on the rest of the family, including the victim's bitter ex-wife and Bernard himself. As the investigation escalates, the Fairclough family's veneer cracks, with deception and self-delusion threatening to destroy everyone. You can reserve these or any other books by stopping by or calling the reference desk or by using your online library account.

Alyson Richman to speak in Syosset

2012-01-30T20:33:27Z

Local author Alyson Richman will be speaking at the Syosset Public Library this Friday, Feb. 3, at 2 p.m. She will be discussing her latest book, The Lost Wife, which was chosen as the 2012 Long Island Reads selection. In The Lost Wife, Lenka, a young art student, and Josef, who is studying medicine, fall in love in prewar Prague. They marry but like so many others, they are torn apart by the war. Now a successful obstetrician in America, Josef has never forgotten the wife he believes died in the war. But Lenka survived, relying on her skills as an artist and the memories of a husband she would never see again. Then, decades later, an unexpected encounter in New York leads to an inescapable glance of recognition, and the realization that providence has given Lenka and Josef one more chance. For more information, contact the Syosset library at 921-7161.

Looking for MORE Free Downloadble E-Books?

2012-01-25T16:27:02Z

We hope you've figured out how to use the West Hempstead Public Library's free eBooks at the Nassau Digital Doorway. (If Not, click on the MY HELP icon, or call the Reference Desk at 516-481-6591). Unfortunately, there is still a WAITlist for our more popular bestsellers. But, before your patience wears thin, try these other free resources, available on the web. Thank you to The Long Island Library Resource Council (LILRC) for compiling and publishing this list in their January/February 2012 Newsletter: Spotlight On: Websites that Offer Free Downloadable E-Books As the demand for e-book lending increases there are a number of web-based resources that provide free access to downloadable e-books. http://www.gutenberg.org/ "Project Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 33,000 free e-books to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device." http://www.free-ebooks.net/ "Free-e-books.net is the internet's #1 online source for free ebook downloads, ebook resources and ebook authors." http://www.getfreeebooks.com/ "A site that brings both authors and readers into the world of free ebooks." http://manybooks.net/ "There are more than 29,000 eBooks available for Kindle, Nook, iPad and most other eReaders, and they're all free!" http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ "Listing over 1 million free books on the Web" http://www.smashwords.com/ "Discover great E-books from Indie authors and publishers." http://www.kobobooks.com/ "Over 1 Million FREE eBooks!" http://www.archive.org/details/texts "The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books." http://books.google.com/ebooks "Read nearly 3 million free e-books and hundreds of thousands of titles that are ready for purchase; you can read all of your favorite books using just about any device with an Internet connection."

Jodi Picoult to have book signing in Huntington

2012-01-19T20:08:05Z

Bestselling author Jodi Picoult will be at the Book Revue in Huntington on Friday, March 2 at 7 p.m. for a book signing event. She will be there to sign her new book, Lone Wolf. All books signed at the event must be purchased at the Book Revue. Tickets are on sale now at the Book Revue. Tickets are $28 for a copy of the book and a seat ticket or $5 just for a seat ticket. The $5 seat tickets can be redeemed for $5 off the price of any of Jodi's books available the night of the event. Doors will open at 6 p.m. For more information, call 631-271-1442.

New bestsellers available

2011-12-27T21:37:49Z

New books are now available by best-selling authors Dean Koontz, Robin Cook and Karen Robards. 77 Shadow Street, by Dean Koontz, is centered around the world of the Pendleton, a Gilded Age palace that's been converted into high-end condominiums. Its tenants feel lucky to live there yet its years have been colored by madness, kidnappings, murder, and strange, inexplicable accidents. But all of that is mostly unfamiliar to the people of the Pendelton. To them, their building is a sanctuary until it turns on them. Shadows with no source begin to skitter across the walls, voices whisper in unknown languages, security cameras show impossible feeds, and a little boy starts talking to an imaginary playmate. These are only a prelude to a terror that will fully engulf the tenants of Pendleton.

In Sleepwalker, by Karen Robards, Detroit police detective "Mick" Lange catches professional thief, Jason Davis, in the act of stealing big bucks from a mob boss's safe. He manages to embroil her in a crime so explosive it could cost both of them their lives. Natural adversaries, their only common ground is mutual dislike and distrust - and the fact that the same killers are now hunting them both. Sparks fly and passion flares as they run for their lives.

In Death Benefit, by Robin Cook, Wall Street whizzes turn their attentions from mortgages to the $25 trillion life-insurance industry. By securitizing the policies of the old and sick, they hope to make another financial killing. At the same time, Natalie Savondnik and Ronald Goodall - two medical residents - are working closely with their medical center's premier scientist on cutting-edge diabetes research. When their mentor dies suddenly, they launch an investigation. As they dig deeper, it becomes clear that the scientist's death was not from natural causes. Is it possible someone is manipulating life insurance information to allow investors to benefit from the deaths of others?

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

National Book Awards winners

2011-12-22T19:24:23Z

The winners of the National Book Awards were recently announced in New York City. The winners were: FiCTION: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward NON-FICTION: The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt POETRY: Head Off and Split by Nikky Finney YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE: Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai

New bestsellers by Woods, Griffin

2011-12-22T19:12:48Z

New books are now available by bestselling authors Stuart Woods and W.E.B. Griffin. D.C. Dead, by Stuart Woods, is the 22nd book in the Stone Barrington series. Stone Barrington is at loose ends and is unsure if he wants to stay in New York and continue his work as a partner at Woodman & Weld. It comes as a welcome surprise when he's summoned to Washington, D.C., by President Will Lee. The president has a special operation that calls for Stone's unique skills and it's a mission that will reunite him with his former partner in crime, Holly Barker. Covert Warriors, by W.E.B. Griffin, is the 7th book in the Presidential Agent series. There's an unholy alliance building across the Caribbean. Few in the U.S. government want to believe that a Third World country could pose a credible threat but then why are the Chinese helping to train its special forces? Why are the Russians helping to build a nuclear power plant? Charley Castillo and his men go in to investigate, but have no idea what they have just gotten themselves into. By the time they finish, they will be on the hit lists of the Kremlin, the Cubans, the Venezuelans, and the drug cartels - and totally out on their own. You can reserve these or any other books by stopping by or calling the reference desk or by using your online library account.

92nd Street Y Series

2011-12-19T14:00:00Z

The Long Island Reads 2012 selection is The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman. This book is a love story spanning sixty years, beginning in pre-WWII Prague. Much of the story takes place in Terezin, a ghetto/concentration camp north of Prague. The 92nd Street Y in Manhattan will have a series on Terezin from January 9-February 16 called "Will to Create, Will to Live: The Culture of Terezin". There will be over 20 events, including concerts, talks, panel discussions, documentary films, an art exhibit, dance programs, live webcasts and more. For more details, click here.

New books for December

2011-12-08T21:24:16Z

New books are available from bestselling authors Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell. The Drop, by Michael Connelly, is the 17th book in the Harry Bosch series. Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more than ever. In one morning, he gets two. DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? Then Bosch and his partner are called to a death scene fraught with internal politics. Councilman Irvin Irving's son jumped or was pushed from a window at the Chateau Marmont. Working both cases, Bosch makes two discoveries: a killer operating unknown in the city for as many as three decades, and a political conspiracy that goes back into the dark history of the police department. Red Mist, by Patricia Cornwell, is the 19th book in the Kate Scarpetta series. Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding, but also on a string of killings. The murder of an Atlanta family years ago, a young woman on death row, and the inexplicable deaths of homeless people seem unrelated. But Scarpetta discovers connections that compel her to conclude that what she thought ended with Fielding's death and an attempt on her own life is only the beginning of something far more destructive - and she is the only one who can stop it. You can reserve these or other books by calling or stopping by the reference desk or by using your online library account.

New bestsellers by Crichton and Evanovich

2011-11-25T14:33:50Z

New bestsellers are now available by Michael Crichton and Janet Evanovich. In Micro, by the late Michael Crichton and Richard Preston, three men are found dead in the locked office of a Honolulu building, with razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladed robot. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students at the forefront of their fields are recruited by a pioneering microbiology start-up. Nanigen MicroTechnologies dispatches the group to a mysterious lab in Hawaii, where they are promised access to tools that will open a whole new scientific frontier. But once in the Oahu rain forest, the scientists are thrust into a hostile wilderness that reveals profound and surprising dangers at every turn. Armed only with their knowledge of the natural world, they find themselves prey to a technology of radical and unbridled power. Explosive 18, by Janet Evanovich, is the 18th book in the Stephanie Plum series. Before Stephanie can even step foot off Flight 127 from Hawaii to Newark, she's knee deep in trouble. Her dream vacation turned into a nightmare. Her seatmate never returned to the plane after the L.A. layover and now he's dead in a garbage can. His killer could be anyone. The FBI, the fake FBI, and guns-for-hire are all looking for a photograph the dead man was supposed to be carrying. Only one other person has seen the missing photograph - Stephanie Plum. Now she's the target, and she doesn't intend to end up in a garbage can. Over at the Bail Bonds Agency it's business as usual until the bonds bus serving as Vinnie's temporary HQ goes up in smoke, Stephanie's wheelman, Lula, falls in love with their 'largest' FTA yet and everyone wants to know what happened in Hawaii? You can reserve these or other books by stopping by or calling the reference desk or by using your online library account.

New bestsellers for November

2011-11-18T19:53:09Z

New books are available by bestselling authors Sue Grafton, David Baldacci and James Patterson. V is for Vengeance, by Sue Grafton, is the 22nd book in the Kinsey Milhone series. It's 1988 in Kinsey Milhone's hometown, Santa Teresa, CA. Kinsey eyes two women shoplifting at Nordstrom. Store security grabs one of the women, Audrey Vance, and Kinsey chases the other. In the store's parking lot, Kinsey is rammed with a black Mercedes. In jail, Vance panics and agrees to cooperate with the law. As soon as she's out on bail, a local mobster tosses her over a bridge, setting up the scene to look like a suicide. The victim's husband, certain Audrey would never have killed herself, entreats Kinsey to find out what happened.

In Zero Day, by David Baldacci, we meet John Puller, a combat veteran and military investigator in the Army's Criminal Investigative Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. Puller is called out on a case in a remote, rural area in West Virginia coal country. Someone has stumbled onto a brutal crime scene, a family slaughtered. The local homicide detective joins forces with Puller in the investigation. As Puller digs through deception after deception, he realizes that nothing he's seen in this small town, and no one in it, are what they seem. Facing a potential conspiracy that reaches far beyond West Virginia, he is one man on the hunt for justice against an overwhelming force.

Kill Alex Cross, by James Patterson, is the 18th book in the Alex Cross series. The President's son and daughter are abducted, and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene. But someone very high-up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark. A deadly contagion in the water supply cripples half of the capital, and Alex discovers that someone may be about to unleash the most devastating attack the United States has ever experienced. As time is running out to solve the crimes, Alex makes a desperate decision that goes against everything he believes - one that may alter the fate of the entire country.

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

New books by Grisham and Steel

2011-11-09T18:38:59Z

New books are now available by John Grisham and Danielle Steel. In "The Litigators", by John Grisham, we are introduced to two middle-aged lawyers just getting by. Oscar Finley and Wally Figg qualify as ambulance chasers, specialists in DUIs, shoplifting defendants, and no-fault divorce cases. Then the arrival of burned out fast-track attorney David Zinc to the firm changes everything. Before long, they are taking on a real legal case, one that involves a $25 billion pharmaceutical corporation and a class action suit with infinite possibilities. What Finley and Figg don't realize is that their road to riches will pit them against a legal team not accustomed to losing. In "Hotel Vendome", by Danielle Steel, Swiss-born Hugues Martin, a young, ambitious hotelier, buys a run-down hotel in Manhattan and transforms it into one of the world's finest luxury hotels. The Hotel Vendôme is soon renowned for its elegance, its efficiency, its unparalleled service and discretion. When his wife runs off with a rock star, Hugues is suddenly a single parent to four-year-old Heloise. As the years pass, Hugues and the hotel are the center of Heloise's life. She longs to follow in her father's footsteps and one day run the Vendôme with him. New challenges mark her way: an unexpected romance for Hugues and her own journey to hotel school in Switzerland. The lessons she has learned at her father's side will carry her through it all. You can reserve these or any other books by stopping by or calling the reference desk or by using your online library account.