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WIN 2 CIRQUE Du SOLEIL TICKETS

30 May 2008

Cirque du Soleil is back in Chicago with their new show, Kooza!  The Northlake Public Library will be raffling off 2 tickets for this exciting show!  The tickets are for July 2nd at 8 p.m. and the drawing will be held on June 19th.  The winner will be called.  Stop by Adult Services or the Check out area to enter today.  One ticket per person please.

KOOZA tells the story of The Innocent, a melancholy loner in search of his place in the world.


KOOZA is a return to the origins of Cirque du Soleil: It combines two circus traditions – acrobatic performance and the art of clowning. The show highlights the physical demands of human performance in all its splendor and fragility, presented in a colorful mélange that emphasizes bold slapstick humor.


The Innocent's journey brings him into contact with a panoply of comic characters such as the King, the Trickster, the Pickpocket, and the Obnoxious Tourist and his Bad Dog.


Between strength and fragility, laughter and smiles, turmoil and harmony, KOOZA explores themes of fear, identity, recognition and power. The show is set in an electrifying and exotic visual world full of surprises, thrills, chills, audacity and total involvement. 

New Non-Fiction Videos

27 May 2008

 Book Cover1968: in that single year, MLK and RFK were assassinated, Chicago rioted, Nixon triumphed, and Tet exploded. The top music acts were the Beatles, the Doors, Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye. Man circled the Moon. From Civil Rights to Vietnam, from rock & roll to rocket science, 1968 stands out as a concentrated dose of everything we think of as the Sixties.


Book CoverLiving Room Yoga Eva Barash presents an in-home yoga workout combining postures, breathing exercises, and calisthenics.


Book Cover You on a Diet Workout Joel Harper leads viewers through a set of exercises designed to help them firm, tone, and lose weight.


Book Cover Bon Jovi. Lost Highway: The Concert  Features the first ever performance of the Lost Highway album in its entirety, including the smash (You Want To) Make a Memory along with the classic cuts It's My Life; Wanted Dead or Alive; and Who Says You Can't Go Home


 


The Northlake Public Library District has many non-fiction videos.  Most of the videos are shelved with the books on the 2nd floor. Ask staff if you need help finding videos and DVDs on anything from studying for an exam to home repair.  We are open to your suggestions for new titles. Stop at the desk or  fill out an "ASK US" form and drop it in the suggestion box next to the 1st floor photocopiers.


                                                                                                                                          

Pageturners Book Club

21 May 2008

Come to our Pageturners Book Club this month for a discussion of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith.  In this mystery, Precious Ramotswe is the only female private detective in Botswana. Armed with her detective manual, Agatha Christie books, and a white van, she takes on local cases.  We will meet at 7 p.m. June 17 on the lower level. Copies of the book are available for checkout at the Adult Services Desk. For more information, call the library at (708) 562-2301.

New Movies at the Library!

19 May 2008

Here are just some of our new movies at the library....  

   

   

  


    

          



  



27 Dresses

The Assassination of Jesse James

Cloverfield

The Darjeeling Limited

Death at a Funeral

Devil May Cry

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Elizabeth: the Golden Age

First Sunday

I’m Not There

Once

Over Her Dead Body

P.S. I Love You

P2

We Own the Night




And Coming Soon…

The Great Debaters

How She Move

Mad Money

National Treasure 2: The Book of Secrets

Strange Wilderness

Untraceable

Looking for something else?  Stop by the second floor information desk and we'll put it on hold for you!


Take the Poll!

16 May 2008

New Audiobooks!

14 May 2008

Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time

By Valerie Bertinelli

An inspirational memoir by the one-time star of the hit TV show One Day at a Time recalls the challenges of maintaining a healthy self-image while coping with the stress of celebrity, her twenty-year marriage to rock star Eddie Van Halen, her battle with depression and weight, motherhood, and her determination to take control of her own life.

7th Heaven

By James Patterson

A terrible fire in a wealthy suburban home leaves a married couple dead and Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin searching for clues. And after California's golden boy, Michael Campion has been missing for a month, there finally seems to be a lead in his case--a very devastating lead. As fire after fire consume couples in wealthy, comfortable homes, Lindsay and the Murder Club must race to find the arsonists responsible and get to the bottom of Michael Campion's disappearance. But suddenly the fires are raging too close to home. Frightened for her life and torn between two men, Lindsay must find a way to solve the most daunting dilemmas she's ever faced--at work and at home.

New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

By Eckhart Tolle

Explaining that the current state of humanity is erroneously and dangerously ego-centric, an argument for a shift in consciousness reveals how the modern world can become more sane and loving.



Born Standing Up

By Steve Martin

The Emmy Award-winning comedian shares the stories of his years in stand-up comedy in a humorous memoir that recalls a first job selling guidebooks at Disneyland, his early magic and comedy act, his years of honing his craft, and the sacrifice, discipline, and originality it took to take him to the top, set against the backdrop of the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s. Simultaneous.

A Whole New Light

By Sandra Brown

Tired of playing the romantic field, rapacious playboy Worth Lansing turns to his long-time best friend, the widowed Cyn McCall, for love and companionship, and their passion blazes hotly on the sands of romantic Acapulco over the course of a getaway weekend.

"L" is for Large Print

5 May 2008


Ever wonder why the library doesn’t always have all of the books in a series in large print?  Unfortunately, there are usually only a limited number of large print edition books produced, so some titles sell out before the library can buy a copy. But sometimes we get lucky and a title is re-released, which happened with Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Milhone mysteries.  We’ll be adding a new title each month until we have the entire series. You can get to know, or reacquaint yourself, with hard-boiled detective Kinsey Milhone in “A” is for Alibi.

Here are some other new titles available in large print:

Blue-Eyed Devil by Lisa Kleypas

Haven Travis is the rebellious heiress of a wealthy oil family. But as Haven marries a man the Travises disapprove of, her life is set on a new and dangerous path. Two years later, when Haven returns to town, she is determined never to fall for the wrong man again. And Hardy Cates, an enemy of her family, is the last person she needs darkening her door.








Drop Dead Beautiful by Jackie Collins

Determined to reclaim her position of power in Las Vegas, Lucky Santangelo works to outmaneuver a deadly enemy who would steal away Lucky's two beloved sons and out-of-control teenage daughter. – From Novelist



Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

This National Book Award winner starts with an a assassination in the Philippines and moves on to Vietnam. It tells the story of CIA operative “Skip” Sands, who is involved in operations against the Vietcong, and brothers Bill and James, who go from Arizona to a war halfway across the world.



Tales of Graceful Aging from Planet Denial by Nicole Hollander

In this series of humorous vignettes, the writer of the comic strip “Sylvia,” takes on aging.  She doesn’t hold back whether she’s talking about her love life, menopause, or the afterlife.