The Friends of the Library Annual Book Sale is just a couple of weeks away. Right now, however, we are accepting donated books from the community. It’s a good way for you to clear off some of those shelves and share those books with others. It’s also a good way to help support your library. Income generated from the book sale goes toward the library, sometimes for equipment, sometimes for books, and sometimes for special programs. Any donations will be greatly appreciated. Your support through the Annual Book Sale is especially important this year because of the substantial cuts in revenue for the library operation. The Friends prefer that you don’t bring encyclopedias, school texts, or Reader’s Digest condensed books, they just don’t sell. Book donations will be accepted now through Sept. 13. Don’t forget to mark your calendars for the Book Sale on Sept. 18 to 20. While you’re dropping off your used books, you can check out our new books. We have the new title by Oliver North, "The Jericho Sanction." Set in Israel and Iraq, Lt. Col. Peter Newman (USMC) and his family are threatened when his cover is blown. While preparing for a clandestine U.S. mission to find Iraqi nuclear weapons, Newman’s wife, Rachel, is kidnapped in Jerusalem, along with her friend, the wife of an Israeli Sayeret counter-terrorism operative responsible for Israeli terrorist assassinations. Newman has to choose whether to go ahead with the mission or abandon it to find and rescue his wife. But Israel has discovered that Iraq has nukes and plans a preemptive attack on Baghdad with Jericho missiles. If that happens, and Islamic terrorists like Saddam and bin Laden respond in kind, it might trigger a Middle East war that could go global. It seems as if nothing can prevent an Armageddon. Also new on the shelf is "Love Me," by Garrison Keillor. When Larry Wyler heads east from Minnesota to New York in pursuit of the celebrated life of a writer, he leaves behind Iris, the college sweetheart he married. When he abandons the rural flats of St. Paul to seek out author, William Shawn and his famous magazine, Wyler stumbles into meteoric success as a writer and a womanizer. However, he's soon brought low by an even quicker series of failures on both fronts. Iris catches Wyler in a flagrant affair and living the New York high life. When The New Yorker gives him the boot, the jig is up. A chastened man, Wyler returns to Minnesota, where the only writing job he can get is as an advice columnist for the lovelorn. Writing under the pen name "Mr. Blue," Wyler doles out wry, knowing, and practical advice about seduction and mating to the heartbroken and the lonely. And only slowly, painfully, does Wyler figure out for himself how, after losing love, you can eventually get it back.
