Mango Languages ~ Library e-Resource

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Our newest online resource, Mango Languages provides language learning from your own computer! This is easy-to-use program is accessible from BOTH within the library and away. It includes Spanish, ESL, German, Mandarin Chinese, and more.

You can either create an account...(which allows you to pick up lessons where you leave off) or get started without an account. Give it a try! To use the program from a computer outside the library, you will be prompted for a Wilkinson library card number and you link to Mango Languages from our website.

On the Library's homepage, - http://www.telluridelibrary.org/
Click on the ad. Then click on Mango Languages from the e-Resources page.


~ Faith

Amy MacDonald ~ This is the life

Visit Amy MacDonald's Website and Myspace Page.

She is a self-taught musician and started to play herfather's guitar after being inspired by Travis at the T in the Park Festival in 2000,where she heard Travis' song "Turn" and wanted to play it herself.Macdonald started at pubs and coffee houses around Glasgow at 15. She regularly played open mic slots at the city's Brunswick Cellars on Sauchiehall Street.She sent a demo CD to an advertisement in NME magazine and was signed to production company 'Melodramatic'. ~ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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~ Faith

Wilkinson Public Library's Facebook Page

Check out the library's new Facebook Page. Get information on the latest events, book recommendations, and links.

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~ Faith

Great Ideas for Dinner Tonight

Shrimp and Pineapple Stir-fry in 20 minutes! Double-dipped Potato-Chip Chicken.....All this and more in the 'Fast Weeknights Favorites.....200 Really Quick, Simply Delicious Reciples"

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Oh, the places you'll go! ~ Dr. Seuss

Everyone should own this one.

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Today is your day!

~ Faith

Wonder, the Rainbow, and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences
I found this neat looking book in the Philosophy section, a place I generally stay away from out of fear of the unknown. Here's a section heading: Pascal's Alternative: Imagination, Terror, Abyss. I ask -- doesn't that just make you want to read more? Parts get a bit mathematical, but as well as discussing Aristotle's structural analysis of rainbows we also get a tour of Keat's poetry, Twombly's Il Parnasso, and "Fear of Explanation and Explanation of Fear.

I can't wait to settle down this weekend and get to reading -- if it sounds interesting to you, place a hold -- it should be back on the shelves in a week. Andy.

Wallace Stegner's Centennial

A nice piece by Timothy Egan about Wallace Stegner who would have celebrated his 100th birthday:
http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/stegners-complaint/

Click here to find books by and about Stegner
--Sarah

The time traveler's wife ~ Audrey Niffenegger

An excerpt:

It's ironic, really. All my pleasures are homey ones: armchair splendor, the sedate excitements of domesticity. All I ask for are humble delights. A mystery novel in bed, the smell of Clare's long red-gold hair damp from washing, a postcard from a friend on vacation, cream dispersing into coffee, the softness of the skin under Clare's breasts, the symmetry of grocery bags sitting on the kitchen counter waiting to be unpacked. I love meandering through the stacks at the library after the patrons have gone home, lightly touching the spines of the books. These are the things that can pierce me with longing when I am displaced from them by Time's whim. And Clare, always Clare. Clare in the morning, sleepy and crumple-faced. Clare with her arms plunging into the papermaking vat, pulling up the mold and shaking it so, and so, to meld the fibers. Clare reading, with her hair hanging over the back of the chair, massaging balm into her cracked red hands before bed. Clare's low voice is in my ear often. I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going, and she cannot follow.

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~ Faith

Inspired

This is a beautifully read version of Rachel Carson's classic. The vision that is brought to this piece is filled with intimacy and awe. It relates the adventures that the author has with her young nephew as they explore and observe the natural world and all it's wonders. It is an antidote to indifference; it is an inspiring call to challenge ourselves and our children to embrace all the joys of the natural world. This is a timeless treasure that can be shared from one generation to the next. Check it out. M.

This is a very useful and clean book that engages creativity for preparing food for kids. Too often I find kids food books either too cute and time consuming or just plain old useless. This is stuff we all like to eat, but it has ignited my little ones interest. I recommend this to anyone who wants some new fresh input for meals. Check it out. M.

The Gone-Away World

I am not normally a big science fiction reader, but this book caught my eye. I foisted it on my husband who read it and promptly put it on top of the stack of books on my bedside table. It takes a bit of time to sort out how ninjas, the end of the world and a love story can all coexist, but the dry humor and the fantastic characters make this book well worth it. S.L.

Family Saga

This is a sometimes disturbing, always absorbing saga of one family's voyage through the years surrounding the boom in pharmaceuticals and psychiatric care. At the center is the paternal figure William Friedrich, a professor at Yale in the mid 1950's, whose ambition and drive end in a terribly failed experiment. The family lives on to be haunted by events and people from this time -- a landmark for generations. This story grabs you in the first page and takes you through the struggles and triumphs of the Friedrichs. The denouement is a little shy of satisfying, but it is forgivable. Check it out. M

Arrested development (Television program)

Hilarious. Request DVD now.

Catch an episode online.


~ Faith

Alice Smith ~ For lovers, dreamers & me

Alice Smith's official website.

Her debut album, For Lovers, Dreamers & Me, is a collection of songs spanning genres from country to rock to funk and almost everything in between (except rap). ~ Wikipedia

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~ Faith

10 Self-Help Books That Should Be Drew Barrymore Movies

Here's a funny article related to the new movie He's Just Not That Into You. New York Magazine provides some other suggestions in this fun slideshow of books that would make great Drew Barrymore movies.
-Sarah

Ready for a laugh?

Disquiet, please : more humor writing from The New Yorker
Includes essays previously published in the New Yorker from authors including Christopher Buckley, Woody Allen and Dorothy Parker. Includes one of my all-time favorite, laugh-out loud funny pieces "How to Operate a Shower Curtain" by Ian Frazier...[read it now]
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--Sarah

Selected poems of Rainer Maria Rilke

These poems are life changing.

For more on Rilke, go to The Rainer Maria Rilke Archive.

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~ Faith

Dead Poets Society

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One of my favorites.
~ Ty

Absurdly Funny

Seriously funny writing about a ludicrous assignment in cooking. Part of the humour of this account is how the whole idea somehow took on a life of it's own and began ruling the authors life. The stories themselves are filled with laugh out loud descriptions of her adventure. Not be missed if you have ever bitten off a little more than you can chew and have lived to laugh about it. M check it out

Magnificent

I listened to this on a short road trip and felt that a great gift had been bestowed upon me by Lynne Cox. Her reading of her own story that transpired off the coast of Southern California in the early morning hours is nothing short of miraculous. I was profoundly touched by her bravery, her strength and her quiet wisdom that presides in the core of her story. I shed some tears of pure admiration. Don't miss the chance to listen to this gorgeous true story. M check it out.

Storytelling purely and truly

Leif Enger's writing strikes me like an Andrew Wyeth painting; sparse, filled with light and shadow, layered with realism and fiction. This is a wonderful read, the characters are built in believable proportions. As ever the landscape is evocative of the West and it's stark beauty. I would say this story ambled rather than loped along, but every step of the way was full. M check it out

Darwin and Lincoln: an Odd Couple?

Two books on our "New Shelf" caught my eye this week, particularly as we approach the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth later this month. Focusing on the man as much as his theory, they serve to fit his science into the broader view of history -- especially the history of human rights.
Click on either book jacket image for a link to our catalog, or follow the link in this entry's title to read a book review from the NY Times. As always, read wisely -- Andy