Interested in technology? Check out our new computer books and magazines.
Looking for ways to become more organized? Better Homes and Gardens magazine did a survey. 74.1% of their readers say cutting clutter at home would help make 2011 their best year. Come to the library for some ideas:
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Our online language instruction program, Mango, has just added 7 new languages to their service: Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Indonesian, Slovak, Tamil, and Ukranian. That brings the total to 29 Foreign languages, and English courses in 15 languages. 
Elizabeth Edwards was born July 3, 1949 and died December 7, 2010 of cancer at the age of 61. She was an attorney and best-selling author.
During the holiday season all three Hamden libraries are accepting donations of coats, gloves, and mittens for adults and children, as well as toys for children of all ages, which will be distributed through the Keefe Center and the Quinnipiac Bank & Trust Company’s Coat Drive. You can also donate non-perishable food for the Hamden Food Bank. All items can be dropped off at Miller Memorial Library, 2901 Dixwell Avenue where the annual “Mitten Tree” has become a tradition for library users. Also participating in this town-wide effort are Brundage Community Branch at 91 Circular Avenue and Whitneyville Branch at 125 Carleton Street. For further information contact the Miller Library Info Desk at 287-2680.
It's time once again for the annual Thornton Wilder Writing Competition. Students from all Connecticut public, private, and parochial high schools students are invited to submit their one-act plays, short stories, essays, poetry, or selections from longer works for the chance to win a cash prize.
Mark Twain's Autobiography is the surprise best-seller of the season. It has gone back to press seven times. More than 350,000 copies of the four pound heavy book have been printed so far. Yet bookstores across the country are running out of copies and are having a hard time keeping up with demand.
The National Book Award Winners for 2010 are:
The Hamden Public Library is seeking a new logo design to represent the Library on print materials (fliers, newsletter, library cards, etc.) and on the Library’s website. The designer of the winning entry will receive a $200 honorarium. Deadline for submission is January 29, 2011. Click the links below to download contest rules and entry form.
Publisher's Weekly has compiled a listing of Top Ten Books of 2010. This list was published on November 8, 2010.
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Skloot (published by Crown)
Ted Sorensen, political adviser, speechwriter and White House counsel died October 31, 2010 in New York City, following a stroke. He was 82 years old. He served in the White House from January 20, 1961 until February 29, 1964 under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Booklist published recently a listing of Top Ten Business Books.
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Web to Transform your Business. By David Siegel, published by Portfolio.
Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America (Alfred A. Knopf)
Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule (McPherson & Co.)
Nicole Krauss, Great House (W.W. Norton & Co.)
Lionel Shriver, So Much for That
(Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel (Coffee House Press)
Finalists for Nonfiction
Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
(Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group)John W. Dower, Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq
(W.W. Norton & Co/The New Press )Patti Smith, Just Kids (Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)
Justin Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)Megan K. Stack, Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War
(Doubleday)
Finalists for Poetry
Kathleen Graber, The Eternal City (Princeton University Press)
Terrance Hayes, Lighthead (Viking Penguin)
James Richardson, By the Numbers (Copper Canyon Press)
C.D. Wright, One with Others (Copper Canyon Press)
Monica Youn, Ignatz (Four Way Books)
Finalists for Young People's Literature
The winners in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young adult literature will be announced onPaolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker (Little, Brown & Co.)
Kathryn Erskine, Mockingbird
(Philomel Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group)Laura McNeal, Dark Water (Alfred A. Knopf)
Walter Dean Myers, Lockdown
(Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer
(Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)
"American Moderns on Paper" is the title of an exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT. It will run from Oct. 2, 2010 to Jan. 17, 2011. It presents a "selection of approximately 100 of the finest watercolors, pastels, and drawings by leading American modernists from the Wadsworth Atheneum's renowned collection of American art."
The Peruvian writer and author Mario Vargas Llosa, 74, has won the 2010 Nobel Literature Prize.
Come in and check out some of our vegetarian cookbooks and try out some new recipes. Get inspired!
Eat, Drink, Art, Design is the title of an exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, which runs from Sept. 21, 2010 to March 27, 2011. It features 60 objects for eating and drinking designed by artists like Roy Lichtenstein, Cindy Sherman, and Dale Chihuly.
