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Wake Up Your Brain Cells With These New Fiction Titles From JCPL!

The late, great, Dr. Seuss is quoted as saying, “Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” In reading my most recent fiction selection, I began to wonder about the difference between truth and fiction.

  • Posted: Saturday, July 26, 2014 - 1:03pm

New Adult Fiction From JCPL is "The Real Thing!"

Butter vs. margarine; there used to be a commercial with a woman dressed as Mother Nature, who, when challenged about the benefits of margarine vs. butter, coined the phrase, “You can’t fool Mother Nature!”

  • Posted: Thursday, July 3, 2014 - 3:11pm

If Wishes Came True...New Adult Fiction @ JCPL!
Image of a factory

I wish I had a nickel for every time I start a sentence with the words, “I wish…” I wish it would only rain at night and that the sun would shine all day long…I wish the wind would stop blowing; it’s giving me a stretch of bad hair days like no other; I wish the pollen count were not so high (sniff, sniff).

  • Posted: Friday, May 16, 2014 - 3:10pm

So, What's New?

It was a blast from the past. Scrolling through Facebook this morning, I came across a post that someone had shared that included a video of children who had been given a Walkman, and then asked what it was and how it worked. Remember the Walkman, the best invention to hit the streets in the 80’s?

  • Posted: Sunday, April 27, 2014 - 4:50pm

Always Fashionable: New Adult Fiction @ JCPL!

Words are like fashion, they come and go and change with the times, and sometimes, they even become popular and important enough in our everyday language to be placed in the dictionary.

  • Posted: Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 4:10pm

New Non-fiction From JCPL to Banish the Blues!

I’m not a bit superstitious. I like black cats and am not afraid to walk around, underneath or climb a ladder.

  • Posted: Sunday, March 9, 2014 - 5:44pm

Winter Games Include New Fiction From JCPL!

 It’s February 6; let the games begin! In Sochi, we’re gearing up for competition in some slippery sports, such as figure skating, ice hockey, speed skating and ski jumping. These winter sports are designed for those who are highly skilled and trained to compete with one another and Mother Nature.

  • Posted: Sunday, February 9, 2014 - 6:10pm

Cabin Fever? We Have the Cure!
Photo of a tiny cabin on a tiny island. Photo by schmilblick via flickr.

The grocery stores, once chock-full of bread and milk, now have shelves empty as the pockets of a bride’s father after the wedding. Why?

  • Posted: Saturday, January 11, 2014 - 12:04pm

The Best in New Fiction From JCPL: ASAP!

"Give me the abbreviated version.” Make it short; we do, after all, live in an abbreviated USA, don’t we? I vowed I’d never text and would never do the “LOL,” etc. thing.

Now, I’ve gotten so used to sending messages via text that when I write I have a hard time remembering to form complete words and sentences.

  • Posted: Friday, December 6, 2013 - 6:58am

The Beat Goes On at JCPL With These New Adult Titles!

“I think it’s so groovy now, that people are finally getting together; I think it’s wonderful now, that people are finally getting together…” That song has been going through my head all morning; to the point that every once in awhile, I have to belt it out just to relieve the pressure.

  • Posted: Friday, October 25, 2013 - 8:13am