Free Resources

All branches have encyclopedias, dictionaries and other basic reference materials.

Staff can assist, please just ask.

We have new links to reliable, authoritative websites to the left.

Interlibrary loans or subject requests for information are available. They can take up to two weeks, so make your requests early.

The new year brings a new start mentality. Here are some new (or existing) resources to help you, whatever your resolutions might be.

Get Your Body in Shape/Work on Health

Jorge Cruises new "Belly Fat Cure: Quick Meals" will help you get the diet together. We offer other programs, from the "Duke" diet, to good ones for diabetics.

Exercise and work on "101 Muscle-shaping Workouts" or "101 Strength Training Workouts". Look at the 40th Anniversary edition of "Our Bodies Ourselves". Figure out what to do for your child with "My Child is Sick". Figure out how to relax with "Dealing with Stress".

Look to authority Suzy Cohen for help on drug interactions and comparable issues in her "Drug Muggers".

Start a New Hobby or Add to an Existing One

Enjoy creations from our cookbook collection, which now includes "Food from Many Greek Kitchens" and "All About Roasting". Take up art, whether "David Bellamy's Comprehensive Guide to Watercolors" or "Cartooning". Learn the "ABCs of Handwriting Analysis". We have the "Complete Book of Home Crafts". Get into home gardening with "Year-Round Vegetable Gardener"

Do the Decorating You Have Been Postponing

Better Homes and Gardens offers "Kitchens". There is also a new approach, "Undecorate" and you can learn "Painting and Wallpapering Secrets", or read the "Guide to Window Treatments" and coming soon are "Candice Olson's Kitchen's and Baths" and "This Old House" on the same topics.

Educate Yourself

Learn About the "Viral Storm". Find out what happened to our fiscal institutions in "Money and Power". Get Bill Clinton's take on the situation in "Back to Work". Get the "12 Secrets of Highly Successful Women". Consider "The Collapse of American Justice". Explore the issue of child abuse with best-selling "A Child Called It". Know what to expect from your toddler with "The Toddler Years" and prepare for that crucial talk with "What Your Child Needs to Know About Sex". Try to ascertain the truth with "KBL Kill Bin Laden".

Relax With a Best-selling Author's Newest Book or Other Great Fiction

P.D. James returns with a book compared to Agatha Christie: "Deather Comes to Pemberley". Alexander McCall Smith offers Isabel Dalhousie in "The Forgotten Affairs of Youth". Beloved author D. Bunn brings us "Lion of Babylon". Jayne Ann Krentz offers her trademark romantic suspense in "Copper Beach" while Leslie Meier cooks up a "Chocolate Covered Murder". James Patterson's "Private No. 1 Suspect" is available in print and on CD, and Kay Scarpetta runs into a "Red Mist". Mystery/thrillers from Jack Higgins, Elizabeth George, Sara Paretsky and Raymond Khoury are also now available. New in westerns are Ralph Compton's "The Amarillo Trail" and Lauren Paine's "Beyond Fort Mims". For teens we have "Chime" and "Daughter of Smoke and Bones", named two of the best young adult books of the year.

CHECK IT OUT

Visit one of our new "ACCESS" sites (see below) for programs on computers and e-mail, or ask at your branch for when we are planning to offer "Every Child Ready To Read" a research-based program for parents and caregivers of children under 5, to help them help their children.

Niland (ACCESS)

January 17th, February 21st (computers class), March 20th (e-mail class), April 17th (internet class) & May 22nd

Seeley (ACCESS)

January 21st (Intro to computers), February 11th (computer class), March 16th (computer class), April 21st (internet class) & May 19th(email class)

Ocotillo (ACCESS)

Schedule to be announced.

Westmorland (ACCESS)

Schedule to be announced.