If you think you do not have time to work on your goals, try this book.

Richard Wiseman’s  59 seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot is a great resource for addressing New Year’s Resolutions.  This book gives a myth busting response to other self-help books with tips and tricks based on research to improve all areas of your life.  Each tip takes less than a minute to help you achieve your aims and ambitions for the year.

Resolutions for 2012

Resolutions for 2012 are often related to health and diet. Hopefully, these titles will help you fulfill your goals and satisfy your reading appetite.

Non-Fiction

America’s Test Kitchen Healthy Family Cookbook by The Editors at America’s Test Kitchen

Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes without Drugs by Dr. Neal D. Barnard

Engine 2 Diet: The Texas Firefighter’s 28-Day Save -Your-Life Plan that Lowers Cholesterol and Burns Away the Pounds by Rip Esselstyn

Everything Guide to Macrobiotics: A Practical Introduction to the Macrobiotic Lifestyle-and How it Can Work for You by Julie S. Ong with Lorena Novak Bull

Gloriously Gluten-Free Cookbook: Spicing Up Life with Italian, Asian, and Mexican Recipes by Vanessa Maltin

Locavore’s Handbook: The Busy Person’s Guide to Eating Local on a Budget by Leda Meredith
Simply Japanese: Modern Cooking for the Healthy Home by Yoko Arimoto

DVD

Forks Over Knives – written and directed by Lee Fulkerson

Fiction

Angelina’s Bachelors: A Novel with Food by Brian O’Reilly

Death by the Dozen (Cupcake Bakery Mystery) by Jenn McKinlay

If You Can’t Stand the Heat (Poppy Markham: Culinary Cop) by Robin Allen

Joanne Fluke’s Lake Eden Cookbook: Hannah Swensen’s Recipes from The Cookie Jar (Hannah Swensen Mystery) by Joanne Fluke

Pie A La Murder (Della Cooks Mystery) by Melinda Wells

Good luck with your goals for 2012!

Christmas Movies not to be Missed

Christmas comes but once a year, but we never tire of those Christmas movies. It’s impossible to list all the Christmas/holiday themed movies ever made so we are just including 20 that bring the Christmas spirit home.

• The Polar Express
• The Santa Clause
• The Shop Around the Corner
• Die Hard
• Love Actually
• The Bishop’s Wife
• A Christmas Carol (Alistair Sims version)
• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
• Home Alone
• Christmas in Connecticut
• White Christmas
• Scrooged
• Miracle on 34th Street (with Natalie Wood and Maureen O’Hara)
• It’s a Wonderful Life
• A Christmas Story
• The Muppets Family Christmas
• Jack-Frost
• Santa Claus: The Movie
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• The Holiday
• Elf
Curl up and watch a great Christmas movie during the holiday season. Merry Christmas from everyone at the Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library.

CRAFT A HOLIDAY GIFT

Attention Crafters! Get ready for Holiday Fun!

Now is the time to get busy on those

special homemade items and gifts from the heart for the holidays.

Our collection of books and DVDs on seasonal craft projects is ready to inspire and instruct.

Check out these for a start:

HANDMADE HOME by Amanda Blake Soules

SIMPLY HANDMADE:  365 Easy Projects for Every Occasion by Carol Dahlstrom

GLAMOROUS BEADED JEWELRY… by M.T. Ryan

JUNK DRAWER JEWELERY by Rachel Di Salle

INCREDIBLE ART by Sue Nicholson

PAINT IT! by Better Homes and Gardens

MADE BY ME by Jane Bull

ULTIMATE WREATH BOOK by Ellen Spector Plant

ABC’S OF MAKING TEDDY BEARS by Linda Mead

 Happy Crafting!

Explore Your World

The moon, the world, the ocean and the stars have been explored and continue to be explored as advances in science and math make deep sea and space exploration possible. But, we cannot forget those who came first: Columbus, de Gama, Hudson, Pizzaro and all the men and women who braved everything to sail off the “edge of the earth” and dared to see what was beyond the horizon.
Your library is a great place to begin your own exploration of what is beyond your front door:
• Explorers: Great Tales of Adventure and Endurance by Alasdair Macleod
• Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea and Air by Ross Stewart
• Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer by Mireya Mayor
• The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos by John D. Barrow
• Columbus: The Four Voyages by Laurence Bergreen
• The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
• Boone: A Biography by Robert Morgan
• The Discovery of Jeann Baret: The Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe by Glynis Ridley
• The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must by Robert Zubrin
• Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer by David Roberts
• The Practical Naturalist: Explore the Wonders of the Natural World by Jill Hamilton
• Prowling the Deep: Exploring the Hidden World of Ocean Predators by Pamela Turner
• The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage by Anthony Brandt
• Champlain’s Dream by David Hackett Fischer
• Galaxies: Immense Star Island by David Jefferis
• A Treasury of Foolish Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots and other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History by Michael Farquhar

Where in the World Are You Reading?

The hot, hazy, humid days of a Northeast Ohio summer are upon us, in full force. At the park, at the lake, enjoying a boat ride or just sitting on a porch swing is a good time to read all those books you didn’t get to during the winter and spring.
The Library’s annual summer reading program begins June 6th and this year’s theme is travel. What better way to enjoy your “staycation” then through a little vicarious travel?
Over the years many books have been written about traveling near and far, whether it is true or a figment of the author’s imagination. Why not read one or two this summer and enter to win some great prizes at one of the Willoughby-Eastlake buildings?
• On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
• Leaving Unknown, by Kerry Reichs
• The Goodbye Quilt, by Susan Wiggs
• Traveling with Pomegranates, by Sue Monk Kidd
• 1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Die, by Richard Cavendish
• A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveler, by Frances Mayes
• Closely Akin to Murder, by Joan Hess
• Tales from the Road, by Neil Zurcher
• The Art of Travel, by Alain de Botton
• Loco Motive: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery, by Mary Daheim
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain

Parents Behaving Badly by Scott Gummer

Scott Gummer skillfully captures the best and worst of a suburban Little League season in his first novel, Parents Behaving Badly.  Readers will recognize their friends, neighbors, and maybe even themselves in this humorous satire of youth sports. This light entertaining read is a great way to start off the summer.

Librarians in the Books

National Library Week (April 10-16, 2011) is an annual celebration of the contributions of our nation’s libraries and librarians. What better way to celebrate libraries, librarians and librarianship then to cozy up with a good book or movie. Either as author, character or setting libraries have been a constant theme in books and movies for generations.
Some librarians who have written books include:
• Madeline L’Engle
• Thomas Berger
• Per Petterson
• Anne Tyler
• Lewis Carroll
Some books featuring librarians as characters include:
• The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
• Headhunter by Timothy Findley
• Stones From the River by Ursula Hegi
• Bag of Bones by Stephen King
• It by Stephen King
• The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken
• The Burglar in the Library by Lawrence Block
• The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• Real Murders by Charlaine Harris
• Open Season by Linda Howard
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• 1984 by George Orwell
• The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Librarians and/or libraries have also played a major role in movies:
• Desk Set
• Party Girl
• Only Two Can Play
• Forbidden
• The Attic
• The Gun in Betty Lou’s Handbag
• It’s a Wonderful Life
• The Day After Tomorrow
• The Mummy

Spotlight on Women

Women’s History month highlights the contribution of women to events in history and contemporary society. Either fictional or real women have had a front row seat to history. Joan of Arc, Scarlet O’Hara, Eleanor Roosevelt and countless others have lead women into courtrooms, operating rooms, political/governmental offices, and the halls and boardrooms of corporations all over the world giving a voice to women’s and societal issues.
From the shores of Bataan to a future New York City women have inspired, lead, fought and died. Below are some titles that highlight the strength that women are capable of.

• This Will be Remembered of Her: Stories of Women Reshaping the World by Megan McKenna
• We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of the American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese by Elizabeth Norman
• Beyond the Cleavage by Raquel Welch
• The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less by Terry Ryan
• Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia DeRossi
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• Jane Goodall: The Woman who Redefined Man by Dale Peterson
• Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Treachery in Death, by JD Robb
• Where the Heart Is, by Billie Letts
• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, by Fannie Flagg
• Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

If you cant handle the truth about your Presidents try some presidentially inspired fiction.

• Lucy: a novel by Ellen Feldman fictionalizes the  love affair between Franklin Roosevelt and his wife’s secretary, Lucy Mercer.
• American Wife: a novel by Curtis Sittenfeld is a veiled portrait of Laura Bush and her marriage that takes her to the Whitehouse.
• Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington by Mary Higgins Clark focuses on Washington as a husband and his less than idyllic marriage to Martha.

Step into history…

Forty-four men are among the elite of American History.  These men have assummed the highest office in the land and influenced history, religion, politics, education, science and social reform the world over. Countless books have been written in the last 200 years about the American Presidents and their families. These men and their families have influenced American history from the beginning.  The following titles are just a sample of the numerous books available: 

 Decision Points by George W. Bush, Spoken from the Heart by Laura Bush, First Ladies: From Martha Washington to Michelle Obama by Betty Boyd Caroli, Mrs. Lincoln: A Life by Catherine Clinton, First Family: Abigail and John by Joseph J. Ellis, Abigail Adams by Woody Holton, Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage by Hazel Rowley, Madison and Jefferson by Andrew Burstein, Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan, Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower by David Eisenhower, Franklin Pierce by Michael Holt, Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris, Ronald Reagan a Life in Photographs by Peter Robinson, Jimmy Carter by Julian Zelizer, My Father at 100 by Ron Reagan and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the American Presidency by Alan Axelrod .