Tired of surfing TV channels only to not find anything of interest? Try checking out DVDs at Hamner Library.

Have you missed some of the “old” shows?  We now have all 9 seasons of The Waltons, or maybe you enjoyed Mash.  Do you enjoy some of the new series but missed episodes of Heroes, or CSI?  We have these on DVD now.

Maybe you enjoy cooking!  Come check out Graham Kerr’s healthy cooking series, Lifestyle #9. Or if French cooking is of interest we have Julia Child’s, The French Chef, Volumes 1 and 2.

For our Young Adults we have videos to suit their interests:

     The Dark Knight

      Nancy Drew

     Queen Sized

    7th Heaven

For our children we have added:

     Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium

     Saddle Club: Horse of a Different Color

     Really wild animals: Swinging Safari

     Really wild animals: Dinosaurs and other creature features

Check out these and many other wonderful titles we have added to our collection recently.

I have always been a fan of President Theodore Roosevelt because of his stamina and determination not to give into fear and despair. His life was full of excitement and challenges, most brought about from his own pride and courage.
Currently, I am reading Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris, a biography of President Roosevelt. It reveals TR as a articulate, no nonsense person who wouldn’t take no for an answer. This book follows his journey after President McKinley was assassinated in 1901 through his last year as president in 1909.
“Theodore Rex tells the story of the following seven and a half years–years in which TR entertains, infuriates, amuses, strong-arms, and seduces the body politic into a state of almost subservience to his will. It is not always a pretty story: one of the revelations here is that TR was hated and feared by a substantial minority of his fellow citizens. Wall Street and the white South, Western lumber barons, even his own Republican leadership in Congress strive to harness his steadily increasing power.” (from book jacket)

I just started reading the new James Patterson book Alex Cross’s Trial.  In the story, a young lawyer is sent to his boyhood home in Mississipi on a secretive mission from the President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, to investigate a number of lynchings. While “home”, he has flashbacks of old friends, his mother, and terrible atrocities he witnessed as a child. 

From his grandmother, Alex Cross has heard the story of his great-unlce Abraham and his struggle for survival in rhew era of the Klu Klux Klan.  Now Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a novel he’s written–a novel called Trial. 

As a lawyer in Washington, DC, early in the 1900s, Ben Corbett fights against oppression and racism, risking his family and his life in the process.  When President Theodore Roosevelt asks Ben to return to his hometown to investigate rumors of the resurgance of the Klu Klux Klan there, he cannot refuse.  (taken from bookjacket)