Cold Spring Harbor Library

Congratulations to all our summer reading club participants!
Everyone had a great time reading and earning tokens.. to date children read 3,779 hours and 3,097 books!

Our End of the Summer Show performed by the National Circus Project was a huge hit!

A special congrats goes out to our winners
“Guess How Many” (they guessed 800 fish … there was actually 811)
Katherine Buonfiglio
Zach Lonegan
“Name the Dolphin“
Ryan Burns – “Salt Water Sam”
Alyssa Terraccuano – “Oceanna“

Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:27:47 +0000

The longlist of finalists for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award covers modern business issues, including management, finance, and economics. Selected titles include:

How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy

Union Atlantic: A Novel by Adam Haslett

The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

More Money than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington fought to Save the Financial System From Crisis–and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin

NEW! Download eBooks and audiobooks!

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:51:29 +0000

Your Cold Spring Harbor Library card now gives you access to thousands of eBooks and audiobooks for adults, teens, and children!

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Suzanne Collins @ Huntington Station Barnes & Noble

dscinta — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:07:24 +0000

Suzanne Collins will appear at the Huntington Station Barnes & Noble on August 24 at 7:00 pm.

Suzanne Collins is the author of Gregor the Overlander, the first book in Underland Chronicles, and the Hunger Games Trilogy.

http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/author-events/Suzanne-Collins/2572670

Suzanne Collins’ books at the Cold Spring Harbor Library

Man Booker Prize 2010 Longlist Announced

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:24:03 +0000

The 13 books on the longlist for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010 have been announced.

Titles that the library owns include:

Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey

The Long Song by Andrea Levy

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

February by Lisa Moore

Skippy Dies by Paul Murray

The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas

The winner will be announced on October 12^th.

Discover Long Island at the Long Island Museum

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:51:33 +0000

Have you heard about our museum pass program?

We have just added another museum to our collection: The Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages in scenic Stony Brook, one of a small select group of nationwide Smithsonian affiliates.

Enjoy art exhibitions that “bring to life the history and art of Long Island and their relation to American culture,” and visit the nation’s finest collection of horse-drawn carriages.

Call the Information Services Desk to reserve this new pass and head east for a trip back in time!

*Available to Cold Spring Harbor Library cardholders only.

LOL Summer Reads

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:25:29 +0000

Looking for a genuinely funny book to take to the beach? As NPR correspondent Heller McAlpin asks in this piece, “Who would think it would be so hard to find good books that are funny without being stupid?”

Her suggestions:

Dead End Gene Pool, by Wendy Burden

How Did You Get This Number, by Sloane Crosley

The Three Weissmanns of Westport, by Cathleen Schine

The Frozen Rabbi, by Steve Stern

Have fun!