Saturday, November 30, 2013

What's New at Avon Grove Library - Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Click on the links below to be taken to the catalog where you can reserve your copies of new titles.



Fiction:

The Supreme Macaroni Company : a novel / Adriana Trigiani.

The good lord bird / James McBride.

Mirage / Clive Cussler, with Jack Du Brul.

The valley of amazement / Amy Tan.

The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon / Alexander McCall Smith.

The all-girl filling station's last reunion : a novel / Fannie Flagg.

King and Maxwell / David Baldacci.

Takedown twenty [large type] / Janet Evanovich.

After dead / Charlaine Harris.

Winners : a novel / Danielle Steel.

Accused : a Rosato & Associates novel / Lisa Scottoline.

Fifteen minutes : a novel / Karen Kingsbury.

Death of the black-haired girl / Robert Stone.

Dust / Patricia Cornwell.

The first phone call from heaven / Mitch Albom.

An old betrayal / Charles Finch.

Sins of the flesh / Colleen McCullough.

Stella Bain : a novel / Anita Shreve.

Tatiana : an Arkady Renko novel / Martin Cruz Smith.

White fire / Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. 

Sycamore row / John Grisham.

The goldfinch / Donna Tartt.

We are water : a novel / Wally Lamb.

Silent night : a Spenser Holiday novel / Robert B. Parker with Helen Brann.



Non-Fiction:

Double down : game change 2012 / Mark Halperin and John Heilemann.

George Washington's secret six : the spy ring that saved the American Revolution / Brian Kilmeade an

My promised land : the triumph and tragedy of Israel / Ari Shavit.

The death of Santini : the story of a father and his son / Pat Conroy.

Junkyard planet : travels in the billion-dollar trash trade / Adam Minter.

Things that matter : three decades of passions, pastimes, and politics / Charles Krauthammer.

History decoded : the 10 greatest conspiracies of all time / #1 New York Times bestselling author Br

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Genealogy Research Online



Come to the library to use Ancestry/Library Edition, the free version of Ancestry.com, the world's largest online family history resource. 

It has:

  • federal and state censuses
  • records of births, marriages, deaths, immigration, military and more
  • Heritage Quest (outside  or inside  the library) has federal census records and local histories
  •  Newspapers are great sources, too.
  •  We’ve got The New York Times (1851-2009) (outside  or inside  the library) 
  • The Philadelphia Historical Archive(1830-1922)  in PDF format. 
  • See the newspapers as they appeared in print.


 What's New. (2013, June 15). Retrieved June 15, 2013, from Chester County Library System: http://www.ccls.org/
   


Friday, May 17, 2013

What We Are Reading at Avon Grove Library


Friday, May 17, 2013

What We're Reading

What We're Reading is a selection of titles AG Library staff are currently reading. To find out about the title, click on the link and you will be taken to our catalog. Scroll down to the bottom of the record to read reviews of the book or click the More Information button.

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini

Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

The Importance of Being Seven by Alexander McCall Smith

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

Gulp by Mary Roach

Flashback by Nevada Barr

Afterwards by Rosamund Lupton

The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok

Odessa by Charles King



Works Cited

System, C. C. (2013, May 17). Chester County Library System. Retrieved May 17, 2013, from Chester County Loves Books: http://cclslovesbooks.blogspot.com/2013/05/what-were-reading.html




Friday, April 5, 2013

New Music Available for Checkout At The Avon Grove Library


Did you know that the Avon Grove Library makes new music available to patrons?

Yes, it is true! Avon Grove Library has an extensive collection of music, with new selections being added each day. Assorted genres are available, spanning from the latest album by Taylor Swift, to classic hits by The Rolling Stones. The collection also spans much of music's history to include artists like Mozart, Frank Sinatra, and The Commodores.

Here are some of the newest additions to Avon Grove Library's music collection; click on the link to put your copy on hold. 



Rock Music










Django Django 

Greatest Hits / Fleetwood Mac

Greatest Hits / Guess Who

Halestorm / Halestorm

Helen Burns / Flea

Holy Fire / Foals

Hummingbird / Local Natives

Loma vista / Family of the Year

Lonerism / Tame Impala

Native / OneRepublic


The Next Day / David Bowie 

Old sock / Eric Clapton

Pedestrian Verse / Frightened Rabbit

People, Hell and angels / Jimi Hendrix

Push the Sky Away / Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds


Rumours / Fleetwood Mac 

Silver Linings Playbook : original motion picture soundtrack

The strange case of / Halestorm

II / Unknown Immortal Orchestra

The Very Best of Deep Purple

We are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic / Foxygen

What About Now / Bon Jovi

When It Was Now / Atlas Genius

Wondrous Bughouse / Youth Lagoon

Country Music





Spring Break : Here to Party / Luke Bryan

Jazz Music


Memphis / Boz Scaggs


Pop Music







Musical Soundtracks





World Music