CBC journalist Linden Macintyre won this year's Scotiabank Giller Award with THE BISHOP'S MAN. While only Macintyre's second novel, THE BISHOP'S MAN is the gripping story of a Catholic priest wrestling with his conscious, after being asked to cover-up the latest scourge of sexual abuse. The Giller jury found it “a brave novel, conceived and written with impressive delicacy and understanding”; causing Macintyre to win out over Margaret Atwood and Anne Michaels.

Teen readers should enjoy Neil Gaiman's latest graphic novel MARVEL 1602. This is a highly original work, exploring the consequences of superheroes appearing—not in the 20th century—but 400 years earlier in Elizabethan England.

Preschool Story Time this Wednesday at 11:00 am, 1:15 pm, & 6:30 pm, and Toddler Story this Friday at 10:30 am will be all about Growing!

GOT BOOKS, WE NEED THEM - The Friends of the Library would love your book donations for our sales throughout the year.   Items must be in good condition.   We also accept Encyclopedias, textbooks and Condensed Readers Digests if published within the last five years.   Please bring donations to the circulation desk at the Library.   Call Marilyn 250-489-6254 for info. 

The seventh annual Friends of the Cranbrook Public Library Maga-Sale Madness is happening again the first weekend in March. The dates are Friday and Saturday March 5th and 6th from 10 am to 6 pm and Sunday, March 7 from noon to 6 pm. The place is the Cranbrook Public Library Manual Training School Meeting & Small Conferences Centre.

This is the perfect time to pick up some great magazines for gardening, decorating or even scrap booking picture and ideas. There will be lots of magazines to choose from at very reasonable prices. Want to get something for free at this sale? Present your current Friends of Cranbrook Public Library membership or you Friends of the Library canvas bag and receive a free magazine of your choice.

Magazine donations dated January 2005 and up can be dropped off at the Cranbrook Public Library during operating hours. Need some help with those donations? Call the library at 426-4063 and leave a message for Michele.

Don't forget to come and see incredibly rich paintings of Jim Poch, currently on display.

ADULT NEWLY AQUIRED SHELF:

Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis – Al Gore (363.73874)

Flowers in the landscape – Jill Bays (751.422)

Homegrown Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs – Jim Wilson (635)

130 Projects to Get You into Filmmaking – Elliot Grove (791.4302)

How to Do Just About Anything on A Computer (005.446)

Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance – Keith D. Smith (971.100497)

2010 Essential Tax Facts – Evelyn Jacks (343.71052)

The New Savory Wild Mushroom – Margaret McKenny (579.6)

A History of Egypt – Jason Thompson (962)

Motivate to Communicate: 300 Games and Activities for Your Child with Autism – Simone Griffin (618.9285882)

Canadian Sports Records – Gary Queensway (796.0971)

Super Cute: 25 Amigurumi Animals – Annie Obaachan (745.5924)

Slow Cooker: The Best Cookbook Ever – Diane Phillips (641.5884)

The Wolf at the Door: What to do When Collection Agencies Come Calling – Mark Silverthorn (658.880971)

Master Your Money Management – Jim Ruta (332.024)

Writing Fiction for Dummies – Randy Ingermanson (808.3)

Fossil Plants of the Horseshow Canyon Formation – Kevin R. Aulenback (561.197)

My Grammar and I…Or Should That Be Me – Caroline Taggart (428.2)

The Truth about Psychics – Sylvia Browne (133.8)

The Diabetes D-Tour Diet – Barbara Quinn (616.4)

The Canadian Garden Primer – Mark Cullen (635.0484)

You Can Run But You Can't Hide –Duane ‘Dog' Chapman (bio)

Deep Powder and Steep Rock – Chic Scott (bio)

Can You Hear the Nightbird Call – Anita Rau Badami (fic)

Things Left Unspoken – Eva Mari Everson (fic)

The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery (fic)

The Wolf at the Door – Jack Higgins (fic)

Remarkable Creatures – Tracy Chevalier (fic)

The Bishop's Man – Linden Macintyre (fic)

The Sea Captain's Wife – Beth Powning (fic)

Winter Garden – Kristen Hannah (fic)

Worst Case – James Patterson (mys)

Treasure Hunt – John Lescroart (mys)

The 5 Greatest Warriors – Mathew Reilly (mys)

The Lock Artist – Steve Hamilton (mys)

White Witch, Black Curse – Kim Harrison (pb)

Doubleblind – Ann Aguiree (pb)

Target – Simon Kernick (pb)

The Redemption of Alexander Seaton (pb)

Vengeance Road – Rick Moffina (pb)

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (DVD)

Writing on the Wall (DVD)

Dexter: The Complete 3rd Season (DVD)

Numbers: The complete 4th and 5th Season (DVD)

Haircutting at Home (DVD)

Tiling Projects 1-2-3 (DVD)

YOUNG ADULT & CHILDREN'S NEWLY ACQUIRED ITEMS:

How to be a Genius: Your Brain and How to Train It (ya 612.82)

If I Had a Hammer – David Rubel (ya 363.583)

Everyday Astrology – Gary Goldschneider (ya 133.5)

Hallucinogens: The Dangers of Distorted Reality (ya 362.294)

My Anxious Mind: A Teen's Guide to Managing Anxiety & Panic (ya 616.8522)

Lady Macbeth's Daughter – Lisa Klein (ya fic)

Alex Rider: Crocodile Tears – Anthony Horowitz (ya fic)

Everwild – Neal Shusterman (ya fic)

Chasing the Secret – Maya Snow (ya fic)

Marvel 1602 – Neil Gaiman (ya fic)

The Great Big Book of Mighty Machines – Jean Coppendale (j 629.04)

My Body – Angela Royston (j 612)

Learn to Speak Music – John Crossingham (j 782.4)

International Space Station (j 629.442)

Dinosaur Provincial Park Revisited – Gordon Reid (j 971.234)

Magnets: Super Cool Science Experiments – Christine Taylor Butler (j 538.4078)

Follow That Food Chain: Complete Series (j 577.5)

Canada Past, Present, Future: Complete Series (j 325.71)

Animal Predators: Complete Series (j 599.7524)

The Doom Machine – Mark Teague (j fic)

Baby Beethoven (jDVD)

Bob the Builder Digging For Treasure (jDVD)

All About Trucks and Monster Trucks (jDVD)

Wallace & Gromit a Matter of Love and Death (jDVD)

MIKE'S BOOKNOTES:

Larry McMurtry is easily one of the greatest American writers alive today. He has written 29 novels, 10 books of essays, and over 40 screenplays. He charted the end of adolescence with THE LAST PICTURE SHOW; said goodbye to the western myth in LONESOME DOVE; and made everyone cry with TERMS OF ENDEARMENT. He was awarded the Pulitzer for LONESOME DOVE, and an Academy Award for his screenplay of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN. His books used to be compared to GONE WITH THE WIND, but lately critics have been comparing them to WAR AND PEACE. Now is his 70s, McMurtry is viewed as the quintessential writer of the American South West.

Yet none of this matters to him. Well, at least not as much as one would think. For McMurtry, writing was—and remains—only a sideline; a way to pay the bills. For he has a far more consuming passion, one in which all his prolific writing has made possible.

Larry McMurtry loves selling books. For over 55 years he has hunted, collected and sold used and rare books. He has owned a half dozen bookstores, and currently runs BookedUp, one of the largest single used bookstores in the United States. His excitement in life has always come from the culture and commerce of the rare book trade. This love of books probably stems from McMurtry growing up without any.

Born in 1939 to a rancher family in Archer, Texas, the McMurtry home was without a single book. Not even a bible. Books didn't appear until he was close to his teens, when a cousin dropped of a box of 19 books on his way to Normandy. This sparked a lifelong passion and dogged pursuit of books to own, books to hold, and books to sell to buy more books. Writing was simply a way to fund his dream of owning a bookstore.

“"I had expected to be thrilled when I received my first copy of my first book,” McMurtry stated in one his memoirs. “But when I opened the package and held the first copy in my hand, I found that I just felt sort of flat." None of his writing success ever compared to the thrill of scouting out old attics and yard sales, hoping to find that one special book a customer requested.

McMurtry is currently trying to turn his hometown of Archer into a book Mecca; an American version of Hay-on-Wye (a town in Wales with a population of under 2000, but with over 30 bookstores). He is currently buying old buildings and importing hundreds of thousands of used books, hoping to start a chain reaction of similar minded booksellers.

And if Larry McMurtry does write another brilliant Pulitzer Prize winning novel, you can be sure it was only written to underwrite a new bookstore.