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1. You must be charging $5.00 or more to use your credit card.
2. We do not accept debit cards.
3. The credit card machine is not just a nasty fine-taker. You can donate to the library, or buy anything else we are promoting with your card.

Opening Later

On Friday, February 2nd we will open at 10:00 a.m. We will close at our regular time of 5:00p.m.

If you live on this planet you should see this documentary. This may seem a little silly and overstated, but it has become that urgent. It's easy to comprehend. It goes into enough detail to know that our planet is in trouble, without boring you or sounding like a lecture. You may not think the ocean current half way around the world has any effect on you, or the United States, but it does. This documentary explains weather patterns, the history of temperatures, earthquakes, ice ages. It explores the affect of pollution on the world, and the changes that are taking place right now. With great use of intelligence and humor, Al Gore does a great job bringing this topic to public attention. Don't think it's to late and unrealistic to change anything now. We can reverse some of the damage we have done. Watch. Learn how.

The great coupon trade

You can drop off coupons at the library that you may not use, and pick up some that you do. Make sure they are not ready to expire.

A double dose

Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentaion on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge-a tradition that continues today with some black populations. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read.

"This eye-opening account offers an inside look into how the pharmaceutical industry, aided and abetted by FDA policies carries out ethically problematic research in developing countries.
-Ruth Macklin, professor of bioethics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

New Titles...and Some You May Have Missed

Simon Callow examines the years between Citizen Kane and Macbeth. This book goes beyond his unraveling film career. It tells of his numerous failed attempts in careers besides film. Imagine a world without the impact of Citizen Kane, if he had succeded and became a stage musician.

I CELEBRATE myself,

And what I assume you shall assume,

For every atom beloning to me, as good belongs to you.
- WALT WHITMAN from Leaves of Grass

Published to coinside with the fiftieth anniversay of Howl and Other Poems, this new attempt to decipher some of what is Allen Ginsberg is the only one to cover his entire life. Ginsberg's unpublished journals were used largely to accurately describe the life and times of this can't get enough of figure.

On July 28, 1841, the body of a young women was found floating in the Hudson River. Later she was discovered to be a cigar salesgirl who had gone missing three days earlier. New York in the mid-nineteenth century was interested why her murder could not be solved, when a struggling writer named Edgar Allen Poe decided to take on the case. Thirty-one year old Poe had just published "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." A year later desparate for success, Poe sent his famous detective, C. Auguste Dupin on the case of a liftime, involving a crime that changed the city.