FOR RELEASE April 19, 2009
HeritageQuest Online, available through the Library’s website, includes US federal census records from 1790 to 1930 and “Freedman’s Bank Records”, one of the most important resources for African-American genealogical research, as well as more than 20,000 full text books on genealogy.
Ancestry Library, a database available through the Library’s website, contains more than 5 billion names drawn from census documents, immigration records, ship passenger lists, and birth/death/marriage records for the United States and Britain.
Cross Country by James Patterson features Detective Alex Cross whose investigation of the murder of an entire family leads him to a strongly organized gang of teenage thugs headed by a diabolical warlord known only as the Tiger.
How to Life: A Search for Wisdom from Old People by Henry Alford offers poignant lessons about adapting, friendship, holding on and letting go, drawn from the author’s conversations with those who have lived long and lived well.
The Archbishop in Andalusia: A Blackie Ryan Novel by Andrew Greeley begins as Archbishop John Blackwood Ryan travels to the south of Spain where he has been summoned in hopes that he can avert a murder before it happens.
Your Man is Wonderful: How to Appreciate Your Partner, Romance Your Differences, and Love the One You’ve Got by Noelle Nelson illuminates a clearly defined path to recognizing your guy’s positive qualities, appreciating the differences, and transforming them into strengths that can make a wonderful relationship possible.
Leaving Whiskey Bend by Dorothy Garlock centers on schoolteacher Hallie Wolcott and her no-nonsense friend Pearl Parsons who leave the roughneck town of Whiskey Bend, Colorado in an attempt to protect a young friend from her brutal stepbrother, but a violent storm interrupts their journey and sends them into a different direction.