Summer is just around the corner. The kids are getting out of school this week. Holidays are popping out all over the place. Whatever your plans for the summer months are whether it be road trips or lounging in the sun, take along something to listen to.

New adult CD books have hit the shelves here at Liberal Memorial Library:

/ Audition / by Barbara Walters
/ Away / by Amy Bloom
/ Between Sundays / by Karen Kingsbury
/ Blue heaven / by C.J. Box
/ Body of lies / by David Ignatius
/ The bone garden / by Tess Gerritsen
/ The chase / by Clive Cussler
/ Eat, pray, love / by Elizabeth Gilbert
/ The girl who stopped swimming / by Joshilyn Jackson
/ In defense of food / by Michael Pollan
/ Into the wild / by Jon Krakauer
/ The kite runner / by Khaled Hosseini
/The last lecture /by Randy Pausch
/ Outlander / by Diana Gabaldon
/ Peace like a river / by Leif Enger
/ Shadow music / by Julie Garwood
/ The soul thief / by Charles Baxter
/ Stone cold / by Robert Parker
/ Sundays at Tiffany's / by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet
/ The tortilla curtain / by T.C. Boyle
/ A week from Sunday / by Dorothy Garlock
/ The whole truth / by David Baldacci

For the kiddos, there are new CD books as well!

/ A to Z mysteries / volumes 1 and 2 by Ron Roy
/ Across the wide and lonesome prairie / by Kristiana Gregory
/ All goalies are crazy / by Rob Childs
/ Bad Becky / by Gervase Phinn
/ The field guide / by Tony DiTerlizzi
/ Flour babies / by Anne Fine
/ Freckle juice / by Judy Blume
/ Gone missing / by Jean Ure
/ Grizzly tales for gruesome kids / by Jamie Rix
/ Happy Birthday, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle / by Betty Bard MacDonald
/ Henry and Beezus / by Beverly Cleary
/ Jake cake / by Michael Broad
/ Little foxes / by Michael Morpurgo
/ The monstrous memoirs of a mighty McFearless / by Ahmet Zappa (That would be the musician.)
/ Nate the Great / by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
/ Over the mooon: comedy, calamity and cool characters / by Jean Ure (Yes that is the right spelling for mooon.)
/ Parent swap / by Terence Blacker
/ The secrets of Droon / by Tony Abbott
/ Sisters, super-creeps and slushy, gushy love songs / by Karen McCombie
/ Stink and the incredible super-galactic jawbreaker / by Megan McDonald

So while you're in the library, check those titles out!

This Tuesday, May 20 at 4:00 p.m. there is going to be a teen gaming event here at the library. Come and get your groove on with Dance Dance Revolution and string out to some Guitar Hero.

Sign up for the summer reading program begins at the end of the month. Great events are scheduled for the coming busy weeks.

The new Book and Movie series for the month of June is Khaled Hosseini's / The kite runner / . The audio book is one of the new ones in the list above! Stop by the library to pick up a copy of the book. The discussion is going to be held on Thursday, June 5 at 7:00 p.m. and the film will be shown on Thursday, June 26 at 6:30 p.m.

The novel follows the story of two males Amir, the son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul, and Hassan, the son of the father's servant. They spend their days flying kites and telling stories of mystical places. Amir and his father escape to America and the story brings him back to the native land that has been torn by war.

The Library and Lunch for next month is Lorna Landvik's / Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons /. We meet every second Tuesday of the month at noon. In June we will be meeting on the 10th. This one was picked out by the last group who I'm pretty sure did not know that the cover is of ladies lounging in a pool!! It could very well be a refreshing and fun summer read! The story follows the three decades in the lives of five friends who go through the trials of marriages, child rearing, neighborhood parties, and brownies beginning in the late 1960s in Minnesota.

I look forward to seeing many of you in the library in the coming weeks!!