Cool off in the library winners

Here are the winners in the SCCC/ATS "Cool off in the library" promotion for June:
Nelly Isidoro
Sam Sharp
Ricky Rodriguez

The winners will each receive a $5 gift card to Braum's.

And don't worry, if you didn't get a chance to come down in June, you still have an opportunity to win in July.

We'll hold another random drawing for three more gift cards for July.

Still time to cool off in June

You still have a chance to enter the "Cool off in the library" promotion for June.

During June and July, the SCCC/ATS Library will hold a monthly drawing for three Braum's gift cards.

Just come down to the Library, fill out an entry form (at the front desk) and you'll be eligible to win a $5 gift card from Braum's.

And don't worry, if you didn't get a chance to come down in June, you still have an opportunity to win in July.

We'll have two random drawings, each with three winners, one in June and one in July. Winners will be posted at the Library.

So come by the Library and beat the summer heat!

Please note: Only one entry per person per drawing.

An eclipse is coming

The much anticipated third installment of the Twilight Saga -- Eclipse -- will premiere on the silver screen this week.

But before it was a movie, it was a book and the library has it!

The third episode of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire-romance series finds heroine Bella Swan anxious to become a vampire and live forever with handsome vampire Edward. Obstacles arise when Edward demands marriage and werewolf Jacob declares his love for Bella. Eventually, the Cullen vampires and the Quileute werewolves unite to face off against a pack of uncontrollable vampires seeking revenge on Bella.

If it's been a while since you read Twilight or if you never read it at all, pick it up at the library and find out what all the fuss is about.

We also have the first two books -- Twilight and New Moon -- as well as the finale -- Breaking Dawn.

Welcome to Oz --- Marvel Style

From the people who brought you the Amazing Spider-Man, the Invincible Iron Man and the Incredible Hulk, comes Dorothy and her merry misfits -- the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion. Yup. It's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, done the Marvel Way!

Eisner Award-winning writer/artist Eric Shanower teams up with artist Skottie Young to bring L. Frank Baum's beloved classic to life! When Kansas farm girl Dorothy flies away to the magical Land of Oz, she fatally flattens a Wicked Witch, liberates a living Scarecrow and is hailed by the Munchkin people as a great sorceress...but all she really wants to know is: how does she get home?

Come in and check it out. It's in the New Books section.

Pride and Prejudice without the undead

You may find it hard to believe, but there were no zombies in the original version of "Pride and Prejudice."

If you're curious to read what Austen originally wrote without the undead, come down to the library and check it out.

Then you might want to follow it up by reading "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" by Seth Grahame-Smith and have some fun comparing the two novels.

See ya at the library!

New book of the week!

This week's new book comes to us from authors Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. This "collaboration" creates a new look at Austen's tale of early 19th century English romance. As Mary Ellen Quinn wrote in Booklist: This may be the most wacky by-product of the busy Jane Austen fan-fiction industry—at least among the spin-offs and pastiches that have made it into print. In what’s described as an “expanded edition” of Pride and Prejudice, 85 percent of the original text has been preserved but fused with “ultraviolent zombie mayhem.” For more than 50 years, we learn, England has been overrun by zombies, prompting people like the Bennets to send their daughters away to China for training in the art of deadly combat, and prompting others, like Lady Catherine de Bourgh, to employ armies of ninjas. Added to the familiar plot turns that bring Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy together is the fact that both are highly skilled killers, gleefully slaying zombies on the way to their happy ending. Is nothing sacred? Well, no, and mash-ups using literary classics that are freely available on the Web may become a whole new genre. What’s next? Wuthering Heights and Werewolves?

This book is now available for checkout, located on the New Books shelves next to the circulation desk.

Cool off in the library

The SCCC/ATS Library will hold a monthly drawing for three Braum's gift cards in June and July.

Just come down to the Library, fill out an entry form (at the front desk) and you'll be eligible to win a $5 gift card from Braum's.

We'll have two random drawings, each with three winners, one in June and one in July. Winners will be posted at the Library.

So come by the Library and beat the summer heat!

Please note: Only one entry per person per drawing.