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Lochwinnoch Library Opening Hours Mon, Wed & Fri 2pm – 5pm, 6pm – 8pm Tues & Sat 10am – 1pm, 2pm-5pm CLOSED THURSDAY SERVICES AVAILABLE: Free Broadband Internet Free document Shredding facility Photocopier & printer (15p per black & white copy) Fax (C harge depending on UK or Ov erseas destination) Bookbug Rhymetime Every Tuesday 10.15am Come along and join in the fun Suitable for children aged birth – 4 years Bookbug's Library Challenge Bookbug's Library Challenge is a free programme that encourages children aged birth to four to discover and enjoy their local library. On their first visit to the participating library children are issued with the Gifts Cards Jewellery Leather Home 8 Church Street Lochwinnoch 01505 843311 Open 9-5 Monday-Saturday and 12-4 on Sundays OPEN LATE SATURDAY 4th FOR CHRISTMAS LIGHTS SWITCH-ON Bookbug's Library Challenge collector card. Every time they visit the library the collector card will be stamped, and your child can exchange four stamps for one of our beautifully illustrated Library C h a l l e n g e c e r t i f i c a t e s . Your child's name will be written on the certificate to encourage them to feel proud that they have become members of their local library. There are five different limited edition certificates to collect. So start collecting now – it's never too early or too late to join your local library... and it‘s FREE! New Books • ANNIE BENNETT : KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING The year is 1940 and Bill and Marion Whittaker live happily with their three children in a terraced house on Albert Road in Birmingham. But when Bill enlists to fight in the Second World War, the family are plunged into poverty. Marion is forced to pawn all her worldly possessions and decides to take in two lodgers, Peggy Wagstaffe and Violet Clooney. These two lively girls bring some light relief to the family and bring with them Peggy's handsome brother Sam - who catches the eye of Marion's sixteeny e a r - o l d d a u g h t e r , S a r a h . 1944 and the war grinds on. Disaster strikes with an explosion at the local munitions factory, leaving Sarah badly disfigured. Then news arrives that Sam has been blinded in action. Can these two injured souls help each other to repair not only their physical but emotional scars? And will Bill return to the safety of family and home? • MICHAEL CONNELLY : REVERSAL Longtime defense attorney Mickey 8 Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence. Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch. Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a case fraught with political and personal danger. Opposing them is Jessup, now out on bail, a defense attorney who excels at manipulating the media, and a runaway eyewitness reluctant to testify after so many years. With the odds and the evidence against them, Bosch and Haller must nail a sadistic killer once and for all. If Bosch is sure of anything, it is that Jason Jessup plans to kill again. • PATRICIA CORNWELL : PORT MORTUARY As the chief of the new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts, a joint venture of the state and federal governments and MIT, Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could shut down her new facility and ruin her personally and professionally. A young man drops dead, apparently from a cardiac arrhythmia, eerily close to Scarpetta's new Cambridge home. But when his body is examined the next morning, there are stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked insider the Center's cooler. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties. She realizes that she is fighting a cunning and cruel enemy that is invisible as she races against time to discover who and why before more people die. The Shopping Mall Experience—drive miles, queue for parking, fight for space, walk for hours in a hot, crowded environment trying to find something different and then queue again to pay a disinterested assistant for the same thing that everyone else has bought The Lochwinnoch Experience—saunter to Now & Then, select from the biggest and best range of gifts they have ever had in a friendly atmosphere with helpful, welcoming service. Buy something beautiful, affordable and individual. Go for a coffee, Job Done. Keep it local and interesting this year—even if you can‘t decide, we do gift vouchers.
• TESS GERRITSEN : ICE COLD As the chief of the new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts, a joint venture of the state and federal governments and MIT, Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could shut down her new facility and ruin her personally and professionally. A young man drops dead, apparently from a cardiac arrhythmia, eerily close to Scarpetta's new Cambridge home. But when his body is examined the next morning, there are stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked insider the Center's cooler. Various 3- D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties. She realizes that she is fighting a cunning and cruel enemy that is invisible as she races against time to discover who and why before more people die. • ROSIE GOODWIN : THE RIBBON WEAVER One winter's night, Molly Earnshaw rescues a newborn baby from the snow and changes two families for ever. The tiny girl grows into a beautiful and gifted young woman. Although devoted to Molly, who she believes is her grandmother, Amy has far-reaching ambitions - encouraged by her neighbour's son, Toby, she longs to move beyond ribbon-weaving to designing the hats and clothes the ribbons adorn. Her talent is recognised by Matthew Forrester, the influential owner of famous hat factories and shops. But Matthew is a haunted man with secrets in his past that torture him and his family. His son's wife, Victoria, is deeply troubled, and when Amy's flair leads her to London and then Paris, Victoria is consumed with jealousy. Amy's dreams seem to be coming true, but as more secrets are revealed and Amy is caught between two worlds, she must choose where her heart t r u l y b e l o n g s . • JAMES PATTERSON : CROSS FIRE Detective Alex Cross and Bree's wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington D.C.'s most corrupt: a dirty congressmen and an underhanded lobbyist. Next, the elusive gunman begins picking off other crooked politicians, sparking a blaze of theories--is the marksman a h e r o o r a v i g i l a n t e ? The case explodes, and the FBI assigns agent Max Siegel to the investigation. As Alex and Siegel battle over jurisdiction, the murders continue. It becomes clear that they are the work of a professional who has detailed knowledge of his victims' movements--information that only a Washington insider could possess. As Alex contends with the sniper, Siegel, and the wedding, he receives a call from his deadliest adversary, Kyle Craig. The Mastermind is in D.C. and will not relent until he has eliminated Cross and his family for good. Professional Freelance Wedding Florist Elaine Lamont Free home consultation Tel: 01505 506169 Mob: 07505 735733 9 • KATHY REICHS : SPIDER BONES John Lowery was declared dead in 1968 - the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam, his body buried long ago in North Carolina. Four decades later, Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning in Hemmingford, Quebec. The victim appears to have died while in the midst of a bizarre sexual practice. The corpse is later identified as John Lowery. But how could Lowery have died twice, and how did an American soldier end up in Canada? NOW AVAILABLE A small collection of MP3 Digital Books : Playaway, the world's first pre-loaded digital audiobook, has proven enormously popular with listeners, and is already an established product in libraries across the UK. The versatility and simplicity of the format have been key factors in this growing popularity. Playaway is lightweight, compact, and very easy to use - simply plug in the earphones and press play. LOCHWINNOCH LIBRARY WILL CLOSE FOR THE FESTIVE BREAK ON FRIDAY 24TH DECEMBER. THE LIBRARY WILL OPEN AT 9AM AND CLOSE AT 2.30PM ON THAT DAY. THE LIBRARY WILL RE-OPEN ON FRIDAY 7TH JANUARY 2011 AT THE USUAL TIME OF 2PM. THE STAFF WISH ALL OF OUR CUSTOMERS A Merry Christmas
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