Happy Thanskgiving!

No matter where you are celebrating thanksgiving, or with whom you are celebrating, the staff and board of trustees of the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library wish you and your family a safe and happy holiday!  Our patrons and friends are the best, and we could never be the wonderful member of our community that we are, without your help.  Thank you for your continued support of our library's programs, mission and staff.

 

The stories behind lost cat posters

'The Secrets of Lost Cats' by Dr. Nancy Davidson is a recent addition to our non-fiction collection.  Dr. Davidson's connection with lost cats began when her own cat, Zak, disappeared and she made a lost cat poster of her own as she searched for, and eventually found, him.  After that, she began to make a study of lost cat posters, wondering about the cats and the owners searching for them.

The book covers seven years and twenty lost cat posters in areas ranging from Alaska to Amsterdam, talking as much about the people who love cats as about the cats themselves.  There is also a very handy section in the back that advises the best actions to take if your own cat becomes lost or if you happen to come across a cat that appears lost.

After Dead

This post is for all of my fellow reader friends out there who are also mourning the end of the "Sookie Stackhouse" series.  I just finished reading After Dead the new Charlaine Harris novel.  This book was written by Harris in response to the enormous amount of questions she received from her readers while she was writing the thirteenth and final novel in the series.  Readers wanted to know what happened to many characters who had appeared in other books but just couldn't be in the final book. So, in Charlaine Harris' own words, "in the

interest of satisfying the readers who've been following Sookie's adventures for years, I herewith present my coda to the books that have dominated my professional life for over a decade."  This book is organized alphabetically by the names of the characters and it is truly an interesting read!  I enjoyed finding out what had happened to many of my favorite characters and even though the book is short, it is a must read for every Sookie Stackhouse fan.  Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author for both her Sookie Stackhouse and Harper Connelly Prime Crime mystery series, and she has lived in the South her entire life.  Please visit Charlaine Harris on the web at www.charlaineharris.com or at facebook.com/CharlaineHarris.

If You Were Here

If You Were Here is the newest novel by author Alafair Burke, a former prosecutor who now teaches criminal law and lives in Manhattan.  She is the author of nine novels, including the Ellie Hatcher series and several stand alones.  This novel is set in Manhattan, and stars McKenna Jordan, a magazine journalist (and former prosecutor) who is chasing down a story.  Her friend has been missing for years but when she sees a subway video of a heroic

act, she swears the woman in the video is her long-lost, presumed dead, friend, Susan.  Susan was also a classmate of McKenna's husband, Patrick, at West Point.  NYPD concluded that Susan disappeared after a tiff with her dad about the end of her military career, but McKenna thinks that there is something more to the story.  Thus begins a story of twists and turns as McKenna uses her reporting skills to ferret out the truth of Susan's disappearance and the story she was embroiled in.  The action is quick, the mystery is a good one and all in all this is a very suspenseful read.  This novel is a standalone book and may be read without reading any other novels first.  If you are interested in discovering more about the author, check her out online at www.alafairburke.com