Shopping & fun at Holiday Boutique

October 5, 2011

Bringing the community together for the holidays!

Come to the Friends of the Grandview Library‘s Holiday Boutique for seasonal shopping & fun for the whole family.

Fabulous vendors will fill the Library Atrium on Saturday, November 19, from 11 am-3 pm. There will be great gifts to purchase and craftmaking for children.

Plus, Stauf’s Coffee Roasters will have a Coffee Shop, Cord Camera will be taking pictures for your holiday cards at sale prices, and Edible Arrangements will be selling pineapple pops and gift certificates at discount prices (and giving part of the proceeds to the Friends of the Library).

Kids can decorate ornaments & gift bags and visit The Elf Shop—where they can secretly purchase gifts ($3 & under) for their families and get free “Magic Reindeer Dust”, while supplies last.

DOOR PRIZES!
A ticket will be given for each purchase made, to be placed in a box for drawing. You need not be present to win. Prizes donated by:

  • The Candle Lab
  • W.G. Grinders
  • Noodles & Company
  • Mazah Mediterranean Eatery
  • Matt the Miller’s Tavern
  • Dewey’s Pizza
  • Rife’s Market
  • The Oilerie
  • Peabody Papers
  • Objects for the Home

Contact Friends President Lou Redden (614-488-5167, craftfan60@aol.com) to volunteer.

New books: November 2011

September 29, 2011

Use your Grandview Library card to search & reserve the books below.

Just enter the titles into our catalog from your computer, or call Circulation at 614-486-2951 to have a staff member place a hold for you.

Want more? Find new books, movies & music.
Love digital materials? Download books, movies & music.

The titles below that are not at the Grandview Library may be borrowed for you from our consortium libraries.

NEW FICTION: November 2011

  • David Baldacci—Zero Day
  • Roberto Bolaño—The Third Reich
  • Alan Bradley—I am Half-Sick of Shadows: A Flavia de Luce Novel
  • Edna Buchanan—A Dark and Lonely Place
  • Jennifer Chiaverini—The Wedding Quilt: An ELM Creek Quilts Novel
  • Laura Childs—Skeleton Letters: A Scrapbooking Mystery
  • William s. Cohen—Blink of an Eye
  • Michael Connelly—The Drop (Harry Bosch)
  • Catherine Coulter—The Prince of Ravenscar
  • Michael Crichton & Richard Preston—Micro
  • Clive Cussler & Graham Brown—Devil’s Gate: A Novel from the NUMA Files
  • Maria Duenas—The Time in Between
  • Umberto Eco—The Prague Cemetery
  • Janet Evanovich—Explosive Eighteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel
  • Richard Paul Evans—Lost December
  • Vince Flynn—Kill Shot: A Thriller
  • Dorothy Garlock—Come a Little Closer
  • Dagoberto Gilb—Before the End, After the Beginning: Stories
  • Sue Grafton—V Is for Vengeance: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery
  • Rashad Harrison—Our Man in the Dark
  • Anthony Horowitz—The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel
  • Nancy Jensen—The Sisters
  • Kim, Kourtney, & Khloe Kardashian—Keeping Up: A Novel
  • N.M. Kelby—White Truffles in Winter
  • Douglas Kennedy—Temptation
  • Stephen King—11/22/63: A Novel
  • Åsa Larsson—Until Thy Wrath Be Past
  • Alan Lazar—Roam
  • Gregory Maguire—Out of Oz: The Final Volume in the Wicked Years
  • Q.R. Markham—Assassin of Secrets
  • Margaret Maron—Three-Day Town
  • Sabina Murray—Tales of the New World: Stories
  • Joyce Carol Oates—The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares: Novellas and Stories of Unspeakable Dread
  • James Patterson—Kill Alex Cross
  • Ian Rankin—The Impossible Dead
  • Brandon Sanderson—The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel
  • Danielle Steel—Hotel Vendome
  • Delphine de Vigan—Underground Time

NEW NONFICTION: November 2011

  • Peter Ackroyd—London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets
  • Kate Ascher—The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper
  • Rosamund Bartlett—Tolstoy: A Russian Life
  • David Batker & John de Graaf—What’s the Economy For, Anyway?: Why It’s Time to Stop Chasing Growth and Start Pursuing Happiness
  • Ann Beattie—Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life
  • Mike Bender & Doug Chernack—Awkward Family Pet Photos
  • Joshua M. Bernstein—Brewed Awakening: Behind the Beers and Brewers Leading the World’s Craft Beer Revolution
  • Richard Bonin—Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi’s Long Journey to Triumph in Iraq
  • Tom Brokaw—The Time of Our Lives: Past, Present, Promise
  • Michael Cannell—The Limit: Life and Death on the 1961 Grand Prix Circuit
  • Frank Cascio—My Friend Michael: Growing Up with the King of Pop
  • Derek Chollet & Samantha Power—The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World
  • Lloyd Clark—The Battle of the Tanks: Kursk, 1943
  • R. Crumb—The Complete Record Cover Collection
  • Gordon Corrigan—The Second World War: A Military History
  • Ken Denmead—The Geek Dad’s Book for Aspiring Mad Scientists: The Coolest Experiments and Projects for Science Fairs and Family Fun
  • Philip K. Dick—The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
  • Joan Didion—Blue Nights
  • Joseph Epstein—Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit
  • Randy Fenoli—It’s All about the Dress: Savvy Secrets, Priceless Advice, and Inspiring Stories to Help You Find “The One”
  • Niall Ferguson—Civilization: The West and the Rest
  • Carrie Fisher—Shockaholic
  • Robert Frank—The High-Beta Rich: How the Manic Will Take Us to the Next Boom, Bubble, and Bust
  • John Lewis Gaddis—George F. Kennan: An American Life
  • Philip Galanes—Social Q’s: How to Survive the Quirks, Quandaries and Quagmires of Today
  • Joe Garner, Bob Costas & Joe Montana—100 Yards of Glory: The Greatest Moments in NFL History
  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr.—Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008
  • God (with David Javerbaum)—The Last Testament: A Memoir
  • Gershom Gorenberg—The Unmaking of Israel
  • Robert Greenfield—The Last Sultan: The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun
  • Michael Gross—Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition, and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles
  • Jana Harris—Horses Never Lie about Love: The Heartwarming Story of a Remarkable Horse Who Changed the World Around Her
  • Will Hermes—Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Music Made New in New York City in the ’70s
  • Susan Hertog—Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power
  • John Hodgman—That Is All
  • Robert Hughes—Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History
  • Daniel Humm & Will Guidara—Eleven Madison Park: The Cookbook
  • Stuart Isacoff—A Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians–From Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between
  • Mindy Kaling—Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns)
  • Diane Keaton—Then Again
  • Timothy Keller—The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
  • Piper Laurie—Learning to Live Out Loud: A Memoir
  • Annie Leibovitz—Pilgrimage
  • Jonathan Lethem—The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.
  • Neill Lochery—Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-45
  • Greil Marcus—The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Wild Mean Years
  • Merrill Markoe—Cool, Calm & Contentious
  • Robert K. Massie—Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
  • Chris Matthews—Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero
  • Caroline Moorehead—A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
  • Camilla Morton—Manolo Blahnik and the Tale of the Elves and the Shoemaker: Fashion Fairy Tale Memoir
  • Gina & Patrick Neely—The Neelys’ Celebration Cookbook: Down Home Meals for Every Occasion
  • Shaquille  O’Neal—Shaq Uncut: Tall Tales and Untold Stories
  • P.J. O’Rourke—Holidays in Heck: A Former War Correspondent Experiences Frightening Vacation Fun
  • Regis Philbin—How I Got This Way
  • Michael Pollan & Maira Kalman—Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual
  • Matthew Polly—Tapped Out: Rear Naked Chokes, the Octagon, and the Last Emperor: An Odyssey in Mixed Martial Arts
  • Scott Raab—The Whore of Akron: One Man’s Search for the Soul of Lebron James
  • Richard Rhodes—Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
  • Condoleezza Rice—No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington
  • Jon Roberts & Evan Wright—American Desperado: My Life; From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset
  • Lawrence Scott Sheets—Eight Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse
  • Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella—Best Friends, Occasional Enemies: The Lighter Side of Life as a Mother and Daughter
  • Charles J. Shields—And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life
  • Ian W. Toll—Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
  • Buddy Valastro—Baking with the Cake Boss: 100 of Buddy’s Best Recipes and Decorating Secrets
  • Joseph Vogel—Man in the Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson
  • Andrew Weil—Spontaneous Happiness
  • Stanley Weintraub—Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941

Can ye speak Pirate?

September 7, 2011

Ahoy, mateys! Be ye ready fer some swashbucklin’ and carousin’?

Learn the art of pirate parley from a true gentleman o’ fortune: The Mango Languages Pirate Language course has risen from the depths o’ Davy Jones’s Locker ter make a reappearance just in time fer International Talk Like a Pirate Day on September 19.

Ye’ll be learnin’ the proper way to hail yer cap’n and get the landlubbin’ scallywags on board a-sailin’ smartly, among other phrases ye’ll be needin’ on the high seas!

Mango Languages offers free, online language lessons that are quick & easy—just use your Grandview Library card. Choose from 35 languages and 15 ESL (English as a second language) courses. Available wherever you’re online—home computer or mobile device. Another terrific service from the Grandview Library’s Digital Library!

Download Mango Mobile Library Edition (free) for your iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Available online through the iTunes Store.

Questions? Call Reference at 614-481-3776.


Did you know that you can change your Facebook page to read in Pirate?
To turn your Facebook feed into Pirate:

  • Click on “Account Settings” in the upper right navigation bar
  • Then click on “Languages > Edit,”
  • Scroll down to “English (Pirate)
  • Your Facebook page is automatically translated into Pirate.
  • Don’t forget to add the Grandview Library’s Facebook page.

Library closed Sunday & Monday

September 1, 2011

The Library will be closed Sunday & Monday, September 4 & 5.

Have a great Labor Day weekend!

Nature-loving volunteers wanted

August 29, 2011

The Library is looking for help from nature lovers!

We need volunteers to help with outdoor maintenance like weeding, gardening and raking.

And Youth Services is in search of a volunteer to clean their aquarium two times a month.

If you have time to donate, please fill out a Volunteer Application and drop it off at the Circulation Desk, where applications are also available.

Thank you for volunteering at the Grandview Library!

Questions? Call Circulation at 614-486-2951.

Free app for Mango Languages

August 29, 2011

Mango Languages has free app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch!

Download Mango Mobile Library Edition, available online through the iTunes Store.

Mango Languages offers free, online language lessons that are quick & easy. Choose from 35 languages and 15 ESL (English as a second language) courses. Available wherever you’re online—home computer or mobile device.

Another terrific service from the Grandview Library’s Digital Library!

Questions? Call Reference at 614-481-3776.

FOR SALE: Colorful magnetic bookmarks

August 18, 2011

The Library now has magnetic bookmarks for sale in Circulation for just $3.95!

These colorful “Get To The Point” magnetic line bookmarkers come in sleeves of eight—in pastels, neons, or earth tone colors.

Slipping over and clasping to single page firmly, they will prominently mark text either for reference or as a bookmark reminder. Ideal for any type of book or papers, from cookbooks to tax returns.

Functional, re-usable with firm magnetic grip, so you can get to the point quickly—while helping the Library raise extra funds!

Questions? Call Circulation at 614-486-2951.

Learn about more items for sale at the Library.

Learn more about giving to the Library.

GRADES 7-12: Celebrate your new space

August 17, 2011

Grades 7-12 can celebrate their new space at the Library with a free pizza party and prize drawings on Tuesday, September 6, from 4-7 pm!

“The Basement”—located downstairs by theStudy Commons—features books, magazines, graphic novels, computers, cool furniture, andspecial events.

Drop in “The Basement” from 4-7 pm for pizza provided by Dewey’s Pizza (winner our recentPizza Taste Test) and drawings for special prizes.

Youth Services will staff “The Basement” during peak hours, but the space is always open during Library hours.

Questions? Call “The Basement” at 614-481-3778.

WED, AUG 17: Website down at 9:30 pm

August 15, 2011

The Library’s website and online computer system (catalog) will be unavailable due to maintentence on Wednesday, August 17, beginning 9:30 pm.

Work is expected by be completed by August 18, at 1 am.

We apologize for the inconvenience. Please contact Circulation at 614-486-2951 with any questions.

SEPT 11-17: Tech Help Week

August 8, 2011

Get free help with computers, computer programs, the Internet and more at your library!

The seven Franklin County library systems of the Central Ohio Library Collaboration (COLC) are presenting Tech Help Week @ Your Library from September 11-17.

Visit these libraries for free programs featuring experts speakers. Learn skills that will help you search for a job, communicate with family & friends, access healthcare tools, research, pay bills, file tax, shop, and more!

Events at the Grandview Library:

  • Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint 2010
    Overview, tips and Q&A with an OSU Office of Continuing Education instructor. Wednesday, September 14, at 7 pm. No registration required.
  • Basic Computer Classes for Adults
    Taught by Columbus State Community College (CSCC) instructors, presented by Connect Ohio’s Every Citizen Online. Available in two sessions monthly through 2011. 614-287-5858.
  • Tech Café
    Free 1-on-1 computer & Internet help, with our Technology Coordinator. Call 614-486-2954 to schedule a time.
  • 1-on-1 eReader Help
    Get help downloading the Library’s eBooks onto your eReader, with our Reference Librarians. Call 614-481-3776 to schedule a time.
  • 1-on-1 eAudiobook Help
    Get help downloading the Library’s eAudiobooks onto your MP3 player, with our Reference Librarians. Call 614-481-3776 to schedule a time.
  • Free Music Download Help
    Find out how to download (and keep) MP3s from Sony’s huge catalog usingFreegal, with our Reference Librarians. Call 614-481-3776 to schedule a time.

Get the full schedule (559KB PDF) for COLC libraries, or visit them online:

Previous COLC events: