It's time to Find A Clue @ Your Library. Children are adding their handprints to the walls, desks and shelves as they begin their summer reading program. We have lots of fun things planned for them to do at the Greenwood County Library, the Ninety Six Branch Library, the Ware Shoals Community Library, and the Bookmobile.

Lunch with Mary Alice Monroe & Barbara J. Bergwerf

Waldenbooks and the Greenwood County Library are sponsoring a luncheon with Mary Alice Monroe and Barbara J. Bergwerf at the Inn on the Square on Thursday, July 19, 12 - 2 p.m. Tickets for the event are $25, and are available at Waldenbooks and the Library. Waldenbooks will have copies of Ms. Monroe's books available for purchase at the event. For more information about the event, please call the Greenwood County Library at 941 - 4650 or Waldenbooks at 229 - 6162.

The nature photographer, Barbara J. Bergwerf, joins Ms. Monroe at this event. Ms. Bergwerf's photographs illustrate Ms. Monroe's first children's book, Turtle Summer, A Journal for My Daughter.

New Titles Available

A bestseller from one of the Democratic candidates for president, much of the book reads like a stump speech - which doesn't make it any less eloquent and intelligent. Obama lays out his plans to overcome party differences and create a consensus. He writes about his experiences as a politician, an attorney, a teacher, a father, a Christian, and a skeptic. Whether you plan to vote for him or not, Obama is well worth reading.




In the newest psychological thriller from Mary Higgins Clark, we meet Peter Carrington - rich, handsome, and newly married - who is suspected of two murders. Susan Althorp, a young girl, attended a party at the family estate 22 years ago and was never seen again. Grace, Peter's first wife, was found drowned in the family's swimming pool. Now Peter's new wife, Kathryn, must try to exhonerate him.