Get your library card and a good read

What’s in your wallet?  Hopefully, a Marion County Library borrower’s card. 
Your library card is your free access to computers, books, online databases and much more.  Coming soon in October will be Audio One Click downloadable books.  From home or the library, you will be able to set up an account and download books electronically to your computer or most hand-held MP3-type playing devices.  Stay tuned – in the meantime, be sure your library card is up-to-date. September is library card sign up month!
New books to tempt you include these below that are waiting for you on the New Title rack:
Flat Belly Diet Cookbook, by Liz Vaccariello, with Cynthia Sass.  Drawing on the latest findings from weight-loss science, Prevention Magazine created the breakthrough “Flat Belly Diet!“ This companion cookbook puts the eating plan into action, as readers learn how to cook for better health and a slimmer waist. Belly fat is not only unsightly, it’s deadly; it has been linked to a long list of adverse health conditions, including heart disease, diabetes, and breast cancer. Prevention’s “Flat Belly Diet” may help target dangerous belly fat with monounsaturated fats (better known as MUFAs), found in delicious foods like nuts and seeds, vegetable oils, olives, avocados, and dark chocolate. The food tastes so good, and there’s so much of it! On the “Flat Belly Diet,” it’s important to enjoy these foods, in the right amounts, with every meal. The Flat Belly Diet! Cookbook makes that easy. All of the recipes were carefully developed to make sure every meal includes just the right amount of MUFAs and meets the plan’s 400-calorie guideline, so readers can mix and match meals to suit their taste.
A Big Little Life, by Dean Koontz ~ Dean Koontz thought he had everything he needed. Then along came Trixie. Dean had been researching his novel Midnight, a book which includes a service dog named Moose, when he came across Canine Companions for Independence. He was so impressed with the training that the dogs received, and the valuable service they provide to people with disabilities, that he formed a relationship with the organization. Never having had a pet, the last thing he was looking to do was adopt a dog, but that’s what happened a few years later when a beautiful golden retriever named Trixie was retired from CCI service because of an elbow injury and needed a home of her own. Once in Dean and Gerda’s home, Trixie very quickly found a way into their hearts. This dog was much more than the sum total of her parts and all animal lovers will enjoy getting to know her.
The Spire, by Richard North Patterson~ Both a razor-sharp thriller and a poignant love story, this twisting tale of psychological suspense is Patterson’s most compelling novel in years. Mark Darrow grew up in a small Ohio town with no real advantages beyond his intelligence and athletic ability. But thanks to the intervention of Lionel Farr, a professor at Caldwell, the local college, Darrow became an excellent student and, later, a superb trial lawyer. Now Farr asks his still-youthful protégé for a life-altering favor. An embezzlement scandal has threatened Caldwell’s very existence.  Would Darrow consider becoming its new president?
Resurrecting Midnight, by Eric Jerome Dickey ~ International assassin Gideon spilled blood for the first time when he was seven years old, with a single shot to the head of a man who was attempting to kill the woman Gideon had known as his mother. This pivotal event shaped Gideon throughout his life, made him who he is, one of the fiercest, most feared hired guns in the world. And one of the most hunted. Now, he finds himself at the center of the ultimate double-cross and he is forced to do what he must to protect himself and those closest to him. Set amidst the exotic and vibrant streets of Miami and Buenos Aires, Dickey’s fans will not be disappointed.
Spartan Gold, by Clive Cussler ~ In 1800, while crossing the Pennines Alps with his Grand Reserve Army, Napoleon Bonaparte made a startling discovery. Unable to transport what he found, he created an enigmatic map on the labels of twelve bottles of rare wine. When Napoleon died, the bottles disappeared, and the treasure was lost again. Moving into the present, treasure-hunting husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are exploring the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Maryland when they are shocked to discover a World War II German U-boat. Inside, they find a bottle taken from Napoleon’s famous “Lost Cellar,“ and fascinated, they set out to find the rest of the collection. But another connoisseur of sorts is hunting his own prize, and the Lost Cellar is his key to finding it. That man is Hadeon Bondaruk, a half-Russian, half-Persian millionaire, and the treasure will be his, “no matter what.“