Need a gift book suggestion?

See our 8th annual holiday book list, with suggestions from Newton Free Library staff.  Titles include fiction, poetry, short stories, non-fiction, biography/memoir, and a long list of suggestions for children.

For other ideas, see last year’s gift book list, found on our bibliographies page.

And for still more ideas, see what Mary Cotton of Newtonville Books suggests in the Newton Tab.

Another music database to try

If you’re interested in music and American history, try our newest database:

American Song  (Home Access | In Library Access)

American Song is a history database that will contain 50,000 tracks allowing people to hear and feel the music from America’s past. The database will include songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more. This release includes 728 albums — over 12103 tracks.

Home access for this database is available only to Newton residents with a Newton library card number beginning 21323.

More about Marcella Pixley

Newton Free Library held a very popular Book Talk/Book Signing with Marcella Pixley, the author of the young adult novel Freak, on November 29, 2007. Find out more about Ms. Pixley and Freak by visiting her website at:
http://www.marcellapixley.com