Cooking and Craft ideas

So much snow, so much time indoors–what to do?  Maybe it’s time to cook something new, or take up a new hobby?

Start by signing up (email or RSS) for our latest BookLetter, Cookbooks and Crafts, with information on the newest books in our collection.  See our list of bibliographies for more ideas.

Our large selection of cookbooks and craft books is located on the second floor, with others in the New Books room right off the main lobby.  Ask a Reference Librarian if you have a specific type of cooking or craft in mind, or browse and try something new!

Bibliographies keep on coming…

More new bibliographies for reading ideas:

Money Management in a Time of Economic Stress

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The Pearl Harbor Attack

Diabetes Can Be Controlled & Prevented

Gluten Free Recipes & Information
Kerry Kilcannon Political Fiction Trilogy

And for research or browsing, every month we add a booklist of new Reference Acquisitions.

New bibliographies!

We’ve added some new lists (including both books and internet resources) on our page of bibliographies:

Planning on Retirement

Jewish American Heritage Month

John Adams

The Enchanting Silk Road

The Righteous
Memoirs
Depression
The Dalai Lama and Buddhism
Locating Poetry (updated)

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.

New bibliographies for reading and research

Check out our new bibliographies–and see the wide range of topics on our full list here.

Climate Change is a Hot Topic
Getting Ready for College
Jewish Children in the Holocaust
Mental Illness Affects Everyone
Word Power for Writers
Recent Reference Acquisitions, September 2007
(Our most current list of Reference acquisitions can always be found here.)

More bibliographies

New lists on our bibliographies page, including fiction, non-fiction, and internet resources:

Coping with Sorrow on the Loss of Your Pet
Connecticut: More than Casinos
Eating Disorders Awareness
Little Rhode Island – Lots to See and Do 
On Suffering the Loss of a Loved One
Vermont is a Very Special Place
Words for Your Wedding

We also produce a bibliography each month highlighting new Reference books.  The current list can always be found here.  Other recent lists are:

Recent Reference Acquisitions, March 2007
Recent Reference Acquisitions, February 2007  
Recent Reference Acquisitions, January 2007  
Recent Reference Acquisitions, December 2006 

Legal Information Online

Our newest bibliography covers Massachusetts Law Online, with website links for legal services programs, the Mass. Trial Court Libraries, the Mass. Bar Association, the Office of the State Attorney General, and more.

Need Gift Ideas?

See our 7th annual gift book list, Books Librarians Give!

Our 2005 gift book list can be found here.

Do you have holiday gift favorites?  Click here to comment and add your own suggestions!

New bibliographies

We’ve added several new bibliographies to our website:

Recent Reference Acquisitions September 2006, October 2006 and November 2006
(the latest list of reference acquisitions can always be found here)

Adoption Awareness

The State of Maine on My Mind

Food Allergy Cookbooks for You

Health Care Reform for Massachusetts Residents

New on the BookLetters page

New newsletters produced by Library staff:
History Revealed
New Children’s Titles
New Reference Books (you can find past editions of this newsletter on our Bibliographies page)

And 3 new newsletters produced by BookLetters:
Book TV This Weekend
BookLetters Daily
Chapter A Day

You’ll find the full list of newsletters, award lists, and other reader resources on our BookLetters page.