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September is Library Card Sign-Up Month. Children ages 6 years and older who sign up for a library card in September will receive a gift.

If you don't have a library card, then you don't have the most important school supply of all!

Adults who sign up for a library card in September will be entered in a weekly drawing. Prizes include library book bags and gift cards.

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Attention parents of preschoolers. The library will have two storytimes in September.

September is National Chicken Month, and in conjunction, the Sept. 12 topic for storytime will be chickens. And on Sept. 26, the library will celebrate Jim Henson's birthday with a special storytime.

All storytimes begin at 10 a.m., and last 35 to 45 minutes.

For more information, call the library at 556- 3251.

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"Support Our Troops." The library is collecting items for care packages to be sent to troops overseas. Needed items include AT&T phone cards, eye drops, deodorant, toothbrushes, toothpaste, dental floss, batteries and ready-to-eat foods. A more extensive list of requested items is available at the library or on the city of Lampasas website. Monetary donations also are being accepted to help cover the cost of postage. Drop off donations at the library during business hours.

The library will be sending paperback books to the troops along with collected donations.

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Book sale continues. If you haven't heard, the library is sponsoring a year-round book sale in the lobby area. The supply is constantly being replenished, so stop by the library and peruse the collection of sale books.

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www.ShopForTheLibrary.net. Patrons can shop online and earn money for the library at the same time. Online stores participating include 1-800- FLOWERS, American Eagle Outfitters, American Express, Apple iTunes, Babies R Us, Blockbuster Online, Cabelas, Carnival Cruise Lines, Delta Airlines, Eddie Bauer, Fossil, Golfsmith, Home Depot, Land's End, Office Max, PetsMart, Rooms To Go and Six Flags. Each will donate a portion of your purchase price to the library of your choice when you sign up at shopforthelibrary.net. It's free. Visit the website to designate Lampasas Public Library as your library of choice, and download and install AutoTrack. From there, anytime you shop at any of the 800-plus participating stores online, the Lampasas Public Library will earn a donation.

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Attention genealogists. Stop by the library and check out the new microfilm machine. It has features that make it more user-friendly. The library has microfilm of Lampasas newspapers dating back to the late 1800s available for use in the library.

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The library is collecting used ink cartridges and toner cartridges for recycling. Instead of sending toner cartridges back to the manufacturer for recycling, drop them off at the library. It's an easy way to help protect the environment while helping the library.

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Don't forget to "check out" the self check-out service. It's fast and convenient.

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Have you "GoodSearched" lately? By using GoodSearch as your search engine, you can help raise money for the Library Foundation. GoodSearch donates money to various organizations and charities for searches conducted on their website. Just visit www.goodsearch.com and enter "Library Foundation" as your charity of choice. Next, select The Library Foundation of Lampasas Texas. From then on, every search you make from their website earns money for the Library Foundation.

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New books at the library:

"Burnt House," by Faye Kellerman. At 8:15 a.m., a small commuter plane carrying 47 passengers crashes into an apartment building in Granada Hills, Calif., leaving shockwaves rippling through Los Angeles, as L.A.P.D. Lieutenant Peter Decker works overtime to calm rampant fears of a 9/11-type terror attack.

But a grisly mystery lives inside the plane's charred and twisted wreckage: the unidentified bodies of four extra travelers. And there is no sign of an airline employee who was supposedly on the flight.

Decker and his wife, Rina, have personal reasons for being profoundly shaken by the tragedy, since the "accident" occurred frighteningly close to their daughter Hannah's school.

But the fate of the unaccounted-for flight attendant, 28-year-old Roseanne Dresden, remains a question mark more than a month after the event, when the young woman's irate stepfather calls, insisting that she was never on board the doomed plane. Instead, he claims, she was most likely murdered by her abusive, unfaithful husband.

Combining relentless suspense with intense, multilayered human drama, "The Burnt House" is Kellerman at her mesmerizing best.

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"Critical," by Robin Cook. Angela Dawson, M.D., appears to have it all: at age 37, she owns a fabulous New York City apartment and a stunning seaside house on Nantucket, and enjoys the perks of her prosperous lifestyle. But her climb to the top has been rough, marked by a troubled childhood, a failed marriage, and the devastating blow of bankruptcy as a primary-care internist. Painfully aware of the role of economics in the health-care field, Angela returns to school to earn an MBA.

She is determined to erase the memories of the controlling men in her past. Armed with a shiny new degree and blessed with tenacity, intelligence and impeccable timing, Angela creates a start-up Angels Healthcare, then prepares to take it public. With a controlling interest in three busy specialty hospitals in New York City and plans for others in Miami and Los Angeles, the future looks very bright for her. Confident in her abilities as both doctor and business woman, and virtually assured of finally controlling her own destiny, Angela is on the verge of seeing her ambitions fulfilled. But then a surge of drug-resistant staph infections in all three hospitals devastates Angela's carefully constructed world. Not only do the infections result in deaths of patients, but the fatalities cause a serious cash-flow problem, which puts her company's imminent IPO in jeopardy, And that's not all: Angela has serious doubts about the investors and the sources of their money, and the need for a sudden infusion of additional cash becomes all the most desperate. New York City medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton are naturally intrigued by the surge in staph-related post-procedure deaths at the three hospitals.

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"Judas Strain," by James Rollins - ju das strain, n. A scientific term for an organism that drives an entire species to extinction A master at combining historical and scientific intrigue with cuttingedge adventure, New York Times bestselling author of "Map of Bones" and "Black Order," James Rollins returns with a terrifying story of an ancient menace reborn to plague the modern world...and of an impossible hope that lies hidden in the most shocking place imaginable: within the language of angels.

From the depths of the Indian Ocean, a plague has arisen to devastate humankind -- a disease that's unknown, unstoppable...and deadly. But it is merely a harbinger of the doom that is to follow.

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"Killer Weekend," by Ridley Pearson. The number one New York Times bestseller returns with a completely new setting -- the magnificent natural beauty of Sun Valley, Idaho - -and a heart-stopping story in which a local sheriff struggles to protect a controversial politician from the elegant plan of a hired assassin.

Eight years ago, in Sun Valley all that stood between U.S. Attorney General Elizabeth Shaler and a knife-wielding killer was local patrolman Walt Fleming. Now Shaler returns to Sun Valley as the keynote speaker of billionaire Patrick Cutter's worldfamous media and communications conference. The controversial attorney general is expected to announce her candidacy for president. It's a media coup for Cutter -- but a security nightmare for Walt Fleming, now the county sheriff.

As the conference gets under way, authorities learn of a confirmed threat on Shaler's life, and various competing interests begin jockeying for jurisdiction.

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"Up Close and Personal," by Fern Michaels. For generations, the Windsors have lived on the family's grand estate in Crestwood, S.C., as intertwined with local life as sweet tea and pecan pie. On the anniversary of her daughter Emily's death, Sarabess Windsor believes she may be the last to carry the family name unless she can find her second daughter, Trinity, who disappeared 15 years ago. Trinity grew up as Trinity Henderson, adopted by the Windsor foreman and his wife. She was conceived in a desperate attempt to prolong Emily's life by providing a bone marrow donor. On her 15th birthday, Trinity ran away and hasn't been seen in Crestwood since. But the town has never forgotten her, especially not handsome lawyer Jake Forrest. And although Jake has no desire to help selfish Sarabess Windsor, the thought of seeing his childhood friend again fills a void in his heart that Jake didn't even know existed.

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"Starburst," by Robin Pilcher. Every summer, the Edinburgh International Festival attracts celebrated artists, musicians, comedians and actors to the beloved Scottish city. Hundreds of thousands of people descend on the town to join in the magnificent celebration. This year, the annual Edinburgh festival draws six unique individuals, who come together to follow their dreams -- seeking success, love, fame, and happiness.

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"Malice," by Robert Tanenbaum. New York DA Butch Karp, recovering from an assassination attempt that came within a few millimeters of killing him, takes on a shadowy cartel that uses terrorists to further its criminal empire while sliding the U.S. toward a fascist state that the cartel controls. As Karp struggles to uncover those responsible for planning the terrorist murders of six schoolchildren, he goes to the aid of the younger brother of his college roommate who has been unfairly suspended from his position as baseball coach at a university in Idaho.

Meanwhile, Marlene Ciampi is in Idaho to help her husband with the investigation, and she befriends a Basque sheepherder who is demanding answers to the disappearance of his daughter.

"Malice" is filled with twists and storylines torn from today's headlines, full of action and suspense.