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The Lampasas Library Foundation is sponsoring BBQ for Books, a fund-raiser set April 14. For $8, you can support the library and enjoy a barbecue sandwich with all the fixings, as well as iced tea and dessert.

Tickets are available at the Lampasas Public Library, Hodges & Sargent Pharmacy, Cattles Pharmacy, Yumm Factory, First State Bank Central Texas in Lometa and The National bank branch in Kempner or phone 556-3122.

Deadline to purchase tickets is Thursday. There are two meal times: lunch, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and supper, 5- 6:30 p.m.

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We're wireless. The library now offers wireless Internet access. Check it out today!

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Patrons can now access their accounts, place reserves and renew materials online. Visit www.cityoflampasas. com/library and navigate to the online catalog. To log in to your account, enter your library card number and phone number. If unable to log in, phone the library to make sure your correct phone number is on file.

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If you have an e-mail address on file with us, we can send you a notice three days before your items are due. They can then be renewed online before they become overdue. Patrons also can be notified of reserves by phone rather than by e-mail. Call or stop by the library to be set up for this service.

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Attention teens: We're adding new books to our young adult section all the time. A number of series are available, as well as other fiction and non-fiction books. Feel free to make suggestions for purchases.

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Don't miss out on some great finds. Come check out our book sale today.

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Response has been good for the Support Our Troops program. Thus far, 51 boxes have been sent to troops overseas. Though a lot of items have been donated recently, funds to pay for postage are running low. The library sends flat-rate boxes for $8.95 each. Patrons are asked to consider helping out by donating money for postage.

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All preschoolers are welcome to April storytimes -- Wednesday and again April 23. Themes for this month's storytimes are "Don't be a litterbug!" and "Keep America Beautiful." All storytimes begin at 10 a.m. and last 35 to 45 minutes. Please come enjoy stories and music with Miss Julia. For more information, phone the library at 556-3251.

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The library has received two checks as a result of patrons shopping online to benefit the library. Sign up at www.shopforthelibrary.net and select the Lampasas Public Library as your library to support. Once there, download "AutoTrack" to shop online and earn money for the library.

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Thanks are extended to everyone for the recent memorial donations to the library.

Recent memorials have been given in memory of Velma Medders, Garland Walker, Jack Lacy and Betsy Oliver.

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Thanks to everyone who has donated their used ink cartridges! Please remember the library when you are ready to dispose of your used ink cartridges and toner cartridges. Instead of sending your toner cartridges back to the manufacturer for recycling, drop them off at the library at your convenience.

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Author read-alikes:

If you like Sandra Brown, you might also like Heather Graham, Stella Cameron, Nora Roberts, Karen Robards, Linda Howard, Julie Garwood or J.D. Robb.

If you like Janette Oke, you might also like Tracie Peterson, Gilbert Morris, Beverly Lewis or Wanda Brunstetter.

If you like W.E.B. Griffin, you might also like Tom Clancy, John Jakes, Stephen Coonts or John Sandford.

If you like Lisa Scottoline, you might also like Steve Martini, Linda Fairstein, Tami Hoag, Lisa Gardner or Jonathan Kellerman.

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New books at the library:

"The Quilter's Daughter by Wanda Brunstetter. Abby Miller leaves her successful quilt shop and patient fiance' in Ohio to help her newly remarried and now-pregnant mother in Lancaster County. While she's away, Abby's world is shattered in one fell swoop. How can God make anything good come out of this tragedy? With shaken faith, Abby is forced to look for answers away from friends and family. Will she find them in the ashes of the past, in her love of quilting, or in the heart of an overlooked Amish man? Can her faith withstand the flames of tragedy?

"Killer Heat," by Linda Fairstein. "It's August in New York, and the only thing that's hotter than the pavement is Manhattan D.A. Alex Cooper's professional and personal life. Just as she's claiming an especially gratifying victory in a rape case, she gets the call: the body of a young woman has been found in an abandoned building. The brutality of the murder is disturbing enough, but when a second body, beaten and disposed of in exactly same manner, is found off the Belt Parkway, the city's top brass want the killer found fast, before the tabloids can start churning out ghoulish serial killer headlines.

"Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen," by Susan Gregg Gilmore. Sometimes you have to return to the place where you began to arrive at the place where you belong. It's the early 1970s. The town of Ringgold, Ga., has a population of 1,923, one traffic light, one Dairy Queen, and one Catherine Grace Cline. The daughter of Ringgold's third-generation Baptist preacher, Catherine Grace is quick-witted, more than a little stubborn, and dying to escape her small-town life. And when, with the help of a family friend, the dream becomes a reality, she immediately packs her bags, leaving her family and the boy she loves to claim the life she's always imagined. But before things have even begun to get off the ground in Atlanta, tragedy brings Catherine Grace back home, and she begins to wonder if her place in the world may actually be, against all odds, right where she began.

"Two Weeks of Life," by Eleanor Clift. What has become known as the Schiavo affair -- the death of a brain-damaged woman in Florida in 2005, and the controversy that surrounded it -- was a revelatory moment in American society. Eleanor Clift witnessed this event from a unique vantage point. At the same time that Schiavo was dying in her Florida hospice, Clift's husband, Tom Brazaitis, was dying of cancer at home; the two passed away within a day of each other. "Two Weeks of Life" alternates between these two stories to provide a moving commentary on how we deal, or fail to deal, with dying in modern America.

"Twilight at Monticello," by Alan Pell Crawford. Much has been written about Thomas Jefferson. His life was a great American drama played out in compelling acts. He was the architect of our democracy, a visionary chief executive who expanded this nation's physical boundaries to unimagined lengths. But this book is something entirely new: an unprecedented and engrossing personal look at the intimate Jefferson in his final years that will change the way readers think about this true American icon. Here, told with grace and masterly detail, is Jefferson with his family at Monticello, dealing with illness and the indignities wrought by early-nineteenth-century medicine; and coping with massive debt and the immense costs associated with running a grand residence. Right up until his death on the fiftieth anniversary of America's founding, Thomas Jefferson remained an indispensable man, albeit a supremely human one.

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Other new books at the library: "Lady Killer," by Lisa Scottoline; "Strangers in Death," by J.D. Robb; "Blasphemy," by Douglas Preston; "Change of Heart," by Jodi Picoult; and "Liberal Fascism," by Jonah Goldberg.