September is Library Card Signup Month, and anyone who signs up for a card this month will receive a gift. A daily trivia question also will be posted on the online catalog page, and the first person to e-mail the correct answer will get a prize.

A bake sale will be held at the library this month. Stop by for your goodies.

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Two storytimes are set this month: Sept. 9 will feature classy, jazzy music, and Sept. 23 is themed "eletelephony." Storytimes begin at 10:30 a.m. and last about 30 minutes.

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Want to automatically be on the reserve list when a new book comes out? You can chose to be notified when one of your favorite authors publishes a new book. Log into your account, scroll to "Have some favorite authors"? and click on the link. Then choose from more than 35 of the most popular authors.

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Have you checked out the library's wish list at amazon.com? It is a great way to honor or memorialize someone. To see items on the wish list, go to amazon.com and click on "Gifts & Wish Lists" right above the search box. In the "Find someone's wish list" search box on the right side of the screen, search for "Lampasas Public Library."

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The library is no longer accepting ink/toner cartridges for recycling.

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Recent donations have been given in memory of Anthony White, Roxie Hendrix, John Mezger, James Berry, Jimmy Hetherly, Ruby Harlien and Scott Sargent.

The library also received an honorarium for Reid Schaub.

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Author read-alikes.

If you like Barbara Delinsky, you might also like Kristin Hannah, Anita Diamant, Lavyrle Spencer, Luanne Rice, Judith McNaught, Elizabeth Berg, Anne River Siddons or Nora Roberts.

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If you like Lisa Gardner, you might also like Alex Kava, Tess Gerritsen, Catherine Coulter, J.D. Robb or Joy Fielding.

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If you like Daniel Silva, you might also like Fredrick Forsyth, Christopher Reich, Robert Baer, Vince Flynn, Lee Child or Nelson DeMille.

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If you like Clive Cussler, you might also like Douglas J. Preston, Lincoln Child, Ted Bell, Matthew Reilly, James Rollins or Tom Clancy.

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New books at the library "Game Plan for Life," by Joe Gibbs. Three-time Superbowl and NASCAR champion Joe Gibbs' Game Plan for Life is an "average Joe's" guide to what the Bible has to say about the 11 most important topics for men such as finances, relationships, living a life of purpose, finding the right vocation, physical, emotional and spiritual health, overcoming sin and addictions.

It shows readers how to live a balanced, God-centered, purposefilled life, using examples of Coach Gibbs' own storied championship careers as a backdrop.

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"Everything Matters," by Ron Currie. In infancy, Junior Thibodeaux is encoded with a prophesy: a comet will obliterate life on Earth in 36 years. Alone in this knowledge, he comes of age in rural Maine grappling with the question "Does anything I do matter?"

While the voice that has accompanied him since conception appraises his choice,s Junior's loved ones emerge with parallel stories. While the recognizable world is transformed into a bizarre nation at endgame where government agents conspire in subterranean bunkers, preparing citizens for emigration from a doomed planet,

Junior's final triumph confounds all expectation, building to an astonishing and deeply moving resolution.

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"South of Broad," by Pat Conroy. Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, S.C., the story gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. Leopold Bloom King, the narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar.

After Leo's older brother commits suicide at 13, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death, and Leo, lonely and isolated, searches for something to sustain him.

Eventually, he finds his answer when he becomes part of a tightly knit group of high school seniors. The ties among them endure for years, surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, and Charleston's dark legacy of racism and class divisions.

But the final test of friendship that brings them to San Francisco is something no one is prepared for.

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"June Bug," by Chris Fabry. June Bug believed everything her daddy told he. That is, until she walked into Wal-Mart and saw her face on a list of missing children.

The discovery begins a quest for the truth about her father, the mother he rarely speaks about, and ultimately herself.

A modern interpretation of "Les Miserables," the story follows a dilapidated RV rambling cross country with June Bug and her father, a man running from a haunted past. Forces beyond their control draw them back to Dogwood, W.Va., down a winding path that will change their lives forever.

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"Rhino Ranch," by Larry McMurtry. In this final chapter in the Duane Moore story, McMurtry takes readers on one last unforgettable journey to Thalia, Texas, a town that continues to change at a breakneck pace even as Duane feels himself slowing down.

Returning home to recover from a near-fatal heart attack, Duane discovers that he has a new neighbor, the statuesque K.K. Slater, a quirky billionairess who's come to Thalia to open the Rhino Ranch, dedicated to the preservation of the endangered black rhinoceros.

Despite their obvious differences, Duane can't help but find himself charmed by K.K.'s stubborn toughness and lively spirit, and the two embark on a flirtation that rapidly veers toward the sexual -- but the return of Honor Carmichael complicates Duane's romantic intentions considerably.

As Duane reflects on all that he and Thalia have been through, he feels adrift in a world where love and betrayal walk hand in hand and a stalwart Texas oil town can become home to a nature preserve.

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Other new books at the library

"Vote of Confidence," by Robin Lee Hatcher.

"Smash Cut," by Sandra Brown.

"Rain Gods," by James Lee Burke.

"Dead and Alive," by Dean Koontz.

"The Defector," by Daniel Silva.

"Alex Cross's Trial," by James Patterson.