I have some excellent news! The Friends of the Library gave us $2,000 to buy new books this year. We had a few budget problems in 2004 and our Friends stepped up to the plate and helped us out. As you may know, the Friends try to raise money each year to help the library with special purchases and programs. Most of their income is derived from the membership drive in April and the Book Sale (this week.) The Book Sale runs from Thursday September 16th at 3:00 p.m. through Saturday at 1:00 p.m. during regular library hours. Our Friends members and library patrons have donated lots of excellent books. Be sure to stop in, buy some good used books, and support the Friends of the Library. While you‚re here purchasing used books, you might want to check out some new books. Sidney Sheldon has a new title out this week, Are You Afraid of the Dark? In Berlin, a woman vanishes from the city streets. In Paris, a man plunges from the Eiffel Tower. In Denver, a small plane crashes into the mountains. In Manhattan, a body washes ashore along the East River. At first these seem to be random incidents, but the police soon discover that all four of the victims are connected to Kingsley International Group (KIG), the largest think tank in the world. Kelly Harris and Diane Stevens -- young widows of two of the victims -- encounter each other in New York, where they have been asked to meet with Tanner Kingsley, the head of KIG. He assures them that he is using all available resources to find out who is behind the mysterious deaths of their husbands. But he may be too late. Someone is intent on murdering both women, and they suffer a harrowing series of near escapes. Who is trying to kill them and why? Forced together for protection, suspicious of each other and everyone around them, and trying to find answers for themselves, the two widows embark on a terrifying game of cat and mouse against the unknown forces out to destroy them. Also new on the fiction shelf is Blind Alley, by Iris Johansen. Eve Duncan's job is to put a face on the faceless victims of violent crimes. Her work not only comforts their survivors--but helps catch their killers. The victim is a Jane Doe found murdered, her face erased beyond recognition. But whoever killed her wasn't just trying to hide her identity. The plan was far more horrifying. As the face forms under Eve's skilled hands, she is about to get the shock of her life. The victim is someone she knows all too well. Someone who isn't dead.yet.Instantly Eve's peaceful life is shattered. The sanctuary of the lakeside cottage she shares with detective Joe Quinn and their adopted daughter Jane has been invaded by a killer who's sent the grimmest of threats: the face of his next victim. To stop him, Eve must put her own life in the balance and question everything and everyone she trusts. Not even Quinn can go where Eve must go this time.