Be Careful What You Witch For

Be Careful What You Witch For
by Dawn Eastman [PB Eastman]

A Halloween cozy, full of witches, psychics and others of paranormal abilities, set in a small town in Western Michigan. Of course, there's a budding romance or two, and a couple of very special dogs. The interrelated characters of town provide plot twists that keep the book interesting to the end. It's a fun book, especially for Halloween. -- recommended by Carolyn D. - Polley Music Library

[ official Dawn Eastman web site ]

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Psycho: Great Hitchcock Movie Thrillers

Psycho: Great Hitchcock Movie Thrillers
by Bernard Herrman [Compact Disc 782.14 Psy]

How better to get in the mood for Halloween than with music from scary thrillers from Alfred Hitchcock. It includes music from Psycho, Marnie, North by Northwest, Spellbound, and many more (including the Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV theme). -- recommended by Carolyn D. - Polly Music Library [If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try The Maltese falcon and other classic film scores by Adolph Deutsch.]

[ official Bernard Herrman Society web site ]

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File M for Murder

File M for Murder

by Miranda James

Rare books librarian Charlie Harris of Athena College again uses his librarian skills to help solve the murder of his daughter's ex-fiance, quite an unlikable man. Of course, Charlie's cat Diesel, a Maine Coon, features prominently in this continuing series. The assorted cast of characters grows book by book, as one gets to know Charlie, his family, his boarders, and his friends. [If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try Murder Past Due, and Classified as Murder.] -- recommended by Carolyn D. - Polley Music Library

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New Booktalk Booklist - It's a Great Day to be Irish!

Ready to celebrate all things Irish?

Carolyn D., music librarian in the Polley Music Library (located at Bennett Martin Public Library downtown), presented an all-new booktalk at Bethany Branch on March 11, 2011. Carolyn's theme for this talk, on the last Friday before St. Patrick's Day, was non-fiction works dealing with Ireland -- Irish Music, Irish Musicians, Irish Culture and much more.

Her hotlinked list of titles -- It's a Great Day to be Irish! -- is now available on the BookGuide web site on the Booktalk Booklists page. Check it out for some great book, CD and DVD suggestions.

New Booktalk Booklist: Music for the Eye

On March 22nd, 2010, Carolyn D., librarian in the Polley Music Library, presented a booktalk on the theme of Music for the Eye: A Sampling of Music Videos in the Lincoln City Libraries, as part of the Winter/Spring Gere BooksTalk series.

Click the link above to connect to the libraries' BookGuide site to see the master list of 59 DVDs she discussed, all hotlinked into the libararies catalog for you to check on availability and/or to place requests.

New Booktalk Booklist - Polley Picks - May 2009

Polley Picks: Recent Memoirs, Biographies and Other Music Books
Gere Branch Books Talk, May 18, 2009
Carolyn D.

Marvelous Melba: The Extraordinary Live of a Great Diva
by Ann Blainey [Music 782.109 Melba]

Challenges: A Memoir of My Life in Opera
by Sarah Caldwell with Rebecca Matlock [Music 782.109 Caldwell]

Music of the Alamo [accompanying CD with period music]
by William R. Chemerka and Allan J. Wiener [Music 781.599 Che]

The Music Room: A Memoir
by Namita Devidayal [Music 780.954 Devidayal ]

Got the Life: My Journey of Addiction, Faith, Recovery and Korn
by Fieldy with Laura Morton [Music 781.66 Fieldy]

Hitman: Forty Years Making Music, Topping Charts and Winning Grammys
by David Foster with Pablo F. Fenjves [Music 781.64 Foster]

When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship and Dreams
by Bob Greene [Music 781.66 Greene]

Backstage at the Revolution: How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the Old Regime
by Victoria Johnson [Music 782.1 Joh]

Accordian Dreams: A Journey Into Cajun and Creole Music
by Blair Kilpatrick [Music 788.86 Kilpatrick]

Journey of a Thousand Miles: My Story
by Lang Lang with David Ritz [Music 786.2 Lang ]

Will You take Me as I Am: Joni Mitchell's Blue Period
by Michelle Mercer [Music 781.64 Mitchell]

Lift Every Voice: The History of African American Music
by Burton W. Peretti [Music 781.629 AfrAYp]

The Voice: A Memoir
by Thomas Quasthoff [Music 782.109 Quasthoff]

Don't Stop Believin': How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life
by Brian Raferty [Music 782.4 Raf]

A Devil to Play: One Man's Year-Long Quest to Master the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument
by Jasper Rees [Music 788.94 Rees]

W.C. Handy: The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues
by David Robertson [Music 781.643 Handy]

On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Emo
by Daivd Sheppard [Music 781.66 Eno]

Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes -- From Punk to Indie and Everything in Between
by Leslie Simon [Music 781.66 Sim]

Yo-Yo Ma: A Biography
by Jim Whiting [Music 787.4 Ma]

Who Are You: The life of Pete Townshend
by Mark Wilkerson [Biography Townshend]

Tin Pan Alley Girl: A Biography of Ann Powell
by Tighe E. Zimmers [Music 781.64 Ronell]

New Booktalk Booklist - Polley's Play-Along Adventures

Polley's Play-Along Adventures
Courtyard Book Chats, August 11, 2009
Carolyn D.

On August 11th, 2009, Music Librarian Carolyn D., from the Polley Music Library at the Bennett Martin Public Library downtown, gave an interactive booktalk presentation as part of the summer Courtyard Book Chats series, featuring books from the libraries' music collection that include accompanying CDs or DVDs. The second half of Carolyn's talk also featured books of sheet music for a variety of instruments, which she accompanied on flute.

Representative books with accompanying sound files:

Music of the Alamo [accompanying CD with period music]
by William R. Chemerka and Allan J. Wiener [Music 781.599 Che]

How to Read Music [accompanying DVD]
by Helen Cooper [Music 780.76 Coo]

Carnival Music in Trinidad [accompanying CD and educational exercises]
by Shannon Dudley [Music 780.972 Dud]

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Bass Guitar [music CD with practice exercises and accompaniments]
by David Hodge [Music 787.878 Hod]

Lou Harrison [accompanying music CD]
by Leta E. Miller and Fredrick Lieberman [Music 780.92 HarYm]

Tipbook Piano [accompanying "tip" files online]
by Hugo Pinksterboer [Music 786.2 Pin 2009]

A History of American Classical Music [accompanying music CD with additional musical examples online]
by Barrymore Laurence Scherer [Music 780.973 Sch]

Masters of the Sabar: Wolof Griot Percussionists of Senegal [accompanying music CD]
by Patricia Tang [Music 780.966 Tan]

Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance [CD includes music, readings and discussion]
by Cary D. Wintz [Music 781.629 AmeAYw]

Puccini: A Listener's Guide [accompanying music CD]
by John Bell Young [Music 780.92 Puccini]

Play-Along books (Instrumental karaoke) - representative selections:

Play Bach [trumpet]
by Johann Sebastian Bach [CALL]

Broadway and Hollywood Classics [viola]
[Music 787.3 qBro]

Selections From Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [trombone]
by Patrick Doyle [Music 788.93 qDoy]

Easy Disney Favorites [flute]
[Music 788.32 qEas]

Flute With Piano Accompaniment [Solo plus series]
[Music Set 788.321 qFlu]

Play-Along Flute: Selected Easy Pieces From Bach to Satie [flute]
by Barbara Gisler-Haase [Music 788.32 qGis]

Swinging Baroque Play-Along [flute]
by Alexander L'Estrange [Music 788.32 qLes]

Tango Time [clarinet]
by Myriam Mees [Music 788.62 qMee]

Movie Instrumental Solos [flute]
[Music 788.32 qMov]

Movie Songs [tenor sax]
[Music 788.74 qMov]

Broadway by Special Arrangement: 11 Broadway Songs [flute/oboe]
by Carl Strommen [Music 788.32 qStr]

Star Wars, a Musical Journey, Episodes I-VI [alto sax]
by John Williams [Music 788.73 qWil]

New Booktalk Booklist: Polley Picks

Polley Picks: Some Recent Additions to the Polley Music Library
Bethany Branch BooksTalk, March 27, 2009
Carolyn D.

Carolyn, head of the Polley Music Library, within the downtown Bennett Martin Public Library, presented a booktalk highlighting several recent additions to the music library's holdings.

Classical Music

• Challenges: A Memoir of My Life in Opera by Sarah Caldwell [Music 782.109 Cal]
• Journey of a Thousand Miles: My Story by Lang Lang [Music 786.2 Lan]
• The Young Musician's Survival Guide: Tips From Teens and Pros by Amy Nathan [Music 780.7 Nat]
• The Voice: A Memoir by Thomas Quasthoff [Music 782.109 Qua]
• Music in the Post-9/11 World by Jonathan Ritter and J. Martin Daughtry [Music 780.905 Rit]
• 1001 Classical Recordings You Must Here Before You Die by Matthew Rye, ed. [Music 781.68 Rye]
• A History of American Classical Music by Barrymore Laurence Scherer [Music 780.983 Sch]
• Note by Note: A Celebration of the Piano Lesson by Tricia Tunstall [Music 786.2 Tun]
• Yo-Yo Ma: A Biography by Jim Whiting [Music 787.4 Ma]

Country & Folk Music

• The New Generation of Country Music Stars: Biographies of 50 Artists Born After 1940 by David Dicaire [Music 781.642 Dic]
• River of No Return: Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Woman He Loved by Jeffrey Buckner Ford [Music 781.642 For]
• Sing it Pretty: A Memoir by Bess Lomax Hawes [Music 781.62 Haw]
• Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death and Country Music by Dana Jennings [Music 781.642 Jen]
• Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky-Tonk Angels: The Women of Barn Dance Radio by Kristine M. McCusker [Music 781.642 McC]
• Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain: Tales of Romance and Tragedy by Robert K. Oermann [Music 781.542 Oer]
• Born Country: How Faith, Family and Music Brought Me Home by Randy Owen [Biography Owen]

Rock, Pop & Blues

• The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard by Peter Benjaminson [Music 781.644 Bal]
• Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001) by Don Felder with Wendy Holden [Music 781.66 Fel]
• Tell the Truth Until They Bleed: Coming Clean in the Dirty World of Blues and Rock and Roll by Josh Alan Friedman [Music 781.66 Fri]
• Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by Ted Gioia [Music 781.643 Gio]
• Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business by Danny Goldberg [Music 781.66 Gol]
• Crossroads: The Life and Afterlife of Blues Legend Robert Johnson by Tom Graves [Music 781.643 Joh]
• When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Search of Rock and Roll, Friendship and Dreams by Bob Greene [Music 781.66 Gre]
• Ska'd for Life: A Personal Journey With The Specials by Horace Panter [Music 781.646 Spe]
• It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways and the Search for the Next American Music by Amanda Petrusich [Music 781.64 Pet]
• Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran by Andy Taylor [Music 781.66 Tay]
• Woodstock: A New Look by Greg Walter and Lisa Grant [Music 780.79 Wal]

Musicals

• Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
• Mary Martin: Broadway Legend by Ronald L. Davis [Music 782.14 Mar]