© Claire Ramsey
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I think, with the advent of Stephanie Meyer and the Twilight Saga, together with the continued popularity of Anne Rice and the once-and-future-king of vampire stories, Bram Stoker, I can make a safe assumption: humans, especially young adult humans, LOVE the tales of the bloodsucking fiends that look at us like we look at cheeseburgers.
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Local children’s author Elizabeth Carroll will be at the Richard Thornton Library in Oxford this Friday, June 19, 2009 at 3:00 p.m.

If you have not yet purchased a copy of the novel, copies will be available at Friday’s event.

by Claire Ramsey

The latest installment in the popular Dresden series, Small Favor by Jim Butcher keeps the adventure and weird geeky humor going, keeping faith with Butcher’s many fans.
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A review by Claire Ramsey

“Tally smiled…. ‘I’m Tally Youngblood,’ she said. ‘Make me pretty.’”
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by Claire Ramsey

Imagine the world from the view of a bug! An ant, a fly, a bee – or from a real bug, like a shield-bug – or one of the things that looks like a bug, but isn’t, (like a spider!).
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Dear Home in Henderson readers,

In one of my last acts as Vance County and Perry Library’s children’s librarian, it is my very great pleasure to introduce a new children’s librarian to you.
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The Storytelling Festival is a a free event for Vance County’s fourth grade and fourth-grade-level students during the day, and a free Family Festival in the evening.
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Home in Henderson is deeply saddened to report that author Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday at the age of 84.
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Children’s author Tristan Perry reads Furry Tails

New children’s author Tristan Perry brought furry tails, and tales, to the H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library Tuesday, February 20, to the delight of Vance County children and adults.
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Cover art from the seventh book of the Harry Potter series to be released July 21

Though Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has been garnering some non-Hogwarts publicity (his London stage performance in Equus is about to open at the end of February), today it is J. K. Rowling’s books that began the whole Harry Potter craze that are getting limelight: more specifically, book seven—the last Harry Potter book ever—entitled Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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