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FROM: Debi Westwood <[removed]@spl.org>
DATE: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 17:54:17 -0800 (PST)

Hi all.
We just finished one called "How Does Your Garden Grow?" that featured
books on gardening and garden planning. Gave us a perfect chance to show
off all those new books on perennials and annuals that have been
trickling in all year. We timed it to coincide with a big flower and
garden show and it was pretty popular. Used a green tablecloth on
a big circular table. In the center, a sign --color xerox mounted on
foam-core --flanked by a mid-sized terracotta pot full of potting soil and
sporting those plastic tags that come in all bedding plants and an
artificial spray of blooming shrubbery. Also had a pair of (cheap)
gardening gloves but they disappeared from the display when we had a cold
snap. (Somewhere, on the streets of Seattle, there is a larcenous person
keeping his/her hands warm in bright *pink* garden gloves.)
Arranged the books in a circle, lying flat or on stands to vary the height
and visual interest. Lots of people stopped to browse and we circed around
60-75 books off it in 3 weeks.

There's also that quote about the inevitability of death and taxes. Might
use that as a springboard for a murder mystery display.

For other ideas, you might check Chase's Calendar and see if April is
national anything month and see what you can do with that.

Debi Westwood
Seattle Public Library
Business & Technology (and that includes gardening) Dept.

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000,
Theresa Lukas wrote:
> I am thinking of doing a display on this in April but so far have only come
> up with books mainly dealing with computers
> (Learn Internet in 24 hours etc) If anyone has any suggestions, I would
> appreciate it and compile a final list to send out
> Thanks.:-)
> Theresa Lukas
> Library Assistant
> Southwest Regional Library
> 933-0029
> [removed]@lfpl.org
>

FROM: Theresa Lukas <[removed]@lfpl.org>
DATE: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 19:52:53 -0500

I am thinking of doing a display on this in April but so far have only come
up with books mainly dealing with computers
(Learn Internet in 24 hours etc) If anyone has any suggestions, I would
appreciate it and compile a final list to send out
Thanks.:-)
Theresa Lukas
Library Assistant
Southwest Regional Library
933-0029
[removed]@lfpl.org

FROM: "Kathy Loucks" <[removed]@cml.lib.oh.us>
DATE: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 09:09:28 -0500

How about some of the self-help books, like DRESS FOR SUCCESS or TOILET TRAINING IN LESS THAN A DAY.

FROM: "Donna Jo Atwood" <[removed]@JCL.LIB.KS.US>
DATE: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 09:11:33 -0600

We're doing How does your garden grow this month. The board over our
display area is covered with brown kraft paper and has what is supposed to
look like garden rows. Each row is numbered and has one kind of seed--a
grown-up's riddle board. Answers are in a folder on the side. Lots of
comments--and lots of books checking out.

Next month we are going with poetry for National poetry Month, I think.

Donna Jo Atwood
Olathe KS Public Library

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
> [[removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org]On Behalf Of Theresa Lukas
> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 6:53 PM
> To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
> Subject: Promises Promise
>
>
> I am thinking of doing a display on this in April but so far have
> only come
> up with books mainly dealing with computers
> (Learn Internet in 24 hours etc) If anyone has any suggestions, I would
> appreciate it and compile a final list to send out
> Thanks.:-)
> Theresa Lukas
> Library Assistant
> Southwest Regional Library
> 933-0029
> [removed]@lfpl.org
>

FROM: Doris <[removed]@pelican.state.lib.la.us>
DATE: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 09:38:14 -0600

For the Promises Promises display --
the Made Simple series of books -- includes things such as Algebra Made
Simple, Physics..., Chemistry...
diet books (especially fad diets)
exercise books (the lose 20 inches off your waist in only 5 minutes
a day type)

At 07:52 PM 3/6/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>I am thinking of doing a display on this in April but so far have only come
>up with books mainly dealing with computers
>(Learn Internet in 24 hours etc) If anyone has any suggestions, I would
>appreciate it and compile a final list to send out
>Thanks.:-)
>Theresa Lukas
>Library Assistant
>Southwest Regional Library
>933-0029
[removed]@lfpl.org
>

Doris Lively
Director
Grant Parish Library
300 Main Street
Colfax, LA 71417
318-627-9920
318-627-9900 fax
[removed]@pelican.state.lib.la.us

FROM: Thelma Stone <[removed]@pub-lib.ci.fort-worth.tx.us>
DATE: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 10:25:28 -0600 (CST)

Paula Jhung. How to Avoid Housework.

FROM: RENEE ZURN <[removed]@duluth.lib.mn.us>
DATE: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 15:32:04 -0600

Theresa, you might also want to consider books dealing with divorce -
both fiction and nonfiction. I think that fits your theme, but more
like promises broken.

Renee Zurn
Duluth Public Library
520 W. Superior St.
Duluth MN 55802

FROM: "Theresa L. Anderson" <[removed]@boulder.lib.co.us>
DATE: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 19:45:06 -0700

Hello all!

I also have a display going up in April. The title of which is "Death and Taxes: Accepting the Inevitable" I have plenty of nonfiction items dealing with death or taxes but I'm stretched for fiction.
I have a few on my list like Grisham's The Firm, Collett's The Ultimate Rip-off, Dunlap's Death and Taxes and a few others but I'm always looking for more with the tax theme.
Of course there are a million books with death as the theme. I can pick up just about any mystery to fill that niche. But I am also trying to find novels with an aspect of one having to accept the inevitable.
They can be the type of stories where a character has to face his or her own certain death or the death of a loved one. Some, like The Firm, have people thrust into situations where they must face what fate has thrown at them even if it means self-sacrifice. I would prefer to have them be inspiring and hopeful rather than depressing and morbid (then again some people like that). A Tale of Two Cities comes to mind.
See what you can do with these themes. Your help is very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Tessa (by the way, if you haven't figured it out already, this is another "Theresa" speaking)


Theresa Anderson
Boulder Public Library
[removed]@boulder.lib.co.us

FROM: Thelma Stone <[removed]@pub-lib.ci.fort-worth.tx.us>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 09:04:51 -0600 (CST)

If British taxes are acceptable, Sarah Lacey's Leah Hunter series is about
a Tax Inspector who works for the British equivalent of the IRS. My
second recommendation is from a small press and may not have wide
distribution - John Lofton Simpson. Lifeblood: a novel of death and
taxes.

FROM: Nancy Eggert <[removed]@chipublib.org>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:04:25 -0600 (CST)

Sarah Caudwell's Thus was Adonis Murdered is about a British barrister who
goes on vacation to escape her tax problems and meets (in Venice) a
British tax collector, who ends up murdered.

Nancy Eggert
Northtown Branch
Chicago Public Library

FROM: Madeline Guzman <[removed]@capaccess.org>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 12:14:55 -0500 (EST)

Try:

House of Sand and Fog
by Andre Dubus III
W.W. Norton & Company: New York, 1999

It's the story (fiction) of a woman whose house is repossessed due to
failure to pay taxes. There's even a death that occurs before the novel
is over!

Madeline

Madeline T. Guzman
Rockville, Maryland
http://strictlyc.tripod.com/fiction.html

FROM: "Amy cervene" <[removed]@ald.lib.co.us>
DATE: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 12:07:32 -0700

It's kind of a stretch, but there is a character in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series (the second book, I believe) who is spending a year dead for tax reasons.

Amy


Amy Cervene
Librarian
Smoky Hill Public Library
Aurora, CO
[removed]@ald.lib.co.us

FROM: "Maria E. Schieda" <[removed]@cromaine.org>
DATE: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 14:19:56 -0500

"East of the Mountains" by David Guterson is about a retired surgeon who tries to "sidestep" his inevitable death from colon cancer by planning to commit suicide.

Maria E. Schieda
Cromaine District Library


"Theresa L. Anderson" wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> I also have a display going up in April. The title of which is "Death and Taxes: Accepting the Inevitable" I have plenty of nonfiction items dealing with death or taxes but I'm stretched for fiction.
> I have a few on my list like Grisham's The Firm, Collett's The Ultimate Rip-off, Dunlap's Death and Taxes and a few others but I'm always looking for more with the tax theme.
> Of course there are a million books with death as the theme. I can pick up just about any mystery to fill that niche. But I am also trying to find novels with an aspect of one having to accept the inevitable.
> They can be the type of stories where a character has to face his or her own certain death or the death of a loved one. Some, like The Firm, have people thrust into situations where they must face what fate has thrown at them even if it means self-sacrifice. I would prefer to have them be inspiring and hopeful rather than depressing and morbid (then again some people like that). A Tale of Two Cities comes to mind.
> See what you can do with these themes. Your help is very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tessa (by the way, if you haven't figured it out already, this is another "Theresa" speaking)
>
> Theresa Anderson
> Boulder Public Library
> [removed]@boulder.lib.co.us

FROM: "Tom Dillie" <[removed]@wadsworth.lib.oh.us>
DATE: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 14:55:49 -0500

Theresa,
If you want to expand into movies, the Japanese films "A Taxing Woman," and "A Taxing Woman's Return" would certainly work.

Tom Dillie, Adult Services Librarian
Wadsworth Public Library
132 Broad St.
Wadsworth OH 44281
www.wadsworth.lib.oh.us

"Theresa L. Anderson" wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> I also have a display going up in April. The title of which is "Death and Taxes: Accepting the Inevitable" I have plenty of nonfiction items dealing with death or taxes but I'm stretched for fiction.
> I have a few on my list like Grisham's The Firm, Collett's The Ultimate Rip-off, Dunlap's Death and Taxes and a few others but I'm always looking for more with the tax theme.
> Of course there are a million books with death as the theme. I can pick up just about any mystery to fill that niche. But I am also trying to find novels with an aspect of one having to accept the inevitable.
> They can be the type of stories where a character has to face his or her own certain death or the death of a loved one. Some, like The Firm, have people thrust into situations where they must face what fate has thrown at them even if it means self-sacrifice. I would prefer to have them be inspiring and hopeful rather than depressing and morbid (then again some people like that). A Tale of Two Cities comes to mind.
> See what you can do with these themes. Your help is very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tessa (by the way, if you haven't figured it out already, this is another "Theresa" speaking)
>
> Theresa Anderson
> Boulder Public Library
> [removed]@boulder.lib.co.us

FROM: [removed]@carmel.lib.in.us (Chris Prescott)
DATE: Wed, Mar 8 2000 18:41:11 GMT-0500

Regarding taxes, try Let Us Prey by Bill Branon. Also Susan Dunlap's mystery Death and Taxes and Thomas Dewey's mystery, Death and Taxes.
The books about dealing with death that came to mind are One True Thing by Anna Quindlen and Hillary's death in Beaches by Iris Rainer Dart.

Chris Prescott
Carmel-Clay Public Library, Carmel, IN
>
>From: "Theresa L. Anderson" <[removed]@boulder.lib.co.us>
>Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 19:45:06 -0700
>To: <[removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org>, <[removed]@spl.org>
>Subject: Different Display Idea: Death and Taxes
>
>Hello all!
>
> I also have a display going up in April. The title of which is "Death and Taxes: Accepting the Inevitable" I have plenty of nonfiction items dealing with death or taxes but I'm stretched for fiction.
> I have a few on my list like Grisham's The Firm, Collett's The Ultimate Rip-off, Dunlap's Death and Taxes and a few others but I'm always looking for more with the tax theme.
> Of course there are a million books with death as the theme. I can pick up just about any mystery to fill that niche. But I am also trying to find novels with an aspect of one having to accept the inevitable.
> They can be the type of stories where a character has to face his or her own certain death or the death of a loved one. Some, like The Firm, have people thrust into situations where they must face what fate has thrown at them even if it means self-sacrifice. I would prefer to have them be inspiring and hopeful rather than depressing and morbid (then again some people like that). A Tale of Two Cities comes to mind.
> See what you can do with these themes. Your help is very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tessa (by the way, if you haven't figured it out already, this is another "Theresa" speaking)
>
>
>Theresa Anderson
>Boulder Public Library
[removed]@boulder.lib.co.us
>

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
DATE: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:54:20 EST

I'm really enjoying this list. Will someone be summarizing it?

Julie Benolken

FROM: "Joanne Herb, Morris County Library" <[removed]@main.morris.org>
DATE: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 13:40:51 -0500

Bill Branon's Let Us Prey centers on a plot to bring down the government,
starting first with the IRS and all its employees.

Interesting premise, especially at tax time...

Joanne

Joanne Herb
Reader Services
Morris County Library
30 East Hanover Ave.
Whippany, NJ 07981

Opinions absolutely personal.

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
DATE: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 10:46:50 PST

>From: Doris <[removed]@pelican.state.lib.la.us>
>Reply-To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
>To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
>Subject: Re: Promises Promise
>Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 09:38:14 -0600
>
>For the Promises Promises display --
> the Made Simple series of books -- includes things such as Algebra Made
> Simple, Physics..., Chemistry...
>

How about the "...for Dummies" books?
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FROM: "Doxtator, Jan" <[removed]@uwsp.edu>
DATE: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 08:47:11 -0600

Sorry if this is late--I'm playing catch-up. How about Hemingway?
Especially, THE SUN ALSO RISES.
Jan
Jan Doxtator
Assistant Director/Reference Librarian
Portage County Public Library
1001 Main St.
Stevens Point, WI 54481
715-345-5360

FROM: "Ellen Reynolds (PLS-HQ)" <[removed]@pls-net.org>
DATE: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:59:06 -0500

Noises Off, a play by Michael Frayn, has a subplay within the play that
has a character avoiding the tax collector. It was also a hilarious
1992 movie with Michael Caine and was out on video.


Ellen J. Reynolds
Information Resources/Adult Services Coordinator
Pioneer Library System
4595 Rt. 21 N. Canandaigua NY 14424
716-394-8260
[removed]@pls-net.org

FROM: "Theresa L. Anderson" <[removed]@boulder.lib.co.us>
DATE: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:52:17 -0700

I'm getting some great ideas for my display. Keep the suggestions coming! If I get enough I will post the list to everyone.

Thanks much,

Tessa

P.S. Only 31 days until the tax deadline!

P.P.S. The actual deadline is April 17th this year because the 15th falls on a Saturday. Just thought you would all like to know.


<<On 3/7/00 I wrote....>>

Hello all!

I also have a display going up in April. The title of which is "Death and Taxes: Accepting the Inevitable" I have plenty of nonfiction items dealing with death or taxes but I'm stretched for fiction.
I have a few on my list like Grisham's The Firm, Collett's The Ultimate Rip-off, Dunlap's Death and Taxes and a few others but I'm always looking for more with the tax theme.
Of course there are a million books with death as the theme. I can pick up just about any mystery to fill that niche. But I am also trying to find novels with an aspect of one having to accept the inevitable.
They can be the type of stories where a character has to face his or her own certain death or the death of a loved one. Some, like The Firm, have people thrust into situations where they must face what fate has thrown at them even if it means self-sacrifice. I would prefer to have them be inspiring and hopeful rather than depressing and morbid (then again some people like that). A Tale of Two Cities comes to mind.
See what you can do with these themes. Your help is very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Tessa


Theresa Anderson
Boulder Public Library
[removed]@boulder.lib.co.us

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