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Dear Friends,
Happy New Year! We hope you've all had a festive holiday season, and we'd like to thank you for making us a part of your festivities: Through your patronage during December - and all of 2010 - you've shown us how much you value independence and community. That's the best gift you could have given us!
Now, as we're all settling in for our long Vermont winter, we'd like to invite you to curl up with a good book and a hot latte from our cafe. In this edition, we've chosen a variety of books to get your family through the dark winter days - plus a few to help you along with your new year's resolutions. See you among the shelves!
Sincerely,Mike, Renee, Beth, Colleen, Heather, Katie, Kristen, Nora,
Rachel M., Rachel O., and Tod
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THE CAFE AT PHOENIX
An Authentic Espresso and Wine Bar
 Now that the holiday season has wound down, you deserve some R & R, so we invite you to enjoy hot soups to warm the soul, toasty meal-sized sandwiches to satisfy, and hand-crafted pizzas in traditional and adventurous varieties.
As always, we're ready to create a hot steaming bevvie from our endless selection of cappuccino, latte, mocha, coffee options! Our wines and microbrews are just the thing if you'd like to enjoy a toast and conversation with good friends to start the new year, and our intimate and relaxing atmosphere is perfect for going solo, for a first date, or for a gathering!
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RAISING PASSIONATE READERS
A Board Book and Storybooks, for our Youngest Customers
Mon Cirque, by Xavier Deneux
In response to popular demand comes the French edition of the adorably illustrated My Circus. Any parents who hope to encourage bilingual learning from the start will want this edition, which introduces clowns, magicians, trapeze artists, and many more familiar stars of the big top in French. With the same squeezably soft cover and high-contrast art that is perfect for babies and toddlers, readers will be learning French in no time! (Board)
Fortune Cookies, 
by Albert Bitterman, illus. by Caldecott-winner Chris Raschka
A box arrives for Fortune from her Uncle Albert with seven fortune cookies. How wonderful! A cookie and a fortune for each day of the week! Best of all, each fortune comes true...but not in ways that Fortune expects. "A tidy, perfectly paced story with subtle grace and a kernel of wisdom," raves Publishers Weekly. (Hardcover)
Giant Steps to Change the World, 
by Spike Lee & Tonya Lewis Lee
Using examples of people throughout history who have taken "giant steps," this book urges kids to follow in their footsteps and not be hindered by fear or a sense that you are not good enough. Despite the challenges, even the smallest step can change the world. So, what's your next step going to be? (Hardcover)
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MIDDLE GRADE
Finding Her Way, on the Ice and Off
 Sugar and Ice,
by local author Kate Messner!
For Claire Boucher, life is all about skating on the frozen cow pond and in the annual Maple Show right before the big pancake breakfast on her family's farm. But all that changes when Russian skating coach Andrei Grosheva offers Claire a scholarship to train with the elite in Lake Placid. Tossed into a world of mean girls on ice, where competition is everything, Claire realizes that her sweet dream come true has sharper edges than she could have imagined. Can she find the courage to decide which dream she wants to follow? (Hardcover)
 The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate,
by Jacqueline Kelly
The summer of 1899 is hot in Calpurnia's sleepy Texas town, and there aren't a lot of good ways to stay cool. Callie's spending a lot of time at the river with her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid naturalist. But just when Callie and her grandfather are about to make an amazing discovery, the reality of Callie's situation catches up with her. She's a girl at the turn of the century, expected to cook and clean and sew. What a waste of time! Will Callie ever find a way to take control of her own destiny? (Paperback.)
 Camo Girl, by Kekla Magoon
Set in the modern-day suburbs of Las Vegas, a young girl finds herself caught between two wolds. She is drawn to the popular new boy - the only other black student in the school - but also loyal to her BFF, a geeky boy whose social status, like hers, is bottom-rung, and with whom she has shared an incomparable friendship. Author Kekla Magoon deftly navigates the muddy waters of racial and cultural identities in this contemporary exploration of one girl's attempt to find herself. (Hardcover.)
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YOUNG ADULT PICKS
Fantastic Adventures
 Across the Universe, by Beth Revis
Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.
Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone-one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship-tried to kill her. If Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next. (Hardcover)
 Awakened, by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Exonerated by the Vampyre High Council and returned to her position of High Priestess at Tulsa's House of Night, Neferet has sworn vengeance on Zoey. But Zoey has found sanctuary on the Isle of Skye and is being groomed by Queen Sgiach to take over for her there. Being Queen would be cool, wouldn't it? Why should she return to Tulsa? After losing her human consort, Heath, she will never be the same - and her relationship with her super-hot-warrior, Stark, may never be the same either... (Hardcover)
 Entice, by Carrie Jones
(Entice is book three of the Need series,
a great series for Twilight fans!)
Zara and Nick are soul mates, meant to be together forever. But that's not quite how things have worked out. For starters, well, Nick is dead. Supposedly, he's been taken to a mythic place for warriors known as Valhalla, so Zara and her friends might be able to get him back. But it's taking time, and meanwhile a group of evil pixies is devastating Bedford, with more teens going missing every day. An all-out war seems imminent, and the good guys need all the warriors they can find. But how to get to Valhalla? (Hardcover)
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ADULT PICKS
One for All
 Worth Dying For (A Reacher Novel),
by Lee Child
There's deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska . . . and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it's the unsolved case of a missing child, already decades-old, that Reacher can't let go. Worth Dying For is a heart-racing page-turner no suspense fan will want to miss, but what's really impressed us about this series is the wide range of readers it appeals to. (Hardcover)
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