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[|Databases] --- have your library card number handy unless you are hanging with us in the Joliet Library! [|Reference Links] [|"Website of the Day" archive] Pathfinders [|Joliet Remembers -- digitalization project] [|Joliet Public Library website] //**Illinois Government Blue Book**//, [|Current Illinois Blue Book], [|Historical (1900-2003)] Wiki of [|information on all states] of the union

"If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed." Chinese Proverb**
 * //__THOUGHT FOR TODAY__//

 **//__Lunar Eclipse on March 3rd__// Although you should run off to Europe or Africa for the best view, North and South American will get a partial show. Click for [|lunar information]**

What's in your [|Top 10]

 ===//New York Times//'s Top 10 Books of the Year=== Connect to the[| //New York Times Book Review//]'s 10 best books for 2006, which will be published in old-fashioned print on Sunday, December 10.

New issue of //Library Technology Reports// reveals [|benefits of gaming services] at libraries

[|57th National Book Awards announced]
link to [|podcast]

Mystery Bestsellers: The IMBA List=== The following were the bestselling titles at [|Independent Mystery Booksellers Association] member stores during October:

__Hardcover__ 1. //Under Orders// by Dick Francis 2. //Echo Park// by Michael Connelly 3. //The Thirteenth Tale// by Diane Setterfield 4. //What Came Before He Shot Her// by Elizabeth George 5. //All Mortal Flesh// by Julia Spencer-Fleming 6. //Motor Mouth// by Janet Evanovich 7. //Kidnapped// by Jan Burke 8. //Messenger of Truth// by Jacqueline Winspear 9. //The Winter of Frankie Machine// by Don Winslow 10. //Stolen Season// by Steve Hamilton 10. //Still Life// by Louise Penny

__Paperback__** 1. //Greywalker// by Kat Richardson 2. //Dolled Up for Murder// by Deb Baker 3. //Shooting Gallery// by Hailey Lind 4. //A Dangerous Man// by Charlie Huston 5. //The Death and Life of Bobby Z// by Don Winslow 5. //The Mournful Teddy// by John Lamb 7. //Deadly Yarn// by Maggie Sefton 8. //China Bayle's Book of Days// by Susan Wittig Albert 9. //A Fatal Appraisal// by J.B. Stanley 10. //A Peach of a Murder// by Livia Washburn

[Thanks to IMBA!]