As you all have heard Cirque Du Freak - The Vampires Assistant hit theaters on October 23rd.

Being the second book in the amazing series, Darren Shan's nightmare begins in book number one A living Nightmare, when Darren's best friend, Steve, finds a flier for an illegal freak show, which they sneak out one night to attend. Among acts such as a wolf-man (who bites off the hand of a woman in the audience) and a snake-boy, they see Mr. Crepsley and his trained poisonous spider, Madame Octa. Steve recognizes Mr. Crepsley from a book on vampires and, to Darren's horror, confronts him after the show and asks to be made a vampire.
Mr. Crepsley rejects Steve, saying, "You are evil! ... I can taste the menace in your blood. You are savage." But Darren, who loves spiders, returns another night and steals Madame Octa. When Steve is bitten by her, only Mr. Crepsley has an antidote to her poison. But there's a price, one that will change Darren's life.

Cirque Du Freak The Saga Of Darren Shan

A living nightmare (book 1)

The vampire's Assistant (book 2)

Tunnels of Blood (book 3)

Vampires Mountain (book 4)

Trials of Death (book 5)

The Vampire Prince (book 6)

Hunters of the Dusk (book 7)

Allies of the Night (book 8)

Killers of the Dawn (book 9)

The Lake of Souls (book 10)

Lord of the Shadows (book 11)

Sons of Destiny (book 12)

My Review: I really enjoyed this book i read it durning the thanksgiving break and really took my time, knowing i didn't have book II i wasn't really happy about finishing the first one. It's well written and it's fun. I am now in book three "Tunnels of Blood" and well lets just say the same story continues about Darren Shan not wanting to drink human blood because he doesn't want to be evil and lose what remains of his human self. Lets see if i can continue with the series. (eight more books to go)

Happenings in December

Adult Department - Main floor

Christman Open House Reception
Sponsored by Friends of the Library

Come join us for refreshments all day

When: Tuesday, December 8th

with Christmas Carols @ 10:30am

by the ENMU Ruidoso Chamber Choir

Children's Department

P.S. story time 10:30-11:15am
December 3rd - Christmas Classic Movies
December 10th - Christmas stories & Christmas centerpiece craft
December 17th - 10:30-Noon Christmas with Charlie Brown, brunch will be served.

No field trips during the month of December

CONTEST update!!!!

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Local Authors

Our lovely town and library welcomes back popular New Mexico Mystery writer.

Steven Havill

He will be signing and talking about his two new books: Race for the Dying a new historical medical adventure set in the Puget Sound area of 1981, and

Red, Green or Murder, the newest Posadas mystery.

At your Local Public Library from 3:30pm-4:30pm

107 Kansas City Road

Ruidoso, NM 88345

(575) 258-3704

Special after hours program

A special thanks to Sharon Stewart our Program Coordinator for putting yet another wonderful program together.

will be signing copies of the three children's books from her "Come follow me" series, June 12, at First Savings Bank 2713 Sudderth Dr.
She is the featured local buisiness owner/artist of the month at the bank. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., she will sign editions of Come Follow Me: The Night Color Orange Ran Away, a lesson on understanding a person's worth; The Little Bird That Could Not Hear, a lesson on accepting those who are different; and The Lilies that Doubted There Was a Sun, a lesson on doubt and fear.

Allgood writes children's books and Sandra Smith of Lincoln illustrates them.
Books can be ordered from Allgood by calling 575-378-5484. You can also find her books at http://www.amazon.com/

In order to be accepted by the “in crowd” at her new high school, Jessie accepts a dare to spend one night in a local cemetery collecting rubbings from ten gravestones. Once inside the gate of the dark and frightening burial ground, Jessie meets Paul, a handsome boy who works as a caretaker at the cemetery. Paul explains to Jessie about Tombstone Tea: a fund-raising performance in which actors impersonate the people buried in the cemetery. The actors are supposedly rehearsing on this particular evening, but Jessi quickly discovers that they aren’t actors at all but the ghosts of men and women buried in the cemetery. When one woman decides to adopt Jessie to replace her lost daughter, our heroine fears she may never escape the cemetery.


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A good thing always comes back. I'm sure you as a child read this amazing book and now it's your kids favorite bedtime story. This book came back as soon as the movie hit the big screen. Daily, we have children and their parents asking for this book. We had to turn them down because the childrend's Department was using it for their big story time project that turned out to be an everyone welcome program. Characters were brough to life as different boys dressed like Max. The boys ate snaks shaped like leaves and played in real leaves. It was a fun turnout that didn’t just bring the book back but brought kids together.

Field Trips to the Library

Theme: "Literary Characters, Literally"

<--- Junie B. Jones and Amelia Bedelia will come to life as the librarians do a skit from the popular Barbara Park and Peggy Parish book. The skits will be followed by students using their new library cards to check out a book of their choice.

So be sure to check out our blog for daily news and stay updated with all of our library fun. Just remember these field trips are for school kids only. These field trips have been reserved ahead of time.

Tony Hillerman's week

November 1-8 is Tony Hillerman's week, to celebrate the life and work of this amazing local Southwest writer, we put together a display with his popular novels.

We are thrilled to have his latest book - Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn. I am sure his faithful fans are eager to get their hands on this book.

Anne Hillerman-Don Strel are on the road for the next two months talking about Tony Hillerman's Landscape book. They visited the University of New Mexico on November 4, and this visit was a benefit for the UNM Hillerman-McGarrity scholarship in Creative Writing.

If you missed the previous event, they will be present on November 7, at 6pm at Inn Rio Rancho, 1466 Rio Rancho Drive, Rio Rancho.