@ your library (R) .... by Paige Turner, Library Correspondent Happy New Year! With the New Year starting, what is your New Year's Resolution? Find a better job? Get in shape? Achieve financial success? Manage your free time better? Read the NEW HARRY POTTER? Well, the library can help you with all of those things (although you'll have to wait until July for the new Harry Potter book). Maybe you want to get your business on the web, or find out what your rights are as a tenant or landlord? We have the books for you. NOLO Press out of Berkeley produces excellent books on these topics that are very informative and easy to read. We have NOLO books on repairing your credit, writing a business plan, creating a will, and much more. It's time to make spending MORE TIME @ your library (r) one of your New Year's Resolutions! With all the recent snowy weather, how about curling up by the fire with one of these new arrivals: "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton "Family First" by Dr. Phil McGraw "Life Expectancy" by Dean Koontz "Sea of Trolls" by Nancy Farmer "Fabric of the Cosmos" by B. Greene "Toby and the Snowflake" by F. Halpem "Parallel Worlds" by M. Kaku "Gates of Fire" by S. Pressfield "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by J. Perkins Hope all of you had a happy holiday season. Thank you to everyone who supported the library during the past year and we look forward to seeing you in the new year ahead. Thanks again to those who made this year's Children's Christmas Story Hour a success! We appreciate our staff and volunteers -- Diane T., Stephanie and Greg, Chyna, Paula, and Ana! By the way, photos of the children with Santa Claus are available for free at the front desk of the library. TRIVIA QUESTION OF THE WEEK: According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which cities (excluding Mammoth) are America's snowiest? Do you love the white stuff, enjoy skiing to work, shoveling your driveway, pulling your groceries home from the store on a sled, snowball fights and snow angels? Of course you do or you wouldn't live in Mammoth! These OTHER snow-covered burgs are places where kids tunnel to friends houses; where principals rarely cancel school because of inclement weather; and where every self-respecting citizen keeps a set of chains and a shovel in the trunk of his or her car. However, these cities are mere "amateurs" compared to Mammoth. You'll be surprised at how few inches of snow it takes to qualify for this list. ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S QUESTION: We all read the "news" paper. Do you know how the word "news" was coined? It comes from the fact that early daily papers carried images of globes on their mastheads and boasted that their reports came from all four directions -- (N)orth, (E)ast, (W)est and (S)outh.