The wait is almost over. Number fourteen on the Stephanie Plum hit parade is set to drop June 17^th. The problem is, what do you do while you wait? We have some suggestions.

First, did you know that starting a couple of months before the publishing date of her newest book, you can go to Janet Evanovich’s web site (www.evanovich.com), where she will have posted the beginning of the book? Get a jump on all your friends!

Second, we just received a book called Perfectly Plum: Unauthorized Essays On the Life, Loves, and Other Disasters of Stephanie Plum, Trenton Bounty Hunter. It’s a book of essays, written by authors who are also Plum fans, which addresses such burning questions as, Morelli or Ranger? Could Lula possibly be considered a role model? and, something we’ve all wondered at some point or another, How does this woman get car insurance!?

I know, having read the beginning of Fearless Fourteen online, that Steph has made it through the first ten pages or so without having a single car blow up, catch on fire, or get smushed by a burning garbage truck. If you’ve read the whole series, you know that’s a situation that’s unlikely to last. Just to get you ready for the inevitable mayhem, we’ve assembled a list of the most memorable automotive crashes, smashes, and burns in the Stephanie Plum series. Your challenge is to match the crash to the book. There’s one accident per book, and we’ve included the holiday novellas. Read each description, print out the entry form, fill it out with the title of the book in which each crash appears, and drop the completed form in the contest box at the Fairborn Library. You may win your own copy of Fearless Fourteen! Contest will end on June 17th, so make sure you get your entry form to the library before then. Happy hunting!

Download the Entry Form. (It’s a .pdf)

Click the link below to read the quotes.

P.S. There is another Fearless Fourteen contest at the library. When you bring in your form, make sure to check it out. You could win a Tastykake Butterscotch Krimpet like Stephanie always eats!

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Have you stopped by the Fairborn Library lately? In honor of the start of baseball season, we have a jar of chocolate baseballs on display right now. Adults can fill out a form with their guess as to the number of chocolate pieces in the rather large jar; whoever gets closest to the actual number, wins all the chocolate! It looks like enough chocolate to last until football season starts!

Here are a few books about baseball you may want to check out when you come in to the library to make your guess.

Basebal between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know about the Game Is Wrong

The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip through Buck O’Neil’s America

The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia

Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan’s Guide for Beginners , Semi-Experts and Deeply Serious Geeks
Echoes of Cincinnati Reds Baseball: The Greatest Stories Ever Told

These are just a few of the many books about baseball the library carries that you could take home. Check out the other offerings on the shelf at Dewey Decimal number 796.357. You’ll find our baseball books there. You can even look for baseball related documentaries at the same call number in the nonfiction DVDs. Books about baseball card values will be located at 769.5. Any of the Greene County Public Library branches will have the same things at the same number. The great thing about the Dewey Decimal System is once you know the call number of your subject, you’ll be able to find the same types of things at other libraries at the same call number.