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Get local gardening tips at library

Kathy Caldwell is library director at the Bill Ellis Memorial Library in Port Aransas.

Throughout the year, and especially in the spring, we have visitors and locals come into the library inquiring about the different plants growing in the area. One of the best identification guides we have in the library collection is a beautiful, two-volume photographic album created by the Port Aransas Garden Club. These are appendices to their publication "Gardening in Port Aransas". Volume 1 features trees, shrubs, grasses, and ground cover. Volume 2 features annuals, perennials and vines. These are also excellent resources to use as a planting guide, as all plants listed are adapted to our seaside environment. All the photographs are in color and bear the common and botanical name of the subject.

The book, "Gardening in Port Aransas," covers soil composition, temperature, wind and windbreaks, lawns, specialty plantings, vegetable gardening and gardening in pots. A must read for all local gardeners!

BEST SELLERS

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To help keep readers informed as to what current popular titles are available at the library, the New York Times Best Sellers list published on April 27 follows. A single asterisk following the author's name indicates the title is in circulation. Any title not currently owned by the library may be requested through our interlibrary loan service.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. WHERE ARE YOU NOW?, BY MARY HIGGINS CLARK* 2. UNACCUSTOMED EARTH, BY JHUMPA LAHIRI* 3. CERTAIN GIRLS, BY JENNIFER WEINER* 4. BELONG TO ME, BY MARISA DE LOS SANTOS* 5. SMALL FAVOR, BY JIM BUTCHER 6. THE APPEAL, BY JOHN GRISHAM* 7. COMPULSION, BY JOHNATHAN KELLERMAN* 8. CHANGE OF HEART, BY JODI PICOULT* 9. BULLS ISLAND, BY DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK* 10. A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, BY KHALED HOSSEINI* 11. REMEMBER ME?, BY SOPHIE KINSELLA* 12. ZAPPED, BY CAROL HIGGINS CLARK* 13. 7TH HEAVEN, BY JAMES PATTERSON AND MAXINE PAETRO* 14. DEAD HEAT, BY JOEL C. ROSENBERG 15. THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, BY JUNOT DIAZ* 16. WINTER STUDY, BY NEVADA BARR*

HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. HOME, BY JULIE ANDREWS* 2. MISTAKEN IDENTITY, BY DON AND SUSIE VAN RYN. 3. BEAUTIFUL BOY, BY DAVID SHEFF* 4. LADIES OF LIBERTY, BY COKIE ROBERTS* 5. ARMAGEDDON IN RETROSPECT, BY KURT VONNEGUT* 6. ESCAPE, BY CAROLYN JESSOP WITH LAURA PALMER 7. GIRLS LIKE US, BY SHEILA WELLER* 8. LOSING IT, BY VALERIE BERTINELLI* 9. STANDING TALL, BY C. VIVIAN STRINGER WITH LAURA TUCKER. 10. BONK, BY MARY ROACH 11. IN DEFENSE OF FOOD, BY MICHAEL POLLAN* 12. PHYSICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, BY MICHIO KAKU* 13. BRETT FAVRE: THE TRIBUTE, BY SPORTS ILLUSTRATED 14. THE BIN LADENS, BY STEVE COLL 15. VINDICATED, BY JOSE CONSECO 16. THE REASON FOR GOD, BY TIMOTHY KELLER

COMING SOON THE FOLLOWING NON-FICTION BOOKS HAVE BEEN ORDERED AND WILL BE AVAILABLE MID-MAY. FROMMER'S NATIONAL PARKS WITH KIDS CARIBBEAN PORTS OF CALL, BY KAY SHOWKER NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC GREEN GUIDE TO ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY LIVING WILLIE NELSON: AN EPIC LIFE, BY JOE NICK PATOSKI GANDHI & CHURCHILL, BY ARTHUR HERMAN. TEN MOST BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS, BY GEORGE JOHNSON. COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO FINANCIAL AID FOR COLLEGE.