by: Gayla Duvall

What’s new at the Clinton County Public Library: www.clintoncountypubliclibrary.org.

Lover at Last by J.R. Ward; Six Years by Harlan Coben; The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult; Alex Cross, Run by James Patterson; Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn; My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor; Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand; No Easy Day by Mark Owen; Killing Kennedy by Bill O’Reilly.

The library now has a subscription to Ancestry.com. It is free for library users.

The library is hosting a program on May 7, 2013 at 5 p.m. at the library, “Tools, Implements, and Devices of the Civil War Era.”

Professor Ernest Tucker, Department of History, Ashland Community College, will display a selection of tools, implements, and devices that would have been used on the farm at the time of the Civil War. He will demonstrate how they were used and share the fascinating stories associated with them. Tucker has spent more than 40 years collecting these items and the stories.

The library is hosting a program on May 14, 2013 at 5 p.m. at the library. Albany native Mr. Al Cross has committed to speaking at the library about his life in journalism. He has covered many stories for the Louisville Courier-Journal.