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Weekly Theme: St. Swithin’s Day, 15th July

This is a day on which people watch the weather for tradition says that whatever the weather is like on St. Swithin’s Day, it will continue so for the next forty days.

There is a weather-rhyme well known throughout the British Isles since Elizabethan times.

"St Swithin’s Day, if it does rain
Full forty days, it will remain
St Swithin’s Day, if it be fair
For forty days, t’will rain no more."

(1) Alan Barnes, Paul McGann - Storm Warning (Dr Who)
(2) Maeve Binchy - Nights of Rain & Stars
(3) Susan Sallis - Come Rain or Shine (Soundings CD Library)
(4) Alexander McCall Smith – The Right Attitude to Rain (Sunday Philosophy Club 3)
(5) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun
(6) Ms Read – Storm in the Village
(7) Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind
(8) Agatha Christie - Evil Under the Sun
(9) Terry Pratchett - The Dark Side of the Sun
(10) Josephine Cox – Let It Shine

New Releases in CDs:

(1) French Berlitz for Your Trip from Berlitz Publishing
(2) German Berlitz for Your Trip from Berlitz Publishing
(3) Italian Berlitz for Your Trip from Berlitz Publishing
(4) Italian Berlitz Hide This CD Pack (Berlitz Hide This…) from Berlitz Publishing
(5) Self Assured by Nicholas Rhea
(6) Spanish Berlitz for Your Trip from Berlitz Publishing
(7) Blind Willow Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
(8) The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
(9) Stress Free Surgery 2 CD set: A Self Relaxation Program to Help You Prepare for and Recover from Surgery by Linda Thomson
(10) Alex and Friends, Ses Amis, I Suoi Amici, Seine Freunde, Sus Amigos: Children’s Adventure Story Told in German on CD to Develop Listening Skills in a Second Language by Valerie Rhenius
(11) Alex and Friends, Ses Amis, I Suoi Amici, Seine Freunde, Sus Amigos: Children’s Adventure Story Told in Italian on CD to Develop Listening Skills in a Second Language by Valerie Rhenius
(12) The Blair Years by Alastair Campbell
(13) D Is for Deadbeat by Sue Grafton
(14) Debs at War: 1939-1945 by Anne De Courcy
(15) Destination Unknown by Agatha Christie
(16) Simple Genius by David Baldacci
(17) Strange Affair by Peter Robinson

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Thanksgiving is a time to offer thanks, of family gatherings and holiday meals. In the United Kingdom, Thanksgiving is another name for the Harvest festival, held in churches across the land to mark the end of the local harvest. This tradition was taken to North America by the early settlers, most notably the pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

In 1621, the pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians celebrated the harvest festival in autumn. It is also associated with a time of turkeys, cranberries, corn, stuffing and pumpkin pie. Even though cooking methods have evolved, the meal is still consumed today with the same spirit of celebration and over-indulgence.

Featured audio books for the week
Tuesdays with Morrie	Thankfulness Song with CD (Audio) (Veggie Tales Gift Book)	Words of Gratitude
Just William: Home for the Holidays	Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating	The Giving Tree 40th Anniversary Edition Book with CD with CD (Audio)

Halloween is celebrated on 31 October and is associated with witches, pumpkins, spooks, ghouls, monsters, vampires, ghosts, the occult, werewolves and haunted houses. The older spelling of Hallowe’en is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the eve before All Hallows’ DoorDay, also known as All Saints’ Day. During Halloween, children dress up in costumes and go door-to-door collecting sweets otherwise known as “trick or treating”. It is usually celebrated in the United Kingdom, Ireland, United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Pumpkin carving, or jack o’lanterns is a popular part of the modern Halloween celebration.

Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient 2,000 year-old pagan Celtic festival of Samhain in Ireland, Britain and France. The Celts celebrated their new year on 1 November and this indicated the beginning of the long, dark, cold winter and the ending of the summer harvest. Samhain, which was celebrated on the night of 31 October, was the night the ghosts or other spirits returned to earth as the Celts believed that this was the time of the year when the spiritual world can make contact with the physical world.

To honour the event, the Celtic priests, or Druids wore costumes of animals and built sacred bonfires to sacrifice crops and animals. The Druids felt that this helped to protect them during the coming winter and it was easier to make prophecies about the future when magic was at its most powerful.

Most of the Celtic territories were then conquered by the Romans who celebrated their Roman festivals (Feralia and Pomona) with the traditional Samhain festival. With the advent of Christianity, Pope Boniface IV attempted to replace the festival of the dead with a related church-sanctioned holiday in the 7th century. Therefore, 1 November was designated as All Saints’ Day, a time to pay tribute to saints and martyrs. The church also encouraged the distribution of soul cakes to replace the ancient practice of leaving food and wine for roaming spirits. On Halloween, to keep ghosts away from their houses, people would place bowls of food outside their homes to appease the ghosts and prevent them from attempting to enter.

To commemorate Halloween on 31 October, here are some books for children and a live performance CD from Jerry Seinfeld specially selected for you. Enjoy being spooked!

	The Witches (Puffin Audiobooks) Author: Roald Dahl
	Charm School: Complete & Unabridged (Cover to Cover) Author: Anne Fine
	The Witch of Blackberry Bottom: Unabridged (Puffin Audiobooks) Author: Dick King-smith
	Witch Week (The Chrestomanci) Author: Diana Wynne Jones
	The King Who Broke His Promise/A Spooky Halloween/The Sad Dance Author: Ann Rachlin
	Emily Windsnap and the Monster from the Deep Author: Liz Kessler
	Halloween Book/CD Collector’s Edition: Live Performance CD Included with CD (Audio) Author: Jerry Seinfeld

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We have selected six audio books in celebration of Diwali!

Diwali or Deepavali is a major Indian festival celebrated with fireworks for 5 days. It is also known as the Festival of Lights where people light divas or oil lamps around their houses as a sign of celebration. Most courtyards and walls of Indian houses are decorated with multi-coloured rangoli using the powder of white stone, lime, rice flour and other paste to draw intricate patterns.

Diwali symbolises the victory of good over evil and is rooted in the mythological epic of Ramayana’s homecoming to Ayodhay after the defeat of Ravana. The festival also honours Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and Kali, the goddess of strength. It signifies the renewal of life and prayers are offered. People wear new clothes and exchange gifts on the day of the festival.

Two Lives by Vilkam Seth

Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India by Madhur Jaffrey

A Passage to India by E.m. Forster

The Higher Self by Deepak Chopra

Come September: A Lecture by Arundhati Roy by Arundhati Roy

Experience Yoga Nidra: Guided deep relaxation by Swami Janakananda Saraswati

This is our first weekly theme presented in the form of blog. We hope you enjoy our selections.