Registered Dietician and Certified Fitness instructor Zonya Foco will speak at the Head-to-Toe Women's Expo in Ypsilanti this Friday at 6:30 p.m. Foco, a former dietician with St. Joseph's hospital in Ypsilanti and more recently the host of PBS' "Zonya's Health Bites", spoke about her 1998 book Lickety-Split Meals for Health Conscious People on the Go! this morning on 107one f.m.

The story of The Minister's Daughter is not what you may think. Grace, the beautiful daughter, plays a major part in the story but the main character is Nell, granddaughter of the local cunning woman, a healer and midwife who is passing on her lore to Nell. It is the time of civil war in England between the Royalists and the Puritans. Grace's father, the minister, is one of many rabid witch hunters. When Grace becomes pregnant, she blames Nell who she says practiced witchcraft on her. Caught up in the hysterical frenzy, the townspeople hunt down Nell. Patience, Grace's sister, tells the same story in alternating chapters from the stand of the Salem Witch trials in 1645.

As part of our on-going partnership with The Neutral Zone here's your chance to meet TEEN author and editor, David Levithan. David will be appearing for FREE at the Neutral Zone (637 S. Main) Tuesday, October 18 @ 7:00PM. He will be talking about his books ( Boy Meets Boy, Realm of Possibility and the NEW Are We There Yet? ), writing and his experiences as an editor at Scholastic Books and more! Hope we see you there...

It has just been announced that Looking for Alaska by John Green will be hitting the big screen in the distant future. It is a year in the life of sixteen-year-old Miles at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama. He has a great time at boarding school pulling pranks and learning about life, until a tragic car crash changes his whole life. This book will make you laugh and cry, and hopefully the movie will be just as good!

In honor of the Fruits Basket discussion at MC Otakon, I want to share some Chinese Zodiac resources. Find out about your sign!

I also want to note that as of now, this Wednesday's program is full.

Websites after the jump.

Manana Iguana is a Latin birthday nod to the Little Red Hen story "Who will help Me?" Soy Una Pizza provides plenty of songs to party in Spanish. Putumayo's Latin Playground will put mood into the next reading of the book before the return to the Library.

"There once was a baby who hid in a shoe, and had learned how to say, 'How do you do?'" Shoe Baby builds with rhyme and fantasy. Follow your Read-Aloud with flavorful music and dance with your "Shoe Baby". There's Elvis Rock-n-roll in Blue Suede Shoes Elvis Songs for Kids, Children's Songs in Happy Feet, or Jazz era Swing with Fidgety Feet.

Research projects and papers give you a headache? Come learn tips and tricks to help you get organized and stay on course. Call 327-8301 to register for this two-part workshop:

Oct. 25, 7-9 pm Tackling Assignments, Pt 1: Process and Print Sources Downtown
Nov. 1, 7-9 pm Tackling Assignments, Pt. 2: Process, Electronic Databases, Internet, Malletts Creek
Nov. 15, 7-9 pm Tackling Assignments, Pt. 2 [repeat of Nov. 1], Downtown

It's that time of year again: you've made gallons of sauce, sun-dried till they were coming out of your ears, canned a batch for later, and eaten salad after salad, and there are still more tomatoes ripening on the vine. What to do?

Take a look at some of our tomato cookbooks for fresh ideas for the rest of your crop:

The Tomato Festival Cookbook
The Great Tomato Book
Lee Bailey's Tomatoes
Tomato Imperative

(And don't get me started on zucchini!)

The Diane Rehm show Wednesday October 12, 2005 hosted the best-selling author, Judith Viorst. Ms. Viorst takes a poetic and humorous look at the ins and outs of becoming a septuagenarian in her new book
"I'm Too Young to be Seventy" The vast numbers of baby boomers now officially almost 60 may be particularly interested. It seems that group likes to be ready for whatever.