Pandora Online Music

Looking for some free music? Look no further than Pandora for free and legal music. All you do is create an account, put in your favorite band, and Pandora generates a custom radio station that plays your favorite band and music with a similar style.

Halo 3 Tournament

Are you any good at Halo? Want to put your skills to the test against Norridge’s best? Come to Eisenhower Library on Saturday January 3rd, 2009 at 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. First Place prize is a $20 GameStop gift certificate. Second prize is a case of Mountain Dew and Cheetos. If you are under eighteen, you will need a parent permission form that is available at the library answers desk.

Genre of the Month – Books for Guys

This month, for Genre of the Month, we will be looking at books for guys. Below is a .pdf with a list of Books for Guys at Eisenhower Library. Below that will be a review of five books picked by the staffj just to whet your appetite.

List – Books for Guys

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Shift
Jennifer Bradbury

When best friends Chris and Win go on a cross country bicycle trek the summer after graduating and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened.

Godless
Pete Hautman

When Jason decides to make a mockery of religion by starting his own faith that revolves around the worshipping of a water tower, his friends go along with the gag until “followers” begin to look to them for guidance and Jason’s friends get power-hungry in their roles as founders of the new faith.

Evil Genius
Catherine Jinks

As a diligent student of criminal mastermind Dr. Phineas Darkkon, Cadel Piggott has grown into quite an intelligent thief and computer hacker, but at fourteen and with new plots on the agenda, Cadel begins to rethink his future and the evil plans his mentor has in store for the world.

Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
Jordan Sonnenblick

The life of eighth-grader Steven Alper, already complicated by his friendship with two girls and a prodigious talent for drumming, is turned upside down when his five-year-old brother Jeffrey is diagnosed with leukemia.

Ferryhalim Orisinal Games

Looking for some fun games to play? Ferryhelim Orisinal games contains several fun and innovative games like Sunny Day Sky, where you fly on an umbrella across a busy street, or Cats where you score points by making every cat follow the leader cat.

National Novel Writing Month

Got a novel idea kicking around in your head, but you just don’t have the initiative to write it? Well, here’s your excuse. November is National Novel Writing month, so, if you want to get a novel published, start now in celebration.

For more information, go to the NANOWRIMO site.