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Every week, librarian Judy Woodward compiles the most interesting reference questions and sends them to the Roseville Review. Here's this week's astronomical inquiry! Q. I’ve heard there is supposed to be a really big comet coming later this year. Do you have any information about that? A. The Comet of the Century may be coming in November---maybe. That’s the news from the nation’s astronomers, who say that Russian scientists first spotted the comet in September 2012. They decided to name the newly spotted comet ISON after their employer, International Scientific Optical Network. Comet ISON will reach its perihelion on Thanksgiving Day,... Read More »

Looking to keep up on all the books written about in the local papers?  We can help! The Pioneer Press featured: Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende -After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to the remote island of Chiloé, off coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life. Maya, a young American on the run records in her diary her adjustment to a new country, her drug problems, her romantic life, and other... Read More »