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Media Contact: Leanne Ingle, 360-704-4508, or outside Thurston County calling area: (877) 284-6237, ext. 2508; e-mail: lingle@timberland.lib.wa.us.

Nancy Pearl, director of the Washington Center for the Book in Seattle, will talk about her favorite new books for adults at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, May 24 at the Lacey Timberland Library, 500 College Street SE. Pearl’s recommendations for both fiction and nonfiction are bound to surprise, entertain, and delight those who are ever seeking the next great read.

Pearl, known among many librarians as the "book talk maestro," is featured weekly on The Beat on radio station KUOW 94.9. Her mission is to promote and celebrate the written word, to develop a ‘community of the book’ throughout the state of Washington.

For more information about Saturday’s program, call the Lacey Timberland Library at 491-3860.

Timberland Regional Library serves Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, and Thurston counties at 27 community libraries and 6 school-based cooperative library centers. For information on any subject, the public can telephone Timberland’s Central Reference Service librarians at 704-INFO (704-4636) from the Olympia area or 1-800-562-6022, toll-free, from all other areas in the district. The public can also "Ask a Librarian" online at http://www.trlib.org/asklib.htm. Anyone needing special accommodations to participate in a library’s program may contact the library 4 days in advance.

Revised 05/21/03