New at St. Jude's Library

Fifteen items have been added to the shelves of this small but mighty collection.

Dream of summer with Town Gardens: Practical Ideas for Transforming Small Urban Spaces, part of an excellent selection of art and architecture books.

Brush up on your knowledge of biblical times with the Reader's Digest video Great People of the Bible and How They Lived. Stretch your brain across the millennia with Magi: the Quest for a Secret Tradition. Or meet The Bad Girls of the Bible and pick up some lessons on how to be a Good Girl in the present.

Explore more current relationships with Lord, I wish my Teenager would talk with Me; Don't seat the small stuff… and it's all small stuff and for a lively Christian marriage, try Chocolate Chili Pepper Love - Stories that Prove Opposites Attract.

Want heart-warming stories for cool times? Try Chicken Soup for the Christian Family Soul; Jan Karon's Shepherds Abiding (part of the Mitford Chronicles about an Anglican priest and parish in a small town); or James Herriot's hilarious adventures in his Yorkshire veterinary practice, The Lord God Made them All.

For the little children, share The Baby Jesus, an interactive board book with fuzzy sheep to touch, hidden tools to find, and surprises behind the curtains. Slightly older children will enjoy Bible Stories, a book with puzzle pieces that form a picture of Old Testament stories.

And take a hard look at the world-wide AIDS crisis, currently killing more than 2 million people a year, and infecting many more. The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund has produced a video called For a Generation without AIDS. It includes a visit to Uganda, where 1 person in every 9 is HIV positive, and the pandemic grows daily. The video also includes footage of a presentation by Stephen Lewis to the meeting of General Synod in 2004.