Library

Regular library hours are Monday-Thursday, 9:00 a.m.-noon, 1:00-3:00 p.m.; and Sunday mornings, 8:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m. The library is located on the second floor of the main building, near the main entrance at the northeast corner of the church.

The HPUMC library contains more than 17,000 volumes, including Children and Junior books, Children’s Christian videos, a wide variety of Adult books, large print books, Bibles and Commentaries and sermon audiocassettes and CDs from Sunday Sanctuary, Cox and Cornerstone services.

The library offers a variety of volunteer opportunities. Working with the Librarian is a loyal group of volunteers who perform many necessary duties to maintain a library with an outstanding reputation.  Funding to purchase new books for the library is acquired through special gifts, honorariums and memorials. This is a wonderful and meaningful way to honor someone special. The gifts of many people through the years have given pleasure and provided learning tools to the patrons of the library.

 

If a book you wish to read is checked out, please fill out a reserve form or call Ann Williams at 214.523.2273, and we will call you as soon as it is returned.
 
SOME NEW BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY

FICTION
The Blue Star, by Tony Earley
Change of Heart, by Jodi Picoult (also in large print)
Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana: A Novel, by Anne Rice
Come Walk with Me, by Joan Medlicott (large print)
The Commoner, by John B. Schwartz
Hard Row, by Margaret Maron
Hard Trail to Follow, by Elmer Kelton
Honor Thyself, by Danielle Steel (also in large print)
John: A Novel, by Niall Williams
The Miracle at Speedy Motors, by Alexander McCall Smith
Peony in Love, by Lisa See
A Person of Interest, by Susan Choi
A Prisoner of Birth, by Jeffrey Archer
The Reserve, by Russell Banks
The Shack, by William P. Young
Someday, by Karen Kingsbury
Stranger in Paradise, by Robert B. Parker
The Ten-Year nap, by Meg Wolitzer
The Third Angel, by Alice Hoffman
Where Are You Now?, by Mary Higgins Clark (also in large print)
The Whole Truth, by David Baldacci

NON FICTION
The Art of Helping, by Lauren L. Briggs
Cabin Pressure, by Josh Wolk
The Case for Civility, by Os Guinness
Celery Vases, by Dorothy Daugherty
Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, by Richard Newman
The Game of My Life, by Jason McElwain
God’s Problem, by Bart D. Ehrman
Historical Atlas of Texas Methodism, by John Wesley Hardt
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, by Julie Andrews
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s, by John E. Robison
Maya Angelou: A Glorious Celebration, by Marcia Gillespie
My Mother, Your Mother, by Dennis McCullough
The New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, by Eckhart Tolle
Paul Between Damascus and Antioch, by Martin Hengel
Sandhills Boy, by Elmer Kelton
Surprised by Hope, by N. T. Wright
The Great Swim, by Gavin Mortimer
Where Did I Leave My Glasses?, by Martha W. Lear
Your Child’s Strengths, by Jenifer Fox

The Children’s Library has the 2008 Caldecott & Newbery Medal Books:
The Caldecott Medal Winner is The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
The Newbery Medal Winner is Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village.

Come by your library to check out these and many more new children’s books.