The Dark is Rising are excellent. I think they stand up to a more adult reading, too. (I am not going to comment on the movie.)

I definitely need to read Anansi Boys. I think I own it, and I really really need to get around to you know, READING it.

Closed? How can they do such a thing? I live in a weird sort of in-between libraries place, so even if one were closed, I could go to another.