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A sincere thank you goes out to everyone who supported the Wine & Cheese fundraiser event! Thanks to the Friends of the Library and their continuous work to help the library. Thanks to all who attended, supplied refreshments, auction items, and door prizes. We appreciate all who purchased auction items and gave donations.
The library programming for children continues this week and next. Storytime for the little ones and their parents/caregivers meets on Tuesdays at 10 A.M.
Elementary students are invited to After School Squad on Wednesdays at 3:30. Lego Club for all ages is held on Thursdays at 4:30.
There will be no programming the week of December 23 or December 30. Programs will resume the first week of January.
The library will be closed Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
The Book Challenge for December is to reread your favorite book. Contact the library when you have completed the challenge and your name will be entered into a drawing for a $10 gift certificate from a local business.
The year is almost over and you have just a few weeks to complete the 2019 Reading Challenge to read at least 52 books this year. Contact the library when you complete the goal and your may win a fabulous "Blast the Winter Blues" gift basket including a $25 gift card.
Are in you in a mood for some great holiday stories? Check out the Christmas Book Tree and the large selection of holiday books.
Each week new books arrive at the library. Here are some new titles for you to choose from.
"Gone Too Long" is by Lori Roy. On the day a truck rattles past ten-year-old Beth's house and a Klan flyer lands in her yard she disappears. Seven years later Imogene Coulter is burying her father, a Klan leader she has spent her life trying to avoid. When she clears out her father's property she discovers a child. Young and alive in an abandoned basement, and behind a door that only locks from the outside.
Gilly MacMillan is the writer of "The Nanny." In the summer of 1987 Hannah, the Holt's family nanny, left with no explanation. Seven-year-old Jo blames her mother, aristocratic Virginia. Thirty years later Jo returns to her childhood home in the wake of a tragedy. There she is forced to confront her troubled relationship with her mother. When a human skull is found on the property Jo questions everything.
A new biography of Frederick Douglass is by David W. Blight. Douglass was the most important African American of the nineteenth century. Blight's long-awaited authoritative biography is based in part on papers never seen by previous biographers.
A new Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child is "Blue Moon." On a bus trip Reacher steps off to help an elderly man who is a victim waiting to happen. Reacher finds himself a wanted man in the middle of a turf war between rival Ukrainian and Albanian gangs. The odds are against him, but Reacher believes in a certain kind of justice that comes along once in a blue moon.
Two new cookbooks are "The Pioneer Woman Cooks The New Frontier" by Ree Drummond and "Rachel Ray 50." Both of these are full of great entertaining ideas!
