Library Open on Tuesday
The library will open regular hours beginning tomorrow morning. If you have devices you need to charge, stop in and we'll hook you up!
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No Story Time This Week
See you next week!
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Board Meeting Minutes and Reports
All Booked Up Reads The Help for November
From the Publisher
Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women:
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women-mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends-view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.
Next Month: Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers is the Book of the Month in October
From the Barnes & Noble
Okay, you're thinking, this must be some kind of a joke. A humorous book about cadavers? Yup, and it works. Mary Roach takes the age-old question, "What happens to us after we die?" quite literally. And in Stiff, she explores the "lives" of human cadavers from the time of the ancient Egyptians all the way up to current campaigns for human composting. Along the way, she recounts with morbidly infectious glee how dead bodies are used for research ranging from car safety and plastic surgery (you'll cancel your next collagen injection after reading this!), to the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin.
Impossible (and irreverent) as it may sound, Roach has written a book about corpses that's both lively and fresh. She traveled around the globe to conduct her forensic investigations, and her findings are wryly intelligent. While the myriad uses for cadavers recounted are often graphic, Roach imbues her subject with a sense of dignity, choosing to emphasize the oddly noble purposes corpses serve, from organ donation to lifesaving medical research. Readers will come away convinced of the enormous debt that we, the living, owe to the study of the remains of the dead. And while it may not offer the answer to the ancient mystery we were hoping for, Stiff offers a strange sort of comfort in the knowledge that, in a sense, death isn't necessarily the end.
Next Month: Play Dead by Harlan Coben
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This Week @ The Library...
Join Miss Carrie-Anne on Tuesday at 10:30 or Wednesday at 12:30 for stories, songs and fun!
Donate to the Sophomore Project
Participate in a CHS Sophomore Project by dropping off a donation for our troops serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Get Your Copy of The Help
All Booked Up is reading The Help for their Novemeber meeting. Copies are available at the upstairs Circulation Desk.
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CHS Sophomore Project
He has placed a box here at the library for the community to donate any of the following items that have been requested by soldiers:
- beef jerky
- pumpkin and sunflower seeds
- tuna in foil pouches
- granola and power bars
- trail mix
- dried fruit
- gummies
- nuts
- gum and hard candy
- cheese and cracker packs
- coffee and hot chocolate packets
- instant drink mixes
- travel size baby wipes
- travel size hand sanitizer
- body wash
- lip balm/chap stick
- travel size baby and foot powder
- toothpaste, toothbrushes and floss
- moleskin
- AA and AAA batteries
- small toys like beanie babies to hand out to local children
- letters of support and encouragement
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Library Closed this Friday
Any materials due on Friday, may be returned with no late fees to:
a) the 24/7 book or A/V returns next to the back door before 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, or
b) a Circulation Desk inside by 8:00 p.m. Tuesday.
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Remember to READ 4 THe FuN oF iT @ Aaron Cutler Memorial Library!
