Stuffed Animal Sleepover was Loads of Fun!
Watch the slideshow to see what went on after the children left.
Labels: events/activities for kids, KiDS' RooM News, stuffed animal sleepover
This Week @ The Library...
Join Miss Carrie-Anne at 10:30 on Tuesday or 12:30 on Wedesday for stories, songs, and fun!
Cholesterol, Heart Health & YOU on Thursday @ 6:30
Family Physician Dr. Sally Al-Abdulla will present an informative program on cholesterol and heart health on Thursday, May 31st @ 6:30 p.m.
Library CLOSED on Friday
The library is closed Friday for a Staff Development day, and reopens on Saturday at 9:00 a.m.
Last Chance to Pick Up the All Booked Up Title
Have you read The Happiness Project? There are still copies available at the upstairs Circulation Desk.
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Cholesterol, Heart Health & YOU Coming Up on May 31st
Join us to...
...discover the causes of high cholesterol;
...learn how to manage high cholesterol; and
...hear how to eat for a healthy heart.
This free program is sponsored by Litchfield resident Dr. Sally Al-Abdulla of Goffstown Primary Care.
Labels: events/activities for adults, ReaDiNG RooM News, ReC RooM News
New Stuff for Kids @ Your Library!
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Find Bear Feels Scared and 41 other new items in the Young Readers' Room. |
Labels: KiDS' RooM News, new stuff for kids
New Movies for Teens & Adults @ Your Library!
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Find 2012 and three other donated movies upstairs in the "New" room. |
Labels: new movies, new stuff for adults, new stuff for teens, ReaDiNG RooM News, TeeN RooM News
New Stuff for Adults @ Your Library!
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Find 11th Hour and 13 other new titles upstairs in the "New" room. |
Labels: new stuff for adults, ReaDiNG RooM News
This Week @ The Library...
Join Miss Carrie-Anne at 10:30 on Tuesday or 12:30 on Wedesday for stories, songs, and fun!
Unraveled Drop-In Knitting Group on Thursday from 6:00-8:00
Join other knitters for a light hearted night of knitting and conversation.
CLOSED on Saturday
The library will be closed on Saturday for Memorial Day weekend.
Book Bunch Book Available in Young Readers' Room
Check-out a copy of The Trolls by Holly Horvath and join the gang in June.
Pick up a Copy of The Adventures of Maude March for Page Turners
Copies of the tween book discussion title are ready for check-out. Get yours and join the group in June.
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Book Bunch Reads The Trolls for June
From the Publisher
Aunt Sally is beyond any of Melissa, Amanda, and Pee Wee’s expectations. She has come all the way from Vancouver Island, Canada, to take care of the children while their parents are away, and right from the start, Aunt Sally enchants them with tales of her childhood with their father. Odd characters figure largely in the stories, like Maud, a hunter rumored to have killed eighty cougars; Great-uncle Louis, a health nut who insists everyone should gnaw on sticks for extra fiber; and Fat Little Mean Girl, the star of a cautionary tale involving witchcraft and candy. All of Aunt Sally’s reminiscences lead up to a crucial story about trolls, sinister creatures who supposedly lurked along the shore at night. The trolls had the power to change Aunt Sally’s life forever, and their legacy may change the lives of the three present-day children as well.
New to Book Bunch? Click here.
Labels: book discussion for kids, events/activities for kids, KiDS' RooM News
Page Turners Read The Misadventures of Maude March for June
From the Publisher
Eleven-year-old Sallie March is a whip-smart tomboy and voracious reader of Western adventure novels. When she and her sister Maude escape their self-serving guardians for the wilds of the frontier, they begin an adventure the likes of which Sallie has only read about. This time however, the "wanted woman" isn't a dime-novel villian, it's Sallie's very own sister! What follows is not the lies the papers printed, but the honest-to-goodness truth of how two sisters went from being orphans to being outlaws—and lived to tell the tale!
New to Page Turners? Click here.
Labels: book discussion for tweens, events/activities for tweens, KiDS' RooM News, page turners
Library CLOSED on June 1st
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This Week @ The Library...
Join Miss Carrie-Anne at 10:30 on Tuesday or 12:30 on Wedesday for stories, songs, and fun!
Book Bunch on Wednesday @ 4:00
Our 3rd-5th graders will discuss From the Mixed Up Files of of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler, participate in a short activity, and pick up next month's discussion title. New members are always welcome!
Stuffed Animal Sleepover on Thursday from 5:00-7:00
Stuffed Animal Sleepover drop-off is between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. Stuffed Animal Story Time begins at 6:30.
Get the Latest All Booked Up Book
Pick up your copy of The Happiness Project at the Circulation Desk and join the group on June 6th @ 6:30 p.m. Can't make the meeting? You can still check-out the book!
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Stuffed Animal Sleepover is Next Week!
Kids can drop off one of their favorite stuffed animals (but not the one they absolutely need to sleep with) any time from 5:00-7:00 pm.
At 6:30 pm, Miss Carrie-Anne will begin a special Pajama Story Time for the animals and any of the children that can stay. She will read a few bedtime stories, and the children will sing a lullaby to their animals and give them a good-night kiss. The animals will be tucked in for the night and the children will be sent home.
Labels: events/activities for kids, KiDS' RooM News, stuffed animal sleepover
Cholesterol, Heart Health & YOU
Join us to...
...discover the causes of high cholesterol;
...learn how to manage high cholesterol; and
...hear how to eat for a healthy heart.
This free program is sponsored by Litchfield resident Dr. Sally Al-Abdulla of Goffstown Primary Care.
Labels: events/activities for adults, ReaDiNG RooM News, ReC RooM News
All Booked Up Reads The Happiness Project for June
About the Book
Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. "The days are long, but the years are short," she realized. "Time is passing, and I'm not focusing enough on the things that really matter." In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project.
In this lively and compelling account of that year, Rubin carves out her place alongside the authors of bestselling memoirs such as Julie and Julia, The Year of Living Biblically, and Eat, Pray, Love. With humor and insight, she chronicles her adventures during the twelve months she spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific research, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier.
Rubin didn't have the option to uproot herself, nor did she really want to; instead she focused on improving her life as it was. Each month she tackled a new set of resolutions: give proofs of love, ask for help, find more fun, keep a gratitude notebook, forget about results. She immersed herself in principles set forth by all manner of experts, from Epicurus to Thoreau to Oprah to Martin Seligman to the Dalai Lama to see what worked for her—and what didn't.
Her conclusions are sometimes surprising—she finds that money can buy happiness, when spent wisely; that novelty and challenge are powerful sources of happiness; that "treating" yourself can make you feel worse; that venting bad feelings doesn't relieve them; that the very smallest of changes can make the biggest difference—and they range from the practical to the profound.
Written with charm and wit, The Happiness Project is illuminating yet entertaining, thought-provoking yet compulsively readable. Gretchen Rubin's passion for her subject jumps off the page, and reading just a few chapters of this book will inspire you to start your own happiness project.
Next Month: Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Labels: all booked up, book discussion for adults, events/activities for adults, ReaDiNG RooM News
New Movies for Teens & Adults @ Your Library!
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Find War Horse and 3 other new items upstairs in the "New" room. |
Labels: new movies, new stuff for adults, new stuff for teens, ReaDiNG RooM News, TeeN RooM News
New Movies for Kids @ Your Library!
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Find Chipwrecked and 2 other new items in the Young Readers' Room. |
Labels: KiDS' RooM News, new stuff for kids
New Stuff for Adults @ Your Library!
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Find Seal Target Geronimo and 14 other new items upstairs in the "New" room. |
Labels: new stuff for adults, ReaDiNG RooM News
New Stuff for Teens @ Your Library!
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Find Mockingjay and 13 other new items upstairs in the Teen area. |
Labels: new stuff for teens, TeeN RooM News
This Week @ The Library...
Join Miss Carrie-Anne at 10:30 on Tuesday or 12:30 on Wedesday for stories, songs, and fun!
Page Turners on Thursday @ 2:30
Our 5th-7th grade tween book group will have a snack, share their thoughts on The Phantom Tollbooth, and complete an activity.
Unraveled on Thursday from 6:00-8:00
Join other knitters for a light hearted night of knitting and conversation.
Caterpillar No More Make 'n Take All Week
Bring the kids in for this butterfly craft. Make it while you're at the library, or put it together at home.
Grab a Copy of the Book of the Month
Get a copy of Abide With Me by Elizabeth Strout at the upstairs Circulation Desk.
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Abide By Me is May's Book of the Month
From the Publisher
In her luminous and long-awaited new novel, bestselling author Elizabeth Strout welcomes readers back to the archetypal, lovely landscape of northern New England, where the events of her first novel, Amy and Isabelle, unfolded. In the late 1950s, in the small town of West Annett, Maine, a minister struggles to regain his calling, his family, and his happiness in the wake of profound loss. At the same time, the community he has served so charismatically must come to terms with its own strengths and failings–faith and hypocrisy, loyalty and abandonment–when a dark secret is revealed.
Tyler Caskey has come to love West Annett, “just up the road” from where he was born. The short, brilliant summers and the sharp, piercing winters fill him with awe–as does his congregation, full of good people who seek his guidance and listen earnestly as he preaches. But after suffering a terrible loss, Tyler finds it hard to return to himself as he once was. He hasn’t had The Feeling–that God is all around him, in the beauty of the world–for quite some time. He struggles to find the right words in his sermons and in his conversations with those facing crises of their own, and to bring his five-year-old daughter, Katherine, out of the silence she has observed in the wake of the family’s tragedy.
A congregation that had once been patient and kind during Tyler’s grief now questions his leadership and propriety. In the kitchens, classrooms, offices, and stores of the village, anger and gossip have started to swirl. And in Tyler’s darkest hour, a startling discovery will test his congregation’s humanity–and his own will to endure the kinds of trials that sooner or later test us all.
In prose incandescent and artful, Elizabeth Strout draws readers into the details of ordinary life in a way that makes it extraordinary. All is considered–life, love, God, and community–within these pages, and all is made new by this writer’s boundless compassion and graceful prose.
Coming Next Month: Redhook Road by Ayelet Waldman.
Labels: book of the month club, ReaDiNG RooM News, reading suggestions
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