This Week @ Your Library...
Kevin Gardner, author of The Granite Kiss: Traditions and Techniques of Building New England Stone Walls, delivers an informal talk touching on the history, technique, stylistic development, and aesthetics of the stone wall. Read more...
Join Miss Carrie-Anne in the Young Readers' Room on Tuesday at 10:30, or Wednesday at 12:30, for stories, songs and fun!
In Stitches on Tuesday from 11:00-1:00
If your hobby involves stitching of any type, bring your project to the library and stitch with our group. The group meets the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month, and the odd 5th Tuesday as well.
All Booked Up on Wednesday at 6:30
Our adult discussion group will share their thoughts on The Kitchen House, by Kathleen Gissom. Join the fun and make new friends.
Pajama Story Time on Thursday at 6:30
Put your kids in their PJ's for some Story Time fun! (PJ's are optional, but fun is a must.)
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New Stuff @ Your Library!
>>New Movies for Kids and Families>>New Non-Fiction for Kids
>>New Fiction for Adults
>>New Non-Fiction for Adults
>>New Movies for Adults and Teens
>>New Documentary Movies
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This Week @ Your Library...
Join Miss Carrie-Anne again next week when Preschool Story Time resume its regular schedule.
Unraveled on Thursday from 6:00-8:00
Bring your knitting, crocheting, cross-stitching, or other needlework project, and stitch with friends.
Pick up the Latest Book Group Titles
Book Bunch: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
Page Turners: The Wish List by Eoin Colfer
All Booked Up: The Kitchen House by Kathleen Gissom
Book of the Month: Crossing the Borders of Time by Leslie Maitland
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Book Bunch Reads Ginger Pye for May
About the BookEleanor Estes’s Ginger Pye, a 1952 Newbery Medal winner, is a warm, witty mystery set in a small-town American community. Ginger Pye, the star of the show, is the very smart dog that ten-year-old Jerry Pye buys for a hard-earned dollar. The most famous pup in Cranbury (a town between Boston and New York), Ginger knows many tricks, is as loyal as he is smart, and steals the hearts of everyone he meets . . . until someone steals him! Will Jerry and his sister Rachel ever be able to find their beloved terrier? The author’s own black-and-white sketches leave just enough to the imagination.
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This Week @ Your Library...
Preschool Story Time on Tuesday or WednesdayJoin Miss Carrie-Anne in the Young Readers' Room on Tuesday at 10:30, or Wednesday at 12:30, for stories, songs and fun!
Fire-Breathing Make 'n Take, all week
Bring the kids to the library for a "hot" Make 'n Take Craft. A table will be set up with all the fixings to make an awesome Fire-Breathing Dragon to take home. Note: Make 'n Takes are not available during Story Time.
In Stitches on Tuesday from 11:00-1:00
If your hobby involves needles of the craft variety, bring your project to the library and stitch with the group!
Book Bunch on Wednesday at 4:00
3rd-5th grade Book Bunchers will discuss a variety of books by Andrew Clements,complete a short activity, and pick up next month's book. New members are always encouraged!
Stuffed Animal Sleepover on Thursday at 6:30
After a special Story Time for children and their stuffed animals, the animals will sleepover for a magical night in the library.
Pick Up a copy of The Kitchen House
Copies of Kathleen Gissom's novel are available upstairs in the "New" room. Read the novel and join the group on May 1st at 6:30.
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New Stuff @ Your Library!
>>New Stories for Early Readers
>>New Non-Fiction for Kids
>>New Audio for Kids
>>New Audio for Adults
Labels: new stuff for adults, new stuff for kids
Page Turners Read The Wish List for May
About the Book
Eoin Colfer has made millions of fans around the world with his much-loved character, Artemis Fowl, the star of his hugely best-selling series. Now, in a beautifully written novel that is already breaking records in his native Ireland, Colfer introduces readers to a lovable but troubled heroine, who has been given the opportunity for a special kind of redemption.
Meg Finn is in trouble-unearthly trouble. Cast out of her home by her stepfather after her mother's death, Meg is a wanderer, a troublemaker. But after her latest stunt, finding a place to sleep is the least of her worries. Belch, her partner in crime, has gotten her involved in the attempted robbery of an elderly man, Lowrie McCall. And things go horribly wrong. After an accidental explosion, Meg's spirit is flung into limbo, and a race begins between the demonic and the divine to win her soul.
Irreverent, hilarious, and touchingly hopeful, The Wish List takes readers on a journey of second chances, where joy is found in the most unexpected places.
Labels: book discussion for tweens, events/activities for tweens, KiDS' RooM News, page turners, TeeN RooM News
All Booked Up Reads Kitchen House for May
About the Book
When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family. Orphaned while on-board ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her adopted family, though she is set apart from them by her white skin. Eventually, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction. Lavinia finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds. When she is forced to make a choice, loyalties are brought into question, dangerous truths are laid bare, and lives are put at risk. The Kitchen House is a tragic story of page-turning suspense, exploring the meaning of family, where love and loyalty prevail.
Coming up Next: Never Have Your Dog Stuffed by Alan Alda
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New Stuff @ Your Library!
>>New Stories for Early Readers
>>New Chapter Books for Kids
>>New Non-Fiction for Kids
>>New Audio for Kids
>>New Fiction for Tweens & Teens
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This Week @ Your Library...
Join Miss Carrie-Anne on Tuesday at 10:30, or Wednesday at 12:30, for stories, songs, and fun!
Page Turners on Thursday at 2:30
The 5th-7th grade group gathers for a snack, a discussion of Hero by Mike Lupica, and a quick activity. New faces are always welcome!
Unraveled on Thursday from 6:00-8:00
Bring your knitting, crocheting, cross-stitching, or other needlework project, and stitch with friends.
Grab the Book of the Month: Crossing the Borders of Time
Leslie Maitland's title is available upstairs at the Circulation Desk.
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Stuffed Animal Sleepover is Just Around the Corner!
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, story time
Fire-Breathing Dragon Make 'n Take in April
Bring the kids to the library to create their very own Fire-Breathing Dragon.
Craft kits for the making will be available April 16-20, except during Story Time.
Make your dragon at the library or take a kit home for later.
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Crossing the Borders of Time is April's Book of the Month
About the Book
On a pier in Marseille in 1942, with desperate refugees pressing to board one of the last ships to escape France before the Nazis choked off its ports, an 18-year-old German Jewish girl was pried from the arms of the Catholic Frenchman she loved and promised to marry. As the Lipari carried Janine and her family to Casablanca on the first leg of a perilous journey to safety in Cuba, she would read through her tears the farewell letter that Roland had slipped in her pocket: “Whatever the length of our separation, our love will survive it, because it depends on us alone. I give you my vow that whatever the time we must wait, you will be my wife. Never forget, never doubt.”
Five years later – her fierce desire to reunite with Roland first obstructed by war and then, in secret, by her father and brother – Janine would build a new life in New York with a dynamic American husband. That his obsession with Ayn Rand tormented their marriage was just one of the reasons she never ceased yearning to reclaim her lost love.
Investigative reporter Leslie Maitland grew up enthralled by her mother’s accounts of forbidden romance and harrowing flight from the Nazis. Her book is both a journalist’s vivid depiction of a world at war and a daughter’s pursuit of a haunting question: what had become of the handsome Frenchman whose picture her mother continued to treasure almost fifty years after they parted? It is a tale of memory that reporting made real and a story of undying love that crosses the borders of time.
Coming in May: The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
Labels: book of the month club, ReaDiNG RooM News, reading suggestions
>>New Fiction for Adults
>>New Non-Fiction for Adults
>>New Audio for Adults
>>New Movies for Adults & Teens
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