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This Week @ Your Library...
Join Miss Carrie-Anne in the Young Readers' Room for stories, songs and fun!
NEW TIME: In Stitches on Tuesday from 10:00-12:00
If your hobby is knitting, crocheting, cross-stitch, or any other kind of stitching, bring your project to the library and stitch with our group! In Stitches meets the 1st, 3rd and 5th Tuesdays of each month.
NEW!! Book Babies on Friday at 10:30
Book Babies is a lapsit program for babies (newborn to 18 months) and their caregivers. The 20 minute program includes simple board books, rhymes and songs. Contact Miss Carrie-Anne to register.
NEW!! Tiny Tales on Friday at 11:30
This is a reminder for those who are registered for Tiny Tales, a story time for toddlers (ages 12-35 months) and their caregivers that bridges baby story time and preschool story time.
Currently Available Book Group Titles
All Booked Up: Go With Me by Castle Freeman
History Buffs: Nothing Like It In The World by Stephen Ambrose
Book of the Month: Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran
Book Bunch: Dominic by William Steig
Page Turners: Gideon: The Catpurse by Linda Buckley-Archer
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Harnessing History: New Hampshire's State Dog, the Chinook
- Discover how dog sledding developed in New Hampshire and how the Chinook played a major role in this story.
- Find out how man and his relationship with dogs won out over machines on several famous polar expeditions.
- Learn the history of Arthur Walden and his Chinooks, the State Dog of NH.
- Meet Tug, Cottrell's chinook, and see how a sled dog is harnessed.
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This Week @ Your Library...
Preschool Story Time will only be held on Wednesday this week. Join Miss Carrie-Anne in the Young Readers' Room for stories, songs and fun!
Unraveled on Thursday from 6:00-8:00
If your hobby is knitting, crocheting, cross-stitch, or any other kind of stitching, bring your project to the library and stitch with our group! Unraveled meets the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month.
Library CLOSED on FRIDAY
The library is closed on Friday for staff development, and will reopen on Saturday at 9:00 a.m. Book Babies and Tiny Tales will resume next week on November 1st.
Currently Available Book Group Titles
All Booked Up: Go With Me by Castle Freeman
History Buffs: Nothing Like It In The World by Stephen Ambrose
Book of the Month: Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran
Book Bunch: Dominic by William Steig
Page Turners: Gideon: The Catpurse by Linda Buckley-Archer
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History Buffs Read Nothing Like It In The World for November
This group will continue to meet on the 3rd Thursday of each month, to discuss American History titles.
About the Book
Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad — the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks.
The U.S. government pitted two companies — the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads — against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. Locomotives, rails, and spikes were shipped from the East through Panama or around South America to the West or lugged across the country to the Plains. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise, with its huge expenditure of brainpower, muscle, and sweat, comes vibrantly to life.
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NEW!! Book Babies on Fridays at 10:30
The 20 minute program includes simple board books, rhymes and songs.
Registration is required. Contact Miss Carrie-Anne at 424-4044.
Labels: book babies, events/activities for kids, KiDS' RooM News, story time
Library Closed Friday, October 25th
The library will be closed on Friday, October 25th for staff development, and will re-open on Saturday, October 26th at 9:00 a.m.
Labels: iNFoRMaTioN BooTH News, library closings
Book Bunch Reads Dominic for November
About the Book
Dear Friends,
I
am leaving in rather a hurry to see more of the world, so I have no
time to say goodbye to you individually. I embrace you all and sniff you
with love. I don’t know when I’ll be back. But back I will be.
Dominic
It’s time for a change, so
Dominic packs his collection of hats and his piccolo and heads out,
letting the world take him where it may. When Dominic encounters members
of the Doomsday Gang, he easily foils their attempt to rob him. Legend
of his victory quickly spreads, and each new friend Dominic meets tells
him a story of their own less-fortunate meeting with the villains, and
asks for help from the heroic dog. But can one lone dog bring down an
entire band of hooligans?
Dominic sets off on a journey to nowhere in particular, but his adventures are anything but ordinary.
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24/7 Friends of the Library Porch Sale Ends October 20th!
Just look at these prices:
Hardcover books--50 cents each or 5/$2
Paperback books--25 cents each or 5/$1
Children's paperback books--15 cents each or 5/$.50
Audio Books--50 cents or 3/$1.25
Videos & DVDs--50 cents each or 5/$2
Music CDs & CD-ROMs--50 cents each or 5/$2
The sale is open 24 hours a day. You can make payment inside when the library is open, or use one of our envelopes to leave your payment in the book return when the library is closed. As in the past, additional materials are being added to the Porch Sale as space becomes available, so be sure to shop often!
All proceeds benefit the library and its programs.
Labels: book sale, FRieNDS' CoRNeR News
Page Turners Read Gideon: the Catpurse for November
About the Book
1763. Gideon Seymour, cutpurse and gentleman, hides from the villainous Tar Man. Suddenly the sky peels away like fabric and from the gaping hole fall two curious-looking children. Peter Schock and Kate Dyer have fallen straight from the twenty-first century, thanks to an experiment with an antigravity machine. Before Gideon and the children have a chance to gather their wits, the Tar Man takes off with the machine — and Kate and Peter's only chance of getting home. Soon Gideon, Kate, and Peter are swept into a journey through eighteenth-century London and form a bond that, they hope, will stand strong in the face of unfathomable treachery.
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All Booked Up Reads Go With Me for November
Go With Me by Castle Freeman, Jr. is All Booked Up's selection for their November 6th meeting at 6:30 p.m. Copies of the novel are available upstairs at the Circulation Desk.
About the Book
A young woman recently relocated to a tiny Vermont logging town, Lillian is menaced by a mysterious stalker named Blackway. This one man—who kills her cat, forces her boyfriend to flee the state in terror, and silently threatens her very existence—is a force little understood by the local figures to whom she turns for help. Yet, in this spare and powerful tale, Lillian enlists the powerful brute Nate and the curmudgeonly Lester to take the fight to her tormenter as a raggedy quartet of town elders ponders her likely fate. With simple strength and extraordinary force, Go with Me is a riveting modern fable of good provoked to resist evil.
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This Week @ Your Library...
The Friends of the Library's annual 24/7 Porch Sale of used books ends Sunday October 20th. Additional titles are added as space opens up, so shop it more than once!
Kid's Make 'n Take Craft, all week
Bring your kids in this week to make an autumn leaf man to take home and enjoy.
Preschool Story Time on Tuesday at 10:30 or Wednesday at 12:30
Join Miss Carrie-Anne in the Young Readers' Room for stories, songs and fun!
In Stitches on Tuesday from 11:00-1:00
If your hobby is knitting, crocheting, cross-stitch, or any other kind of stitching, bring your project to the library and stitch with our group! In Stitches meets the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Thursday of each month.
Book Bunch on Wednesday at 4:00
3rd-5th grade Book Bunchers will discuss Magic Below Stairs by Carol Stevermer, complete a short activity, and pick up next month's book. New members are always encouraged!
History Buffs on Thursday at 6:30
Join the 3rd meeting of our new American history book group as they discuss The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan.
NEW!! Book Babies on Friday at 10:30
Book Babies is a lapsit program for babies (newborn to 18 months) and their caregivers. The 20 minute program includes simple board books, rhymes and songs. Contact Miss Carrie-Anne to register.
NEW!! Tiny Tales on Friday at 11:30
This is a reminder for those who are registered for Tiny Tales, a story time for toddlers (ages 12-35 months) and their caregivers that bridges baby story time and preschool story time.
Currently Available Book Group Titles
All Booked Up: Go With Me by Castle Freeman
History Buffs: The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Book of the Month: Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran
Book Bunch: Magic Below Stairs by Carol Stevermer
Page Turners: Gideon: The Catpurse by Linda Buckley-Archer
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Madame Tussaud is the Book of the Month for October
About the Book
Smart and ambitious, Marie Tussaud has learned the secrets of wax sculpting by working alongside her uncle in their celebrated wax museum, the Salon de Cire. From her popular model of the American ambassador, Thomas Jefferson, to her tableau of the royal family at dinner, Marie’s museum provides Parisians with the very latest news on fashion, gossip, and even politics. Her customers hail from every walk of life, yet her greatest dream is to attract the attention of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI; their stamp of approval on her work could catapult her and her museum to the fame and riches she desires. After months of anticipation, Marie learns that the royal family is willing to come and see their likenesses. When they finally arrive, the king’s sister is so impressed that she requests Marie’s presence at Versailles as a royal tutor in wax sculpting. It is a request Marie knows she cannot refuse—even if it means time away
from her beloved Salon and her increasingly dear friend, Henri Charles.
As Marie gets to know her pupil, Princesse Élisabeth, she also becomes acquainted with the king and queen, who introduce her to the glamorous life at court. From lavish parties with more delicacies than she’s ever seen to rooms filled with candles lit only once before being discarded, Marie steps into a world entirely different from her home on the Boulevard du Temple, where people are selling their teeth in order to put food on the table.
Meanwhile, many resent the vast separation between rich and poor. In salons and cafés across Paris, people like Camille Desmoulins, Jean-Paul Marat, and Maximilien Robespierre are lashing out against the monarchy. Soon, there’s whispered talk of revolution. . . . Will Marie be able to hold on to both the love of her life and her friendship with the royal family as France approaches civil war? And more important, will she be able to fulfill the demands of powerful revolutionaries who ask that she make the death masks of beheaded aristocrats, some of whom she knows?
Spanning five years, from the budding revolution to the Reign of Terror, Madame Tussaud brings us into the world of an incredible heroine whose talent for wax modeling saved her life and preserved the faces of a vanished kingdom.
Coming Next Month: Thanksgiving: How to Cook it Well by Sam Sifton
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