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Tonight: Costume Bingo!

9/29/2017

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Join us tonight at 6pm for Costume Bingo! 
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Banned Books Week - Part 5

9/29/2017

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Celebrate Banned Books Week by checking out a Banned Book and reading some of the ridiculous reasons books have been banned/challenged! For more info on this and to see other banned books, click HERE. ​​​
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This Week at the Library...

9/29/2017

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October begins next week and we're celebrating with some awesome programming! Storytime is every Tuesday and Thursday at 11am; our popular Evening Tales program is back Tuesday at 6pm with cupcake liner dragons and Creative Kids is Wednesday at 3:45pm! Struggling with your smart phone or laptop? Come receive help with basic computer issues at Open Tech Hour, Wednesday at 6pm! We're so excited about the Haunted History presentation on Friday at 6:30pm, so be sure to click HERE for more information on that program! Lastly, our Fall Writing Retreat will be Saturday at 10am (no registration required). 
We hope you'll join us next week at the library!
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Librarian Book Review: Lockwood & Co. - The Screaming Staircase

9/29/2017

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​BOOK TITLE: 
Lockwood & Co. The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

BOOK SUMMARY:
The city of London has a "Problem". Ghost, spirits, and Specters are appearing throughout the city and they're not exactly friendly. Only young people have the ability to see, hear and get rid of these troublesome beings. The three-person team at Lockwood & Co. is a small team but worthy of the task they have been hired for - to investigate one of the most haunted houses in England, Combe Carey Hall.
Will they survive the night battling the house's legendary Screaming Staircase and Red Room?
 
REVIEW:
If you like the Harry Potter series, you'll likely like this series by Jonathan Stroud.  A ghost-fighting trio made up of three youngsters who live and work together taking on and finishing off spirits. It's entertaining from the start, full of action and adventure.  Heroine Lucy Carlyle is funny and spunky even as her life twists and turns bringing her to Lockwood & Co.  Anthony Lockwood, the head of the firm, operates with quiet leadership but hides his family background behind a mysterious closed door.  George Cubbins is the researcher of the team working in archives around the city to gather as much information as possible on their supernatural foes.  

After an assignment ends disastrously leaving their firm hanging on by a thread, the group receive a curious offer from an even stranger client. They now must take part in a dangerous investigation of one of the most haunted houses in all of England, Combe Carey Hall.

The house is known for it's Screaming Staircase and Red Room.  The gang are limited in their weapons by a strange request from their client and wonder if they'll see morning!  As the night wears on, they venture further and further in the house finally entering the Red Room.  What they face on the other side of the door is unimaginable and leads them to an even more dangerous place.  The final act will have you holding your ears and hoping the end is near!  

As the two assignments merge together, an unsolved murder and an immense haunting will collide in one frightening night locked inside Combe Carey Hall. 

Traveling along with Anthony, Lucy & George is a wild, spirited ride that I think you'll enjoy and leave you wanting more.

OVERALL THOUGHTS:
I had my reservations about reading a "children's book" but I was immediately drawn into the world of Lockwood & Co.  The dialogue moves along at a nice clip with good amounts of humor mixed in to lighten the mood of ghosts and goblins.  Though I wouldn't recommend this for very young readers, or those who don't like "ghost stories", for older youngsters, teens and adults, this is a quick, entertaining, easy read well worth your time.  

I'm now reading the next book in the series "The Whispering Skull".  The author Jonathan Stroud also wrote the best-selling "Bartimaeus" books.

WHERE TO FIND AT THE LIBRARY:
Currently on the Book Picks shelf but normally found in Juvenile Fiction - J FIC STR

Cautions for Sensitive Readers:
Language: no
Violence: Some, light overall
Sex: no
Drugs/Alcohol: no

​FOR MORE BOOK REVIEWS, CLICK HERE.
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Banned Books Week - Part 4

9/28/2017

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Celebrate Banned Books Week by checking out a Banned Book and reading some of the ridiculous reasons books have been banned/challenged! For more info on this and to see other banned books, click HERE. ​​
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Today at the Library!

9/28/2017

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Join us at 11am for our Storytime program! We'll be reading "Yes We Can!" by Sam McBratney and coloring fall pictures to take home!
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Between is today at 3:45pm in the Makerspace - join us after school!

For kids, we have our popular Lego Club today at 4pm - come create with us!
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Banned Books Week - Part 3

9/27/2017

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Celebrate Banned Books Week by checking out a Banned Book and reading some of the ridiculous reasons books have been banned/challenged! For more info on this and to see other banned books, click HERE. ​
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Creative Kids & Teen Makers

9/27/2017

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Bring in the kid's after school for our Creative Kids program at 3:45pm! We'll be making a scratch off pictures!
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For teens, Teen Makers will be at 3:45pm in the Makerspace - join us for snacks, video games and creating at the Makerspace stations! 
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"The Handmaid's Tale" October Book Discussion Available

9/27/2017

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"The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood is now available for check out to all patrons participating in the October Book Discussion! Both large print and regular print copies are available at the front desk. 
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Librarian Book Review: The Alice Network

9/26/2017

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BOOK TITLE:
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

BOOK SUMMARY: (from goodreads)
In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption.

1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive. So when Charlie's parents banish her to Europe to have her "little problem" taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London, determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister.

1915. A year into the Great War, Eve Gardiner burns to join the fight against the Germans and unexpectedly gets her chance when she's recruited to work as a spy. Sent into enemy-occupied France, she's trained by the mesmerizing Lili, the "Queen of Spies", who manages a vast network of secret agents right under the enemy's nose.

Thirty years later, haunted by the betrayal that ultimately tore apart the Alice Network, Eve spends her days drunk and secluded in her crumbling London house. Until a young American barges in uttering a name Eve hasn't heard in decades, and launches them both on a mission to find the truth ...no matter where it leads.

REVIEW:
This novel flows seamlessly between the two world wars and the viewpoints of two very different women with the same quest. Eve is a bristly veteran of both wars with a stammer, a gun, lots of whisky, and revenge on the brain. She has survived hunger and cold, terror and torture, but it is her betrayal during World War I that still haunts her dreams. Charlie is a pregnant college girl during a time when girls were sent to college to get husbands, then babies, not the other way around. She has been touched secondhand by World War II when her brother committed suicide after he returned home and her cousin, Rose, disappeared in Nazi-occupied France. She has not witnessed the horrors for herself as Eve did.  After losing her brother, Charlie is on her way Europe to have her Little Problem taken care. She takes a detour, running away from her mother, and knocks on Eve’s door as the only lead she has to find her cousin.  Separated by 30 years and two world wars, both women are desperate for answers, closure, and revenge if it can be found.  Clinging to scraps of information, Eve and Charlie travel throughout France searching for answers among the evil that connects them both.

OVERALL THOUGHTS:
The Alice Network tells the story of a little known group of extraordinary everyday people who were invaluable to the Allied war effort.  The author does a wonderful job switching between the two narratives as Eve tells her story to Charlie and Finn, Eve’s driver.  I never felt like the switch was awkward, although at times I did want to read ahead to know what was happening in the spy network. I would definitely suggest reading the PS at the end for further insight to the real Louise de Bettignies, known as the queen of spies, and the head of the Alice Network. This was a very engaging read during a point in history that I find to be interesting not only because of the psychological and physical atrocities that people were able, and some more than willing, to commit against their fellow man, but also because of the quiet strength and perseverance that countless people demonstrated during and after the wars.

Where to Find in the Library: Adult Section - FIC QUI

Cautions for Sensitive Readers:
Language: Yes
Violence: Some
Sex: Yes
Drugs/Alcohol: Alcohol

FOR MORE BOOK REVIEWS, CLICK HERE.
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