Library Notes

Library Notes for January 4, 2023 

Happy New Year! We hope your New Year’s resolution is to read more this year. We have a wonderful collection in the library and online. Stop by and check us out. 

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ~ Haruki Murakami 

What’s Happening at the Library: Storytime with Ms. Katie will return on January 4th at 10:30.  

Book Club: January 19th at 6:00 in the basement, this month’s book is: “The Year of Pleasures” by Elizabeth Berg 

We will be closed January 16th for Martin Luther King Jr. Day 

Libby Workshop: Monday, January 23rd 2:00-4:00               

Pam’s Pick this week is: “Tom Clancy Red Winter”by Marc Cameron, this is a new Jack Ryan novel. This is the previously untold story of young Jack’s adventures behind the Iron Curtain. Jack Ryan and Mary Pat Foley cross through Checkpoint Charlie into East Berlin to retrieve something stolen from the U.S. government. The stakes are high but Jack Ryan can do it if no one else can.

New Fiction: “Into the West” by Mercedes Lackey, this is the second book in the Founding of Valdemar series, “Stella Maris” by Cormac McCarthy, and “A Dangerous Business” by Jane Smiley. 

New Christian Fiction: “The Bride of Blackfrars Lane” by Michelle Griep, this is the second book in the Blackfriars Lane series, and “Mistaken for His Amish Bride” by Patricia Davids, this is the sixth book in the North Country Amish series, and only in large print. 

New Mystery: “Devil’s Delight” by M.C. Beaton. 

New Biography: “A Man of Iron: the Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland” by Troy Senik. 

New Non-Fiction: “Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening” by Douglas Brinkley, “Amish Friends No Waste Cookbook” by Wanda E. Brunstetter, “The Sears Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby From Birth to Age Two” by William Sears, and “Tell Me What You See: Ten Stories” by Terena Elizabeth Bell. 

New Audio Books: “The Whittiers” by Danielle Steel, and “Stagecoach Revenge” by Ralph Compton. 

New Movies: “The Invitation,” and “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile.” 

New TV Season: “Bluey” season 1. 

Happy Reading! 

Pam Metts, Director