This week’s staff pick is a cozy, charming read that goes perfectly with an afternoon cup of tea. Published posthumously, A Week in Winter is Irish author Maeve Binchy’s final novel. After living in the US for many years, Chicky Starr decides to return to her hometown of Stoneybridge in […]
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The beginning of a new year is often a busy time, which means you may have missed some of our more recent news! Here’s a quick refresher on what’s new and exciting at the library: The library now offers two new ways to better manage your holds, including suspending […]
The “Once Upon a Time” Family Reading Program begins January 19 and runs through March 11! Sign up online and stop by the library to pick up your special Family Reading Folder (pictured above). Come to some special programs that celebrate folk & fairy tales! Once Upon a Time: Tales for […]
2015 is quickly coming to a close which means it’s the final days for the 2015 Read Harder Challenge. Did you manage to complete the list? What was your favorite category? We had three staff members complete all 24 tasks! Book Riot has already published their 2016 list, which you […]
Did you like the superhero theme for our 2015 Summer Reading Program? We had a lot of fun with it! Over 450 children participated in recording reading and attending library programs, and they all earned some prizes! If you attended a program that you really liked, would you take a […]
This week’s staff pick is an enchanting adult fairy tale this novel was made into the movie Stardust. Utterly charming, this staff favorite is an adventure story like you haven’t seen before. We also have the audiobook read by the author, and it’s top-notch. “In the sleepy English countryside of […]
This week’s staff pick is the beginning of an excellent fantasy series. Cover aside, our protagonist is Kate, a mercenary in a world gone topsy-turvy, and she’s funny, determined, and can kill you three times before you hit the floor. A couple of our staffers love this series, since each […]
This week’s staff pick is the lyrical, beautiful and lovely book The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George. Our staffer loved it, and we can pretty much guarantee this will be very popular with bookclubs. A truly excellent novel about love, loss, grief, and starting over, we can’t recommend this one enough. […]
This week’s staff pick is an old staffer favorite, and one that at least one of our staffer’s periodically rereads, because it’s that good. The novel is written entirely in letters and diary entries, and is completely engaging and utterly delightful. ““ I wonder how the book got to […]
Are you signed up for Summer Reading? Sign up for your category and check out our awesome prizes! Then, obviously, get reading! We only have about a month left, so log everything you read this summer, today! (And collect your prize(s)) You can see on our homepage that we have an […]