We are delighted
to report that 29 kids (and Moose,our visiting kitty) are participating in our Summer Reading Challenges… just
fun having them come into the library loaded down with the books they have
read!Last week’s
Guessing Challenge was a jar filled with small colorful squares and it's a tie! The
winners are (drum roll) Nevaeh Ballou and Finn Jaquith! The answer was 89 and Navaeh was one above and Finn was one below. Navaeh and Finn will each receive a headlamp and a new book! Congratulations to our two winners!!!
This week's challenge ends Saturday, July 24th at 1 PM. How close can you come??? The winner will be announced in next week.
Stop in for fun
activity sheets, adventure backpacks, and book review slips for our Grand Prize
Drawing!
Our Book Sale will be open Saturday, July 17th from 10 until 1. Sales are by contribution and the money earned is being set aside for some “Save on Energy” bills projects so please help us out by contributing books and buying books! Sheila has added additional books this week to the sale so come check it out.
The President's Daughter by James Patterson and Bill Clinton (2021) - a madman abducts former President Keating's teenage daughter - turning every parents' deepest fear into a matter of national security... "a rocket ride of a thriller!"
Non-Fiction...
Aerial Geology - a high altitude tour of North America's spectacular volancoes, canyons, glaciers, lakes, craters, and peaks by Mary Caperton Morton (2017) - filled with beautiful photos from a bird's eye view and descriptions of many of our favorite locations
Molotov's Magic Lantern - A Journey in Russian History by Rachel Polonsky (2011) - Ms Polonsky explores Russia's history in an interesting way when she returned to Russia and found Vyasheslav Molotov's apartment and what remained of his library and old magic lantern. This becomes the prism she looks through for the history of Russia.
John Paul Jones - Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy by Evan Thomas (2002) - Thomas draws on Jones' wide-ranging correspondence with some of the most significant figures of the American Revolution - John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson to name a few
Valiant Ambition - George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (2016) - "The book tracks the messy collision of military and political goals and shows how deep divisions among the American people posed a greater threat to their cause than the British army."
Jane just finished The Four Winds, a Novel by Kristin Hannah (2021) – Kristin has written a sweeping novel that brings life to the story of the “Great Depression” and the people who lived through it. Kristin’s prior novels of The Nightingale and The Great Alone have also been popular.
I just finished The
Orchard House by Heidi Chiavaroli (2021) – Orchard House, of course, was
the home of Louisa May Alcott and the Alcott family in Concord, Massachusetts. The
author goes back and forth between Louisa in 1865 and Taylor in 2001 and
concludes with a 2019 conclusion. Now I am currently getting to the end of Klara
and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (2021) – set in the United States in the near
future with a caste system where the “do wells” are on top and the rest left
behind and… artificial friends! The writing just flows and I am anxious to get
home to finish it! Next on my list is Eternal by Lisa Scottoline (2021),
her first ever historical novel taking place in WWII Italy and Landslide
by Susan Conley (2021) a writer from Maine. I enjoyed her novel Elsey Come
Home so I look forward to reading this one.
Don’t
forget… “Being nice to the librarian
means the difference between the right answer and a wrong one”!
See you
in the library!
