Sunday, February 4, 2024

 

Byron G Merrill Library, 10 Buffalo Road, Rumney NH 03266 - Website - rumneylibrary.org


February 18, 2024 Newsletter Update

Our Hours: Mondays 10 - 1 and 3- 5:30, Wednesdays 1 - 5:30,
 Saturdays 10 -1, and Sundays 2 - 4

Yes!!! We will be open Presidents Day, Monday, Feb 19th our regular hours!

This past week was busy with Valentine celebrations and our sewing group doing their thing on Saturday. Meet Ari... one of our seamstresses! The anticipation, sewing in progress, and the final product... a reversible apron!!



Happening This Week! 



February 19 (Monday) at 10ish..... Family Fun Time....Story Time, craft, play! This week we   will be reading the BIGGEST book ever... Rainy City Rainbow. This book is filled with cars, shops, umbrellas, puddles, and lots of color. We will be using our paints to see what we can do with color. Hope you can join us!
 


February 23 (Friday) at 5:30  In honor of Black History Month, our community book discussion will be taking place at the library. Supper will be provided! Our conversation will be facilitated to help keep us focused and on topic. For questions and to help us plan the food, please email Katy at katy@rumneylibrary.org 


February 25 (Sunday) 2 - 4 
You are invited to visit the library and join our
 Rumney Community Birthday Celebration
this coming Sunday afternoon 

We will be honoring folks fortunate enough to have been born in the month of February! Thus far we have 12 birthdays to celebrate (Dottie, Donna, Wendy, Spring, Sage, Tarn, Zinc, Josh, Nathan, Robin, Katy and Susan). Who are we missing??? Please let Susan know asap.   We want to make this a humdinger of a celebration!!!

We will be singing, taking pictures, and feasting on birthday cake! This is a come and go activity so hope you can stop by!

Who is invited?? Anyone with a February birthday plus their guests and anyone who just likes a good party... Some of us have a lot to celebrate!!!


 New Adult Fiction:

My Name is Ona Judge by Suzette Harrison

New Hampshire, 1796. “My name is Ona Judge and I escaped from the household of the President of the United States. I was the favored maid of George and Martha Washington, but they deemed me property, and I hear 10 dollar is offered as a reward for my capture.”( Historical fiction)

 The Little Liar by Mitch Albom

Mitch Albom returns with his most important novel to date, an unforgettable story of truth and lies set during the Holocaust.

Anna O by Matthew Blake

Matthew Blake delivers the thriller of the year: a dark, twisty, and shocking mystery about a young woman who commits a double murder under the most unlikely of circumstances.

 First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

Evie Porter has everything a nice Southern girl could want: a doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence, a tight group of friends. The only catch? Evie Porter doesn’t exist.

 The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

National Book award winner. A novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them.

 The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

A four-year-old Mi’Kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years.

 Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

The world of video game design, where success brings two friends fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.

 New Adult Nonfiction

 Never Caught: The Washingtons Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

 How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

The stunning story of the author’s struggle to break free of her repressive Rastafari upbringing, ruled by her father’s rigid patriarchal views, to find her own voice as a woman.

 New Young Adult Fiction

 The Inheritance Games, books 1 &2 by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

 Belladonna by Adalyn Grace

 A Court of Thorn and Roses- the entire 5 book series!- by Sarah J. Maas

 What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez

 Fourth Wing and Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

That's all the news for now. We will be back next Sunday with an update.
Meanwhile, have a great week and we hope you will pay us a visit!
The Library Ladies



 

 

 




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