Library News for August 10, 2022

The library building is open to the public on Monday through Thursday, 9:00 am – 7:00 pm, and Friday and Saturday from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm.

School-age children are invited to Lego My Library on Saturday, August 20, at 11:00 am. Miss Abby will have a fun build challenge ready for our builders.

Teens are invited to join our teen book club. This month we’re reading Forest of Souls by Lori M. Lee. Copies of the book are at the circulation desk. The teen book club will meet on Thursday, August 25, at 5:00 pm.

On Saturday, August 27, at 10:00 am, a photography workshop is open to patrons of all ages. Space is limited, so pre-registration is required for this free program. Call 270-237-3861 to register today.

New books for children include: Poppy’s House by Karla Courtney, Begin One Way: A Children’s Book of Road Signs by Loana Stoian, The Star That Always Stays by Anna Rose Johnson, I’m Going to Kindergarten! by Andrea Posner-Sanchez, Pete the Cat’s Not So Groovy Day by Kimberly & James Dean, Who Was Alexander the Great? by Kathryn Waterfield and Robin Waterfield, Where is the Parthenon? by Robert Edwards, Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Perfection by Matthew Swanson & Robbie Behr, Magic Tree House Fact Tracker: Ancient Greece and the Olympics by Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie Pope Boyce, Turkey Goes to School by Wendi Silvano, The Cat Encyclopedia by DK Publishing, Two Dogs by Ian Falconer, The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook by Dinah Bucholz, Fossils for Kids by Ashley Hall, and Endless Ever After by Laurel Snyder and Dan Santat.

New books for young adults include: Tha Paladin Prophecy: Rogue: Book III by Mark Frost, Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, The Enchanter Heir by Cinda Williams Chima, The Damned by Renée Ahdieh, A Year to the Day by Robin Benway, Love and Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch, and Sabriel: 25th Anniversary Classic Edition by Garth Nix.

New books on the adult fiction shelf include: Grace Under Fire by Julie Garwood, Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter by Lizzie Pook, Local Gone Missing by Fiona Barton, These Impossible Things by Salma El-Wardany, The Messy Lives of Book People by Phaedra Patrick, Ordinary Monsters by J.M. Miro, Island Time by Georgia Clark, Meant to be Mine by Hannah Orenstein, One of the Girls by Lucy Clarke, Hatchet Island by Paul Doiron, The Teacher of Warsaw by Mario Escobar, It All Comes Down to This by Therese Anne Fowler, The Wife Before by Shanora Williams, As Seen on TV by Meredith Schorr, The Blue Diamond by Leonard Goldberg, Byway to Danger by Sandra Merville Hart, Her Dying Day by Mindy Carlson, and Remember Love by Mary Balogh.

New books on the adult non-fiction shelf include: The Chief Witness: Escape from China’s Modern-Day Concentration Camps by Sayragul Sauytbay and Alexandra Cavelius, Edible Plants: A Photographic Survey of the Wild Edible Botanicals of North America by Jimmy W. Fike, Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder by Charles Graeber, and Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings by Chrysta Bilton.

To get a free library card, call 270-237-3861 or stop by the library with a photo I.D. and a recently postmarked piece of mail. Then you’ll be able to check out or download library materials. Also, if there’s a particular book, movie, or music artist you would like added to the collection, please let us know. We’ll do our best to fulfill your requests.

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