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It’s here! It’s here! The first official day of the 2014 Adult Summer Reading Program is here! We hope to see everyone early and often with completed entry slips in hand! And the lucky first winner of the 2014 competitive Summer Reading season will find themselves with a lovely basket of Award Winners! If you look carefully, you’ll find award winning books like Life after Life by Kate Atkinson and Academy Award winning movies like Shakespeare in Love, along with some food treats and the classic game of cribbage -sweet!

award winners!Do you see everything? Or maybe you’d like a better look? Come on in and take a peek! And as long as you’re here, why not pick up one of these books recently added to The Reading Room:

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
The Intern’s Handbook by Shane Kuhn
Catnapped! by Elaine Viets
Authority by Jeff Vandermeer
Worthy Brown’s Daughter by Phillip Margolin

Now it’s up to you -let the reading bonanza begin!!

— Stacey

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The Adult Summer Reading Program is just about to begin! Are you ready?! Starting June 16th, we will once again be tempting adult patrons to read, read, read! -and- win, win, win! lots of cool prizes tucked into all kinds of nifty containers! (Phew, whatta sentence!) I think it might be one of the Top Ten Highlights of the Summer Season, don’t you agree? And to help you out with the goal of winning -you might be in need of some new books to read! How about one of these:

The Bughouse Affair by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini
The Impersonator by Mary Miley
The Girl with a Clock for a Heart by Peter Swanson
A Curious Man by Neal Thompson
A Star for Mrs. Blake by April Smith

So maybe start with these few and we’ll add on as you go?!

— Stacey

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Yes, my friends… I think we can feel pretty confident at this point -winter is finally over! Thank goodness! Now there are just a few school days left and then we can actually say, “It’s summertime!” Won’t that be nice?! While we’re waiting, would you like to distract yourself with a book or two?

The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
Love & Treasure by Ayelet Waldman
The Wives of Los Alamos by Tarashea Nesbit
No One Else Can Have You by Kathleen Hale
The Divorce Papers by Susan Rieer

Enjoy!

— Stacey

Latest Additions -Happy Memorial Day!

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I regret to inform you -if you weren’t paying attention to last week’s Latest Additions in which it was mentioned- the library is closed in observation of Memorial Day. I hope everyone did a little planning ahead by piling up the books? If you didn’t? Don’t panic! We’ll be open again tomorrow, bright and early! In the meantime, would you like to learn a little something about the holiday we’re all celebrating today? Memorial Day is detailed through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs with a really interesting site dedicated to stories directly from United States Military Veterans and a site that shares ideas on how to get involved! Enjoy the day with a lovely cookout with yummy s’mores (what’s a cookout if you don’t have s’mores?!) and if you spot a veteran? Maybe say thanks by making them a s’more of their own!

Enjoy!

— Stacey

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Okay. Done with the rain! How lucky there are so many fun books to read! And boy oh boy, have I been reading. Eventually, I even hope to add some of the books I’ve recently finished into The Reading Room -like my very diligent colleagues have been doing. Would you like to see some of the what’s been newly added?

I’ve Got You Under My Skinby Mary Higgins Clark
Lexicon by Max Barry
The Universe Versus Alex WoodsGavin Extence
Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead
Mercy Snow by Tiffany Baker

Don’t forget -you’ll need some extra books this week to last over Memorial Day next week… See you soon!

 — Stacey

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I hope everyone had a lovely Mother’s Day weekend -full of lovely treats and special times! For sure the weather cooperated! Do you know what would round out a lovely weekend of good experiences? How about some books to go with those yummy bonbons!

Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
Vienna Nocturne by Vivien Shotwell
Miss Julia’s Marvelous Makeover by Ann B. Ross
Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
Notorious by Allison Brennan

Enjoy!
− Stacey

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It’s May! And we’ve already been gifted with a whole bunch of holidays like: May Day and May the 4th and Cinco de Mayo!! It almost makes me feel bad for the rest of the month… I mean really, after Mother’s Day this weekend, it’s just a dull countdown until June arrives. Oh well. I guess I could distract myself from feeling kinda blue for poor old May by… reading! Would you like to do the same? Hey! Maybe you’d be interested in something newly added to The Reading Room::

Bark by Lorrie Moore
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris
Her Last Breath by Linda Castillo
The Widow’s Guide to Sex and Dating by Carole Radziwill

While you’re waiting for your weekend celebration to start, why not come to the library and join our Books Inspire the Artist Within! book discussion! You don’t have to read the book before you arrive, but Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen will surely be on your list of books to read when you leave!

See you soon!

— Stacey

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The last Monday in April? Already? Whoosh -the time is flying right on by! How does that happen? (Yes. I *am* sure that someone has written both a book on how time progresses in reality and also a book on why it occasionally seems that time is passing at particular speed -either quick or slow. I’m just being dramatic!-thank you! Anywho…) It feels like 2014 just started and here we are one-fourth of the way through… and I’m not ready! People are out there doing yardwork and then raking and then some more yardwork and then planting… I’m still inside reading! Well. I guess I’ll have to ignore all those industrious folk while I sit *outside* and read! Why not grab a book and join me?

Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler
Killing Kennedy: the End of Camelot by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
Justice for Sara by Erica Spindler
Concealed in Death by J.D. Robb
Far From You by Tess Sharpe
Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers

Enjoy!

— Stacey

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So sunny! So bright! It’s finally Spring -and just in time! I was pretty sure my case of cabin fever was going to require some serious medicating -like endless hot fudge sundaes and warm chocolate chip cookies and baskets of crispy french fries with plenty of ketchup… yum! (Okay, I might be taking a dose or two of my ‘medicine’ anyway but let’s agree not quibble over such details, shall we?) Now, instead of succumbing to cabin fever, we can get outside and … read there! Yippee!! Best of all, the cherry on top of this good news sundae? There are books recently added to The Reading Room:

Deadline by Sandra Brown
Gone by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
The English Girl by Daniel Silva
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

Hurry up! Grab a stack and get out there while the sun is still shining! We can all meet up by the ice cream truck -and enjoy!

— Stacey

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Happy National Library Week! It started yesterday and we’ll be giddy library workers all week long because… Judy Blume is the Honorary Chair this year and who doesn’t love Ms. Blume? Who?!

Right? She’s awesome! Feel free to celebrate your love of Ms. Blume and her books by making sure you’ve read (and re-read) them all!

Also today? The 2014 winners of The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism and in Books, Drama, and Music were announced! And now that you’re totally into the whole -looking at lists of winning books thing… Might you enjoy checking out the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction? Either the Longlist or the Shortlist?! Maybe you’ll want to pick something from all the different lists! And then stop in and let us know -do you agree, disagree, or feel blah about what you read okay? I’m curious!

— Stacey