I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Less than a month until Christmas! Have you started your Christmas shopping? If you haven't, the Morrisville Public Library is the one stop Christmas shop for you! The Friends of the Library's Annual Silent Auction is still going on! Stop in and bid on something today! There are toys, artwork, Christmas decorations, puzzles, gift certificates to local area businesses and LOTS more! Finish your Christmas shopping with us. The silent auction ends December 15 so hurry in today!

The Adult Book Talk, Traveling Mercies, will be this Friday December 5 at 7pm in the program room. This book talk was postponed on November 24 due to inclement weather. Morrisville State College professor Roxanna Pisiak will be facilitating this enlightening discussion!

Be sure not to miss our favorite storyteller, Tom Lemery, on Monday December 8. He has a wonderful show planned for the young and old! His show begins promptly at 6:30pm and will run until 8pm. If anyone can get you into the holiday spirit it will be Tom! Don't miss this wonderful event!

Kiddies Korner topics for the next two weeks are: December 9- Holiday ornament making. The children will make holiday ornaments to take home. December 16 the children will learn about Santa Claus. (I've been told that Santa is going to try to take some time out of his busy schedule to be there. I guess it will depend on if the kids have been good this year!) Kiddies Korner is every Tuesday from 10:30-11:30am. Be sure to bring your child or grandchild in for an exciting time!

The Morrisville Public Library is proud to present FAMILY BINGO NIGHT! Every Thursday night starting December 11, the library will be hosting bingo! This is open to all ages and all we ask is that children be accompanied by an adult. Bingo starts at 6:30pm in the program room. Kids will win fun prizes! Take time out of your busy holiday schedule to relax and play a few games of bingo!

The Friends of the Library are hosting their Annual Open House again this year! It will be December 12 from 3-7pm. Be sure to stop in and meet some of the staff and see all the changes the library has made over the past year! Refreshments and baked goods will be served. It's a wonderful opportunity for the library to thank all the patrons for their continued support.

Some other activities for December include: The Holiday Extravaganza Young Adult Story Hour on December 15, The Snow Maiden Puppet Show on December 17, and The Grinch Who Stole Christmas Young Adult Story Hour on December 22. Details will follow on these programs in the near future.

An important reminder: The library will be closing early on Christmas Eve! The library will close at 3pm and not reopen until January 2 at noon. Be sure to stop in and check out enough materials to last over the Christmas and New Year break!

Some new fiction books this week are Engaging the Enemy by Nora Roberts and Stuart Woods' Dirty Work. For the non fiction readers we have a book donated by Nancy McPherson entitled, Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley that comes well recommended. For the science fiction readers we have a new book called Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan. We also have John Grisham's new one, Bleachers, in both regular type and large print. Stop in and check out these new titles or browse some of the others. We are open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 12-8pm and Tuesday and Saturday 10-2pm.