MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS January 16, 2003
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Come in out of the deep freeze this week and visit the library.
New books and interesting activities are the order of the day.
The Spanish tutoring classes are continuing on Wednesdays from
4-5 p.m. through the month of February. Barb and some of the
quilters who meet regularly at the library are planning a series
of adult beginner sewing lessons in February. They will be making
scrub tops. Barb has the patterns and is now looking for donations
of cotton or cotton blend fabric. A little over two yards is
needed for each top. If you can give Barb some material for
these classes, it would be appreciated. The classes will be
free to participants, but space is limited. Sign up now at the
circulation desk.
The exhibit of watercolors and pen and ink drawings by local
artists Barbara Scarpino-Trendell, Laura Diddle and Maxine Hunter
is still on display in the program room; don't miss it. The
winter Pre-School Story Hour with Grandma B. series will be coming
up in February; watch for dates and details.
New MusicNet CD's are now in the library. These are part
of a rotating collection that changes every six weeks. New purchases
will be added to the collection on the next rotation. The library
pays $250. a year for the privilege of getting this collection
from Mid-York ; thirteen area libraries participate in this sharing
agreement.
The library is now receiving the Syracuse Post Standard
every day but Sunday.
Some great new books have also arrived. Elizabeth Berg's
Ordinary Life:Stories includes 15 short stories that reflect
on times in women's lives that show how even ordinary life can
be remarkable. Alice McDermott's Child of My Heart is a coming-of-age
novel about a beautiful and insightful fifteen year old girl
who babysits for the rich and famous on Long Island. Richard
Russo's Nobody's Fool is part of the vintage contemporary series;
if you didn't read this story of life in an upstate New York
town when it first came out, try it now. By the Light of the
Moon by Dean Koontz begins with a mad doctor invading a motel
in, injecting two people with an unknown substance that, he says,
will have some unknown effect, then warns them to flee before
his enemies kill them; soon after, the doctor is killed by assailants.
The rest of the story relates the extended run from the assailants
and the weird effects of the mysterious injection. Koontz fans
will love this one.
For our 9-12 year old readers, Remnants (Book 10): Lost
and Found by K.A. Applegate finds the Remnant family returning
to their home planet. For our 4-8 year olds, four new books
in the Ready-to-Read series are also in: Too Many Valentines,
A Valentine for Tommy, Wild River Adventure and One Hundred
Days (Plus One.
It's warm and cozy and lined with shelves of great books,
magazines, CD's , audiobooks, computers and more ---It's your
local library. Stop in this week.
Morrisville Public Library
January 17, 2003