MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS
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MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS
by Mary Brown
The holidays are fast approaching, and that means it's
nearly time for our exciting Holiday Silent Auction. So many
people enjoyed the excitement of bidding, and maybe even winning,
last year, that we can't wait for it to start again! Donations
of new gift quality items, art work, crafts, gift certificates
or antiques with a minimum value of five dollars are being collected
now for the auction. Silent auction donations will be accepted
at the library from now until Wednesday, November 27th. The
Holiday Silent Auction will begin on December 2nd and end on
December 16th. Please consider donating something wonderful to
this festive and popular library fundraiser.
Children's Book Week will be celebrated from November 18-24.
A display of classic children's book will highlight some of
the wonderful children's books we have at the library. Children
will also want to visit the "book character", Clifford,
the Red Dog, who is camping out in the Children's Room!
On Wednesday, November 20th, Jackie Groves will be leading
a Stamping for Fun adult and teen workshop from 6:30-8:30 p.m.
in the program room. Participants will stamp and make a portfolio
holder filled with notecards, a decorative cover for a tealight
candle and a stamped candy bag, using different kinds of inks,
papers and embellishments. Cost of materials is $4.00 per person.
Sign up for this workshop at the circulation desk.
Put Sunday, November 24th, on your calendar now. On
that day a "Thank-You Reception" honoring Traci Schuster
for her years as director of the Morrisville Public Library will
be held from 1-3 p.m. at Madison Hall on Route 20 in Morrisville.
It is a lovely opportunity for people from the community to
stop in and say "thanks" to Traci for all she has done
for the library and the Morrisville community.
Thanks to Janine Ashcraft for finishing out the Pre-School
Story Hour series for Grandma B.
On the business end of things, the library just installed
a new hot water heater, and a new sink in the restroom. Barb
made a fine report to the Town Board recently and thanked them
for their support of the library. The library will be closed
from Thursday, November 28th - Saturday, November 30th for the
Thanksgiving Holiday.
The next evening in the Adult Book Talk series will be on
Friday, December 6th, when Professor Roxanna Pisiak will facilitate
a discussion of Leif Enger's Peace Like a River. This novel,
narrated by the main character, eleven year old Reuben Land,
tells of his family's struggle to locate his brother, who is
on the run from the law. It won this year's Book Sense Book of
the Year award. Copies can be signed out at the circulation
desk.
We have a few new books to report this week. Remember, you
can "sign out" any of the books you see mentioned in
this column at the library or on the library's website. Go
to www.midyork.org/morrisville/news.html. This will take you
to the online version of this column; just click on the name
of the book in the column and you will be able to reserve it.
Then, all you have to do is stop by the library and pick it
up. Thanks to Donna Dockray for adopting Stephen King's From
a Buick Eight, which tells about troopers of a Pennsylvania State
Patrol Troop, who find what at first seems to be a vintage automobile,
but then, this car's doors (and trunk) sometimes open to another
dimension populated by weird creatures. Thanks to Joyce Nelson
for Tom Clancy's new thriller, Red Rabbit, which involves a plot
to kill the pope, the KGB, the CIA, Jack Ryan, and all the other
kinds of plot developments and characters that make for a big
Clancy novel. Blood Orchid by Stuart Woods is the third in a
series about Holly Barker, police chief of Orchid Beach, Florida.
In this one, Holly gets involved with corpses, the mob, a bugged
beach house and all the trouble that makes for a good read on
a chilly night.
Laurie Halse's third novel for teens, Catalyst, is about
18-year-old Kate Malone, who is driven to do well and succeed
academically. She has applied only to her late mother's alma
mater, MIT, but when her MIT rejection arrives, it is a catalyst
for the slow unraveling of her life. For 9-12 year old readers,
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: the Diary of Bess Brennan by Barry
Denenberg is the moving story of a young girl who loses her sight
during the Depression era. It relates her recording her diary
and her efforts to learn Braille at the Perkins School for the
Blind in Massachusetts. Also in this week is Who's That Knocking
on Christmas Eve? by Jan Brett for our 4-8 year old readers.
It is an Arctic story about a shy Finnmark girl who keeps away
trolls with help from a traveling boy and his pet polar bear.
Come into the library this week and join in the swirl of
activity….and consider donating a nice gift item to the
Holiday Silent Auction.
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Public Library
October 4, 2002