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MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS
by Mary Brown
The library is still celebrating its new status as a School
District Library!! We have a few more thank you's to send out
-- to the Lions Club, Rotary Club, Office of the Aging, Teresa
and Anna Marie. Thanks also to all those who brought friends
and neighbors with them to the voting polls, so that they too
could support the library proposition. Thanks to all those who
told others the "true story" of the library's needs
and services. There were just SO MANY people who made the proposition
a reality. Again, thank you so much.
The spring Story Hour with Grandma B series has just ended.
Many thanks to Gratia Burleigh for developing and presenting
this wonderful series for the pre-schoolers. Plans are now in
the works for the library's summer reading program; watch this
column in the next few weeks for details. Also, thinking ahead
to summer….the Annual Friends of the Library Book Sale will
be on Saturday, July 27th. Mark that date on your calendar now.
The library is pleased to have the volunteer services this
summer of an area college student who has been trained to help
people with entry-level job resume writing. This is a great opportunity
to have someone help you get that first (or first in a long time)
resume ready for a job search. Call the library for an appointment
to create and polish your resume.
Before we start to write about newly arrived books…
Remember that you can order any of the books mentioned in this
column simply by clicking on the title and completing the order
form at our website version of each week's Morrisville Library
News column .
Thanks to Albert Fowler of Winter Springs, Florida for donating
a copy of the genealogical book, The Fowlers of Morrisville,
New York. This should be a great book for those interested in
local history. Thanks also to Linda Puddington for adopting Jane
Haddam's Somebody Else's Music , a mystery about Elizabeth Toliver,
an acclaimed author with a rock star lover, who returns to her
hometown to be tormented again by the people and events that
made her growing up there a horror.
Also newly arrived in Michael J. Fox's autobiographical
Lucky Man, a witty memoir of his hard times, his huge successes
in television and the movies, and his current battle with Parkinson's
disease. Kate White's If Looks Could Kill is a murder mystery
focusing on Bailey Weggins, a young feature writer specializing
in crime stories for Gloss magazine. As she tries to find the
murderer of her editor's nanny, Bailey navigates the media world
with savvy. Stephen King's The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life
at Rose Red explores a multitude of inexplicable disappearances
and ghastly deaths in a Seattle mansion as only Stephen King
can do. Practical Gods by Carl Dennis is a collection of poetry
with different views and sometimes with unusual pagan and biblical
perspectives. Maggie Shayne's At Twilight contains two stories
in Shayne's Twilight series: "Born in Twilight" and
"Beyond Twilight".
Patricia Lanza's Lasagna Gardening for Small Spaces explains
a gardening method which produces amazing results in pots and
small plots. Even in tiny garden beds, you can grow bountiful,
beautiful gardens with no digging and no weeding. (Can this be
true?!) Dawn Ranck's Fix It and Forget It: Feasting with Your
Slow Cooker helps you serve great meals with no last-minute
preparation. These books certainly try to make life easy!
Our 9-12 year old readers might want to sign out one of
the "My America" books. After the Rain: Virginia's
Civil War Diary (Book 2) is the second of Virginia's diaries.
In the final months of the Civil War, Virginia's family moves
to Washington, D.C., and she takes a job as a servant to help
her family. Just as her father gets a job and the war finally
comes to an end,- the tragic assassination of Ginny¹s beloved
President Lincoln occurs. We Are Patriots: Hope's Revolutionary
War Diary (Book 2) is the second diary of Hope Penny Potter,
whose life is affected by the Revolutionary War. The war has
kept her from her dear friend Polly, whose parents are loyal
to the King; Hope¹s brother and father return for a short
time, but Hope finds out her father was with the Sons of Liberty
and the family will be in danger if anyone finds out. The third
new book in this series is Freedom's Wing: Corey's Undergraound
Railroad Diary. Corey records his daily life and describes his
difficult journey along the Underground Railroad to the North
to be reunited with his father in Canada.
Stop in the library this week and help us celebrate our
bright future! Be sure to thank Traci and her staff for all
their efforts in helping your library stay alive and well.
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