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Morrisville Library News
by Mary Brown
The library is gearing up for the summer season. It
is always a busy time with all the children out of school. Plans
for the Summer Reading Program and a summer series of Pre-School
Story Hour with Grandma B are in the works; watch this column
for details in the next few weeks. The annual Friends of the
Library Book Sale will be on Saturday, July 27th. We always
need lots of volunteers to help with all the summer activities.
A big welcome goes out this week to our newest volunteer, Diane
Spink.
Big News! A "Raise the Roof" party, a fundraiser
for a new roof and other structural repairs to the library, will
be held on Sunday, June 30th from 12:30 to 7:30 p.m. This fun-filled
event will take place at Howlyn Acres, the North Butler Road
home of Howard and Lynde Lafever and will feature a silent auction,
live music and lots of great food. The party will be catered
by SUNY Morrisville. Bill Magee, Nancy Larraine Hoffman, Sherwood
Boehlert and Rocco DeVeronica will all be on hand to chat with
guests and help us raise funds. Tickets for this party will
be ten dollars apiece or twenty dollars per family. Put this
worthwhile event on your calendar now, and plan to join in the
fun.
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 Nancy McPherson for adopting Jennifer Chiaverini's
Runaway Quilt , the latest in the Elm Creek Quilt series that
explores the lore surrounding the use of quilts to signal runaway
slaves traveling the Underground Railroad. Also in this week
is John Stauffer's The Black Hearts of Men, which tells the story
of four men, two white and two black, who overcame social barriers
and mistrust to form an alliance of radical reform in nineteenth
century America. One of these four was Gerrit Smith; in fact,
Stauffer was in Peterboro last month to speak about Smith and
his efforts.
Newly arrived is Tony Hillerman's TheWailing Wind , the
15th Chee/Leaphorn mystery, that finds the two Navajo peace
officers looking into both a past and present mystery. A lost
gold mine, a corpse in an abandoned pickup truck, and an eerie
wailing heard on Halloween are among the mysterious plot elements.
Also on the New Books cart is Jude Deveraux's Summerhouse, which
raises the question: "What if a woman could go back to the
beginning and rethink her choices for love and life?" The
novel's three main characters, Leslie Headrick, Madison Appleby,
and Ellie Abbott , now that they're about to turn 40, reunite
for a weekend at a summerhouse in Maine where they share the
details of their lives during the past 20 years and consider
the interesting question. In Iris Johansen's Body of Lies, forensic
sculptor, Eve Duncan, takes on a challenging job upon the weird
request of a shady senator. She rebuilds the face of the politician's
late rival, a challenge that nearly results in her murder, strains
her romance with a hard-bitten detective, and uncovers a fantastic
global conspiracy over energy profits.
Here comes summer. Make your local library part of your
life - and your children's lives -- during these pleasant months
ahead.
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