October 2008 – Pember Library

Contest

March 25, 2009October 28, 2008 by KDesantis

If you are a member of the Pember Library, you can enter our first ever online contest!

The library recently got a donation of several brand new books. These five 2008 books are already in our collection so we decided to share them with our library users. Simply send me an email by November 7 saying why you deserve to be the winner of one of these books. Just put your name, return email address and reason in the email. The email link is in the right panel.

The books are:
Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
Silks by Dick Francis & Felix Francis
Mercedes Coffin by Faye Kellerman
Where are You Now? by Mary Higgins Clark
Strangers in Death by J.D. Robb

Check out our new web site

October 23, 2008 by KDesantis

We are hoping to ‘go live’ with our new website / blog on Thursday. This blog needs to be tweaked in several places. Send us your comments. Watch for opportunities to participate in discussions about books, our library, and our community.

What are you reading?

February 20, 2010October 22, 2008 by KDesantis

I’m currently reading a couple of books. How to knit a wild bikini by Christie Ridgeway, an escapist romance that I am only a couple of chapters into. From previews I read about it, it looks like it may get a little steamy…

Also by my bedside is A Pocketful of History: Four Hundred Years of America–One State Quarter at a Time by Jim Noles. It is a fascinating book of readable nonfiction about the history behind each state quarter. Over about ten years, the US Mint has issued a quarter commemorating each state with a different design. I discovered this book through my daily email from DearReader.com. It’s an online book club and every weekday I get a small portion of a book in my email. There’s a different book each week and I get to read the first two to three chapters. That’s usually enough to tell me whether or not I want to read it.

Your turn: tell me what you’re reading or just finished and what you think of it. ; )

Friends Meeting

March 25, 2009October 21, 2008 by KDesantis

We will be meeting to prepare the annual membership mailing.

Linda’s Halloween Program

March 25, 2009October 20, 2008 by KDesantis

Coming up October 25. Linda will present a program with crafts, stories and a puppet show, Fractured Fairy Tale, by the Junior Friends. This program begins at 11:00 AM.

Story Hour

March 26, 2009October 17, 2008 by KDesantis

Read along with me:

October 21, our theme will be Pumpkins

October 28, our theme will be Halloween

November 4, our theme will be Manners

October is Stamp Collecting Month

March 25, 2009October 16, 2008 by KDesantis

Come into the library and learn about stamp collecting. See topical collections of Love stamps, Boy Scout and Girl Scout stamps, space discovery and Celebrate the Century. There are also first day covers (FDCs), cachet covers, and brochures about stamp collecting from the USPS.