January Craft Classes
Pat Oathout will present additional classes on quilling January 14 and 28 at 6: 00 pm. Quilling is an art form that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create decorative designs. Peg Browe will show us how to create a memory board January 23 at 1:00 pm We will continue to have the knit-in on Fridays at 2:00 pm. Bring your knitting or crocheting and work while you chat with other …
Dear Reader
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake, PrePub Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream by Steven Watts, Audio How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer    Business Sometimes We’re Always Real Same-Same by Mattox Roesch, Fiction The Year of Living Like Jesus by Ed Dobson, Good News The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley, Mystery Dumbfounded by Matt Rothschild, NonFiction Vexing the Viscount by Emily Bryan, Romance The Moonpool by P. T. Deutermann, SF Is It Still Cheating …
Dear Reader
Who Would Have Thought It? by Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Classics Power Referrals by Andrea Sittig-Rolf, Business Eye of the Whale by Douglas Carlton Abrams, Fiction Red, White, and Blue by Laura Hayden, Good News Honestly Dearest, You’re Dead by Jack Fredrickson, Mystery Note by Note by Tricia Tunstall, NonFiction Summer of Two Wishes by Julia London, Romance Willow by Julia Hoban, Teen Dear Reader is brought to you by the Friends of the Pember Library. Please try one …
Be Fine-Free for a Year!
Check out our “Wish List” page. I have added the magazines that are coming up for renewal with a price for a one year subscription.  “Ladies” Home Journal” is buy one year, the second year is included. Remember, anyone who sponsors a one-year subscription to one of these magazines will have your overdue fines waived for the next year! (or extended if you previously sponsored a magazine for us). Contact me at the library or through the email link at …
Dear Reader
My Abandonment by Peter Rock, Audio Escape from Cubicle Nation by Pamela Slim,  Business The English Major by Jim Harrison, Fiction Jessie by Lori Wick, Good News Spade & Archer by Joe Gores, Mystery Unexpected Blessings by Roxanne Black, NonFiction The Betrayal of the Blood Lily by Lauren Willig, PrePub A Kiss To Die For by Claudia Dain, Romance When Duty Calls by William C. Dietz, SF Sovay by Celia Rees , Teen Immortal Laws by Jim M. Hansen, Thriller …
Lucy’s Holiday Adventure
Lucy has gone to stay with Bernie (museum educator) for the holidays. We’re hoping that she will take the time over the next days to tell us a few things about her holiday adventures. Bernie sent me the following photo of Lucy at her house showing her typical “cat-titude”: Be sure to read the comment below for a description of Lucy’s first day away from the library. UPDATE: Bernie has sent more pics of Lucy. I’m glad she is feeling …
Computers for Seniors
Barb Young will again be teaching the popular “computers for seniors” at the Pember Library. Classes will run from 10:00AM to 11:30AM Mondays and Fridays from February 22 through March 5. Classes will cover internet and email, word processing, and using the library card catalog with databases. You must pre-register for the series of classes. Class size is limited to eight people. Please call the library to register or for more information 518-642-2525.
Dear Reader
This week’s titles are brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of the Pember Library. Wired to Care by Dev Patnaik with Peter Mortensen, Business The Promise of Lumby by Gail Fraser, Fiction Entertaining Angels by Judy Duarte,  Good News The Christmas Cookie Killer by Livia J. Washburn, Mystery The Real Wizard of Oz by Rebecca Loncraine, NonFiction A Little Light Magic by Joy Nash, Romance The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Catherine Hapka, Teen
Holiday Hours
The library will be open Tuesday 9am-5pm and Wednesday 1pm-8pm.  We are closed Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and the following day re-opening on Tuesday December 29. Next week, the library will be open Tuesday 9am-5pm and Wednesday 1pm-8pm. We are closed New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day and the following day re-opening January 5 with regular hours that week.
Pember Board Meeting
A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Pember Library and Museum will be held on the first Wednesday of each month at the Pember. This is a regular meeting and open to the public.
Raffle
A signed copy of Stephen King’s new book “Under the Dome” is being raffled. Tickets are $1.00. The drawing will be on Tuesday, December 22 at 4:30  PM.