We have a winner

Here are the results of our first online contest. We hope to do more in the future!
Mary Higgins Clark – Where are you now?
Why I deserve to win this book.
This book will be a gift to my mother who has been there for me for forever. She’s a simple person who likes gardening and reading. She tells me that the best gift I can give her is a book, because as a child growing up during difficult times, she would escape by reading. Christmas and her birthday are the usual times I give her books. However, I would like one to give her for “just because.” Because in the last few months she has been more supportive than ever and I want her to know how appreciative I am.
-B.
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Another book was won by -M. and the other three books will be donated to a library in need.

Book Club

The library book club will be reading The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman. Their next meeting will be November 20 at 1PM.

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Contest

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

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What are you reading?

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. ; )