Category: Books

We need boxes

We need boxes

Many people are bringing us books for both the upcoming paperback sale and for the annual huge book sale in July. We sort the books and store them in the basement but we are running out of boxes! If you are able, please bring in a few boxes when you come in. Remember, we need to be able to lift them when they are full of books so medium size boxes are best. Thank you
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New EBooks

New EBooks

These eBooks were recently added to the SALON OverDrive service. Let us know what you think! These titles were added due to support from the Friends of the Pember Library. Title                                                                             Author Acres of Unrest Max Brand Almost Home Barbara Freethy Close to Famous Joan Bauer The Crossings Jack Ketchum Dead and Alive Dean Koontz Gun-barrel Justice Maryk Lewis Kitt Peak Al Sarrantonio Marrying Daisy Bellamy Susan Wiggs The Masque of …
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Friends of the Pember Library Spring Paperback Book Sale

Friends of the Pember Library Spring Paperback Book Sale

Will March go out like a lamb or a lion? Regardless of the weather, the Friends of the Pember Library will hold their annual Spring Paperback Book Sale on Saturday, March 31st at the Pember Library on West Main Street in Granville. The sale will begin at 10:00 am and conclude at 2:00 pm.  An excellent selection of fiction, non-fiction, and children’s titles will be available at low, low prices. Books will be priced at just $.25 from 10:00 am …
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March Story Times

March Story Times

March 3 ~ Dr Seuss March 10 ~Lions March 17 ~ Learn with Linda: St Patrick’s Day March 24 ~ Let’s get moving! March 31 ~ sorry, no story time because of the Friend’s paperback book sale
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Why so few e-books?

Why so few e-books?

Ever wonder why there are so few titles available as eBooks in our catalog?  The answer is simple, but the solution is not. Read more here.    
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Book Club

Book Club

The book club’s choice for February is  Gorgeous East by Robert Girardi. Kirkus Reviews says: “n entertaining 21st-century variant on the classic adventure tale. Characterizations are brisk and vivid, as the story whips along toward a violent climax with a nice surprise twist…. Girardi pits the French Foreign Legion against Muslim fanatics. Since Louis Philippe founded the Legion in 1831, its lost-soul volunteers fight in the most desolate corners of the globe mostly because they have nothing better to do …
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January Story Time

January Story Time

Fireside Stories January 7 ~ Glasses January 14 ~ Popcorn January 21 ~ Snow January 28 ~ Soup   *Themes subject to change  
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Book Club

Book Club

Join us as the Pember book club discusses Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup.  A 2014 movie is planned based on this book. Amazon book description: Twelve Years a Slave (Originally published in 1853 with the sub-title: “Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana”) is the written work of Solomon Northup; a man who was born free, but …
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our OverDrive service

our OverDrive service

Please be patient if you are trying to use our OverDrive service to download eBooks to your eReader. So many people are trying out their new eReaders!! We got this message from OverDrive: Dear Library Partner, This message is to inform you that we are experiencing extremely high traffic at some of our hosted library websites which may result in reduced performance. Our network engineers are actively working on this situation during this peak period. We will keep you notified …
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Holiday Wish List

Holiday Wish List

The Holiday Wish List is up at the Pember Library. Help us add to our collection. Each item will have a special bookplate with donor’s name. The Godfather DVD $8.99 Born Yesterday DVD $14.99 Vertigo DVD $ 19.99 Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut CD $ 19.99 The Jungle by Clive Cussler CD $39.95 The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Vol. 1 A. C. Doyle CD $28.98 The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Vol. 2 A. C. Doyle CD $28.98 The Informant F …
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