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To all our readers with Kindles or Kindle apps,

The Library has just learned from a blog post on the Library Journal website that the publisher, Penguin Group USA, is no longer making available for public library users any Kindle format eBooks (article available here). Kindle format editions of Penguin eBook titles had recently been made available to Southern Adirondack Library System (SALS) users through the Library’s OverDrive platform. SALS received no notification of this fact before it was implemented by Overdrive and Penguin USA. OverDrive has confirmed the …

Holiday Book Sale

UPDATE: There are a few books left from the sale. Please come in by Saturday and get a great deal. Mark your calendars now for the second annual Friends of the Pember Library Holiday Book Sale. The sale will be held Saturday, December 3, from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM at the Pember Library, 33 West Main St. in Granville. Just in time for holiday shopping, we’ll have a selection of gift-quality books for the book lover on your holiday …

Happy Birthday, Margaret Mitchell

http://pac.sals.edu/polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=80.1033.0.0.6&type=Keyword&term=mitchell,%20margaret&by=AU&sort=MP&limit=AB=80&query=&page=0 Have you read Margaret Mitchell’s books? or seen the movie Gone with the Wind? I first read the book in December 1969 and have reread it a couple of times. I also love the movie which I first saw in a drive-in probably in the ’70s. My favorite quotes: Scarlett: I can’t think about that right now. If I do, I’ll go crazy. I’ll think about that tomorrow. Gerald O’Hara: It will come to you, this love of the …

November / December Fireside Stories

November 5 ~ Lucy’s Birthday Party! November 12 ~ Pilgrims November 19 ~ Learn with Linda – Thanksgiving November 26 ~ Mother Goose December 10 ~Cookies December 17 ~ Learn with Linda – Christmas

Pember Book Club

Join us as the Pember book club discusses Saint-Exupery: A Biography by Stacy Schiff. Product description from Amazon: From a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century’s most beloved authors Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared at age forty-four during a reconnaissance flight over southern France. At the time he was best known for a career of daring flights over the Sahara, the Pyrenees, and Patagonia and for his contributions to the …

Kindle now available on SALON OverDrive

Here is the process for checking out a library eBook for Kindle: Visit your library’s ‘Virtual Branch’ website SALON. Browse and check out a Kindle book. Click the ‘Get for Kindle’ button. This opens the Amazon.com website. You may be required to sign in with your Amazon.com account if you are not already logged in. Select a Kindle device or Kindle reading app. Click the ‘Get library book’ button and sync your device or app to download the book, or …

Fireside Stories

September 10 ~ “Kindergarten” September 17 ~ “Chickens” September 24 ~ “Autumn” **Themes subject to change

Pember Book Club

The Pember Book Club will be reading the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, a sequel to Tom Sawyer. The story takes place in Missouri in the 1840s. The main characters: Huckleberry Finn (Male), Father is an alcoholic; taken in by Widow Douglas to be taught religion and proper manners; dislikes being civilized; kidnapped by his dad; escapes on a raft on the Mississippi; determined to help a runaway slave Tom Sawyer (Male), Huck’s best friend Jim (Male), African …

Book Club

Note: this has been rescheduled for August 18. The Pember Book Club will be discussing Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

New eAudiobooks and eBooks to Download

Information from SALS: Check out our new eAudiobook or eBook titles Having trouble finding something that is in? Try an advanced search and click the checkbox for “Only show titles with copies available” How do I get started? Learn how to browse, download and check out materials watching a tutorial or head over to our website and look around for yourself. Have a mobile device? Read this quick guide If you have specific title suggestions, and if they are available …

Taradiddle

Taradiddle will help us kick off the summer reading program for children. Help tell a Spanish-infused Panamanian tale of a trickster rabbit, learn the magic song that brings the python down the mountain in a story from Zimbabwe, and maybe even revisit some Norwegian billy goats! Fun for the whole family.