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What are you reading?

March 25, 2009January 21, 2009 by KDesantis

I just finished reading Stranger Room, a locked room mystery with two murders occurring 150 years apart. This is Frederick Ramsay’s fourth Ike Schwartz mystery taking place in Picketsville VA. I read a review of this a few months ago and put in a request for it. It was worth the wait.

The stranger room is a part of the main house with a separate entrance, kept for use by unknown travelers. Personal relationships, moral issues, racism and possible drug trafficking all make the story more interesting. I want to go back and read the other three books.

Also on my nightstand is Dancing with Werewolves, the first volume of a new series by Carole Nelson Douglas, the author of the Midnight Louie feline sleuth stories and Irene Adler mysteries. I don’t generally read other-worldly kind of stuff but I like the Midnight Louie series so I’ll give it a try.

Have you read anything recently that you’d like to share? Click on the post title or “no comment” and let us know.

Book Club

March 25, 2009January 16, 2009 by KDesantis

The book club decided to read any title by Robert Louis Stevenson. We have several on hand at the library or you may request one by inter library loan. Contact us at the library if you need help with this.

The choices available at the Pember include:

My Shadow, a children’s book, an illustrated version of Stevenson’s popular poem in which a child tells about her relationship with her shadow
Treasure Island
The Master of Ballantrae : a Winter’s Tale
The Wrong Box
A Child’s Garden of Verses
Kidnapped :being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751 … /written by himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Also available through electronic resources (down-loadable audio books) are:

The Black Arrow
The Bottle Imp and Other Stories
The Body-snatchers
Treasure Island
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Kidnapped
The Amateur Emigrant

The new meeting time in the afternoon seems to be working out well. All readers are welcome at the book club meetings.

It’s “Snow Fun”

March 26, 2009January 14, 2009 by KDesantis

Linda’s monthly craft-activity-story program will feature Snow.

Story Time

March 26, 2009January 9, 2009 by KDesantis

Story time has been changed to Thursday evenings at 5:30. This week we will feature stories about Grampa’s Farm. Jo-Ann will read a couple of books and she and the children will use the flannel board to tell their own stories.

Library closed

March 25, 2009January 7, 2009 by KDesantis

We will be closed today because of bad weather and poor road conditions.

Fines will be waived for items that become overdue because of the closing.

Pember Angels

March 25, 2009January 3, 2009 by KDesantis

Our Pember Angel campaign for December was very successful.

The following items are being added to our collection:

Enigma: a Magical Mystery, by Graeme Base, JP

The Chronicles of Spiderwick: a Grand Tour of the Enchanted World, by Tony Di Terlizzi, JF

Over the Hedge, starring Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell, Wanda Sykes, William Shatner, 2006 DVD

Gone with the Wind DVD

Psycho DVD

Grapes of Wrath DVD

The Right Stuff DVD

Adirondack Birding: 60 Great Places to Find Birds by John M.C. Peterson & Gary N. Lee with color photographs by Jeff Nadler NF

Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley Fict

The US Constitution: a graphic adaptation

Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman YA

Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nichols JF

Old Bear by Kevin Henkes JP

Team Moon by Catherine Thimmesh J NF

Chester’s Back by Melanie Watt JP

Giants of Science: Sigmund Freud J NF

Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart JF

Fireside Cookbook by James Beard NF

Ellen, Pat, Susan, Barb, Mary, Mary Frances & Nicholas, Rosie, Bud, Jim & Judith, Linda, Joan, Dave & Nancy, Robyn & Neal, and a couple of anonymous friends donated money or bought the items we wished for.

Thank you all so very much!

Holiday Hours

March 25, 2009December 24, 2008 by KDesantis

Closed:
December 24
December 25

Open:
Friday, December 26, 1-5
Saturday, December 27, 10-3
Tuesday, December 30, 9-5

Closed:
December 31
January 1

Reopen with our regular winter hours on January 2.

Linda’s Program

March 26, 2009December 20, 2008 by KDesantis

Linda has rescheduled her Saturday Holiday program to take place on Tuesday December 23 at 10:30. Look forward to snacks, activities and a story.

The library will be open Saturday, December 20.

Friday closing

March 25, 2009December 19, 2008 by KDesantis

The Pember will not open today due to the forecast of imminent bad weather. We’re sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Fines will be waived for any items that become overdue because of the closing.

Lucy has plenty of food and water so no one should worry about her.

I plan to do some library work from home, finish up a couple of gifts I’m making and maybe do a little cooking. I may even put on our DVD of “It’s a Wonderful Life” and make some popcorn.