The library book club will be reading The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman. Their next meeting will be November 20 at 1PM.
Closed for Veteran’s Day
We will be closed November 11 in honor of Veteran’s Day.
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
Check out our new web site
We are hoping to ‘go live’ with our new website / blog on Thursday. This blog needs to be tweaked in several places. Send us your comments. Watch for opportunities to participate in discussions about books, our library, and our community.
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. ; )
Friends Meeting
We will be meeting to prepare the annual membership mailing.
Linda’s Halloween Program
Coming up October 25. Linda will present a program with crafts, stories and a puppet show, Fractured Fairy Tale, by the Junior Friends. This program begins at 11:00 AM.
Story Hour
Read along with me:
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October 21, our theme will be Pumpkins
October 28, our theme will be Halloween
November 4, our theme will be Manners
October is Stamp Collecting Month
Come into the library and learn about stamp collecting. See topical collections of Love stamps, Boy Scout and Girl Scout stamps, space discovery and Celebrate the Century. There are also first day covers (FDCs), cachet covers, and brochures about stamp collecting from the USPS.