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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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 …
Fireside Stories January 7 ~ Glasses January 14 ~ Popcorn January 21 ~ Snow January 28 ~ Soup *Themes subject to change
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 …
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 …
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 …
Some favorite books about to be released as movies~ http://www.earlyword.com/books-to-movies-%E2%80%94-upcoming/
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …