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How to Hide a Lion at Christmas Iris and her lion go everywhere together. But when Christmas comes and the family is going away, Mum says the lion must stay behind. After all, you can’t take a lion on a train. Luckily the lion has other ideas. He sets off on a snowy adventure to…

  Agent Running in the Field by John Le Carre Desperate to resist the political turbulence of his 2018 London home, a young man establishes connections that lead him down a dark and dangerous path. The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson The award-winning author of A Short History of Nearly Everything presents…

The National Book Awards were established in 1950 to celebrate the best writing in America.  This week’s list includes several of the finalists for that award.  In addition are new autobiographies  by Demi Moore and Elton John and next-in-series featuring Virgil Flowers (John Sanford), Charlie Parker (John Connolly), and Bailey (David Cameron.) Bloody Genius by…

This week’s shelf of new books includes an exciting thriller by a Miami native, Vanessa Lillie, along with a host of mysteries, romance, and thought-provoking nonfiction to while away a chilly fall evening.   Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive, Live Happy: 101 Stories About Creating Your Best Life by Amy Newmark Your attitude…

Ever wonder how to: survive in the digital age, reverse aging, respond to today’s problems following inadvisable advice, figure everything out, or cook stylishly accessible recipes?  We’ve got the latest scoop on this week’s shelf of new books. Antoni in the Kitchen by Antoni Porowski The food guru and breakout star of the Netflix smash…

Nineteen titles to get your heart racing or help you change your life.  As George R.R. Martin says, A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” Stop by your library and add to your lives.   29 Seconds by T. M. Logan When…

The long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale is on this week’s shelf along with a book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the story of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual abuses.   Akin by Emma Donoghue A funny, heart-wrenching tale of an old man and a boy, born two generations apart, who unpick their painful story and…

  After the Flood by Kassandra Montag A tale set in an anarchic near-future America of mountaintop colonies surrounded by rising oceans finds an independent woman trading for supplies and information about the daughter who was stolen from her eight years earlier. Cold Storage by David Koepp A debut novel by the screenwriter of Jurassic…

Serious topics are on this week’s shelf of new books including domestic violence, impeachment, and mosqitoes which have had a deadly impact on humanity through the ages, along with the latest from Louis Penny, Danielle Steel, and David Lagercrantz.   The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri A beekeeper and his artist wife have their…

We recently completed our strategic plan document to guide the next three years.  This process started at the end of last year when we asked the community to complete a survey and then began holding focus groups.  We also created a Needs Assessment that included demographic information about the community, library statistics, our Edge benchmark…