Shelburne Library news

January 8, 2016 · 0 Comments

Flower Power
All participants had a fantastic time creating lovely centerpieces for our Christmas tables. Shirley from Shirley’s Garden Supply demonstrated the techniques and supplied all the greenery, flowers and other materials. Shirley also donated two arrangements which we raffled off to all patrons who signed out books. What a lovely treat this was for the lucky winners. You will see pictures of the hard working group elsewhere in the paper. David Parsons and Robin Pickett were the lucky winners of our draw for the arrangements
Children’s Programs
Many thanks for all your support this year for our TD Summer Reading Club and our Friday Story Times. We look forward to an exciting new year ahead with the introduction of our Super Reader’s Club, our Junior Lego Club and once again we have Paws to Read. Paws to Read will still be on Tuesday afternoons but a little earlier… from 3:45 to 4:45 p.m. It starts on Tuesday, January 12, 2016 and Story Time will start on Friday, January 15 at 10:30 a.m. Please call to book your time.
Teen Scene:
It’s a New Year and your Library is gearing up with new programming! Remember how much you loved participating in the Forest of Reading during public school? Well, not only does your Library have all of the Blue Spruce, Sliver Birch, Red Maple, White Pine, Golden Oak, and Evergreen nominees for 2016, but we will be running the White Pine Program (grades 9–12)! The launch Party will take place Thursday, February 4th, 6–7 p.m. You may read at your own pace, but to be eligible to vote for this year’s winner, you must finish 5 of the nominated titles prior to our voting day, April 14th!
New Books
We were thrilled this week to receive an email from our longtime Book Club member, Nora Seper who has moved to New Brunswick. Nora has been a strong supporter of our Silent Auctions over the years and we were delighted that she still reads the column in the paper every week.
Fiction
Kate Morton’s newest book, The Lake House is an excellent read with impeccably drawn, complex characters. The plot is so well crafted that you will really find the conclusion surprising.
Fans of House of Riverton and The Secret Garden will find this one equally thrilling and enthralling. Put this on your must read list for 2016.
Non Fiction
A few of the girls by Maeve Binchy
An Irish doctor in love and at sea by Patrick Taylor
Cleopatra’s shadows by Emily Holleman
The Japanese lover by Isabel Allende
Dead in the water by Ann Granger
See me by Nicholas Sparks
Even dogs in the wild by Ian Rankin
The Good neighbor by Amy Sue Nathan
Fear of dying by Erica Jong
After Alice by Gregory Maguire
The Theory of death by Faye Kellerman
Numero zero by Umberto Eco
The Illegal by Lawrence Hill
Crimson Shore by Preston & Child
The Lake house by Kate Morton
Gatefather by Orson Scott Card
The Pharaoh’s secret by Clive Cussler