Shelburne Library news

August 13, 2014 · 0 Comments

• Giant Book Sale – No Frills, August 30th

Children’s Programs

TD Summer Reading Program: One more week left after this week – to report in, log in the number of books you have read and participate in all the fun activities: Lego Club, crafts, movies and of course the Grand Finale! The Grand Finale with Mad Science at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, August 23. This is an amazing science group who will be putting on a spectacular “Fire and Ice” show for us. It will be a morning of fun, prizes, refreshments and scientific wonder! Please join us for this culminating event for our TD Summer Reading Program. It has been a terrific learning experience for our youngsters and a great deal of fun as well. After the Finale, we will take a small break till September and announce our new line-up of programs for the fall when school starts.

Paws to Read: Mac and Darlene will be here on Monday, August 25th. Please sign up by the Friday, August, 22, so we can ensure that we have a full schedule. Call 925-2168 to sign-up. Teen Programs Pizza and Pages: August 14 at 6 p.m. This will be our last Teen program till September. Watch for our line-up for fall on Facebook, our website and in this column.

Adult Events Rose’s Book Club- Thursday, August 28 at 2 p.m. There will be lots and lots of new books. We have had to bring in a moving book cart to display all the new books we have been receiving and there are five more bags in the office waiting to be covered. Library Literary Events: Off the Page It is not too early to let you know about our exciting line up our authors for our fall Literary Events. We have Barry Gough coming on Sunday, September 21 with his new book, The Elusive Mr. Pond, The soldier, fur trader, and explorer who opened the Northwest which will be just off the presses in early September. We are very thrilled to be able to feature our local authors and to provide an enjoyable social time for our patrons and an opportunity to talk to the authors first hand.

Fiction: The Dead will tell by Linda Castillo Faceoff edited by David Baldacci Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King Robert B. Parker’s Cheap shot by Ace Atkins The City by Dean Koontz Resistant by Michael Palmer Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Ascendancy by Eric Van Lustbader The Secret life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams A Perfect life by Danielle Steel Earth Awakens by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston Cyberstorm by Matthew Mather Born of fury by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Non fiction: Landscape architecture in Canada by Ron Williams Alex’s wake: a voyage of betrayal and a journey of remembrance by Martin Goldsmith Becoming wild by Nikki Van Schyndel The Well-played life by Leonard Sweet The Alpha woman meets her match by Sonya Rhodes World War II in 500 photographs by Time Life Books Crazy town by Robyn Doolittle At the intersection of painting and photography by Ian Wallace

By Rose Dotten, CEO