Library News
By Wilma Gainey

Hey kids! Looking for something fun and creative to do on Wednesday afternoons? Come in at 4 p.m. and enjoy story time and some cool crafts! Parents, it's a great way to help your child learn to read, and reading is the path to succeeding! Not only that, but it's the perfect chance for you to read the paper or check your email while your little one is listening to the story or doing one of the great crafts that go along with the stories.

If one of your New Year's resolutions was to read more, we've got just the thing for you! We're offering a bag full of books for just $1 - you pick the books, we'll provide the bag. It's a great deal on great books, and we would love to have you come in and take advantage of it. And if a bag of books is a little overwhelming, well - it's still only a dime for paperback and a quarter per hardback book.

Don't forget to check out the great hand-painted china on exhibit in the Ruth Newton Spiers Board Room. These beautiful pieces were done by Mrs. Marilyn Knight, Mrs. Camille Lane, Mrs. Jackie Moore and Mrs. Barbara Pike.

New books at JCML:

SWAG: SOUTHERN WOMEN AGING GRACEFULLY by Melinda Rainey Thompson. Southern women have their own ways and their own charms. Everyone knows that. Here, Thompson offers a series of essays on everyday life in the South and the women who make it so special.

DEADLY GAMBLE by Linda Lael Miller. Mojo Sheepshanks is not your average girl. Home-sweet-home is Bad- Ass Bert's Biker Saloon. She doesn't know who she really is or how she ended up there, and, as if her life wasn't weird enough, now she's seeing ghosts!

CROSSWORD by William Rawlings Jr. Matt Rutherford is back, and he's in trouble. His house guest has been murdered, the FBI has placed him in protective, and he's beginning to realize that he can't even trust them, because there's still someone stalking him and his lady friend …

NATURE GIRL by Carl Hiassen. Honey Santana is the self-proclaimed "queen of lost causes" - as proven by the fact that she's trying to convert a telemarketer to civilized behavior. Throw in a stalker ex-boss, a former drug-running ex-husband, a too-wise 12-year-old and a half-Seminole failed alligator wrestler who just wants to be left alone and you've got a classic Haissen set loose in the Everglades.

Links to the following sites, along with this article, links to the library catalog and much more, can be found at www.sjrls.org or at sjrls.blogspot.com, the library's homes on the web.

Website of interest

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