This Week at Your Library

If you are interested in making a Christmas donation to the library, we have a wish tree set up at the circulation desk. The ornaments on the tree have adult and children’s book titles on them that we would appreciate your help in purchasing for the library. The library will be closed December 24 and 25, in celebration of Christmas. We will also be closed on January 1, for the New Year’s holiday.

Library Programming: STORYTIME: Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. December’s themes: “Polar Animals”, “Teddy Bears Picnic” and “Christmas”. There will not be storytime on December 26 or January 2. MAKER DAY AT THE LIBRARY, Friday, December 14. Preschool – Kindergarten 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. First – 6th grades 1 to 3 p.m. ADULT CRAFT NIGHT: “Merry Mail Display” on Monday, December 17 at 6 p.m. Class fee is $20 and sign-up is required by Friday, December 14. QUILTING AT THE LIBRARY: No quilting in December! LUNCH BUNCH BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP meeting December 27, at 11 a.m. at the library. They are reading “The World As I See It” by Albert Einstein. Always on the lookout for new members! CROOK COUNTY LIBRARY BOARD meeting Thursday, January 10, at 1 p.m. in Moorcroft. CROOK COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION BOARD meeting Wednesday, January 16, 5:30 p.m. in Moorcroft. SUNDANCE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: Our next meeting is Wednesday, January 2, at the Library. We’ll un-decorate the library at 10 and have our meeting at 11. Tell your friends so they can become our Friends!

New Fiction: UNSHELTERED by Barbara Kingsolver. THE RECKONING by John Grisham. DARK SACRED NIGHT, Bosch and Ballard #1, by Michael Connelly. ELEVATION by Stephen King.

New Non-Fiction: A LITTLE TEA BOOK: All the Essentials from Leaf to Cup by Sebastian Beckwith and Caroline Paul, with illustrations by Wendy MacNaughton. LINCOLN’S GENERALS’ WIVES: Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War—for Better and for Worse by Candice Shy Hooper. THE HOLOCAUST CHRONICLE: A History in Words and Pictures edited by David J. Hogan and David Aretha.

New Young Adult: BRIDGE OF CLAY by Markus Zusak. A MAP OF DAYS, Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #4, by Ransom Riggs.

New Junior Christmas: THE NUTCRACKER MICE by Kristin Kladstrup and illustrated by Brett Helquist. THIS IS CHRISTMAS by Tom Booth. CONSTRUCTION SITE ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT by Sherri Duskey Rinker and illustrated by AG Ford. SANTA BRUCE by Ryan T. Higgins. IF YOU EVER WANT TO BRING A PIRATE TO MEET SANTA, DON’T! by Elise Parsley.

New Junior Fiction: SQUIRM by Carl Hiaasen. 9 FROM THE NINE WORLDS by Rick Riordan. THE EMPTY GRAVE by Jonathan Stroud. TOUCHDOWN KID by Tim Green.

New Junior Graphic Novel: THE MELODY KINGDOM, Cucumber Quest #3, by Gigi D.G.

Submitted by Kim Heaster