This Week at Your Library

If you signed up for the Geri-Fit Fitness Study class, we will begin on January 14, at 10 a.m. Classes will run every Monday and Thursday at 10 a.m. Don’t forget to bring your dumbbells and a water bottle!

The Fitness Study class is full. However, we are hoping to continue the fitness class beyond the study. If you would like to participate in the regular fitness class starting around April 1, please call the library to sign up.

Library Programming: VALENTINE’S TRAVELING BAKE SALE: The Friends of the Library are busy planning the traveling bake sale. It will be on Thursday, February 14. More information to follow! STORYTIME: Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. January’s themes: “Snowmen”, “Dragons & Knights” (dress up if you’d like!), “Hedgehogs/Hibernation” and “Warm as Toast”. ADULT CRAFT NIGHT: “Barn Quilt” on Monday, February 4, at 6 p.m. in the Courthouse Basement. We are teaming up with the Extension Office for this craft, and part of the fee for this class is going to help fund the 4-H Fridays and other youth programs. Class fee is $25 and there will be several different designs to choose from. Sign up is required by Friday, January 31. Space is limited, so sign up early! QUILTING AT THE LIBRARY: the 4th Monday of each month at 6 p.m. Not limited to quilting! Bring any UFO (UnFinished Object) to the library and work on it here. We have lots of space, outlets and camaraderie! Call the library for more information. LUNCH BUNCH BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP meeting January 24, at 11 a.m. at the library. They are reading “I Was Anastasia” by Ariel Lawhon. 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 Tuesday, February 5, at 11 a.m. at the library. We will be finalizing the plans for the Valentine’s Traveling Bake Sale. Tell your friends so they can become our Friends!

New Fiction: THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY, Clandestine Operations #5, by W.E.B. Griffin. OF BLOOD AND BONE, Chronicles of the One #2, by Nora Roberts. WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES by Georgia Hunter. THE SANDMAN, Inspector Joona Linna #4, by Lars Kepler. FIRE AND BLOOD, History of House Targaryen of Westeros #1, by George R.R. Martin.

New Non-Fiction: IN PIECES by Sally Field. Donated by Jan Steele from the Library Christmas Wish Tree. THE ALLIES: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II by Winston Groom. Donated by Pat Frolander from the Library Christmas Wish Tree. HOMEBODY by Joanna Gaines.

New Young Adult: PAPER AND FIRE, The Great Library #2, by Rachel Caine. REBEL SPRING, Falling Kingdoms #2, by Morgan Rhodes.

New Junior Fiction: THE GRIFFIN’S FEATHER, Dragon Rider #2, by Cornelia Funke. THE SPINNER PRINCE, Pride Wars #1, by Matt Laney.

New Junior Graphic Novel: THE CARDBOARD KINGDOM by Chad Sell.

New Picture Books: MOTOR GOOSE by Rebecca Colby and illustrated by Jef Kaminsky. AQUALICIOUS by Victoria Kann. SLUGGER by Susan Pearson and illustrated by David Slonim. THE BIGGEST KISS by Joanna Walsh and illustrated by Judi Abbot.

Submitted by Kim Heaster