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This Week at Your Library

THE LIBRARY WILL BE CLOSED FOR SPRING CLEANING Monday, April 1 through Friday, April 5. We will still have our Geri-Fit classes, Friends of the Library meeting, storytime, Nick from the Hearing Aid Center and our Cowboy Carnegie program that week. NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK: April 8 through April 12. Come in and check out YOUR library and all we offer! Please join us for the free Friends’ Spring Luncheon on Friday, April 12, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Library Programming: STORYTIME: Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. March’s themes: “Pirates”, “Food Fun”, “Goats—with special guests”, “Bedtime Math—come in your pajamas!”. COWBOY CARNEGIES: WYOMING’S HISTORIC LIBRARIES program on Friday, April 5, at 7 p.m. Please join us to hear about the Carnegie Libraries built in Wyoming. We will have the traveling exhibit that goes with the program for approximately six weeks. ADULT CRAFT NIGHT: stay tuned! UFOs AT THE LIBRARY: the 4th Monday of each month at 6 p.m. Bring any 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 March 28, at 11 a.m. at the Library. They are reading “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” by Michael Chabon. Always on the lookout for new members! CROOK COUNTY LIBRARY BOARD meeting Thursday, April 4, at 1 p.m. in Moorcroft. CROOK COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION BOARD meeting Wednesday, April 17, at 5:30 p.m. in Moorcroft. SUNDANCE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: Our next meeting is Tuesday, April 2, at 11 a.m. at the library. We will be finalizing the plans for the Spring Luncheon. Tell your friends so they can become our Friends! FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY SPRING LUNCHEON Friday, April 12, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Library Meeting Room. Come enjoy a free luncheon put on by the Friends to help celebrate National Library Week. In addition, while you are here, join the Friends of the Library!

New Fiction: SILENT NIGHT by Danielle Steel. THE MALTA EXCHANGE, Cotton Malone #14, by Steve Berry. FUGITIVE RED by Jason Starr. A CASE OF BIER, Bed-and-Breakfast #31, by Mary Daheim. THE ISLAND OF SEA WOMEN by Lisa See. NEVER TELL, D.D. Warren #10, by Lisa Gardner. THE CURRENT by Tim Johnston.

New Wyoming Room Non-Fiction: SPIKE by Badger Clark. SKY LINES AND WOOD SMOKE by Badger Clark. SUN AND SADDLE LEATHER by Badger Clark. WHEN HOT SPRINGS WAS A PUP by Badger Clark. BOOTS AND BYLINES by Badger Clark. BADGER CLARK: COWBOY POET WITH UNIVERSAL APPEAL by Jessie Sundstrom.

New Wyoming Room Fiction: WOLF PACK, Joe Pickett #19, by C.J. Box.

New Young Adult: THE WICKED KING, Folk of the Air #2, by Holly Black.

New Junior Fiction: NEVERSEEN, Keeper of the Lost Cities #4, by Shannon Messenger. THE ENCHANTED ATTIC by L.L. Samson.

New Junior Non-Fiction: TYRANNOSAURUS REX VS. RHINOCEROS by Eric Braun. CRAFTS FOR KIDS WHO ARE LEARNING ABOUT WEATHER by Kathy Ross and illustrated by Jan Barger.

New Picture Books: SEED SCHOOL: GROWING UP AMAZING by Joan Holub and illustrated by Sakshi Mangal.

New Easy Readers: WARRIORS IN WINTER by Mary Pope Osborne. THE BERENSTAIN BEARS MAMA’S HELPERS by Jan and Mike Berenstain. THE BERENSTAIN BEARS’ PIGGY BANK BLESSINGS by Stan and Jan Berenstain with Mike Berenstain. THE BERENSTAIN BEARS’ KITTEN RESCUE by Jan and Mike Berenstain.

Submitted by Kim Heaster