3 fun and easy ways to use the library...and an end-of-year note to you, Library Champion
Library Champion,
When my father was growing up and would move to a new town, the first thing he would do is find the nearest library and get a library card. Over half of Juniata County has a library card with us, so having a valid library card puts you in good company!
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(Pictured above: one of our newest card carrying members of the library: Oliver Swab, son of Mike and Melissa Swab. Melissa works at the library as a Circulation Assistant. Isn’t Oliver adorable!?)
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If you are getting a card for the first time or a replacement, we will send in the mail to you your new library card (along with some library goodies). Also, we will be in touch and get you your library card number so that you can start using it right away on our website!
But we are so much more than just a library card. Here are 3 fun and easy ways to use the library:
- On our website, you can download over 20,000 FREE eBooks and eAudio titles and read/listen to them on your preferred smart device or computer. You can also request books and renew what you have checked out by accessing My Account. If it’s your first time doing this, your pin/password will be the last 4 digits of your library card.
- Our social media pages have tons of great content posted each day, including kids storytimes, library-related links, and staff reviews of books we have read. We hope you Like Us, really really Like Us ☺
- Finally, our weekly Library Champion newsletter right here is a great way to get all of the latest library news right in your email inbox. Each week I look forward to sharing with you what’s new at the library!
Thank you for being part of a great community of lifelong learners!
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Bent Road by Lori Roy (Adult Fiction)
Review by Christine May, Circulation Assistant at the Juniata County Library
It’s the year 1960 and Arthur and Celia Scott are raising their three children in Detroit where Arthur works in the auto industry and Celia is a homemaker. Arthur moves the family back to his hometown in Kansas, where its goodbye white gloves on Sunday, so long movie theaters and department stores, and hello pastures, tumbleweeds, homemade dresses and fried chicken.
What happens when you rejoin your family after a 20 year absence? When do you reveal the mystery surrounding your sister’s death? Why did you let your father die without reconciling your differences? There is an awful lot not being said over there on Bent Road.
Of the Scott family, only Arthur and older daughter Elaine (with the help of her new boyfriend) adjust to country life. Daniel and little Evie are without friends and floundering. Daniel is that man child with a foot in both worlds and Evie lives in a pretend world where her Aunt Eve is still alive. Arthur’s mother Reesa doesn’t help Celia’s transition in the slightest, not with her demanding and unforgiving ways.
When a young girl with a strong resemblance to Arthur’s dead sister Eve goes missing, the suspicions go wild. The brunt of the finger pointing lands on Ray, Arthur’s other sister’s husband, who was courting Eve up until her death. Sister Ruth moves in with him and Celia in order to escape Ray’s abuse, only to have Ray dive into an alcoholic tail spin, garnering even more suspicion.
The fabric that this story weaves joins together the threads of some very fragile lives. The limitations we sometimes convince ourselves of, the inability to leave old habits, have these characters chained and shackled. This debut novel drew me in to the human drama of living a rural life, not quite isolation, but vastly different from city life.
The ultimate resolution is not quite a happy ending, rather a satisfying ending.
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Your library misses you. We wish you and your family health and wellbeing during these (and all) times.
Vince
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