🥇 Library Champion Newsletter #67 | Our 2021 Annual Report
Library Champion,
👋 Welcome to our new subscribers! I am SO GLAD to have you aboard!
We are so excited to announce that we have new, more expanded hours:
Monday - 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Tuesday - 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday - 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday - 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Friday - 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday - 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Sunday - Closed
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The Juniata County Library's 2021 Annual Report
Below is our annual report - enjoy!
Click here to read a full-screen version of the report.
March 2022: T-shirt Sale! (final week!!!)
Below: the available colors.
Below: the winning logo design by Julia Mummau that will be on the t-shirts
A book recommendation just for you!
G-Man by Stephen Hunter (2017) (Adult fiction: Suspense, Mystery, Detective)
Hunter continues the Swagger family saga, with Bob Lee lured from retirement after a steel box secreted by his grandfather Charles is discovered on the family’s old Arkansas homestead.
In the box are a Colt .45 government-model pistol, an odd machined cylinder, an FBI Special Agent badge, a $1,000 bill, and a map. It will all trace back to 1934 and gangsters Homer Van Meter, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, and John Dillinger, who were robbing every bank in sight. Bob’s enigmatic grandfather Charles, a World War I hero, left his duties as Polk County sheriff to serve the federal Division of Investigation, the FBI’s forerunner, in Chicago, and the book alternates between his adventures in 1934 and his grandson's quest to figure out what happened. The action takes off as Charles, while sending more than one bad guy to the morgue, turns the division’s lawyers and accountants into shoot-to-kill street agents. There are regular shifts to Baby Face with surprising insight into his personality and marriage. While wanting to know why Charles buried that box, Bob Lee also sets out to find out why his grandfather spent only a few months with the division—"Everything about this old bastard was thin"—leading to two startling revelations. Hunter’s handling of a bank-robbery gun battle and later the bloody takedown of Baby Face are you-are-there choreographed. However, it’s Charles’ manipulating the mob, corrupt cops, and publicity hound Melvin Purvis while dodging Tommy guns, .45s, and the deadly Monitor that keeps the pages turning, letting Bob Lee’s pursuit of Charles’ history fade to a sideshow—at least until Bob deciphers the map and is confronted by the hillbilly Mafia.
Check out all of the books in the Bobby Lee Swagger series!
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The book sale is back!
The next book sale will be held at the end of April 2022!
Here is the schedule:
1) Tuesday 04/26: Friends member preview night from 4PM to 7PM. Anyone can become a member of the Friends at this time or beforehand.
2) Wednesday 04/27 through Saturday 04/30: during regular hours the rest of the week (Wednesday 9A-5P, Thursday 9A-7P, Friday 9A-5P, Saturday 9A-3P.)
For buying books: the price is $5 per bag and the bags are provided at the book sale. Â
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--Vince Giordano
Librarian and Director of the Juniata County Library.
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