🥇 Library Champion Newsletter #75 | 🏰 Enter the House of the Dragon 🐲
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🏰 Enter the House of the Dragon 🐲
A prequel to Game of Thrones is now on HBO and we have the book it is based on! Borrow it today!
Set hundreds of years before Game of Thrones, the book Fire & Blood gives us a deeper history of Westeros and how it was shaped by House Targaryen.
📚Storytimes are coming back! Register today!
ABC stands for Alphabet, Books, and Crafts at this weekly storytime! Register today!
We will focus on one letter per week at our preschool storytime on Mondays beginning August 29. Storytime will include books, rhymes, flannel board activities, music, and movement. We will also have a craft available at the end of storytime.
Our Toddler storytime and playgroup on Fridays will be a modified version of this theme with books, songs, rhymes, and a playtime/social time afterward!
We try to run on a six week schedule with a 3-4 week break between sessions.
Session 1 (Letters A-F): August 29-Oct 7
Session 2 (Letters G-L): Nov 7-Dec 16
Session 3 (Letters M-R): Jan 16-Feb 24
Session 4 (Letters S-Z): Mar 20-Apr 28
Preschool (ages 3-6): Mondays at 10 am
Toddlers (ages 18 mo-2 yrs): Fridays at 10 am
Who: Children ages 18 mo-2 yr (toddlers) or ages 3-6 (preschool) with a caregiver
What: ABC Storytime
When: Mondays or Fridays at 10:00 am (see more info above)
Where: Juniata County Library | 498 Jefferson St, Mifflintown PA
Questons: Jocinda at 717-436-6378 or jrhinier@juniatalibrary.org - https://www.juniatalibrary.org/youth/childrens
Book of the week! – if you are going to read one book, give this one a try…
Heat 2 by Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner (released August 9th 2022)
(New adult fiction, thriller, crime novel, movie tie-in)
One of my all-time favorite movies is Heat, which came out in 1995 and has a star-studded cast that includes Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Ashley Judd, and more. Like Batman and the Joker in The Dark Knight (2008), Heat presents to the viewer an unstoppable force meeting an unmovable object: LA police detective Vincent Hanna (Pacino) tracking high-level thief Neil McCauley (De Niro) and his crew. There has been on-again off-again talk for years about Mann putting out a movie, TV show, and or book that would serve as a prequel, providing readers background on the characters. After all these years, we are finally given a book (Mann’s first crime novel) that illuminates what happened before (and after) the iconic film.
Some background: The men in the movie Heat are addicted to their lives. There is a scene where the thieves essentially have all the money they need. They can retire. McCauley even has a place picked out in New Zealand. But another job presents itself, and they cannot resist it: "It's the juice. It's the action," states one of the thieves in McCauley’s crew. The movie opens with a complicated armored car robbery involving stolen semis and tow trucks. It continues with a meticulously conceived bank robbery. McCauley is the mastermind. Hanna is the guy assigned to guess his next move.
In Heat 2, the reader learns how McCauley ended up leading a heist crew as well as how Hanna became such a focused cop. Heat 2 takes the reader through the 7 years leading up to Heat and introduces a new cast that molded what is shown in the movie. The opening of Heat 2 provides the reader details of Heat, so having watched the movie is not required. However, the reader will definitely want to see (or re-watch) the movie afterwards.
Final verdict: I can’t wait to read this book and watch the movie again!
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