🥇 Library Champion Newsletter #77 | 📚 Read 3 books and get a free pizza! 🍕
Library Champion,
👋 Welcome to our new subscribers! I am SO GLAD to have you aboard!
📚 Read 3 books and get a free pizza! 🍕
Through a generous private donation, we are giving away gift cards for a free pizza for anyone who reads 3 banned books.
Here is how it works:
1) The challenge begins Sunday, September 18th, and runs through Friday, November 18th. Registration is required.
2) Read any 3 books from our banned book list. Only books checked out from the library count. You can also choose from our books on CD or digital collection. Search our catalog to locate 3 books.
3) Record your books on the challenge sheet and once complete return it to the library. You will be contacted after November 18th with details on how to get your gift card. One entry per person.
Visit the Banned Book reading challenge page on our website for all the details, as well as download links for the challenge.
Get the challenge materials (download links below; print copies available at the library)
Learn more about Banned Book Week and Intellectual Freedom.
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Join us as we learn how to use Microsoft Word! (Tuesday, October 18th | 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM)
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Join us as we learn how to use Apple iPhones! (Tuesday, October 25th | 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM)
Register today: https://bit.ly/3wlAxWn
Join us as we learn how to use Microsoft Word! (Tuesday, October 18th | 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM)
Register today: https://bit.ly/3wlAxWn
Join us as we learn how to use Apple iPhones! (Tuesday, October 25th | 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM)
Register today: https://bit.ly/3wlAxWn
📖 Book of the week...
NYPD Red by James Patterson & Marshall Karp
(Adult fiction, thriller, suspense, police procedural)
Detective Zach Jordan is all about Courtesy, Professionalism and Respect, the new motto of the NYPD. That's handy when he and his new partner are dispatched to a posh hotel to investigate the death of a studio honcho in town for “Hollywood on the Hudson,” an event designed to steal movie business from Los Angeles. Jordan’s new partner, and old girlfriend, is Kylie MacDonald, now married to a successful show-business producer. One dead film mogul is only the beginning. Next on the hit list is a skirt-chasing married actor dead from two fatal rounds from a prop gun supposedly loaded with blanks.
The Tinseltown movers and shakers who have descended on New York City have become targets for the Chameleon, a frustrated working stiff actor who spends his time among the scenery as an extra. But the Chameleon has a talent for makeup and special effects and a sociopath sycophant girlfriend to assist. Via her producer husband, McDonald knows everyone who’s anyone, and she can don evening wear and mingle where cops aren’t readily visible. That means she’s on the red carpet when the Chameleon’s next victim, vodka-swilling bad boy Brad Schuck, is torched by a Molotov cocktail lobbed into his Hummer limo.
With the publicity-conscious mayor leaning hard on Jordan’s boss, a clone of Lt. Van Buren on Law and Order, there are round-the-clock shifts at the 19th Precinct, leaving little time for Jordan to go one-on-one at Gerri’s Diner with his possible new flame, department shrink Cheryl Robinson. First, he has to team up again with MacDonald to save her husband and second, foil the Chameleon’s plot to send a hundred Hollywood types to never-never land with big chunks of C-4.
Bottom line: this is an enjoyable story that is available in print as well as an eAudio book; I listened to it on my daily commute.
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