🥇 Library Champion Newsletter #80 | Another book sale!
Library Champion,
👋 Welcome to our new subscribers! I am SO GLAD to have you aboard!
The next book sale date: November 17th-19th 📚
Friends Preview Night will be Thursday, November 17: 4 PM to 7 PM. Friends Members only! Not a member, join at the door.
Book sale hours for everyone will be- Friday, November 18: 9 AM to 5 PM, Saturday, November 19: 9 AM to 3 PM
Books, audiobooks, movies, CDs, magazines, puzzles and craft magazines are only $5 a bag! Fill a bag or two...or three! In addition to books, we will be selling beautiful postcards of paintings by local artist George Losch. The postcards are $5 per packet and each packet contains 22 assorted cards. Come out and get your winter stash of books and perhaps some holiday gifts for those book lovers you know!
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Learn more about the book sale
Upcoming Closure Reminder 📅
The library will be closed next Friday, Nov 11 in observance of Veterans Day. We will reopen at 9:00 am on Saturday, Nov 12.
Our book drop will remain open and you can access thousands of titles on your device with your library card by using the free Libby app.
See all of our holiday closures.
Passport Services Are Now at the Library! ✈️
Make an appointment at the Juniata County Library to get or renew your passport!
Visit our website to learn more about this new service and how you can get a passport or renew your passport.
Passport agents: Vince Giordano and Christine May
📖 Book of the week...
Desert Star (Book #5 in the Renee Ballard series, Book #24 in the Harry Bosch series) by Michael Connelly
(New adult fiction: crime, mystery, police/delective)
Detective Renée Ballard is given the chance of a lifetime: revive the LAPD's cold case unit and find justice for the families of the forgotten. The only catch is they must first crack the unsolved murder of the sister of the city councilman who is sponsoring the department.
Harry Bosch is top of the list of investigators Ballard wants to recruit. The former homicide detective is a living legend - but for how long? Because Bosch has his own agenda: a crime that has haunted him for years - the murder of a whole family, buried out in the desert - which he vowed to close.
Bottom line: With the killer still out there and evidence elusive - Bosch is on a collision course with a choice he hoped never to make...
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