🥇 Library Champion Newsletter #81 | 🦃 Happy Thanksgiving from the Library!
Library Champion,
👋 Welcome to our new subscribers! I am SO GLAD to have you aboard!
Thanksgiving Week at the Library
The library is closed this Thursday, November 24th for Thanksgiving. The library will reopen Friday, November 25th at 9:00 AM. Other than Thanksgiving day, we are open regular hours this week. Visit our website for a list of our holiday closures: https://www.juniatalibrary.org/using-library/library-closings
A book for the road 🚗💿🎧
Do you have travel plans coming up and need a way to pass the time on the road? Borrow audiobooks from the library! We lend out books on CD and digital books. Choose from bestselling authors, Adventures in Odyssey, and more!
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...
It starts with us (It Ends with Us book #2) by Colleen Hoover
(New adult fiction: romance)
The sequel to It Ends With Us (2016) shows the aftermath of domestic violence through the eyes of a single mother. Lily Bloom is still running a flower shop; her abusive ex-husband, Ryle Kincaid, is still a surgeon. But now they’re co-parenting a daughter, Emerson, who's almost a year old. Lily won’t send Emerson to her father’s house overnight until she’s old enough to talk - “So she can tell me if something happens” - but she doesn’t want to fight for full custody lest it become an expensive legal drama or, worse, a physical fight.
When Lily runs into Atlas Corrigan, a childhood friend who also came from an abusive family, she hopes their friendship can blossom into love. Atlas, who is single and running a restaurant, feels the same way. But even though she’s divorced, Lily isn’t exactly free. Behind Ryle’s veneer of civility are his jealousy and resentment. Hoover, again, checks all the boxes for what makes a good romance novel.
Bottom line: Hoover beautifully captures the heartbreak and joy of starting over.
Borrow "It starts with us" by Colleen Hoover
Links I Love 🔗
Here are some interesting reads to enjoy...
How Colleen Hoover Rose to Rule the Best-Seller List (New York Times)
The 100 must-read books of 2022: gripping novels, transporting poetry, and timely nonfiction that asked us to look deeper (Time Magazine)
The Apartment Above the Famous Book Shop from “Notting Hill” Is for Sale: the flat above the bookshop from the 1999 film “Notting Hill” is now on the market for £2.375 million (or about $2.77 million). The property is set over three floors, and is located on Portobello Road in West London, right above the Travel Book Shop where bookkeeper William Thacker, portrayed by Hugh Grant, met Anna, a Hollywood actress portrayed by Julia Roberts. (Apartment Therapy)
Reading in the Cruelest Months: April is the cruelest month, or so the poet said, but for me it’s November. It starts with the end of daylight time and then just gets darker, damper, maybe a little claustrophobic. (Tor.com)
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--Vince Giordano
Librarian and Director of the Juniata County Library.
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