🥇 Library Champion Newsletter #84 | Fond memories 🕯️
Library Champion,
👋 Welcome to our new subscribers! I am SO GLAD to have you aboard!
In memory of Malinda ("Mindy") Winder 🕯️
Mindy Winder passed away on February 19th, 2023.
Mindy was an incredible person and a passionate supporter of the Juniata County Library. Mindy served as the Board of Trustees President.
Mindy was forward-thinking. When I began as the library director almost 8 years ago, she made it clear that I needed to help finish the library's strategic plan that was started under my predecessor. She believed that an innovative vision would carry the library into the coming years and help strategically place it in the community.
In Mindy's obituary, she listed that memorial contributions could be made to the library. You can make a donation to the library in memory of Mindy on our website or by mailing us at 498 Jefferson St. Mifflintown PA 17059.
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Family Saturday Programs
Our next Family Saturday program is a Spring Tea Party on Saturday, March 18th at 10:30 am. We will enjoy some snacks, games, a craft, and a story. Registration is required for this one. Sign up at this link below or on the youth page of our website.
Register here: https://forms.gle/yqtYrBq3RCn2ZGpC9
Website: https://www.juniatalibrary.org/youth/childrens
Family group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/553960618564183
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, Christine May and Mercedes Berrier
📖 Book of the week...
The Last Kingdom (Cotton Malone Thrillers) by Steve Berry
(New adult fiction: International Crime & Mystery)
Malone, who retired from the Magellan Billet of the U.S. intelligence service after 12 years to open a bookstore in Copenhagen, still takes the odd freelance job with the CIA, and this one is a doozy. Derrick Koger, CIA chief of special operations, wants to recover a missing book and a document Ludwig set great store by. So do a number of other players: Prince Stefan von Bayern and his brother, Albert Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria, relatives who might plausibly claim to be the materials’ rightful owners; Marc Fenn, grand master of the Guglmänner (think secessionist KKK Bavarians); ex–CIA killer Jason Rife, founder of a fearsome organization called the Scythe; and inevitably the consulate general of China.
Readers agile enough to pick their way through the historical tidbits and action sequences veteran Berry crams into every chapter will eventually discover, along with Malone, that Ludwig had his eye on a prime piece of real estate well outside his borders that’s become exponentially more valuable for the raw materials an extended this-much-is-true endnote observes are actually there. Ad hoc alliances are forged and broken, double crosses drive up the body count, inventive, overcaffeinated set pieces are teed up at a breakneck pace, and two different secret codes will keep puzzle solvers busy as Malone does his level best to disprove his own hard-won wisdom: “Hotshots never survived long.”
Bottom line: About what you’d expect if James Bond were an American who consulted with the CIA.
Borrow The Last Kingdom (Cotton Malone Thrillers) by Steve Berry
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--Vince Giordano
Librarian and Director of the Juniata County Library.
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