🥇 Library Champion Newsletter #87 | 🚧 Library closed April 24-25 📢
Library Champion,
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🚧 Library closed April 24-25 📢
On Monday & Tuesday April 24-25 the library will be closed.
The Mifflintown Municipal Authority will begin their portion of the Cross Street Bridge Water Line replacement beginning April 24th and 25th.
On April 24th and 25th the driveway to the library will be closed due to construction.
Any library materials due back on April 24th or 25th will now be due April 26th.
Bagged book sale: April 17 and April 20th to 22nd
The next Friends of the Library bag book sale is coming up! Fill a bag for $7 (bags provided at the door.) Choose from books for all ages, DVDs, music CDs, magazines and puzzles. Only cash or check is accepted.
Please note: the regular Monday morning book cellar will not be open on April 17th.
Here is the bag book sale schedule:
--Monday April 17th 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM (Preview Night for the Friends of the Library) Join the Friends of the Library and get early access before the crowds descend on the book sale Thursday morning. The shelves are CRAMMED with books! You can join the Friends at any time! Membership to the Friends is different than having a library card; membership forms for the Friends are available on the Friends bulletin board at the library or on the library website. You can also join at the door on Monday night. Enter the main entrance of the library and by the overhead green sign for the community rooms will be a table where you can check in (current Friends members) or join (new Friends members.) Once you are checked in and ready to go, you will be given a bag to fill with books and more!
--Tuesday and Wednesday April 18th and 19th – no book sale on either of these days
--Thursday April 20th 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM – open to the public
--Friday, April 21st 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM – open to the public
--Saturday, April 22nd 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM – open to the public
The book sale is located in the book sale room (lower level of the library), which is handicap accessible. Access is available from the main entrance of the library via steps or lower-level parking (no steps.) We are located at 498 Jefferson St. Mifflintown PA 17059. Directions to the library can be found on our website. Call us at 717.436.6378 if you have any questions.
Can’t make the book sale that week? Stop in every Monday morning (9:00 AM to 12 Noon) for the Book Cellar. Each item is individually priced as follows: $2 for hardbacks, $1 for soft covers, $1 for CDs, Music, DVDs, Audio Books, Craft Magazines, 25 cents for other magazines and $5 for post cards. Please note: the regular Monday morning book cellar will not be open on April 17th.
As always, please spread the word to friends and relatives about the Friends of the Library, who provide wonderful support to our great library!
Passport Services 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! – if you are going to read one book, give this one a try…
Dark Angel (Letty Davenport book 2) by John Sandford
(New adult fiction: mystery, detective, thriller)
Ordinary People, an anti-MAGA cabal of lefties, has already pulled off a string of small-scale disruptions, and the word from the CIA is that they plan to take down the power in the Twin Cities, where Letty grew up. Sen. Christopher Colles, the unofficial boss who’s been impressed by Letty’s unflappable skills with weaponry, wants her to pose as the girlfriend of National Security Agency computer specialist Rod Baxter as he seeks to hook up with Ordinary People across the country in California.
After their first attempt goes spectacularly wrong, their forces are beefed up by CIA operative Barbara Cartwright and Department of Homeland Security investigator John Kaiser, who worked with Letty in The Investigator (2022), and they succeed in getting close to Craig Sovern, a prominent Ordinary Person who’s already been wreaking havoc on a number of railroad trains and plans to go bigger and bolder. And these aren’t just any trains. Realizing that Ordinary People’s attacks on the hate-fueled social media platform SlapBack may be a sign that their larger operations are providing an important service to the cause of world peace, Letty and her peeps switch from trying to bring down the organization to trying to protect it from the likes of Russian agent Arseny Stepashin and his trusted contractor Tom Boyadjian—all while keeping everything hush-hush.
Sandford alternates brisk action sequences with a steady stream of revelations that make ambiguous players and their ambiguous relations even more complicated.
Bottom line: A female-forward thriller that makes a strong case that smart, unflinching women should run the world.
Borrow the book: Dark Angel (Letty Davenport book 2) by John Sandford
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--Vince Giordano
Librarian and Director of the Juniata County Library.
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