🥇 Library Champion Newsletter #90 | 📢 Summer Reading is here!
Library Champion,
👋 Welcome to our new subscribers! I am SO GLAD to have you aboard!
🫱🏻🫲 All Together Now - Summer Reading 2023
This summer we celebrate the theme of All Together Now with programs and reading challenges for children and teens. Our summer reading program (SRP) is designed to allow you to read what you want, as much as you want, when you want, and maybe win a prize!
At our kick-off event on June 3rd, kids and families can:
- enjoy a fun, interactive concert by husband and wife duo Two of a Kind
- register for the reading and prize portion of the SRP
- learn about and register for programs happening at the library during the months of June and July
- visit with other local agencies and find out what they offer
Follow this link to view all of the youth programs and registration forms: https://www.juniatalibrary.org/youth/sr2
Click on this link to register for the reading and prize portion of the SRP. In order to participate in the prize raffle, your child must be registered and complete a reading log for their age group. Reading logs can be printed from our website or picked up at the library.
📢 Libby is now available for Amazon Fire tablets 🎉
Libby is now (finally!) available to download from the Amazon Appstore. Before now the OverDrive app was the only option.
The OverDrive app will be removed from the Amazon Appstore on June 7, 2023. Fire tablet users who already have the OverDrive app installed can continue to use it for now, but it is no longer in active development. The OverDrive app will display messaging encouraging those with compatible devices to upgrade to Libby.
The Kindle Book format remains available to users in the U.S. only.
📲 Get free eBooks with your library card, whether the library is open or not: https://www.juniatalibrary.org/programs-services/ebooks-main
📢 June book sale: Wednesday, June 21 to Friday, June 23
📢 The next Friends of the Juniata County Library book sale will be held Wednesday, June 21, Thursday, June 22 and Friday, June 23, 2023 during regular business hours.
Wednesday, June 21 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Thursday, June 22 from 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Friday, June 23 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
We provide the bag, you fill it for $7!
Note: there will not be a preview night for the June book sale.
ℹ️ More info: https://www.juniatalibrary.org/programs-services/book-sales
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…
Central Park West: a crime novel by James Comey
(New adult fiction: thriller, legal, political)
The mob ties come as a shock to the prosecutor, Nora Carleton, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (Comey’s old haunts). She was poised to put away the mobster known as The Nose for good—and, in another ongoing case, nail the ex-wife of the creepy former governor for his murder. With the possibility that the murder was committed by a member of the Gambino crime family—a hit woman impersonating the ex-wife, Kyra Burke—a legal free-for-all breaks out. At one point, there's a chance that the Manhattan district attorney will prosecute Kyra while Nora prosecutes someone else for the same murder.
Drawing on his experience as a mob prosecutor, Comey is comfortable with the technicalities and unspoken truths of a high-level case, including the battles among the Department of Justice and the Manhattan DA and the FBI and the NYPD. He's a bit too eager to show off all he knows: For all the lively tidbits in the book, including the possibility of digitally tracking a suspect through her Starbucks orders, there are as many drops of useless information, such as state criminal trials not happening “where the movie-going public thought they did.” Readers of legal thrillers know more than he gives them credit for.
Ultimately, Comey’s first crack at fiction is more efficient than exciting. Perhaps the juice it’s missing might have come, in the post–Andrew Cuomo era, from a closer examination of the book's disgraced ex-governor.
Bottom line: A capable but predictable fiction debut by the former FBI chief.
Borrow the book: Central Park West
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--Vince Giordano
Librarian and Director of the Juniata County Library.
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