🥇 Library Champion Newsletter #94 | 🌲 Joyce Kieffer event October 23rd
Library Champion,
👋 Welcome to our new subscribers! I am SO GLAD to have you aboard!
🌲 Joyce Kieffer event October 23rd at 6:30 PM
Join us at the Juniata County Library on Monday, October 23rd from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM in the lower level community room for a presentation and Q&A by Joyce Kieffer. A book signing will follow her presentation.
📑*Space is limited and registration is required*
↪️Follow this link to register: https://bit.ly/joycekiefferJCL2023
🎁 All who attend receive a special gift that night!
📚 Borrow Joyce's books from the library: https://bit.ly/JCLtreesremember
ℹ️ Joyce is the author of The Trees Remember—a trilogy of historical novels set in the turn-of-the-twentieth-century virgin forests of Juniata County, Pennsylvania. The series tells the story of the heroine’s odyssey from her small family farm in the forest foothills, to the Johns Hopkins Training School for Nurses, and back to her forest homeland and its wild and dangerous lumber camps. Along the way, she uncovers her life purpose . . . and a few intriguing secrets that change her life forever.
Although the novels are set nearly a century ago, Joyce addresses issues relevant to today: ecology; racism; classism; and gender inequality. Superimposed on these themes are the lush, beautiful forests and the flora and fauna that call them home, the rich cultural stories of life in rural Pennsylvania where farming is a way of life, and the Native American wisdom and respect for the plants, soil, and water we all share.
🗓️ September 8th: Adult summer reading winner announced
🗓️ Mark your calendars: This Friday, September 8th at 12 noon we will be announcing the adult summer reading winner! The prize is a Kindle Fire!!
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…
The Longmire Defense (Longmire Mystery book #19) by Craig Johnson
(New adult fiction: western, mystery & detective) ~ 368 pages
In a nutshell: Longmire lovers, rejoice! He’s back with a deeply personal case that uncovers family secrets.
Walt Longmire, sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming, has a long record of solving crimes under unorthodox circumstances. This time, Walt’s hunt for a lost tourist leads to an investigation that’s both personally wrenching and dangerous. The search area recalls a story his father told him about an elk hunt he went on as a teen with his own father, Lloyd. During the hunt, the state accountant, Big Bill Sutherland, was shot and killed, and his murder is still unsolved. When Walt finds the tourist, he also finds a buried, custom-made .300 H&H Magnum that was probably the murder weapon in the Sutherland case. The owner of that rifle was Lloyd Longmire, a wealthy man and a tough taskmaster who used chess lessons to teach Walt about not only the game, but about life.
This coldest of cold cases forces Walt to look into his grandfather, with whom he continued to have an adversarial relationship away from the chessboard. Although Walt and cemetery expert Jules Beldon find an empty coffin in Sutherland’s grave, Lucian Connally, who’d been the sheriff when Sutherland was killed, is extremely reticent about the ancient mystery. But Beldon’s shooting turns the cold case hot, and a long conversation with a childhood friend who’s now an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) stirs up long-lost memories for Walt.
Powerful people pressure him to forget the old case, which is tied to vast amounts of money in a hidden fund. It doesn’t matter: Walt has his own moral code, refuses to bend, and is ready to unmask his grandfather as a murderer if that’s where the clues lead.
Bottom line: Learning the history of a beloved protagonist raises an exciting mystery to a higher level.
Borrow the book: The Longmire Defense by Craig Johnson
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