🥇 Library Champion Newsletter #96 | 📢 Overstock Free Book Giveaway!
Overstock Free Book Giveaway!
Just in time for holiday gift giving, the Friends of the Juniata County Library have announced a book giveaway. On December 6 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM in the Virginia Swartz Community Room of the library, the Friends will be offering their overstock books free to the public. With the number of donations they have received, the Friends have duplicate copies of books, an abundance of nonfiction and biographies, and too many fiction books to shelve.
There are books for every age group and every interest. Cooks and crafters will be delighted with the variety of cook books and the holiday themed craft books such as the Better Homes and Garden’s American Christmas Crafts and Foods. Fans of David Baldacci, Cather Coulter, Tom Clancey, Sandra Brown, and Patricia Cornwell, to name a few authors, will find some of the latest titles. Parents of teens will want to peruse the young adult selections for a gift for the “hard to buy for” teen on their list.
The Friends would like to remind everyone to bring their own bags and arrive early for the best selection.
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
Borrow a mobile hotspot
In need of affordable, high-speed internet? Or do you want to take the internet with you on your upcoming trip?
Check out a mobile hotspot at the library for only $10 for 2-weeks, $20 for 4-weeks or $60 for 3 months!
What is a mobile hotspot? It’s a portable device that provides a Wi-Fi internet connection. It’s perfect if you live in an area that can’t get broadband internet or if you don’t have a data plan on your cell phone. Hotspots are also great to have if you want to go on a trip and take the internet with you.
Hotspots will work with laptops, tablets, phones, TVs and most other devices that can connect to a Wi-Fi internet connection.
Thanks to the Friends of the Library we were able to purchase 5 more hotspots, bringing our total to 33!
Book of the week! – if you are going to read one book, give this one a try…
Resurrection Walk (Book #7 in the Lincoln Lawyer series) by Michael Connelly
(New adult fiction: legal, mystery, thriller) ~ 416 pages
In a nutshell: The latest in the Lincoln Lawyer series does not disappoint!
Michael Connelly, author of the Harry Bosch, Renee Ballard, and Jack McEvoy series, gives us a new book in the Mickey Haller (aka Lincoln Lawyer) series.
The evidence against Lucinda Sanz was so overwhelming that she followed the advice of Frank Silver, the B-grade attorney who’d elbowed his way onto her defense, and pleaded no contest to manslaughter to avoid a life sentence for shooting Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Roberto Sanz in the back as he stalked out of her yard after their latest argument. But now that her son, Eric, is 13, old enough to get recruited by local gangs, she wants to be out of stir and at his side.
So she writes to Mickey Haller, who asks his half-brother for help. After all his years working for the LAPD, Bosch is adamant about not working for a criminal defendant, even though Haller’s already taken him on as an associate so that he can get access to private health insurance and a UCLA medical trial for an experimental cancer treatment. But the habeas corpus hearing Haller’s aiming for isn’t, strictly speaking, a criminal defense proceeding, and even a cursory examination of the forensic evidence raises Bosch’s hackles.
Bolstered by Bosch’s discoveries and a state-of-the-art digital reconstruction of the shooting, Haller heads to court to face Assistant Attorney General Hayden Morris, who has a few tricks up his own sleeve. The endlessly resourceful courtroom back-and-forth is furious in its intensity, although Haller eventually upstages Bosch, Morris, and everyone else in sight.
What really stands out here, however, is that Connelly never lets you forget, from his title onward, the life-or-death issues behind every move in the game.
Bottom line: After you read this great book, make sure to watch the Lincoln Lawyer movie and the TV series on Netflix!
Borrow the book: Resurrection Walk (Book #7 in the Lincoln Lawyer series) by Michael Connelly
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