🥇 Library Champion Newsletter #97 | 🎄 Happy Holidays from the library!
Library Champion,
👋 Welcome to our new subscribers! I am SO GLAD to have you aboard!
🎄 Happy Holidays from the Juniata County Library!
🕰️ FYI - The library is closed on the following days:
--Monday December 25 2023 (Christmas Day)
--Monday January 1 2024 (New Years Day)
The library is open regular hours on all other days.
↪️ Full list of regular library hours: https://www.juniatalibrary.org/using-library/hours
↪️ Full list of 2023-2024 holiday hours: https://www.juniatalibrary.org/using-library/library-closings
🧩 Got Puzzles?
♟️🧩 Stay warm and entertained by borrowing some puzzles and board games from the library!
Click the above image to see a short video displaying some of our popular puzzles and board games.
Need a library card?
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Passport Services at the Library! ✈️
This year alone we have processed 600 new passport applications!
Make an appointment at the Juniata County Library to get or renew your passport!
Visit our website to learn more about this service and how you can get a passport or renew your current passport.
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…
The Third Victim (Robin Lockwood series #1 by Phillip Margolin)
(Adult fiction: legal, thriller, mystery) ~ 320 pages
Available formats: regular print and large print
In a nutshell: Phillip Margolin was an attorney before becoming a bestselling author, and he uses his legal expertise to supreme effect here.
A woman stumbles onto a dark road in rural Oregon --- tortured, battered and bound. She tells a horrific story about being kidnapped, then tortured, until she finally managed to escape. She was the lucky one --- two other women, with similar burns and bruises, were found dead.
The surviving victim identifies the house where she was held captive and the owner, Alex Mason --- a prominent local attorney --- is arrested. Although he loudly insists upon his innocence, his wife’s statements about his sexual sadism and the physical evidence found at the scene, his summer home, is damning.
Regina Barrister is a legendary criminal defense attorney, known as “The Sorceress” for her courtroom victories. But she has a secret, one that threatens her skill, her reputation and, most of all, her clients. And she’s agreed to take on the seemingly impossible task of defending Alex Mason.
Robin Lockwood, a young lawyer and former MMA fighter, has just left a clerkship at the Oregon Supreme Court to work for Regina Barrister. The Alex Mason trial is her first big one, a likely death penalty case, and she’s second chair to Regina. Increasingly, she’s worried her boss’s behavior and the details in the case against their client don’t quite add up.
Bottom line: “The Third Victim” is New York Times bestseller Phillip Margolin at his very best.
Borrow the book: The Third Victim by Phillip Margolin
--regular print
--large print
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--Vince Giordano
Librarian and Director of the Juniata County Library.
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