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Library Champion,
Subscriptions are one of the easiest ways to get something. We simply turn on auto-pay or auto-renewal and the service keeps coming. But if you don't keep on top of them, they can get out of control and easily incur charges that are often difficult to refund.
The library understands this and we have you covered. When it comes to magazine and newspaper subscriptions, we have over 75 titles to choose from that you can borrow or read in-person. We carry the weekly issue of the Juniata Sentinel and the Port Royal Times as well as each day's issue of the Lewistown Sentinel.
Here is a list of all the magazines we subscribe to:
- American patchwork & quilting.
- American Road Magazine
- Art & antiques.
- Babybug.
- Better homes and gardens.
- Bloomberg Businessweek.
- Bon appetit.
- Car and driver.
- Common Ground.
- Consumer reports.
- Cosmopolitan.
- Country woman.
- Country.
- Countryside and small stock journal
- Creative knitting.
- Cricket
- Crochet World.
- Crochet!.
- Discover.
- Do it yourself.
- Dogster.
- ESPN.
- Fermentation.
- Field & stream
- Flea market style.
- Food & wine.
- Food network magazine.
- Glamour:
- Good housekeeping.
- Guns & Ammo
- Harper's magazine.
- Highlights for children.
- Horticulture .
- Hot rod.
- Interweave knits.
- Kayak angler.
- Kiplinger's personal finance magazine.
- Martha Stewart living.
- Money.
- National geographic kids.
- National geographic.
- National review
- Old cars price guide.
- Parents.
- Pennsylvania Game & Fish.
- Pennsylvania game news.
- Pennsylvania Magazine
- People.
- Popular mechanics.
- Popular science.
- Prevention.
- Quilter's world.
- Rachel Ray Every Day.
- Ranger Rick
- Ranger Rick Jr.
- Real simple.
- Redbook.
- Rolling Stone
- Science news.
- Scientific American.
- Seventeen.
- Smithsonian.
- Spider : a magazine for children
- Sports illustrated for kids.
- Sports illustrated.
- Stand up paddler : SUP
- Taste of home
- The Atlantic.
- The Family handyman.
- The Magnolia journal.
- The Mother Earth news.
- The New Yorker.
- The pioneer woman magazine.
- The Reader's digest.
- Time.
- Wired.
It's clear we have magazines that cover nearly every interest. From popular magazines you see in the grocery store checkout line to local interest titles, the library can help you easily save money on a subscription. Click here to search our catalog to find a title you'd like to borrow.
Shout-out to Christine and Tennille for their great work managing and currating our magazine subscriptions!
Here is one book I am reading and a book that I just bought for the library’s collection.
I am continuing my way through A Promised Land. I am at the part where Obama is elected in 2008 and begins to face the grim reality of the economic meltdown.
A book we bought today that you should borrow:
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War​ by Malcolm Gladwell
(Adult nonfiction, history, World War 2)
During the unprecedented slaughter of World War I, bombers played a trivial role. However, by the 1930s, many military thinkers concluded that they were the weapon of the future. Were they right? Gladwell concentrates on the careers of Gens. Curtis LeMay and Haywood Hansell, but the author includes several of his characteristic educative, entertaining detours—e.g., histories of napalm and the Norden bombsight.
Between the wars, all rising American Air Corps officers attended the Air Corps Tactical School in Alabama. A small part of the faculty, the Bomber Mafia, taught that high-altitude, daylight, precision-bombing would win wars. During World War II, Mafia stalwart Hansell sent fleets of bombers to destroy German and Japanese industrial targets. Unfortunately, due to weather, enemy resistance, and failure of the overhyped Norden bombsight, the bombs mostly missed.
Gladwell delivers a fairly flattering portrait of LeMay, who “had a mind that moved only forward, never sideÂways…and was rational and imperturbable and incapable of self-doubt.” Heading the 21st Bomber Command in the Pacific in the fall of 1944, Hansell was conducting high-altitude precision daylight bombing of Japan, with the usual poor results. Replacing him in January 1945, LeMay did no better—until he changed tactics, sending missions at night, at low level, loaded with firebombs. His first round of bombing created a firestorm that killed an estimated 100,000 Tokyo civilians. LeMay’s bombers went on to devastate 67 Japanese cities, and the raids continued until the day of surrender.
In his opinion, the atomic bombs were superfluous; the real work had already been done. Some historians call this a humanitarian crime that failed to shorten the war. Evenhanded as usual, Gladwell does not take sides, but he quotes a Japanese historian who disagreed: “if they don’t surrender, the Soviets invade, and then the Americans invade, and Japan gets carved up, just as Germany and the Korean peninsula eventually were.”
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--Vince Giordano
Librarian and Director of the Juniata County Library.
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