Heather Hosick will hold a Christmas Card and Wrapping Paper workshop for teens ages ten to fourteen on Wednesday December 9 from 6 to 8:30 pm. This event will show participants how to create holiday cards and how to make their own attractive wrapping paper. Call the library to register at 597-4406.
Free yourself from the burden of fines this December. Throughout the month, the library is holding the Food for Fines program. Bring in any non-perishable food item to donate and we will erase your fines. All food will go to the local food bank.
The library will be closed for the last two weeks of December. The last day of 2009 that the library is open is Saturday, December 19. Books checked out now will be due on Tuesday, January 5.
Jeannette Walls had great success with her memoir The Glass Castle. Whether the author’s new book is fiction or nonfiction is a debatable matter. Half Broke Horses tells the true story of the life of Walls’ grandmother. Although it is based on as many real facts as the author could gather, certain areas have been filled in by the author’s imagination. This “true life novel” is also narrated in the first-person. After the scandal surrounding James Frey’s work, publishers are taking no chances and are marketing this book as fiction. The result is a portrait of a bold and resilient woman living on a Texas ranch in the early 1900s. She survives tornadoes, floods, and a bad marriage, supporting her family at times by selling bootleg booze.
In Life Inc., Douglas Rushkoff looks at the history of corporations and how they have brought about unnatural changes in our lives. Starting from the Middle Ages, he traces the development of chartered monopolies, examines how banking became privatized, and how individuals became their own brands. Rushkoff shows how the current financial crisis gives us the opportunity to rebuild our lives on a more human scale. Growing Up bin Laden is a remarkable memoir written by the son and wife of Osama bin Laden. They tell a variety of unusual anecdotes about the family life of the world’s most wanted terrorist. There are stories of Osama’s disapproval of modern conveniences, including electricity and medicine. There is his plan to toughen up his sons by taking them into the desert without food or water, and his plan to protect his wives and daughters from the attacks of western powers by making them dig holes to sleep in. Find out what happened on the morning of September 11, 2001 in the bin Laden household.
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