Check your calendars and register for a new program for PreSchoolers – Thank Goodness It’s Friday storytime and craft with Amos, our therapy greyhound, and his “mom”, Holly, that will take place on Friday,January 18from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm. Children and their grown-up can also have a brief, private “Read to Amos” session after crafting. Bring a picturebook from home or select one at the library for “Read to Amos” time. This is a new program being tested in the month of January. This session is geared to children not yet in school or are in half-day school.
On Friday, January 25from 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm, children of all ages (and a grown-up, if needed) can register for a new program for Children – Thank Goodness It’s Friday storytime and craft with Amos, our therapy greyhound, and his “mom”, Holly. Children (and their grown-up, if needed) can also have a brief, private “Read to Amos” session after crafting. Bring a picturebook from home or select one at the library for “Read to Amos” time. This is a new program being tested in the month of January. This session is geared to children of all ages, but younger children will require more help from their grown-up.
Register for both of these programs on the Events Calendar, or on Burbio.
The Council on Aging Book Group will meet on Tuesday, January 15at 10:15 am at the COA on Dexter Lane to discuss “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer.
In 1946, as England emerges from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey and his eccentric friends, who tell her about their island, the books they love, German occupation, and the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation.
“Just the Facts” Nonfiction Book Group will discuss the “The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story” by Douglas J. Preson on Thursday, January 17at 6:30 pm. This book recounts how the author and a team of scientists discovered a legendary sacred city, the Lost City of the Monkey God, hidden deep in the Honduran jungle.
Cafe Parlez will discuss “Celine” by Peter Heller on Thursday, January 31at 6:30 pm.
Establishing an excellent record as a missing-persons tracker who specializes in reuniting families to make amends for a loss in her own past, Celine searches for a presumed-dead photographer in Yellowstone only to be targeted by a shadowy figure who would keep the case unsolved.