Happy holidays everyone! The library is excited to host an open house week from Monday December 10^th through Saturday December 15^th. Activities for all ages will be offered! We would like to have a display of quilted holiday items during that week, and we are looking for participants to share their talents with us! If you would like to participate please bring in a table runner, wall hanging or other small quilted holiday item by Monday December 10^th. These items will then be displayed for the week and visitors will be able to admire your work!

Tuesday the 11^th we will have our regularly scheduled movie starting at 1:00 pm. We will show “A Preacher’s Wife” and have free popcorn. That evening at 6:30 we will have a family “Gingerbread” (graham cracker) House Story Hour. Please RSVP to the library via Facebook, e-mail, or call us at 324-1340 to reserve a house. The houses will be premade, and we want to make sure we have enough for everyone! Each family is asked to bring 1 container of candy to share and use as decoration for the “gingerbread” houses.

Thursday the 13^th starting at 6:30 we will host an adult craft. We will be making 3D paper snowflakes while watching a Hallmark movie! If you can’t get here right at 6:30, don’t worry! We will be here until 8:00, so stop by and join in the fun when you can! Please bring along a scissors and a stapler if you can. Friday the 14^th we will have a Santa themed story hour at 10:00 am. And finally on Saturday at 12:30 we will show the movie “Frosty the Snowman” and offer hot chocolate!

Our regular morning Story Hours this month will be offered on the 7^th and 14^th with themes of the holidays. We will then take a break until January 25th. A reminder to parents that we always offer toys and coloring activities to kids who stop by during our regular hours. We love having young ones in the library!!!

Library closures for the holidays will include Monday December 24^th, Tuesday December 25^th, and Tuesday January 1^st. We will also close an hour early (at 4:00 pm) on Monday December 31^st.

New at the library this month:

Adult Fiction: “Season of Wonder” by RaeAnne Thayne, “The Rain Watcher” by Tatiana De Rosnay, “Sea of Greed” by Clive Cussler, “Look Alive Twenty-Five” by Janet Evanovich, “Beauchamp Hall” by Danielle Steel, and “You Don’t Own Me” by Mary Higgins Clark. 

Large Print: “Season of Grace” by Lauraine Snelling, “Oath of Office” by Tom Clancy, “Christmas at Carnton” by Tamera Alexander, and “Sugar Pine Trail” by RaeAnne Thayne.

Juvenile Fiction: “Santa Bruce” by Ryan T. Higgins, “Pete the Cat’s 12 Groovy Days of Christmas” by Kimberly and James Dean, “A Unicorn Named Sparkles First Christmas” by Amy Young, “Robyn the Christmas Fairy” by Daisy Meadows, and “The Meltdown” by Jeff Kinney.