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This Week at Your Library

If you signed up for the Geri-Fit Fitness Study class, we will begin on January 14, at 10 a.m. Classes will run every Monday and Thursday at 10 a.m. Don’t forget to bring your dumbells (if you have some) and a water bottle! The Fitness Study class is full. However, we are hoping to continue the fitness class beyond the study. So, if you’d like to participate in the regular fitness class starting around the first of April, please call the library to sign up.

Library Programming: STORYTIME: Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. January’s themes: “Snowmen”, “Dragons & Knights” (dress up if you’d like!), “Hedgehogs/Hibernation” and “Warm as Toast”. ALL AGES MOVIE, Friday, January 11, at 11 a.m. ADULT CRAFT NIGHT: Stay tuned! QUILTING AT THE LIBRARY: the 4th Monday of each month at 6 p.m. Not limited to quilting! Bring any UFO (UnFinished Object) to the library and work on it here. We have lots of space, outlets and camaraderie! Call the library for more information. LUNCH BUNCH BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP meeting January 24, at 11 a.m. at the library. They are reading “I Was Anastasia” by Ariel Lawhon. Always on the lookout for new members! CROOK COUNTY LIBRARY BOARD meeting Thursday, January 10, at 1 p.m. in Moorcroft. CROOK COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION BOARD meeting Wednesday, January 16, 5:30 p.m. in Moorcroft. SUNDANCE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: Our next meeting is Thursday, February 5, at 11 a.m. at the Library.

New Fiction: IN TIMES GONE BY, Golden Gate Secrets #3, by Tracie Peterson. COMANCHE SUNRISE by Ethan J. Wolfe. THE SEA KEEPER’S DAUGHTERS, Carolina Chronicles #3, by Lisa Wingate.

New Non-Fiction: WITNESS: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom by Ariel Burger. THE BOOK OF JOY: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams. THE OATH AND THE OFFICE: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents by Corey Brettschneider.

New Wyoming Room Fiction: ABANDONED, Donovan #2, by W. Michael Gear.

New Wyoming Room Non-Fiction: HAVOC & SOLACE: Poems from the Inland West by Carol. L. Deering. THE BORDER WAR: The Bronze Boot Rivalry Between Colorado State and Wyoming by Ryan Thorburn and Robert Gagliardi.

New Young Adult: UNRAVEL ME by Tahereh Mafi. WARRIORS: SPECIAL EDITION: BATTLES OF THE CLANS by Erin Hunter.

New Junior Fiction: DRAGON BONES, The Unwanteds Quests #2, by Lisa McMann. ARMSTRONG: The Adventurous Journey of a Mouse to the Moon by Torben Kulhmann.

New Junior Graphic Novel: NOODLEHEADS FIND SOMETHING FISHY by Tedd Arnold, Martha Hamilton, and Mitch Weiss and illustrated by Tedd Arnold.

New Junior Non-Fiction: CITY CHICKENS by Christine Heppermann. FARM ANIMALS: RABBITS by Hollie Endres.

New Picture Books: THE LITTLEST TRAIN by Chris Gall. MOO MOO IN A TUTU by Tim Miller.

Submitted by Kim Heaster