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This Week at Your Library

THE LIBRARY WILL BE CLOSED FOR SPRING CLEANING Monday, April 1 through Friday, April 5. We will still have our Geri-Fit classes, Friends of the Library meeting, storytime, Nick from the Hearing Aid Center and our Cowboy Carnegie program that week.

Library Programming: STORYTIME: Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. March’s themes: “Pirates”, “Food Fun”, “Goats—with special guests”, “Bedtime Math—come in your pajamas!”. “MURDER IN THE NIGHT: WHO SHOT FATHER BELKNAP AND WHY?” program by Tim Velder, Friday, March 15, at 7 p.m. in the Library Meeting Room. Reverend Arthur Belknap was killed in Lead, South Dakota, on October 25, 1921, and his murder has never been solved. COWBOY CARNEGIES: WYOMING’S HISTORIC LIBRARIES program on Friday, April 5, in the evening. We’ll have the traveling exhibit that goes with the program for approximately six weeks. ADULT CRAFT NIGHT: “Mason Jar String Art”, Monday, March 18, at 6 p.m. Class fee is $20, sign up by Friday, March 13. You must bring a hammer! UFOs AT THE LIBRARY: the 4th Monday of each month at 6 p.m. Bring any 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 March 28, at 11 a.m. at the Library. They are reading “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” by Michael Chabon. Always on the lookout for new members! CROOK COUNTY LIBRARY BOARD meeting Thursday, April 4, at 1 p.m. in Moorcroft. CROOK COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION BOARD meeting Wednesday, April 17, at 5:30 p.m. in Moorcroft. SUNDANCE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: Our next meeting is Tuesday, April 2, at 11 a.m. at the library. Tell your friends so they can become our Friends! FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY SPRING LUNCHEON Friday, April 12, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Library Meeting Room. Come enjoy a free luncheon put on by the Friends to help celebrate National Library Week. And, while you’re here, join the Friends of the Library!

New Fiction: CONNECTIONS IN DEATH, In Death #48, by J.D. Robb. THE WEDDING GUEST, Alex Delaware #34, by Jonathan Kellerman. NO EXIT by Taylor Adams. WATCHER IN THE WOODS, Casey Duncan #4, by Kelley Armstrong. WHAT DOESN’T KILL HER, Cape Charade #2, by Christina Dodd. STALKER, Inspector Joona Linna #5, by Lars Kepler.

New Young Adult: LET THE WIND RISE, Sky Fall #3, by Shannon Messsenger. THE HISTORY OF LOVE by Nicole Krauss. SLOPPY FIRSTS by Megan McCafferty.

New Junior Fiction: A SEMI-CHARMING KIND OF LIFE by Suzanne Selfors.

New Junior Graphic Novel: SPARKS! by Ian Boothby and Nina Matsumoto.

New Junior Non-Fiction: ANNE FRANK by Stephen Krensky. The following six books were donated by Debbie Proctor and RoseZella and Richard Proctor in memory of Dana Proctor: WHAT WAS THE HOLOCAUST? by Gail Herman. WHAT WAS D-DAY? by Patricia Brennan Demuth. WHO WAS LEIF ERIKSON? by Nico Medina. WHO WAS SITTING BULL? by Stephanie Spinner. WHO WAS FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT? by Margaret Frith. WHO WAS ROBERT E. LEE? by Bonnie Bader.

New Picture Books: CHICKEN TALK by Patricia MacLachlan. GRUMPY MONKEY by Suzanne Lang. CRUNCH: The Shy Dinosaur by Cirocco Dunlap.

Submitted by Kim Heaster

 
 
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