This Week at Your Library

The Library will be closed Thursday and Friday, November 28 and 29, for Thanksgiving. NOVEMBER BATTLE OF THE MILITARY SERVICE BRANCHES FOOD DRIVE: We are conducting a food drive to help stock the shelves at the Crook County Food Pantry before the holidays. We will have bins set up in the library with the name of each branch of service on them. Please bring in non-perishable food items and place them in the bin of the service branch you served in or your favorite branch. We will also have the bins at the high school for the Veterans’ Day Concert on Monday, November 11, at 7 p.m. The bin with the most items will win, and we will announce the winner in December.

Library Programming: TODDLER AND PRESCHOOL STORYTIME on Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. November’s themes: “N is for Noise & November”, “Play to Learn Stations” and “Thanksgiving”. There will not be storytime on November 27. MAKER FRIDAY AT THE LIBRARY: Friday, November 22, from 1 to 4 p.m. for Kindergarten through 6th grades. ADULT CRAFT NIGHT: Monday, November 18, at 6 p.m. “Holiday Folded Book”. Class fee is $10 and sign up is required by Friday, November 15, at 5 p.m. Space is limited, so sign up early! UFOs AT THE LIBRARY: the last 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 Thursday, November 21, at 11 a.m. They are reading “The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Difference” by Malcolm Gladwell. Always on the lookout for new members! CROOK COUNTY LIBRARY BOARD meeting Thursday, December 5, at 1 p.m. in Sundance. CROOK COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION BOARD meeting Wednesday, January 15, at 5:30 p.m. in Moorcroft. SUNDANCE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: Our next meeting is Monday, December 2, at the library during holiday decorating starting at 1 p.m. Tell your friends so they can become our Friends!

New Fiction: OUTBREAK by Davis Bunn. THE CITY OF MIRRORS, Passage #3, by Justin Cronin.

New Non-Fiction: THE GHOSTS OF EDEN PARK: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America by Karen Abbott.

New Great Courses on DVD: AMERICA IN THE GILDED AGE AND PROGRESSIVE ERA taught by Professor Edward T. O’Donnell from College of the Holy Cross. FROM YAO TO MAO: 5,000 YEARS OF CHINESE HISTORY taught by Professor Kenneth J. Hammond from New Mexico State University.

New Book on CD: A CHRISTMAS HAVEN by Cindy Woodsmall and Erin Woodsmall.

New Junior Fiction: I SURVIVED: THE GREAT MOLASSES FLOOD, 1919 by Lauren Tarshis.

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: WRECKING BALL by Jeff Kinney. THE MISADVENTURES OF MAX GRUMBLY: MASTERS OF MISCHIEF by Rachel Renee Russell.THE TYRANT’S TOMB, The Trials of Apollo #4, by Rick Riordan.

New Picture Books: THE BERENSTAIN BEARS: THAT’S SO RUDE! by Mike Berenstain. HUFF AND PUFF by Claudia Rueda. SPUNKY LITTLE MONKEY by Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson.

New Easy Readers: TOY STORY 4: OLD FRIENDS, NEW FRIENDS by Natasha Bouchard. THE LION KING: NALA AND SIMBA by Mary Tillworth. FANCY NANCY: SHOE LA LA! adapted by Victoria Saxon. FANCY NANCY: TOODLE-OO, MISS MOO adapted by Victoria Saxon. PETE THE CAT’S TRIP TO THE SUPERMARKET by Kimberly and James Dean. BARBIE DREAMHOUSE ADVENTURES: SISTERS SAVE THE DAY adapted by Kristen L. Depken.

Submitted by Kim Heaster