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This Week at Your Library

The Library will be closed Monday, January 20, for Martin Luther King Junior/Wyoming Equality Day.

Library Programming: TODDLER AND PRESCHOOL STORYTIME on Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. January’s themes: “Snowmen”, “Warm as Toast”, “Play to Learn Stations” and “Moose”. MAKER FRIDAY AT THE LIBRARY: Friday, January 17, from 1 to 4 p.m. for Kindergarten through 6th grades.

ADULT CRAFT NIGHT: Monday, February 10, at 6 p.m. More information to come! 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, January 23, at 11 a.m. They are reading “Dancing at the Rascal Fair” by Ivan Doig. Always on the lookout for new members! CROOK COUNTY LIBRARY BOARD meeting Thursday, February 6, at 1 p.m. in Hulett. 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 Tuesday, February 4, at 11 a.m. at the library. Tell your friends so they can become our Friends!

New Fiction: A CHRISTMAS GATHERING, Christmas #17, by Anne Perry. SCARLET FEVER, Jane Arnold #12, by Rita Mae Brown. SPY by Danielle Steel. CRISS CROSS, Ales Cross #27, by James Patterson. A DEATH IN EDEN, Sean Stranahan #7, by Keith McCafferty. HOBNAIL AND OTHER FRONTIER STORIES by Loren De. Estleman, John D. Nesbitt, Paul Colt, and others. SWORD OF KINGS, Last Kingdom #12, by Bernard Cornwell.

New Non-Fiction: NERVES OF STEEL by Tammie Jo Shults.

New Wyoming Room Non-Fiction: THE LIFE OF ELAINE GOODALE EASTMAN by Theodore D. Sargent.

New Young Adult: QUEENS OF FENNBIRN by Kendare Blake.

New Young Adult Non-Fiction: THE MAKING OF A NAVY SEAL: My Story of Surviving the Toughest Challenge and Training the Best by Brandon Webb.

New Junior Graphic Novel: THE SECRET SPIRAL OF SWAMP KID by Kirk Scroggs. NORTHSTARS, VOLUME ONE: WELCOME TO SNOWVILLE! by Jim and Haigen Shelley.

New Junior Fiction: THE RUBY PRINCESS RUNS AWAY, Jewel Kingdom #1, by Jahnna N. Malcolm. THE SAPPHIRE PRINCESS MEETS A MONSTER, Jewel Kingdom #2, by Jahnna N. Malcolm. MORE TO THE STORY by Hena Khan.

New Junior Non-Fiction: THE BOY WHO BECAME BUFFALO BILL: GROWING UP BILLY CODY IN BLEEDING KANSAS by Andrea Warren.

New Picture Books: TRACTOR MAC: TEAMWORK by Billy Steers. TEN PLAYFUL PENGUINS by Emily Ford. TEA WITH GRANDPA by Barney Saltzberg. SAD, THE DOG by Sandy Fussell. I’D KNOW YOU ANYWHERE, MY LOVE by Nancy Tillman.

New Easy Reader: PETE THE CAT AND THE BAD BANANA by James Dean. BRUCE’S BIG FUN DAY by Ryan T. Higgins.

Submitted by Kim Heaster