Spring has sprung, there's birds and bees...

which naturally brings us to romance!

What are the Top 10 LibraryReads Romance Favorites?

       

Publisher's Weekly gives us their Staff Picks for the summer of 2016...!

Get your library cards ready to place a 

reservation for these titles.  

PWs Staff Picks of Summer Books for 2016!

There's some great titles on the list but the ones featured below are the books I'm most anxious to read. 

 

Are you Muggles ready...?

There's a new trailer for J.K. Rowling's, 

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them",

starring that terrific Eddie Redmayne. 

The movie, part of a trilogy that will be in 
theaters November 2016, 
also features Ezra Miller, Katherine Waterston, Colin Farrell and more.

I completely admit to being a Potter fan, 

so ya know, 

I'm pretty excited about this.

Click here to read the article and see the trailer!

Click here to place the book on reserve 

before the movie hits the theaters!

New DVD for Tuesday, April 19th...

The Revenant - A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. Directed by Alejandro Inarritu. Starring: Leonardo Di Caprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, Domnhall Gleeson.  

The Revenant received a 2016 Oscar for Best Actor (Di Caprio), Best Director and Best Cinematography. It also received many Oscar nominations including Best Supporting Actor (Hardy), Motion Picture of the Year, Film Editing, Costume Design and many others. 

Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor.

I think it's worth a look see, don't you?

What a day! Get out and....well, bring something to read!

   

"Reading in a Park" by Xueling Zou

The 2016 shortlist has been revealed...!

The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction is the UK’s most prestigious annual book award for fiction written by a woman.

Founded in 1996, the Prize was set up to celebrate excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women throughout the world.

Read more about the Prize here...

Read about past winners here...

The 2016 shortlisted books are as follows:

Cynthia Bond: Ruby
Anne Enright: The Green Road
Lisa McInerney: The Glorious Heresies
Elizabeth McKenzie: The Portable Veblen
Hannah Rothschild: The Improbability of Love
Hanya Yanagihara: A Little Life

2016 Shortlist

    

    

"It's All Relative: Family Debuts"

There's a terrific piece in the April issue of 

Library Journal written by Neal Wyatt 

about debut novels featuring 

families in all their glory and sturm und drang. 

Read the article here...

Here are some of the titles mentioned:

  

 

While not a debut novel, 

"The Expatriates" by Janice Y.K. Lee 

is a terrific look at the lives of three American women living the expat life with their families in Hong Kong. 

Don't miss it.

New for Tuesday, April 12th...

Sisters - Tina Fey and Amy Poehler play two disconnected sisters summoned home to clean out their childhood bedroom before their parents sell the family house. Looking to recapture their glory days, they throw one final high-school-style party for their classmates, which turns into the cathartic rager that a bunch of ground-down adults really need.  Directed by Jason Mooore. Also starring: Maya Rudolph, Ike Barinholtz, James Brolin, Diane Wiest, Rachel Dratch, Samantha Bee and many more.

Let's Party!

Join us here 
Sunday, May 10th from
 1-4pm 
as we celebrate our

10th Anniversary in this building!

There will be lots of music, games and 
all kinds of fun activities 
throughout the entire library 

so you won't want to miss this!  

And yes, we encourage 

you to get loud and have a good time. 

(While we celebrate, 
there won't be any designated 
quiet areas in the library.)

DVD available Tuesday, April 5th...

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens  - Three decades after the defeat of the Galactic Empire, a new threat arises. The First Order attempts to rule the galaxy and only a ragtag group of heroes can stop them, along with the help of the Resistance. Directed by JJ Abrams. Starring: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac.