Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! The library will be closed from Thursday, November 27 until Monday, December 1 so that we can enjoy our Thanksgiving with our families and friends. Make sure to get in before close on Wednesday, November 26 if you'd like some books or movies to keep you entertained during the long weekend!
Did you miss seeing Linda McBride’s author talk on Nov. 11? Head over to the Jenkins County Memorial Library on Tuesday, December 2 at 6:30 pm and see her again – and she promises that she’ll have books for those of you who weren’t able to buy it before they were sold out!
Did you know that November is both Native American Heritage Month and National Novel Writing Month? Come to the library and we'll help you find more on both of these cool subjects!
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It’s story time any time with DIAL-A-STORY! Just call 912-564-7080 and your child can listen to a different story every week – for free!
Speaking of storytimes, the library has a great storytime program every Tuesday at 10 am! Preschool kids can come in and hear fun seasonal stories and do creative craft projects. It’s a ton of fun for the little ones, so don’t miss it!
There will be no Free Movie Friday this week (we’ll all be home digesting those big turkey dinners) but next week on Friday, December 5 at 3:30 we’ll be showing KUNG-FU PANDA!
Tuesday, December 9 at 4 pm our great Teen Book Club will be meeting to discuss this month’s book, HOME OF THE BRAVES by David Klass, and picking up next month’s book, CODE TALKERS by Joseph Bruchac.
News from Jenkins
Local author Linda McBride will be at the library on Tuesday, December 2 at 6:30 to talk about her new book, MEMA HAS CANCER! It’s a warm, sweet tale of the love between a grandmother and her grandchild and how disease can’t change what’s most important about a person, and it was written by a cancer survivor for her own grandkids and all the other children whose families are touched by cancer.
It’s story time any time with DIAL-A-STORY! Just call 478-982-5898 and your child can listen to a different story every week – for free!
Speaking of storytimes, the library has a great storytime program Wednesdays at 4 pm! Preschool kids can come in and hear fun seasonal stories and do creative craft projects. We won’t be able to do it today, Wednesday November 26 but we will be resuming on Wednesday, November 3 at 4 pm.
Wednesday, December 10 at 4 pm our great Teen Book Club will be meeting to discuss this month’s book, HOME OF THE BRAVES by David Klass, and picking up next month’s book, CODE TALKERS by Joseph Bruchac.
Now, on to the books!
GRAVE SURPRISE by Charlaine Harris. Harper Connelly finds dead bodies, but she couldn’t find a missing Nashville girl a couple of years before. Not until she got hired to investigate a totally different set of dead bodies in Memphis and stumbled across a shocking surprise.
A BIGGER LIFE by Annette Smith. Joel Carpenter never meant for his life to turn out the way it did – as a single dad working at a hair salon in Eden Plain, TX. He regrets the choices he made that brought him to that point – until the worst happens, and he finds out just how much he has left to give.
THE GARDEN OF LAST DAYS by Andre Dubus III. One September night in Florida, a stripper brought her daughter to work, to watch children’s videos in the office while her mother danced. But it wasn’t long before a rich customer, a drunk one, and a mother desperately trying to make ends meet make explosive contact.
SILKS by Dick Francis & Felix Francis. Geoffrey Mason’s not your typical barrister. He’s quite happy to hope that a judge with throw the book at a cocky client, and when court’s over, he heads for the racetrack –not to gamble, but to ride. But when this part-time jockey is asked to help the prime suspect in a murder prove his innocence, it just might be his own life on the line.
CALL ME TED by Ted Turner with Bill Burke. He’s a media mogul, the largest landowner in the US, a champion sailor and one of the richest men in the world – and he grew up (and still bases his empire) right here in Georgia.
SEAVIEW INN by Sherryl Woods. Hannah Matthews is a tough PR executive and a single mother, but she’s being put to the test with an ailing mother, a pregnant daughter, and being stuck on Seaview Key. Luke Stevens is an Iraq vet who’s been dumped by his wife and is now sharing his business with the man currently sleeping with his wife. He’s come to Seaview Key to relax and revisit his old hometown… not fall in love again.
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