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The fourth and final Food @ the Library program will be held on Wednesday, December 17 at the library from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Meat: The Energy
Connection
will be presented by Shirley Huizenga, Cent$ible Nutrition educator. The program will offer new tips and tricks for working with meat. Call the library to reserve your spot today, 334-3490.

The support organizations of the library, the Friends of the Library and the Niobrara County Library Foundation extend their thanks for your support of the Annual Soup and Bread Sale and the Krispy Kreme Doughnut fundraiser. Funds from the Soup and Bread sale support the annual Reading is Fundamental Program (RIF) which will be held in February, March and April. Proceeds from the Krispy Kreme fundraiser go toward the 3:1 Challenge, a part of the Wyoming Public Library Endowment Challenge Program. Thank you!

A new fiction book is “Grace” by Richard Paul Evans. This is a story of a young runaway girl and the boy who hides her from a frightening world too large and unfathomable for him to comprehend.

Other new fiction includes “A Wallflower Christmas” by Lisa Kleypas, “Hardly Knew Her” by Laura Lippman, “The Brass Verdict” by Michael Connelly, “Dark Summer” by Iris Johansen, “Ghost at Work” by Carolyn Hart and “‘Tis the Season” by Lorna Landvik.

New adult non-fiction books are “The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life” by Alice Schroeder, “East Meets West” by Jay Agarwal and “I’m Not Your Friend, I’m Your Parent: Helping Your Children Set the Boundaries They Need…and Really Want” by E. H. Hall.

A new young adult book is “Ink Death” by Cornelia Funke.

The Lennea Lewis Slagle Children’s Library has these new junior books “Molly, the Goldfish Fairy” by Daisy Meadows, “Revenge of the Living Dummy” by R. L. Stine and “Martin Bridge Out of Orbit” by Jessica Scott Kerrin. New easy titles are “Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek” by Deborah Hopkinson and “Little Jake and the World Record Bass” by Robert H. Jacobs, Jr.

Storyhour will just be held on Tuesday for the remainder of December. A special visitor will be in town on Tuesday, December 16, 2008. Storyhour is held from 10 to 11 a.m. for children ages 3 through kindergarten.

334-3274 is the Dial-A-Story number. Dial-A-Story is sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Dial in and hear an exciting story today!

After 24 years we are able to begin binding The Lusk Herald newspapers again, we are missing some issues in the time period of 1984 through 1994, if you happen to have any issues in this range and would consider donating them please stop by.

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