The library will be closed on Wednesday, January 1, 2025. Happy New Year!
Beginning on Tuesday, January 7 the afterschool program, “A Winter Wonderland of Predator vs. Prey,” will be held for children in grades K-3. Children will have the chance to see which land mammal or ocean creature will vie for dominance – only the strong will survive. There will also be winter wonderland projects between battle rounds. This program will be on Tuesdays 3:45-4:45 from January 7 through February 25. Call (307) 334-3490 or stop by the library to register your children.
“Travel Around the World” is the theme for the winter book discussion series with four humorous books planned. The first book, “A Year in Provence” by Peter Mayle is slated to be discussed in February. Stop by to register and pick up a copy of the book. Other books in the series are “In a Sunburned Country” by Bill Bryson, “All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love and Petty Theft” by Geraldine DeRuiter and “Whatever You Do, Don’t Run” by Peter Allison.
“The Seventh Floor” is the title of a novel by David McCloskey, a new author in our library. CIA officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Singapore to meet a Russian with a secret to sell. The Russian is killed and Sam goes missing, making his operational chief, Artemis Procter, a scapegoat for the disaster. Months later Sam appears on Proctor’s doorstep with an explosive secret – there is a Russian mole burrowed deep within the highest ranks of the CIA. The hunt for that person places the pair in the sights of a Russian spymaster who will protect his mole in Langley at all costs. Other books in the series are “Damascus Station” and “Moscow X.” The books are also available digitally.
Other new fiction books include “The Madstone” by Elizabeth Crook, “You Have Gone Too Far” by Carlene O’Conner, “The Handyman Method” by Nick Cutter, “The Grey Wolf” by Louise Penny, “Servant of the Earth” by Sarah Hawley, “Shock Induction” by Chuck Palahniuk, “The Lies We Leave Behind” by Noelle Salazar and “Frigid” by Jennifer Armentrout.
New nonfiction books include “The Plot Against Native America: the Fateful Story of Native American Boarding Schools and the Theft of Tribal Lands” by Bill Vaughn, and “Autism & Adolescence — the Way I See It, What Teens and Adults Need to Know” by Dr. Temple Grandin.The Lenna Lewis Slagle Children’s Library has these new junior book titles, “The Owlympic Games” by Rebecca Elliott, “Poppy Song Bakes a Way” by Karina Yan Glaser and the “Wilderness Adventures” series by Emily L. Hay Hinsdale. New picture books include “Zebra’s Great Escape” by Katherine Rundell, “Reggie, Penguin in Charge” by Jen de Oliveira, “How to Feed Your Cheeky Monkey” by Jane Clarke, “A Fox, a Pig, and a Dig” by Jonathan Fenske and several new “Betty the Yeti” books by Mandy R. Marx.
“Happy New Year! is the theme for Storyhour on December 31, 2024. Storyhour is held from 10 to 11 a.m. on Tuesdays throughout the year for preschool-aged children. Call 307-334-3274 anytime to hear a recorded story! Dial-A-Story is sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
Have you visited the library’s website? Go to: http://niobraracountylibrary.org and click on WyldCat to browse the library’s collection as well as collections throughout Wyoming’s libraries. You can reserve items with your library card and PIN and initiate interlibrary loan borrows all in WyldCat! Stop by the library if you have questions!
Library hours are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesday 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Stop in soon!