New Dan Brown Novel

Yes, the library has the new Dan Brown novel, The Lost Symbol. The author of the incredibly popular book The Da Vinci Code has crafted a follow up mystery featuring the same main character, symbologist Robert Langdon.

This thrilling sequel is set in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C. and Langdon must solve a puzzle to save his kidnapped friend. With twists and turns; secrets, symbols and codes; this story proves to be as interesting as The Da Vinci Code and a motion picture based on the novel is also in the works.

True fans and those wanting to learn more should go to the author's official website danbrown.com.

Donations to the Library

Thanks to the folks who have recently donated to the library! We have received book donations from area residents Diane Doyle and Joe Larkin and also from out-of-towners Steve & Jan Bangert and Celeste Honn. We appreciate all such donations and thank these Friends for their support!

We have also received a cash donation from Don & Lisa, folks from Southern California who were in the area and library doing genealogy research. They chose to make a donation after spending a few hours looking through the historical books in the library's collection and enjoying the library's ambience.

Rainy Weather Returns

Good weather didn't last long and we are back to cloudy skies and drizzly days. Farmers are again waiting for the weather to break and harvest to be completed. Many of us remember years gone by when fall weather wasn't cooperative and harvest ran into November, December or even January!

If weather is a subject that interests you or your children check out the library's collection of books on weather. Try The Nature Company Guide to Weather, Savage Earth, El Nino: Stormy Weather for People and Wildlife, Hurricanes & Tornadoes or the Eye Wonder book of Weather.

Harvest Progresses--Finally!

The library is located by the grain elevator and has a good view of the trucks and tractors and wagons as they haul grain in from the fields each fall. This year it's been pretty quiet until the last few days as the farmers finally have a break from the rainy weather and harvest is now proceeding at a rapid pace!

There was once a time when the majority of children were raised on a farm and were intimately familiar with farm life but that day is past and gone. Nowadays children are fascinated with the big machinery associated with farming and farm life and the library has many good books to satisfy their curiosity.

Check out Vintage Farm Tractors or the Eyewitness book Farm. Also available is the Picture Library book Farm Machinery or the book by Champaign-Urbana author Raymond Bial titled Portrait of a Farm Family which features The Steidinger family of the Fairbury area.

Pageturners Meet Tonight

The library is open today to accomodate kids who have the day off from school as well as others who may have a day off for Columbus Day. We are here to serve you!

The Pageturners Book Club is also holding it's monthly meeting this evening at 7:00 p.m. at the library. The book for discussion is The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan who also wrote the popular book Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog which the Pageturners read last year.

The group meets on the second Monday of each month and members get together to discuss a book they have all read. The group chooses its own selections and copies of the books are available free to check out at the library. New members are always welcome.

Many good quotes regarding books and reading abound like "Those who read, succeed" and "A house without books is like a room without windows," but we have just discovered a new quote:

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend, inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx

New Books in Collection

The library has recently added several new books by popular authors including Alex Cross's Trial by James Patterson, Smash Cut by Sandra Brown, The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks, Black Hills by Nora Roberts and Wicked Prey by John Sandford.

Gentle reads or Christian fiction books include Bachelor's Puzzle and Sister's Choice by Judith Pella, Until We Reach Home by Lynn Austin, Kidnapped by Dee Henderson and Stealing Home by Allison Pittman.

Also new is the 2010 edition of the Guinness World Records. The library has many of volumes of this popular book series.