Check Out These New Books

New books at the library include Ice by Linda Howard, I, Alex Cross by James Patterson, Rainwater by Sandra Brown, U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton and Ford County by John Grisham.

Also new are A Gift of Grace by Amy Clipston, Under the Cajun Moon by Mindy Starns Clark, Shades of Blue by Karen Kingsbury, Rough Country by John Sandford and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer.

Tax Forms Are In!

Once again the library is participating in the tax form program and has all basic state and federal tax forms available free to the general public.

We will also have a binder of reproducible tax forms for any other form that is needed or you may use the library's public access computer to file your taxes or to look up any information you need directly from the IRS website at IRS.gov.

Library Welcomes Donations

Thanks to Gayle Ford and Jamie Boyd, and to Steve and Jan Bangert for donating many wonderful books to the library. Thanks also to Library Trustees Alora Ford and Cheryl Kurtenbach for making these donations possible!

Linda Moody has donated a gem of a book for young people called The Dragonfly Door by John Adams. This award winning book helps parents help children understand about loss and change and has been placed in the collection in memory of Michael Moody.

Library Book Club Meets

The library book group The Pageturners met last evening, January 11, to discuss the Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows book The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

This book has proven to be very popular among book clubs and our group agreed by giving the book an 8.38 rating on a 10 point scale.

The group will next read Bill Bryson's The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and will hold their discussion as the program for the Melvin Woman's Club on Thursday, February 4, 2010.

New Books

New books at the library include 4 Sookie Stackhouse Novels donated by Stephanie Swearingen: Dead as a Doornail, Definitely Dead, All Together Dead and From Dead to Worse.

Also new are donations from Friend of the Library Diane Doyle: Snow Angels by Fern Michaels, Home in Time for Christmas by Heather Graham; and That Holiday Feeling, Angels at Christmas and Mrs. Miracle by Debbie Macomber.

We extend our thanks to Leslie Stephen and Becky Eveland, co-workers of library Trustee Alora Ford for donating several boxes of books to the library. All donated material is greatly appreciated!