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Book Shelf (a new book newsletter) NOVEMBER 2022

Our Library Is An Open Book

Libraries change and evolve to meet the needs of their community and adapt to new technologies. At Phillips Free Library though one thing is constant - we exist to create an equitable world. Our mission is to empower and inspire all people to grow and connect with one another to create a better world for all. Here are some ways to connect with your community at the library this month!

New This Month

Family Lock-In

Join us, Sunday, Dec 4^th at 2 pm for a Family Lock-In to celebrate National Cookie Day. There’ll be cookies, cookie decorating, crafts, stories, and multiple book displays to entice the whole family. Registration is required. Email office@phillipsfreelibrary.org to let us know you are coming. It’ll be a moment away from all the hustle and bustle. All children must attend with a parent or responsible adult.

Featured Events

Warm Up & Chill Out

Stop by the library from 2 pm to closing during the week of Dec. 19^th – 23^rd for a warm drink and a quiet spot to relax. Bring a book, or check out one of ours. We’ll have puzzles and coloring books available for your enjoyment and coffee, tea, and hot chocolate to drink. But no spilling on the books, or you’ll be on the librarian’s naughty list!

Zany Jammy Zine Party

All 6th-12th grade students interested in writing are invited to join us on New Year's Eve Eve for a writing lock-in. We will meet on Friday, December 30th from 5-8:30 pm. Wear your (library appropriate) pajamas or comfy clothes, we will have food and make our own zines. For more information and to register email office@phillipsfreelibrary.org

New Books

Adult Fiction

The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

by Shauna Robinson

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When Maggie Banks arrives in Bell River to run her best friend's struggling bookstore, she expects to sell bestsellers to her small-town clientele. But running a bookstore in a town with a famously bookish history isn't easy. Bell River's literary society insists on keeping the bookstore stuck in the past, and Maggie is banned from selling anything written this century. So, when a series of mishaps suddenly tip the bookstore toward ruin, Maggie will have to get creative to keep the shop afloat.

And in Maggie's world, book rules are made to be broken.

To help save the store, Maggie starts an underground book club, running a series of events celebrating the books readers actually love. But keeping the club quiet, selling forbidden books, and dodging the literary society is nearly impossible. Especially when Maggie unearths a town secret that could upend everything.

Maggie will have to decide what's more important: the books that formed a small town's history, or the stories poised to change it all.

Adult Non-Fiction

Two Old Broads: Stuff You Need to Know That You Didn't Know You Needed to Know

by M.E. Hecht and Whoopi Goldberg

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Written by renowned surgeon and expert on the art of aging, Dr. M.E. Hecht, with her friend Whoopi Goldberg lending her unique point of view, Two Old Broads is laugh out loud funny and tells it like it is for all of us who left middle age in the dust and want to be present, positive, and as extraordinary as ever in our golden years.

Whoopi joins Dr. Hecht in a lively conversation about growing older with no apologies. Dr. Hecht, who passed away a few short months prior to publication, shares her 93 years of wisdom with Whoopi and their fellow “broads.” Together, these two kindred spirits will help you:

stay active physically and mentally
make finalizing your will more rewarding than it sounds
navigate tricky subjects, such as whether you need a home aide
win friends and influence people or take a nap, depending on the day
discover joy in relationships even when your excretions outweigh your secretions
get up financially, physically, and emotionally after a fall
keep a sense of humor about getting older (of course!)

Imminently practical and rooted firmly in the adage that getting older is not for sissies, Two Old Broads is the aging book for the ages. You've survived the past; why not embrace the present and prepare for the future so you thrive and find more time to laugh along the way?

Coming Soon

Adult Lock-In

Find a baby sitter, grab a friend, make plans to join us for our first adult lock-in on Friday, January 13th from 7-9 pm. We have heard your requests over the years and most recently in a poll from this newsletter a couple months ago... It is time to try an adult lock-in!! We will bake something yummy together, listen to a quick book talk and then you can play board games or find a quiet corner to read. Please register by emailing Sarah: office@phillipsfreelibrary.org

Books That Get Us Through

It’s been a tough couple of years, but books help. Come to a discussion on Thursday, Oct. 27th at 6 pm, of one of the books that helped many of us through the last couple of years – Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May. Register by emailing office@phillipsfreelibrary.org.

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K-2 Library Zoo

For our last game week we had a guest, Jill Pace, come to spend about 10 minutes teaching us some beginning Yoga. There was actually 20 seconds of silence as we all quietly rested on our backs! Shortly after this we were up and running around playing one of our favorite games, Four Corners!

Did You Know...

Jólabókaflóð (Yule Book Flood)

This Christmas tradition started in Iceland during WWII when imports were restricted but paper was cheap. Publishers flooded the market with new books at the end of the year. Books were exchanged on Christmas eve and then the evening was spent reading and eating chocolate. We think this is a fantastic way to celebrate!