Mark your calendars for Thursday, May 29. The Galaxy Company will be having a blood drive in the library parking lot from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. that day. Give a little. It helps a lot!
Our summer reading program begins Tuesday, June 3, at 10 a.m. We are excited to start things off with a visit from the Abilene Zoo.
Our reading contest will begin on that same day. We will have reading logs available for the children here at the library. For every 10 books read they will get a ticket to put in for a drawing that will be held on Monday June 30 at 4 p.m.
There will be three different drawings. One for ages 0 through 5 years old, 6 through 9 years old and one for ages 9 and up. Books they read or are read to them counts for a ticket.
When they turn in their logs they will also get to pick a prize from the treasure box for every 10 books read.
New books are here!! Not only did we receive a shipment of new books thanks to the grant from the Tocker Foundation, but we received a very generous donation from Ann Hagins and her family. It has been keeping both of us busy getting them put in the system and ready for everyone to check out.
Here are some of the new books received courtesy of the Tocker Foundation grant. From bestselling author, James Patterson and Andrew Bourelle we have in large print “The Texas Murders.” A legendary Texas Ranger goes on a no holds barred pursuit of the most dangerous killer ever to terrorize Texas.
Texas Ranger Rory Yates protects his home state wearing a five-pointed silver badge and carrying a Sig Sauer. When an Indigenous woman disappears on the summer solstice, clues point to a cold case.
Yates, a quick-draw champion, partners with expert archer Ava Cruz of the Tigua Tribal Police. The investiga- tion leads to the edges of Texas’s most unforgiving landscape, where the officers take dead aim with every shot in their arsenals.
New York bestselling author David Baldacci we have in large print “To Die For,” in which the 6:20 Man returns, this time sent to the Pacific Northwest to aid the FBI in a case that gets more complicated the more questions Devine asks. And he’s about to come face to face with his nemesis, the girl on the train.
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors William W. and J. A. Johnstone we have “The First Mountain Man: Preacher’s Strike.”
Preacher is heading home to the mountains when he’s approached by a wealthy European who wants the legendary mountain man to track down his missing cousin, a reckless young woman who fled to America with her lover. Preacher quickly begins to suspect that this search party is doomed. The murderous Knox gang heard about the rick European’s fortune and plan to kidnap him for a ransom and a fierce band of Sioux warriors launch an attack on Preacher and his men. But the biggest shock comes when Preacher finally meets the missing woman herself and sees what she did to survive.
Check it out at the library.
