“One Book, One Community” encourages Lincoln County residents  to read and discuss the same book during the fall of 2009.

Book Discussion:  November 5, 6:30 p.m.

Click here for the Book Discussion questions.

Olive Kitteridge

by Elizabeth Strout

Pick up your FREE copy @ the Alpine Branch Library today!!

“Strout makes us experience not only the terrors of change but also the terrifying hope that change can bring: she plunges us into these churning waters and we come up gasping for air.”  The New Yorker

“Funny, wicked and remorseful, Mrs. Kitteridge is a compelling life force, a red-blooded original. When she’s not onstage, we look forward to her return. The book is a page-turner because of her.”  San Francisco ChronicleRecycle!.  Please read & return to the library for someone else to read.

Book Discussion:  November 5, 6:30 p.m.                         

2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction

Olive Kitteridge       

  by Elizabeth Strout

Limited number of paperback copies are available in the Cokeville library.     FREE

Fri. June 19th 2-4 pm is

Game Day @ the  Alpine Branch Library

All ages invited to enjoy indoor and outdoor games!!  Challenge your friends to a hot game of Twister or Wii Bowling!

Monday, May 25 2009

Visit  our Kids Page for details

Summer Reading begins

June 16th 3:30-4:30 with a performance by:

The Storycrafters!!

“LET IT SNOW SOMEWHERE ELSE” Open House

If you participated in the Let it Snow Reading Program, you are invited to the Star Valley Branch Library’s “Let it snow somewhere else party”….

• Thursday, April 9–any time between 4 and 6 p.m.
• Recyclable book bag for everyone who completed the program by reading or listening to ten library books.
• Grand prize drawing for everyone who completed the reading challenge.

“OUT STEALING HORSES” by Per Petterson will be the book we discuss at our next Reading Group Meeting.   It is the winner of the 2007 International Impac Dublin Literary Award and “One of the 10 Best Books of the Year” from The New York Times Book Review.  We’ll hold our discussion on Wednesday May 6 at 6pm.  If you would like to join us give the library a call at 885-3158.

Here is a review form Publisher Weekly

Award-winning Norwegian novelist Petterson renders the meditations of Trond Sander, a man nearing 70, dwelling in self-imposed exile at the eastern edge of Norway in a primitive cabin. Trond’s peaceful existence is interrupted by a meeting with his only neighbor, who seems familiar. The meeting pries loose a memory from a summer day in 1948 when Trond’s friend Jon suggests they go out and steal horses. That distant summer is transformative for Trond as he reflects on the fragility of life while discovering secrets about his father’s wartime activities. The past also looms in the present: Trond realizes that his neighbor, Lars, is Jon’s younger brother, who “pulls aside the fifty years with a lightness that seems almost indecent.” Trond becomes immersed in his memory, recalling that summer that shaped the course of his life while, in the present, Trond and Lars prepare for the winter, allowing Petterson to dabble in parallels both bold and subtle. Petterson coaxes out of Trond’s reticent, deliberate narration a story as vast as the Norwegian tundra.