National Teen Literature Day April 15

Book Sale

held to celebrate

National Library Week

all proceeds will

go to the

Library Endowment

Foundation

Wednesday April 14th to Saturday April 17th

During regular Library Hours

The Wyoming State Legislature set aside $12.1 million in matching funds to encourage establishment and growth of library endowments.  Lincoln County libraries are eligible to receive a 2:1 match on donations up to $213,043.  Every dollar donated, up to that amount, will be matched by the state with an additional two dollars.

For example, if you spend $5.00 at the book sale, it will be matched by $10.00 from the state for a total of $15.00 added to the endowment.

When libraries statewide have raised $2.3 million cumulatively, each of the state’s 23 county library systems will receive an additional $100,000.  At the end of the fundraising period, June 30, 2013, Lincoln County libraries could have an endowment of over $700,000.

You’ve read through the winter, & now

….let’s celebrate

Stop by the Star Valley Branch library

- Thursday, April 8,

- between 4 & 6 p.m.

For everyone who participated in the Let it Snow Reading Program

Grand Prize Drawing

A booklight for everyone who completed the program

CHOCOLATE-COVERED  STRAWBERRIES!

The book chosen for our next Reading Group discussion is “The Given Day” by Dennis Lehane.  If you would like to join us please call the library and we’ll get a book for you.  Our discussion of this book will be held Wednesday, March 17th at 6pm.

Hope you will join us.  Here is a review of the book:

Lehane combines 20th-century American history, a gripping story of a family torn by pride and the strictures of the Catholic Church, and the plot of a multifaceted thriller. Set in Boston during and after WWI, this engrossing epic brings alive a pivotal period in our cultural maturation through a pulsing narrative that exposes social turmoil, political chicanery and racial prejudice, and encompasses the Spanish flu pandemic, the Boston police strike of 1919 and red-baiting and anti-union violence.Danny Coughlin, son of police captain Thomas Coughlin, is a devoted young beat cop in Boston’s teeming North End. Anxious to prove himself worthy of his legendary father, he agrees to go undercover to infiltrate the Bolsheviks and anarchists who are recruiting the city’s poverty-stricken immigrants. He gradually finds himself sympathetic to those living in similar conditions to his fellow policemen, who earn wages well below the poverty line, work in filthy, rat-infested headquarters, are made to pay for their own uniforms and are not compensated for overtime. Danny also rebels by falling in love with the family’s spunky Irish immigrant maid, a woman with a past. Danny’s counterpart in alienation is Luther Laurence, a spirited black man first encountered in the prologue when Babe Ruth sees him playing softball in Ohio. After Luther kills a man in Tulsa, he flees to Boston, where he becomes intertwined with Danny’s family. This story of fathers and sons, love and betrayal, idealism and injustice, prejudice and brotherly feeling is a dark vision of the brutality inherent in human nature and the dire fate of some who try to live by ethical standards. It’s also a vision of redemption and a triumph of the human spirit. In short, this nail-biter carries serious moral gravity.

County Wide Reading Begins

Book Discussion:  November 4, 6:00 p.m.

2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction

Olive Kitteridge

by Elizabeth Strout

Limited number of paperback copies are available in the Star Valley Branch library.     FREE

“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.

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

“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.

March 8 – 14, 2009 is National Teen Tech Week.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009  Computer

 Game Challenge!!!

6:00 – 8:00 p.m.