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Rock the MIC Concert – Thursday, May 5 @ 4pm

This week the library will be hosting the H.D. Jacobs High School Music Industry Club for an outdoor concert on the backyard patio. The concert will be on Thursday, May 5th, 2016 from 4:00-6:00pm. The library has been hosting Rock the MIC for several years now. Throughout the years, the student performer styles have varied from blues, rock, rap, piano, or […]
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Explode Your Hold List with Historical Fiction!

These new historical fiction books really make history come alive! Check them out: The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock In Alaska, 1970, being a teenager here isn’t like being a teenager anywhere else. Ruth has a secret that she can’t hide forever. Dora wonders if she can ever truly escape where she comes from, even when good luck […]
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Explode Your Hold List with Fantasy & Sci-Fi!

Check out our new Fantasy and Science Fiction titles: Guile by Constance Cooper Yonie Watereye lives in the bayou. The water there is full of guile, a power that changes people and objects. Yonie makes a living investigating objects affected by guile, but in fact it’s her talking cat, LaRue, who has the power to see guile. Yonie becomes aware […]
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Explode Your Hold List with Realistic Fiction!

Check out what is new in realistic fiction: The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle  Quinn Roberts is a sixteen-year-old smart aleck and Hollywood hopeful whose only worry used to be writing convincing dialogue for the movies he made with his sister Annabeth. Of course, that was all before–before Quinn stopped going to school, before his mom started sleeping on the sofa…and […]
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2 Cool Crafts for National Poetry Month

National Poetry Month, which takes place each April, is a celebration of poetry introduced in 1996 and organized by the Academy of American Poets as a way to increase awareness and appreciation of poetry in the United States. The Academy of American Poets’ website Poets.org serves as a hub for information about local poetry events during the month. National Poetry […]
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Explode Your Holds! Series Edition

Are you waiting for the elusive “next book” to come out? Check here to see if one of our new continuing series books is on your to-read list: Dove Exiled by Karen Bao (Book 2 of Dove Arising) Phaet Theta is a fugitive. Hiding in plain sight with her friend Wes’s family on the drowned planet Earth, Phaet discovers the […]
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Need New Anime?

Check out some of our new titles! Chaika, The Coffin Princess: The end of the war with the Gaz Empire only meant unemployment for former Saboteur Toru Acura.  So when he collides with fate in the form of a young girl carrying a coffin through a forest, it doesn’t take much convincing for Toru and his similarly inclined step-sister Akari to […]
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Split In Two

The third installment of Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy came out in theaters this past weekend. Following the Hollywood trend that was started by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Allegiant has been split into two movies. Divergent was first published as a book in 2011, released as a film in 2014, and Part Two: Ascendant comes out in 2017. Many have […]
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Make it / Eat it: Candy Sushi

Who says you shouldn’t play with your food? You can make your own candy sushi: it’s fun, easy and tasty too! Check out this list of ingredients and simple instructions: Things You’ll Need: 1 – 1 1/2 tbsp. butter or margarine 20 Jet-puffed marshmallows 3 cups Rice Krispies cereal 10 chewy fruit snack sheets (like Fruit by the Foot or Fruit Roll-Ups) 40 bite-sized […]