November News

There is a lot happening here in the library, and we can't believe it's the end of November already! We wish all our staff and students and their families a happy Thanksgiving holiday break. Take some time to enjoy a good book.

Upcoming Page Turners' meeting times are Tuesday, 12/2, and Tuesday, 12/16, during 1st lunch. We hope you join us for continued discussion of The Hungry Tide and The Wind in the Willows.

We have had a lot of new books arrive in the past several weeks. Ask us if you need a recommendation. One of our new favorites is The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

Finally, look for our "book swap" cart that will be introduced soon - books free for the taking. We will be registering those books with bookcrossing.com, a website that assigns ID numbers to registered books, so that anyone who picks up a book with an ID can write a brief journal entry about the book, free and anonymously. The goal is to then leave the book somewhere else for a stranger to pick up and read. The idea is to keep books circulating in the world, free, with people journaling about the books as they read them - kind of like a "message in a bottle." Some quotes about bookcrossing.com: "an online trend that has people committing random acts of kindness" (National Public Radio); "an innovative attempt to make the whole world a library" (Yahoo.com); "a phenom among readers with a taste for mischief and a touch of altruism" (The Los Angeles Times); and "a craze that is catching on globally" (The London Times). If you visit bookcrossing.com/hunt, you can locate books that have been "released" in NH, and see if you can catch them.