Posts by Staff
Stay in with a new book from the Chandler Library
Chandler Public Library now has these books on the shelf!!
Come in and check out Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine, or Going Rogue: by popular author, Janet Evanovich; or try Triple Cross: The Greatest Alex Cross, by the ever-popular, James Patterson; You might also want to read Twist of a Knife, by Anthony Horowitz. This is the first adult novel we have in our stacks written by Horowitz.
Other great new fiction: Choice: The Dragon Heart Legacy, Book 3, Nora Roberts; Desert Star, Michael Connelly; Hunting Time, Jeffrey Deaver; Letter Keeper, Charles Martin; Record Keeper, Charles Martin; Water Keeper, Charles Martin; Night Shift, Robin Cook; Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng; Passenger, Cormac McCarthy; Stella Maris, Cormac McCarthy; Racing the Light, Robert Crais Tom Clancy Red Winter, Marc Cameron; World of Curiosities, Louise Penny; In the Light of Day, Sandra Wilkins; In the Glimmer of Dawn, Sandra Wilkins.
New titles donated to the library (Yes Virginia, you CAN donate used books in great condition to the library): If you liked Where the Crawdads Sing, try If the Creek Don’t Rise: A Novel, by Leah Weiss. We also have a new book bypopular Oklahoma author, Carolyn Brown, Riverbend Reunion. Interested in books set in libraries – or murder mysteries in general? You might enjoy reading, The Woman in the Library: A Novel, Sulari Gentill.
Other new donations: Cold Snap, Marc Cameron; A Dangerous Business; Jane Smiley; The Day He Left : A Violent Crim Investigations Team Mystery, Frederick Weisel; Drunk on Love, Jasmine Guillory; The It Girl, Ruth Ware; The Jane Austen Society, Natalie Jenner; Lilac Girls : A Novel, Martha Hall Kelly; Out of the Clear Blue Sky, Kristan Higgins: Saltwater Memories, Amelia Addler; Saltwater Promises, Amelia Addler; Sunset Secrets, Amelia Addler; Sugar and Salt : A Novel, Susan Wiggs.
New in Young Adult fiction is, The Quest for Quantra, by Riannon Elayne Dennis, a local author.
We have several new Non-Fiction titles by local and “used to be local” authors: The Whiskey Towns of Oklahoma 1889-1907, Wayne Pounds; Desegregation and the Fate of Black Teachers in Oklahoma, Wayne Pounds; Benjamin J. Myers non-fiction work, A Poetics of Orthodoxy: Christian Truth as Aesthetic Foundation; and poetry work, Black Sunday.
Brainfuse Is Here for Learners of All Ages
The library now has Brainfuse – on demand, anytime, anywhere eLearning for all ages and levels.
Brainfuse is one of the nation’s leading online tutoring providers for libraries and schools.
Users get real-time tutoring from instructors through the Brainfuse online classroom.
Brainfuse HelpNow
Students work with live tutors using an interactive whiteboard to chat, write, draw, copy & paste text or images and graph homework problems. Use HelpNow for homework help, skills building and test prep.
The Writing Lab and the 24/7 Center
Users get the freedom to get help any time of the day without connecting with a live tutor. Users can submit papers through the Writing Lab for feedback. The 24/7 Center is for non-writing assignments like math or science.
JobNow
Job-seekers can get live online help, powerful tools, and other resources.
Live Interview Coaching
Brush up on interview techniques or get live online interview practice from trained job coaches. Job coaches and users chat live chat through the online classroom. Also get 24/7 access to interview tips and career resources.
Resume Lab
Submit your resume and a job coach will send it back within 24 hours with detailed feedback and suggestions for improvement. You can also download resume templates or browse resources for making better resumes.
Career Resources
24/7 access to carefully chosen job resources. Brainfuse job coaches help users strategically target jobs best suited to their interests and qualifications.
Adult Learning Center
Get basic career-enhancing skills. ALC offers test preparation (including the GED and the USCIS citizenship test) and an academic skills center featuring live, online tutors.
VetNow
Support for your community’s veterans and their families. VetNow offers help navigating the VA, academic tutoring, and help with employment transition.
Live Online Navigators
VetNow Navigators are trained to help veterans and families connect with valuable benefits and resources.
- Answer questions related to benefits eligibility
- Show community resources for housing, healthcare, and education benefits
- Help you find accredited claims agents
VetNow Job Tools
Designed to help with all stages of the job hunting, the VetNow Job Tools feature career coaching, expert resume assistance, live interview preparation, and more. With the Job Tools you can:
- Discover your best career fit based on education, experience, and personality
- Search for a job with nationwide and local resources
- Get templates for the most common resume types
- Get resume and cover letter help from trained experts
- Brush up on interview techniques or get live online interview practice from trained job coaches
College Skills
Users build academic skills and prepare for college with VetNow’s array of tools:
- Talk with live tutors in a wide range of college level subjects
- Live skills tutoring and a large library of lessons, video tutorials, and practice tests including SAT, ACT, TEAS, HESI, GRE, GMAT and more
- Expert analysis of writing, with constructive comments
- 24/7 help with academic questions
- Live help for language learners
- Make and share flashcards, tests, and educational games
Get Started with Brainfuse
Thank you, Oklahoma Department of Libraries, and the Institute of Museums and Library Services for offering this to Oklahoma libraries.
New Books for 2021
- Frontier Follies by Ree Drummond
- Gates of Athens by Conn Iggulden
- The Russian by James Patterson
- Spin by Patricia Cornwell
- Beirut Protocol by Joel C. Rosenbert
- Dark Sky by C.J. Box
- Power Couple by Alex Berenson
- Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
- Tell No Lies by Allison Brennan
- First Comes Marriage by Debbie Macomber
- No Way Out by Fern Michaels
- Distant Shore by Karen Kingsbury
- Finding Ashley by Danielle Steel
- Sooley by John Grisham
- Stargazer by Anne Hillerman
- When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain
- Jackpot by Stuart Woods
- Saboteurs, by Clive Cussler
- Unfinished Business by J.A. Jance
- Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown
- Ghost Blows a Kiss by Carolyn Hart
- Maidens by Alex Michaelides
New Young Adult books for 2021
- The Rest of the Story by Sarah Dessen
- The Toll by Neal Shusterman
- Come Find Meby Megan Miranda
- Devils Unto Dust by Emma Berquist
- The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
- New Kid by Jerry Craft
- Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz
- Where She Fell by Kaitlin Ward
- The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore/li>
- Hocus Pocus & the All New Sequel by A.W. Jantha
- The Boy, The Boat & The Beast by Samantha Clark
- The Island At the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hardgrave
- Sneak Thief by Faith Harkey
- The Summer of Broken Things by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Smoke and Mirrors by Kristin Halbrook
- Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman
- Squirm by Carl Hiaasen
<
Children’s Books for 2021
- H is For Honor by Devin Scillian
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- Don Freeman’s Courduroy Takes a Bow by Viola Davis
- Sincerely Emerson by Emerson Weber
- Don’t Hug Doug by Carrie Finnison
- The Battle for The Crystal Castle by Geronimo Stilton
- Escape from the Twin Towers by Kate Messner
- Grace and Box by Kim Howard
- I Am a Kindness Hero by Jennifer Adams
- I Am Anne Frank by Brad Meltzer
- I Am Jackie Robinson by Brad Meltzer
- Donald Trump by Grace Hansen
- I Am Smart I Am Blessed I Can Do Anything! by Alissa Holder
- Late Lunch With Llamas by Mary Pope Osborne
- Our Little Inventor by Sher Rill Ng
- Who Is Joe Biden America’s 46th President by R. Margolin
- Love Jar by P.N. Tankersley
- Moon Over Star by Dianna Hilts Aston
- New Shoes, Red Shoes by Susan Rollings
- The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be by Johanna Gaines
- Toby and the Secret Code by Una Bell Townsend
COVID-19 and the Library
The library is closed for the time being, until the threat of the pandemic has gone.
If you want to leave a message, call the library. We’ll be checking them most everyday.
To Return Books
Put them in the Book Drop in the north door. Someone will be checking it everyday and checking books.
Stay Engaged
Check the Library Facebook group for ideas, books, and activities to keep you and your family learning and growing through this time.
Meet Oklahoma’s Poet Laureate Ben Myers
Summer Reading ongoing…
The Summer is half over, but the Summer Reading Program continues with new incentives added to the kids mailboxes each Friday.
Two Books from our hometown author, Dr. Benjamin Myers
Lapse Americana
The twin ravens, Thought and Memory, of Norse myth are reborn as American crows to fly an interweaving pattern or remembering and forgetting through the pages of Lapse Americana. Born out of the poet’s childhood during the Pax Americana and situated within the war and economic lapse of the new century, these poems explore memory and amnesia, faith and doubt, presence and absence. They are rooted in rural, working class experience as well as in the poetic traditions of America, Europe, and China. By turns formal and jazzy, confessional and coy, these poems speak of the universal by focusing on the particular, insisting with simultaneous emphasis upon the value of remembering and of embracing forgetfulness.
Elegy for Trains
Benjamin Myers’ poems range from Virgil through Shakespeare to Woody Guthrie.Just as facets in gems come to life when light strikes them, so do the themes, images, and tropes in Elegy for Trains when the brilliance of Benjamin Myers’ wit, sensitivity and intelligence illuminate his words. His poems make us see Oklahoma and the world afresh. You will read this book, then want to read it again!
About the author
Dr. Myers, a native of Chandler, OK, is the 2015/2016 Poet Laureate of the State of Oklahoma and the author of two books of poetry: Lapse Americana (New York Quarterly Books, 2013) and Elegy for Trains (Village Books Press, 2010). His poems may be read in The Yale Review, The New York Quarterly, 32 Poems, Poetry Northwest, Nimrod, The Christian Century and other journals, as well as on the Verse Daily website. He has been honored with an Oklahoma Book Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book and with a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Myers teaches poetry writing and literature at Oklahoma Baptist University, where he is the Crouch-Mathis Associate Professor of Literature.
Dr. Myers and his wife Mandy live in Chandler with their children.
Reasons To Love Books
There are so many reasons to love books. They make our lives richer and more interesting. Really, where would we be without them? Here are a few of our reasons:
- Read, read, read – You’ll be smarter for it.
- With books, you can laugh, cry and learn. It’s healing.
- Fill 20 minutes, an hour, a day, or easily a whole weekend.
- Pick up a book – broaden your outlook and gain sympathy with humanity.
How about sharing some of your reasons.
OK Virtual Library Now Has Magazines
We’ve got more than eBooks, audios and streaming videos. You can now download popular magazines through the library’s Overdrive. The virtual library is open, even when this library is closed. All you need is a library card!
Get going through OK Virtual Library >
Books Sandwiched In Program Resumes in January
Here’s your chance to get out of your comfort zone and read a book because it was recommended by someone who read it.
Join us in the Community Room of the Library from Noon to 1 pm beginning Wednesday, January 6, for a different kind of book club. Everyone gets a chance to tell about the book they’ve read in the last month. Everyone reads what they like but gets to hear about books they might not have heard about otherwise. It’s a chance to discover an author or a genre we might not have been interested in, then get out of our comfort zone and read a book because it was recommended by someone who read it.
Books Sandwiched In will meet the First Wednesday of every month in the Community Room of the Library.
Bring a sack lunch and any friends you think may be interested. We want to hear about the books you have been reading!