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Books featuring Lincoln County Poet donated
Books about and featuring California Okie Poet and Storyteller Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel were recently donated to the Library from the Oklahoma State University Library courtesy of the Chlebda & Coghill families in memory of Jim Chlebda & Back40 Publishing. McDaniel, born in 1918 near Stroud, moved to California in 1936 and proceeded to write poems and stories about her years in Oklahoma.
Karen Neurohr, of the OSU Library, donated McDaniel’s biography Chasing Fireflies:the Dust Bowl childhood of a poet written by Jeanie Harris as well as four books of poetry and prose written by McDaniel’s including The Ketchup Bottle: 24 vignettes; Tatted Lace and Other Handmade Poems; Getting Love Down Right; and Walking On An Old Road to the Library.
New books April 2017
Children’s books: Little Ree by Ree Drummond; Tucky Jo & Little Heart by Patricia Polacco.
Nonfiction books: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the F.B.I. by David Grann; The Zookeepers Wife: a war story by Diane Ackerman; Old School: life in the sane lane by Bill O’Reilly; Love Does by Bob Goff.
Fiction books: War Cry by Wilbur Smith; Mississippi Blood by Greg Iles; Song of the Lion by Anne Hillerman; The Black Book & Two from the Heart by James Patterson; Vicious Circle by C.J. Box; Fallout by Sara Paretsky; If I’m Found by Terri Blackstock; The Stars are Fire by Anita Shreve; Fast and Loose by Stuart Woods; If Not For You by Debbie Macomber; A Perfect Obsession by Heather Graham; Sandpiper Cove by Irene Hannon; The Lost Order by Steve Berry; One Perfect Lie by Lisa Scottoline; The Burial Hour by Jeffery Deaver; Miramar Bay by Davis Bunn; Man Overboard by J.A. Jance; All by Myself by Mary Higgins Clark; The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See; The Ebb Tide by Beverly Lewis; The Fix by David Baldacci; The Night The Lights Went Out by Karen White.
Community Helpers is the theme of Spring 2017 Story Time
Story Time resumes Monday, April 3, 2017 with the theme “Community Helpers.” We will be reading about people in our town who serve the community through their jobs. On April 3 we will be reading about police officers and Trooper White with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol will be our guest.
Story Time is from 11:30 a.m. til noon every Monday in April and May (excluding Memorial Day).
Other “Community Helpers” we will read about during this Story Time Session are Librarians, Nurses, Firefighters, Mothers, Fathers, Soldiers and how we can be “Community Helpers” through Earth Day projects.
Children of any age are encouraged to come and home schooled children are welcome as well, however the program and activities are geared for children ages 2-5. For more information about our Story Time please call the Library at 405-258-3204.
NOTICE!!!
Book Bonanza starts Saturday, March 25, 2017 Hardback & paperback books, children’s and adult books, some movies and books on cassette. Come check it out. $2 donation per sack. Runs for 1 week. Our hours are Saturday from 9-noon and Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The proceeds from this fundraiser go to purchasing books for the library.
New books in time for Spring at the Library
Two new books by V.C. Andrews Broken Glass & The Mirror Sisters; Treasured Grace by Tracie Peterson; Without Warning by Joel Rosenberg; Devil in Spring by Lisa Kleypas; two young adult books by Stan Lee in the Zodiac series, The Balance of Power & The Dragon’s Return; two nonfiction books Lies We Believe About God by William Paul Young & The Little Things: Why You Really Should Sweat the Small Stuff by Andy Andrews; Dav Pilkey has a new series of books called Dog Man and we have the first two in the series Dog Man & Dog Man Unleashed; Nancy Clancy: Late-Breaking News by Jane O’Connor; Her Secret by Shelly Shepard Gray; Heartbreak Hotel by Jonathan Kellerman and Bone Box by Faye Kellerman; Humans Bow Down by James Patterson; Dangerous Games by Danielle Steel; Banana Cream Pie Murder by JoAnne Fluke; The Devil’s Triangle by Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison; The Cutthroat by Clive Cussler; Twelve Angry Librarians by Miranda James; Wait for Dark by Kay Hooper; and Gunmetal Gray by Mark Greaney.
New large print books at the Library
The Library purchased 21 new large print books by your favorite authors including: The Gangster by Clive Cussler, The Atonement by Beverly Lewis, Messenger by Moonlight by Stephanie Grace Whitson, Logan’s Lady, A Beauty Refined, A Love Transformed and A Treasure Concealed by Tracie Peterson, Mama’s Boy by ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Brotherhood in Death by J.D. Robb, Darkness by Karen Robards, As Time Goes By by Mary Higgins Clark, The Wolves by Alex Berenson, Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben; Field of Graves by J. T. Ellison, She’s Not There by Joy Fielding, Back Blast by Mark Greaney, Hide Away by Iris Johansen, Extreme Prey by John Sandford, This Violent Land by William W. Johnstone, Clawback by J.A. Jance and Point Blank by Fern Michaels.
New books this week @ the Library!
Ring of Fire by Brad Taylor, Because You’re Mine by Colleen Coble, Below the Belt by Stuart Woods, The Guests on South Battery by Karen White, My Husband’s Wife by Jane Corry, Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, The Return of the Raven Mocker by Donis Casey, The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney, The Whole Town’s Talking by Fannie Flagg, The Seventh Plague by James Rollins, Echoes in Death by J.D. Robb, My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella, Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth (young adult), The Prisoner by Alex Berenson, Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner and Never Never by James Patterson.
Chandler Library patrons have access to Learning Express
Learning Express is a resource website where patrons can take practice tests in a variety of skills and subjects including GED, math, reading and language skills tests for adults, college prep and placement test skills, ACT and SAT prep tests and more than a dozen occupational preparation tests.
Simply create a login and you can return as many times as you want to and take tests in whatever skills you are seeking to improve.
An opportunity to help the Library!
If you are shopping at Amazon.com Would you mind taking a few extra minutes in your shopping to help the Friends of the Chandler Library? Go to smile.amazon.com, click on “Pick your charity” or “Support your Charity”, search for “Friends of the Chandler Library, Inc” Two will pop up, one in Arizona and ours. Then pick Chandler OK . Then just do your shopping as normal. When you do this 0.5% of eligible purchases is donated to our Friends of the Library organization. Thank you so much for your time and help.
Featured author for January is James Patterson
The Library is celebrating DEAR-Drop Everything And Read in January by featuring author James Patterson.
James Patterson has created more enduring fictional characters than any other novelist writing today with his Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, Women’s Murder Club, Private, NYPD Red, Daniel X, Maximum Ride, and Middle School series. As of January 2016, he has sold over 350 million books worldwide and currently holds the Guinness World Record for the most #1 New York Times bestsellers. In addition to writing the thriller novels for which he is best known, he also writes children’s, middle-grade, and young-adult fiction and is also the first author to have #1 new titles simultaneously on the New York Times adult and children’s bestsellers lists. (credit:bio from author’s website)
Featured Patterson books include 1st to Die (Women’s Murder Club), Step On A Crack (Michael Bennett), Zoo (stand alone), Private, NYPD Red 4, Confessions of a Murder Suspect (Young Adult) and First Love (Young Adult) along with many many others. The Library’s collection contains over 130 James Patterson novels.