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Greetings as 2022 has arrived and we are hopeful it will bring good times.

If you visit us here at Rhoads Memorial Library, you will find us working on projects such as taking inventory of our 21,000-plus items and updating our genealogy section.

Our lateral filing cabinet is home to the genealogy-related items. We are composing a list of contents which will be in large print and affixed to the outside of each drawer. Hopefully our work will make the area more user-friendly to patrons who are researching family history.

New books that have arrived and are ready for checkout include:

-"An Alien Appeal" (book two of The Claire Trilogy) by Tom McCaffrey. This book continues where "The Wise Ass" (named for Claire, the talking mule) left off, expanding the roster of mystical and magical characters. It finds Jimmy, the human, and Everett, his neighbor, traveling through space to Proxima b to answer to that planet's elite for Everett's decisions and Jimmy's continued existence. "Beware the law of unintended consequences" is the main theme of this work.

-"Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone" (an Outlander novel) by Diana Gabaldon. Fans of the series know that Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1746, and it took them 20 years to find each other again. Now the American Revolutionary War threatens to do the same in 1779. Despite reuniting with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger and their children, they worry: will the dangers that provoked their escape from the 20th century catch up to them?

-"Call Us What We Carry", a collection of contemporary poetry written by Amanda Gorman. Many of you will recognize her as the author of "The Hill We Climb" which she read at the 2021 Presidential Inauguration. It received critical acclaim and international attention and is also found in book form, which we have, too. In 2017, Urban Word named her the first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate. The 20-something-year-old is a Harvard University graduate now living in Los Angeles.

Remember that Food for Fines continues through Jan. 31. Also, our annual book sale will be held Jan. 25-29, with offerings ranging from cookbooks to American Indian history.

Come by and check us out!