With the Christmas and New Year’s holidays drawing near and youngsters dismissed from school, now is the time to pick up takeand- make kits for the Young Scientists in your world. December’s kits featuring “Penny Spinners” are available here at Rhoads Memorial Library, courtesy of Felice Acker, local agent with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.
Also, time is running short to pick up some books or movies to carry you through the yuletide, as we will be closed for the Christmas holidays from noon Friday, Dec. 23 through Monday, Dec. 26. We will re-open at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 27.
Later that week, we will be closed on Saturday, Dec. 31, in observance of Sunday’s New Year Day. We will re-open at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, ushering in a brand-new year.
Meanwhile, upon finishing our decorating for the festive season, we had kicked back to admire our handiwork, figuratively patting ourselves on the back for a job well done, when a youngster brought us back to earth.
The nine-year-old was accompanying his dad in using one of our public access computers. The father was very nicely admiring our decorating, but the youngster looked less than impressed and said, “But what about popsicles? Do you have any? I want one.”
The embarrassed father apologized for the child’s question. We showed the youngster what we do offer, (non-food or drink items, of course) but he remained true to his desire for a popsicle. Perhaps Santa can grant that wish.
Concerning our capability to grant a wish for good reading, we are offering two recently donated books for checkout: -”When No One is Watching” by Alyssa Cole is a thriller released in 2020 that focuses on Sydney Green’s Brooklyn neighborhood, which is becoming gentrifi ed with condos as “For Sale” signs pop up and her neighbors leave.
But her deep into the history of these sales makes Sydney paranoid as she discovers her neighbors may not have moved to the suburbs after all. That means the push to revitalize the community may be more deadly than advertised. When does coincidence become conspiracy?
-”The Home Place” is a novel released in 2014 and written by Carrie La Seur that focuses on Alma Terrebonne, a successful lawyer who is pulled back into her troubled family’s life in rural Montana when local police call to say that her wild sister Vicky died after wandering away from a party, heavily inebriated, and freezing to death.
Alma, who thought she was finished with the bleak winters and stifling small town atmosphere of Montana, returns to bury her sister, only to learn that Vicky’s death may not have been an accident. Critics note that “The Home Place” is a “story of secrets that will not lie still, human bonds that will not break, and crippling memories that will not be silenced. It is a story of the place we carry in us always: home. “
Until next week, Happy Reading!