The library will be CLOSED Monday, Feb. 18 ----- Presidents' Day

The Reading Group will meet Weds., Feb. 27 (instead of Thursday this month) at 1 pm to discuss a collection of short stories by George Saunders, " In Persuasion Nation".

There will be no after school program during school vacation week (Feb. 28), but we will have 
"First Fridays Storytime" on Friday, March 1.

Some new titles: " The Aviator's Wife" - Melanie Benjamin, "A Week in Winter" - Maeve Binchy (“The late great Binchy’s la...

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Sunday ---- THIS EVENING! ----- 7 pm:
Join us in welcoming Dori Wolfe, reading from her recent book,
" Only Hope: A True-Life Novel".
 As Dori researched the life and death of her grandmother, she created
 this tragic story of a woman sadly incapable of acclimating to life's demands.
Refreshments will be served and books will be available for sale.

The library has a new printer / copy machine (finally) . 
Clean, clear copies, just in time for tax season.
It's easy to print tax forms from the ...

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Calling all preschoolers:
TODAY (Friday) : 10 AM
STORYTIME at the library

Saturday, 10 am: Downloadables for i-devices:
Join us to learn how to download ebooks and audiobooks through the library.
Bring your i-toy (i-pad, i-touch, i-pod, etc) and apple account info.

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This Saturday, Feb. 2, 10 am, at the library:

DOWNLOADABLES FOR I-DEVICES

Bring your i-toy (i-pad, i-pod, i-touch, etc) and Kasaundra will show us
how to use the free audiobook and e-book downloadable services from the library.
You should have an apple account set up. 

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Friday is February 1st, so that means it's First Friday Storytime.
10 am at the library. All preschoolers welcome.

Thursday, the reading group meets at 1 pm to discuss "Flaubert's Parrot" by Julian Barnes.

Sunday, February 10, we welcome Strafford's Dori Wolfe, reading from her new book
"Only Hope: a True-Life Novel". Many of us are familiar with Dori and her work on the Strafford Energy Committee, 
as co-founder of groSolar and her current business Wolfe Energy. Come and hear another side to Dori...

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SUNDAY:    4 pm
The library is hosting Ginger Wallis, reading from her book
"A Gentle and Curious Path: Through Cancer to Points Unknown".
Ginger is a Thetford resident and middle school science teacher. 
Her book is an intimate window into her thoughts, emotions and experiences going from
cancer patient to cancer survivor, filled with openness, humor, natural history, biology and wisdom.
Books will be available for sale and refreshments served.
Please join us.

And mark your calendars for Sunday, ...

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Please join us this Sunday, Jan. 20th at 4 pm, to welcome Ginger Wallis.
Ginger, a Thetford resident, will be reading from her new book, "A Gentle and Curious Path: Through Cancer to Points Unknown".
Ginger's story is one of openness, challenges, humor, confusion, information, and joy.  Natural history is woven throughout the book from her daily (well, almost daily) walks and from her background teaching environmental education and middle school biology. 
We'll have refreshments and copies of th...
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This Friday (tomorrow!) - "First Friday" Storytime at 10 am.
All preschoolers are welcome to join in.

You may have noticed three local books featured on the front page of the January Strafford News.
The library hopes to finish cataloging all three books into our collection this week, so they will be available to borrow.
We are planning to host a reading by Dori Wolfe for her book "Only Hope: a True-Life Novel"...... we'll keep you
posted as soon as a date is set.

If you are getting rid of any old s...

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If you received an e-reader for the holidays and are interested in learning how to download ebooks (free!)
through the library, Kasaundra Landon will be volunteering in the library this Saturday, 9 - 12 and can help you
get started.  Bring your e-reader with you and please have an account set up (and know your password) if necessary.

We will be closing at 5pm on Monday, Dec. 31. 
(and if there is a weather - related reason to close early tomorrow, we may do so)

Next Friday, Jan. 4, will be our "Fi...

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