What’s happening at the library this week
- Monday – The Library will be closed on Monday for the holiday, but will reopen for normal hours on Tuesday at 9 am.
Every day during the winter break, we will have an activity for the kids at 1 pm followed by an animated movie at 2 pm.
- Tuesday at 1 pm Activity and Movie – Crafts or board games followed by the movie “Turbo” at 2 pm.
- Tuesday at 6 pm Storytime – If you can’t make it to the morning storytime on Thursday, you can come to the evening Tuesday one instead.
- Wednesday at 1 pm Activity and Movie – Crafts or board games followed by the movie “Shaun the Sheep” at 2 pm.
- Wednesday at 5 pm Lego Day – Kids, come use your imagination to build something great!
- Thursday at 11:15 am Storytime – Listen to stories, sing songs, and do a craft. Storytimes are open to children of all ages.
- Thursday at 1 pm Activity and Movie – Crafts or board games followed by the movie “Aristocats” at 2 pm.
- Thursday at 5 pm Teen Create and Game – Come play our Wii, Xbox, PS4, or one of several fun board games. Our craft this week will be making rainbow snowflakes.
- Friday at 1 pm Activity and Movie – Crafts or board games followed by the movie “Finding Dory” at 2 pm.
More Christmas themed books
Just in case you haven’t had enough of holidays, here are a couple more mood setting books from our Christmas book display.
Christmas days : 12 stories and 12 feasts for 12 days
by Jeanette Winterson.
From the book description
For years Jeanette Winterson has written a new story at Christmas-time and here she brings together twelve of her brilliantly imaginative, funny and bold tales, along with twelve delicious recipes for the twelve days of Christmas.
 Twelve Days of Christmas
by Debbie Macomber
From the book description
Continuing a festive annual tradition, #1 New York Times bestselling Debbie Macomber returns with a new holiday novel full of romance and cheer—and the magical prospect of finding love in even the most guarded hearts.
Friendly and bubbly, Julia Padden likes nearly everyone, but her standoffish neighbor, Cain Maddox, presents a challenge. No matter how hard she tries to be nice, Cain rudely rebuffs her at every turn. But when Julia catches Cain stealing her newspaper, that’s the last straw. She’s going to break through Cain’s Scrooge-like exterior the only way she knows how: by killing him with kindness.
To track her progress, Julia starts a blog called The Twelve Days of Christmas. Her first attempts to humanize Cain are far from successful. Julia brings him homemade Christmas treats, and the disagreeable grinch won’t even accept them. Meanwhile, Julie’s blog becomes an online sensation. Julia continues to find ways to express kindness and, little by little, chips away at Cain’s gruff façade to reveal the caring man underneath. Unbelievably, Julia feels herself falling for Cain—and she suspects that he may be falling for her as well. But as the popularity of her blog continues to grow, Julia must decide if telling Cain the truth about having chronicled their relationship to the rest of the world is worth risking their chance at love.
What’s happening at the library this week
- Tuesday at 6 pm Storytime – If you can’t make it to the morning storytime on Thursday, you can come to the evening Tuesday one instead.
- Wednesday at 5 pm Lego Day – Kids, come use your imagination to build something great!
- Thursday at 11:15 am Storytime – Listen to stories, sing songs, and do a craft. Storytimes are open to children of all ages.
- Thursday at 5 pm Teen Create and Game – Come play our Wii, Xbox, Ps4, or one of several fun board games. Our craft this week will be making stars.
Our regular Recipe Swap will be pushed back to next Tuesday instead of this Tuesday.
Tuesday, December 8th Recipe Swap – Bring something you’ve made (along with the recipe) to share and enjoy everyone else’s creations! This month, bring 24 cookies for a cookie swap!
Christmas Themed Books
Now that Thanksgiving is over, a lot of us are turning our minds to thoughts of Christmas and getting ready for the holiday season. Here are a few holiday themed books to get us in the mood.
 Mistletoe cottage
by Debbie Mason
From the book description
Sophie DiRossi loved growing up in Harmony Harbor. But after fleeing in disgrace many years ago, it is the last place she wants to be. Left homeless by a fire, she’s forced to go back to the small coastal town that harbors a million secrets, including her own. Sophie sees this secret reflected every day in her daughter’s blue eyes-and she must keep it hidden from the only man she has ever loved.
Sophie’s return is a shock for everyone . . . especially Liam Gallagher. The firefighter had some serious feelings for Sophie-and seeing her again sparks a desire so fierce it takes his breath away. Now Liam will do whatever it takes to show Sophie that they deserve a second chance at love, even if everything they’ve concealed threatens to keep them apart. In this special town at this special time of the year, Sophie and Liam can only hope for a little holiday magic…
A shoe addict’s Christmas
by Beth Harbison.
From the book description
From the author of the beloved bestseller Shoe Addicts Anonymous comes a heartwarming twist on a classic tale filled with holiday cheer.
Noelle is not a fan of the holidays and to make matters worse, she is at a crossroads in her life when it seems that love and adventure are no longer possible. When she stays late at her job in a department store on a snowy Christmas Eve, she accidentally gets locked in after closing. She isn’t too concerned about the prospect of spending the night in the store…until a woman appears out of nowhere and tells Noelle that she’s her guardian angel.
Soon Noelle finds herself camped out in the shoe department facing several “ghosts” of Christmases past, present, and future…Will visiting the holidays of yesterday and tomorrow help Noelle see the true spirit of Christmas? And will the love she has longed for all her life be the best surprise gift of all?
 Oliver the cat who saved Christmas
by Sheila Norton.
From the book description
Heartfelt, moving, and inspiring, a Christmas book perfect for fans of A Street Cat Named Bob.
Oliver the cat is a timid little thing, who rarely ventures from his home in the Foresters’ Arms.
Then his life changes dramatically when a fire breaks out in the pub kitchen and he is left homeless and afraid. But, with the kindness of the humans around him, he soon learns to trust again. And, in his own special way, he helps to heal those around him.
However, it isn’t until he meets a little girl in desperate need of a friend that he realizes this village needs a Christmas miracle…
Touching and genuine, this is the tale of a little cat with a big heart. Fans of A Street Cat Named Bob and Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World will be delighted.
If you’ve heard about the library’s new 3D printer and want to learn more about it, come to one of our beginner’s 3D printing workshops. They are held on the first and third Monday of every month at 6:00 p.m. Our next workshop will be on Monday, November 7th. Seating is limited. Signup in person at the library, online at http://lmlibrary.org, or by phone 626-0180.
What’s happening at the library this week
 Tuesday at 6:30 pm Recipe Swap – Bring something you’ve made (along with the recipe) to share and enjoy everyone else’s creations! Every month is a different theme. This month’s theme will be “Bread and Soup”.
- Tuesday at 6 pm Storytime – If you can’t make it to the morning storytime on Thursday, you can come to the evening Tuesday one instead.
- Wednesday at noon Want to Write a Novel? – Get ready for November’s National Novel Writing Month and see a published novel written during NaNoWriMo! Fanfiction welcome!
- Wednesday at 4 pm Lego Day – Kids, come use your imagination to build something great!
- Thursday at 11:15 am Storytime – Listen to stories, sing songs, and do a craft. Storytimes are open to children of all ages.
- Thursday at 4 pm Teen Video and Tabletop Game Club – Come play our Wii, Xbox, Ps4, or one of several fun board games.
- Friday at 2 pm Movie – Kids, there’s no school on Friday so join us for a movie day.Saturday at 1 pm Family Halloween Party – Celebrate Halloween with games and a craft! Fun for the whole family!
Ghost Stories and Haunted Houses
There are all kinds of ghost stories; from spooky haunted house stories that make you want to sleep with the lights on, to stories about friendly spirits who need a little help crossing to the other side. Check out our book display to find a few ghost stories that appeal to you.
 Ghost times two
by Carolyn Hart
From the book description
Bailey Ruth Raeburn’s latest mission is to guide the happy-go-lucky spirit of a deceased young man named Jimmy to the next life. But Jimmy is determined to watch over his still-living girlfriend, Megan, whom he wants to be happy even without him–which is easier said than done.
As if being haunted by her late boyfriend wasn’t enough, Megan is dealing with an arrogant, manipulative senior partner who threatens to fire Megan’s vulnerable secretary if Megan accepts a partnership at another law firm. She’s in an impossible bind.
Since Jimmy refuses to move on while Megan is being blackmailed, Bailey Ruth agrees to help him. But after the partner turns up dead and Megan is found at the crime scene, Bailey Ruth and Jimmy have to find a way to uncover a killer before the love of Jimmy’s life is ordered to spend a lifetime behind bars…
 The greatcoat : a ghost story
by Helen Dunmore
From the book description
It is the winter of 1952 when Isabel Carey moves to the East Riding of Yorkshire with her new husband, Philip, a medical doctor. While Philip spends long hours working away from home, Isabel finds herself lonely and vulnerable while she adjusts to the realities of being a housewife in the country.
One evening, while Philip is on call, Isabel is woken by intense cold. When she hunts for extra blankets, she discovers an old RAF greatcoat hidden in the back of a cupboard. Sleeping under the coat for warmth, she starts to dream and is soon startled by a knock at her window. Outside is a young RAF pilot wearing a coat the bears a striking resemblance to the one draped over Isabel’s shoulders. His name is Alec and his powerful presence disturbs and excites her as they begin an intense affair. Nothing though has prepared her for the truth about Alec’s life, nor the impact it will have on her own.
 Maybe this time
by Jennifer Crusie
From the book description
Andie Miller is ready to move on with her life. She wants to marry her fiancé and leave behind everything in her past, especially her ex-husband, North Archer. But when Andie tries to gain closure with him, North asks one last favor. A distant cousin has died and left North the guardian of two orphans who driven away three nannies already, He needs someone to take care of the situation, and he knows Andie can handle anything.
When Andie meets the two children, she realized the situation is much worse than she feared. Carter and Alice aren’t your average delinquents, and the creepy old house where they live is being run by the worst housekeeper since Mrs. Danvers.
Then her ex-brother-in-law arrives with a duplicitous journalist and a self-doubting parapsychologist, closely followed by an annoyed medium, Andie’s tarot card-reading mother, her avenging ex-mother-in-law, and her jealous fiancé. Just when Andie’s sure things couldn’t get more complicated, North arrives to make her wonder if maybe this time things could just turn out differently…
Now you have the option of receiving a text message notification any time an item you placed a hold on is available for you to pick up at the library or if you have overdue library items. You can also choose to receive email notifications instead of texts.
If you want to turn on automatic text or email notifications, just call 626-0180 or come in to the library to let us know.
 What’s happening at the library this week
- Monday at 2 pm Movie – Kids, there’s no school on Monday so join us for a movie day.
- Tuesday at 6:30 pm Recipe Swap – Bring something you’ve made (along with the recipe) to share and enjoy everyone else’s creations! Every month is a different theme. This month’s theme will be “Breakfast for Dinner”.
- Tuesday at 6 pm Storytime – If you can’t make it to the morning storytime on Thursday, you can come to the evening Tuesday one instead.
- Wednesday at 4 pm Lego Day – Kids, come use your imagination to build something great!
- Thursday at 11:15 am Storytime – Listen to stories, sing songs, and do a craft. Storytimes are open to children of all ages.
- Thursday at 4 pm Teen Video and Tabletop Game Club – Come play our Wii, Xbox, Ps4, or one of several fun board games.
Staff Picks
Here are a few of the library staff’s favorite books.
 Alondra chose
Him, her, him again, the end of him : a novel
by Patricia Marx
From the book description
Patricia Marx is one of the finest comic writers of her time, as readers of The New Yorker and fans of Saturday Night Live already know. Her fiction debut is an endlessly entertaining comic novel about one woman’s romantic fixation on her first boyfriend.
 Uriel chose
Beyond human : how cutting-edge science is extending our lives
by Eve Herold
From the book description
Never before in the history of medicine has humankind faced such hope and peril as those of us poised to embrace the radical medical technologies of the immediate future.
Now Eve Herold examines the technologies taking shape at the nexus of computing, micro-electronics, engineering, nanotechnology, cellular and gene therapies, and robotics, which will dramatically transform our lives and potentially allow us to live for hundreds of years.
 Elizabeth chose
Dipper and Mabel and the curse of the time pirates’ treasure!
by Jeffrey Rowe
From the book description
Blendin Blandin is searching for the legendary Time Pirates’ Treasure, and he needs Dipper and Mabel’s help . . . and yours, too! Journey through time and explore the dragon-infested medieval era, the Weird-and-Wild West, and the laser-and-giant-baby-filled future. YOU choose from multiple paths that lead to different wacky adventures! You might end up finding the greatest treasure ever known, or you could send the twins and Blendin into an abyss from which they will never return!
 Tammy chose
Fight like a girl : 50 feminists who changed the world
by Laura Barcella
From the book description
Nearly every day there’s a fresh news story or pop cultural moment related to feminism and women’s rights…but what’s often missing from the cultural discussion is a broader understanding of how we got here — and who helped out along the way. Fight Like a Girl familiarizes readers with important figures in feminist activism in an effort to celebrate those who paved the way for other women.
 Hazel chose
The Beckham Experiment : How the World’s Most Famous Athlete Tried to Conquer America
by Grant Wahl
From the book description
In 2007, David Beckham, the golden boy of soccer, shocked the international sports world when he signed a five-year contract with an American team, the Los Angeles Galaxy. Under the direction of his manager, Simon Fuller, the mastermind behind American Idol and the Spice Girls, Beckham was ready for a monumental challenge and a risky adventure–ready, as Fuller put it, to earn his stripes stateside.
Could he pull off what no player had ever accomplished (including Pelé in the 1970s) and transform soccer into one of the most popular spectator sports in America? It was a bold experiment: failure meant a team, a league, a sport, and Beckham himself might miss their chance to hit primetime in the U.S.
What’s happening this week
Children’s Summer Reading is over and Adult Summer Reading is winding down, but there’s still plenty going on at the library this week.
 Tuesday at 6:30 pm Recipe Swap – Bring something you’ve made (along with the recipe) to share and enjoy everyone else’s creations! Every month is a different theme. This month’s theme will be fair foods.We will also have our Adult Summer Reading final prize drawing during Recipe Swap. Bring your reading list with you, or turn in your lists prior to the start of Recipe Swap. We will have the final prize drawing during this event. You do not have to be present to win.
- Wednesday at 4 pm Lego Day – Kids, come use your imagination to build something great!
- Thursday at 11:15 am Storytime – Listen to stories, sing songs, and do a craft. Storytimes are open to children of all ages.
- Thursday at 4 pm Teen Video and Tabletop Game Club – Come play our Wii, Xbox, Ps4, or one of several fun board games.
Books that inspired a Movie or TV show
There are so many books in the library that have been made into movies or TV shows. We even have quite a few of the movies they were made into. We’ve put together a book display featuring some of the book and movie pairs that the library has to offer.
 The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
This post-apocalyptic novel was written in 2006 and made into a movie in 2010 starring Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, and Robert Duvall.
From the book description
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.
 Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon
New York Times bestselling book and first in a very popular series, this novel inspired a TV series of the same name.
From the book description
The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding Highland clans in the year of Our Lord . . . 1743.
 This Is Where I Leave You
by Jonathan Tropper
The dramatic comedy that was based on this book stars Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Adam Driver, Corey Stoll as adult siblings.
From the book description
The death of Judd Foxman’s father marks the first time that the entire Foxman clan has been together in years. Conspicuously absent: Judd’s wife, Jen, whose affair with Judd’s radio- shock-jock boss has recently become painfully public.
Simultaneously mourning the demise of his father and the demise of his marriage, Judd joins the rest of the Foxmans as they reluctantly submit to their patriarch’s dying request: to spend the seven days following the funeral together. In the same house. Like a family.
As week quickly spins out of control, longstanding grudges resurface, secrets are revealed and old passions are reawakened.
This Is Where I Leave You is Jonathan Tropper’s most accomplished work to date, a riotously funny, emotionally raw novel about love, marriage, divorce, family, and the ties that bind-whether we like it or not.
 We’ve been making all kinds of interesting things on the library’s brand new 3D printer, paid for courtesy of the State Library of Kansas and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
If you haven’t heard of 3D printers, they are used to create three dimensional objects with a kind of plastic that is heated and laid down layer after layer until a new object takes shape. The plastic filament our printer uses is made from natural corn starch, making it biodegradable and environmentally friendly.
Come in and ask about using the library’s 3D printer. We will be offering beginning classes on 3D printing this week Monday through Thursday. Seating is limited so sign up at the Circulation Desk at the library.
 Pokémon GoOne of the things we have created on our 3D printer is a Liberal Memorial Library Pokémon Go badge. Our library is a PokéStop and Gym. Anyone who battles and becomes the library’s new Gym Leader can earn a library badge. Just come in to the library and show us that you’re the new Gym Leader to get your badge.
Summer Reading is over, at least for the kids, but we still have a lot going on at the library this summer.
- Tuesday, July 26th Recipe Swap at 6:30 pm – This month’s theme will be vegetable based recipes.
- Wednesday, July 27th Summer Reading Logs due – Kids, turn in your reading logs to qualify for a Summer Reading prize and to register for the High Readers event.
- Thursday, July 28th Storytime at 11:15 am – Regular storytimes will resume this Thursday.
- Thursday, July 28th Bunco at noon – Join us for the popular dice game! Registration is required.
- Friday, July 29th Movie Day at 2 pm – Popcorn and refreshments available! All movies are rated G.
Kansas Notable Books
Every year the Kansas State Library chooses a new list of Kansas Notable Books that are either written by Kansas authors or about a Kansas related topics.
Here are a few of the Kansas Notable books on display at the library:
 Kansas Wildflowers and Weeds
by Michael John Haddock
From the book description
A reference and a guidebook for a new generation of plant enthusiasts, this volume includes up-to-date nomenclature, keys, and descriptions, as well as habitat, distribution, and ecological information.
Designed for the professional botanist and passionate amateur alike, Kansas Wildflowers and Weeds brings names and taxonomic information into line with recent revolutions in studies of DNA, macro- and micromorphology, cytology, ecology, and phenology.
From the book description
Bank robbers wreaked havoc in the Sunflower State. After robbing the Chautauqua State Bank in 1911, outlaw Elmer McCurdy was killed by lawmen but wasn’t buried for sixty-six years. His afterlife can be described only as bizarre. Belle Starr’s nephew Henry Starr claimed to have robbed twenty-one banks. The Dalton gang failed in their attempt to rob two banks simultaneously, but others accomplished this in Waterville in 1911. Nearly four thousand known vigilantes patrolled the Sunflower State during the 1920s and 1930s to combat the criminal menace. One group even had an airplane with a .50-caliber machine gun. Join author Rod Beemer for a wild ride into Kansas’s tumultuous bank heist history.
From the book description
Nearing 60, William D. Street (1851–1911) sat down to write his memoir of frontier life. Street’s early years on the plains of western Kansas were both ordinary and extraordinary; ordinary in what they reveal about the everyday life of so many who went out to the western frontier, extraordinary in their breadth and depth of historical event and impact.
His tales of life as a teamster, cavalryman, town developer, trapper, buffalo hunter, military scout, and cowboy put us squarely in the middle of such storied events as Sheridan’s 1868–1869 winter campaign. They take us trapping beaver and hunting buffalo for hides and meat, and driving cattle on the Great Western Cattle Trail.
Edited by Street’s great-grandson, with an introduction by Richard Etulain, a leading scholar of the West, this memoir is history as it was lived, recalled in sharp detail and recounted in engaging prose, for the ages.
Have you every walked by a book and title or cover caught your eye and made you do a double take, laugh, smile, or just think “what the heck”? Well, we’ve put together a display full of these books for your perusal.
 Enslaved by ducks
by Bob Tarte
Book description
When Bob Tarte bought a house in rural Michigan, he was counting on a tranquil haven. Then Bob married Linda. She wanted a rabbit, which seemed, at the time, innocuous enough. But that was just the beginning. Wouldn’t a parrot be cute? Linda said. Bob suddenly found himself constructing pens, buying feed, clearing duck waste, spoon feeding at mealtime. One day he realized he’d become a servant to a relentlessly demanding family, and a motley crew it was.
 Stop dressing your six-year old like a skank : and other words of delicate Southern wisdom
by Celia Rivenbark
Book description
Celia Rivenbark is a master at summing up the South in all its glorious excesses and contradictions. In this collection of screamingly funny essays, you’ll discover:
• How to get your kid into a character breakfast as Disney World (or run the risk of eating chicken out of a bucket with Sneezy)
• Secrets of Celebrity Moms (don’t hate them because they’re beautiful when there are so many other reasons?
• EBay addiction and why “it ain’t worth having if it ain’t on eBay”
• Why today’s children’s clothes make six-year-olds look like Vegas showgirls with an abundance of anger issues
 Knit your own dog : easy-to-follow patterns for 25 pedigree pooches
by Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne
Book description
The knitted dog is indeed the ideal companion: There’s no feeding, barking, shedding, or vet’s bills, and he’ll live forever! Knit Your Own Dog is the irresistible guide to knitting the perfect pup. With patterns for 25 different pedigree pooches, Knit Your Own Dog lets you choose the dog you want, whether it’s a pretty Poodle or a loyal Labrador. Or knit them all for a pack of canine fun!
 When the Kissing Had to Stop: Cult Studs, Khmer Newts, Langley Spooks, Techno-Greeks, Video Drones, Author Gods, Serial Killers, Vampire Media, Allen Sperm-Suckers…
by John Leonard
Book description
Leading literary critic John Leonard is a master at decoding the fears and longings that animate our popular culture. When the Kissing Had to Stop is Leonard at his best, with his reflections on the best new literature of today and what it can tell us about America now.
The conspiracies and fears fostered by the Cold War continue to poison our national psyche. New enemies, real or imagined, have fostered subcultures of fantasy and paranoia, and vertiginous proclamations of doom and transformation. Leonard shows how our great novelists and essayists can help us to find some sense and sanity amid the dull roar of tabloids, talk shows, and the Disneyfication of everything.
 Wearing of This Garment Does Not Enable You to Fly: 101 Real Dumb Warning Labels
by Jeff Koon and Andy Powell
Book description
The infamous 1994 McDonald’s hot coffee lawsuit has spawned a veritable industry of “hot” warnings, from Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts admonition that “if pastry is over-heated, frosting/filling can become extremely hot and could cause burns” to the Black Cat Fireworks label: “Caution: Flammable. Do not put in mouth”. If, on the other hand, you manage to escape the heat with a trip to the beach, be warned that a twenty-inch beach ball is “NOT a lifesaving device.”
Compiled by Jeff Koon and Andy Powell, this hilarious collection features the best contributions from the hundreds of thousands of fans of their Web sites, www.dumblaws.com and www.dumwarnings.com, and forty-two original drawings by illustrator Tim Carroll.
 Unlikely friendships : 47 remarkable stories from the animal kingdom
by Jennifer Holland
Book description
Written by National Geographic magazine writer Jennifer Holland, Unlikely Friendships documents one heartwarming tale after another of animals who, with nothing else in common, bond in the most unexpected ways. A cat and a bird. A mare and a fawn. An elephant and a sheep. A snake and a hamster. The well-documented stories of Koko the gorilla and All Ball the kitten; and the hippo Owen and the tortoise Mzee. And almost inexplicable stories of predators befriending prey—an Indian leopard slips into a village every night to sleep with a calf. A lionness mothers a baby oryx.
Print from home or your mobile device
 The library is offering a new service called Mobile Print. If you need to print something from your home computer, but you don’t have a printer or you’re out of ink, now you can send your print job to the library and come pick it up later. Print from your home computer or laptop by visiting http://www.printeron.net/lml/print
You can also print from your smartphone or tablet using the PrinterOn app. Search for PrinterOn in your app store to get started.
A third option is to email what you want to print directly to one of our printers; lml-bw@printspots.com for black and white, lml-color@printspots.com for color, etc.
The library will hold your print job for 48 hours before it automatically times out and disappears from the print management computer.
Prices for mobile printing are the same as they are for printing from inside the library. For more information, visit our website at http://lmlibrary.org/mobile-printing/
Barbecue Cookout Recipe Swap
 Every month we get together to swap and sample some of our favorite recipes. This month the theme of our recipe swap will be barbecue. We will meet in the Learning Center beside the library on Tuesday, May 24th at 6:30 p.m. and will be grilling outside. Please join us. Bring your favorite side dish or dessert and a copy of the recipe. Everyone is welcome!
 Library Hours Survey
At the last meeting of the library board, the board made the decision to investigate expanding library hours for Saturday and to consider the idea of opening on Sundays. We are asking our patrons to help by taking a quick three question survey, https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DFDS5JD, to let us know your opinion about expanding library hours on the weekends.
Top 10 Crime Novels of the Year
Every May Booklist magazine issues their Mystery Showcase, where they list the year’s best crime novels. We’ve put together a book display featuring some of these books and other new mystery and suspense novels.
 King Maybe
by Timothy Hallinan
From the Book Description
Junior Bender finds himself caught in a Hollywood revenge plot epic enough for the silver screen.
Los Angeles’s most talented burglar, Junior Bender, is in the middle of stealing one of the world’s rarest stamps from a professional killer when his luck suddenly turns sour. It takes an unexpected assist to get him out alive, but his escape sets off a chain reaction of blackmail, strong-arming, and escalating crime. By the time Junior is forced to commit his third burglary of the week—in the impregnable fortress that’s home to the ruthless studio mogul called King Maybe—he’s beginning to wish he’d just let the killer take a crack at him.
 Jane Steele
by Lyndsay Faye
From the Book Description
A reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer, from the author whose work The New York Times described as “riveting” and The Wall Street Journal called “thrilling.”
“Reader, I murdered him.” So begins Lyndsay Faye’s Jane Steele.
A sensitive orphan, Jane Steele suffers first at the hands of her spiteful aunt and predatory cousin, then at a grim school where she fights for her very life until escaping to London, leaving the corpses of her tormentors behind her. After years of hiding from the law while penning macabre “last confessions” of the recently hanged, Jane thrills at discovering an advertisement. Her aunt has died and her childhood home has a new master: Mr. Charles Thornfield, who seeks a governess.
Burning to know whether she is in fact the rightful heir, Jane takes the position incognito, and learns that Highgate House is full of marvelously strange new residents…
Gardening Books
If you planning to start a garden soon, check out our gardening book display.
 Rodale’s vegetable garden problem solver : the best and latest advice for beating pests, diseases, and weeds and staying a step ahead of trouble in the garden
by Fern Marshall Bradley.
From the book description
With the latest research, breakthroughs, and troubleshooting advice, Rodale’s Vegetable Garden Problem Solver features hundreds of organic and natural solutions for tackling disease, pest, and weed problems…No matter what challenge crops up in your vegetable garden, you’ll discover all the answers you need to find solutions fast and keep your crops on track.
 Waterwise Plants for Sustainable Gardens: 200 Drought-Tolerant Choices for all Climates
by Scott Ogden
From the book description
People everywhere are facing the realities of restricted water availability. Yet sustainable gardens and landscapes that use less water don’t have to be boring. The key to keeping your garden beautiful and water-wise is intelligent plant choice.
This practical and inspiring guide includes all kinds of plants from tree to succulents, from perennials to bulbs, selected for their wide adaptability and ornamental value.
 Small-Space Vegetable Gardens: Growing Great Edibles in Containers, Raised Beds, and Small Plots
by Andrea Bellamy
From the book description
Grow your own delicious food in any space—no matter how small. Andrea Bellamy, of the award-winning blog Heavy Petal, shares a wealth of knowledge from years of gardening small. Learn how to plan and build your garden—on balconies, in raised beds, up walls, across parking strips, and more—as well as how to sow, grow, and harvest an abundance of fresh fruits and vegetables all season long.
 eBooks
 There are four different apps you can use to checkout eBooks with your Kansas Library eCard. Each has different things to offer.
- Total Boox is the newest. There are no holds and all the books are always available. Also, you can keep the books you checkout for as long as you like, your checkouts will never expire. This app only works on mobile devices. You will be able to read the eBooks on your tablet or phone, but not on your computer screen.
- 3M Cloud Library is the best choice for new bestsellers and larger publishers. Checkout up to 5 books for 2 weeks. Place holds on books that are already checked out. The app works with most mobile devices and on Windows and Mac computers.
- Enki Library includes independent publishers and shelf-published books. They have a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction books. Checkout up to 10 books for 3 weeks. Place holds on books that are already checked out.
- Freading has a large collection that is always available. It includes books from small and medium sized publishers and a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction. Checkout up to 5 books per week for 2 weeks each.
If you prefer books you can listen to, OneClickdigital is the app you’ll use to checkout audiobooks through your Kansas Library eCard.
For more information about eBooks or audiobooks, visit http://kslib.info/128/Digital-Book-eLending. If you’re interested in getting a Kansas Library eCard, come in to our library or any other Kansas library to get one.
 Summer Reading Signup
Signup for Summer Reading starts next week, May 1st.
Poppa D. Clown will be at the library on May 23rd to help us kickoff Summer Reading. Other exciting Summer Reading events this year will include a Cosmosphere rocketry presentation, a puppet show, a visit from the people of Mad Science, and a program presented by Smoky Hills Public TV.
Come in to the library or visit our website, http://lmlibrary.org after May 1st, to get signed up and for more information.
 Coming Events this Week
On Tuesday at 4 p.m. we are going to ring in Spring with a children’s party filled with snacks, crafts and… catapults! We are testing our skills to see who can fling their objects the furthest.
Afterwards we will have our regularly scheduled evening story time at 6 p.m. There will be stories, crafts, and songs. Story times are open to children of all ages.
On Thursday at 6:00 p.m. we will get together in the Cooper Clark room to have a special quiet and gentle story time for children who need a safe environment in which to explore. In Sensory Story time, we will move at a slower pace and focus on experiences with the five senses. All children are invited, but those with special needs are especially encouraged to attend.
Easter related book display
In keeping with the Easter holiday, we’ve set up a book display loaded with Easter, egg, and bunny related books. Here are a few.
 Great Book of Egg Decorating
by Grazia Buttafuoco
From the Book Description
Make beautifully decorated eggs…The techniques are described in detail and are the most treasured the world over.
- Wax embossing on natural shells
- Wax embossing on colored shells
- Drilling
- Decoupage
 The Rabbit Handbook
by K. Gendron
From the Book Description
The information you need to raise healthy rabbits. Facts, advice, and fascinating insights tell you all you need to know about
- Purchase
- Nutrition
- Health Care
- Housing
- And much more
 Scorched eggs
by Laura Childs
From the Book Description
In Laura Childs’s New York Times bestselling mystery series, Suzanne, Petra, and Toni—co-owners of the Cackleberry Club café—are equally good at serving up breakfast and serving up justice. This time they turn up the heat on a deadly firebug.
As Suzanne is getting her hair colored at Root 66, she’s stunned to witness the County Services Building next door suddenly go up in flames. Concerned neighbors throng the streets, and the fire department does their best. Unfortunately their best isn’t enough to save long time civil service worker—and friend to the Cackleberry Club—Hannah Venable.
Soon enough, it’s discovered that an accelerant was used to fan the flames. Someone set the fire on purpose — was Hannah the intended victim? Suzanne, Petra, and Toni vow to smoke out the culprit.
 Easter Blessings: The Lily Field\The Butterfly Garden
by Lenora Worth and Gail Gaymer Martin
From the Book Description
“The Lily Field” by Lenora Worth
World-weary Mariel Evans comes home to soak up the simple life, never expecting to fall in love with Heath Whitaker, a man of strong faith-or to come to believe that God watches over her, each and every day. But can Mariel let go of her fears and take a chance on love…?
“The Butterfly Garden” by Gail Gaymer Martin
After an accident leaves Emily Casale paralyzed, she abandons God and the hope of ever leaving her wheelchair. When Greg Zimmerman sets his sights on her, Emily starts to rebuild her faith and believe in herself again. With a little help from the heavens above, will Emily find the courage to take a walk down the aisle?
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