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Food for Fines is available during the month of November! The Niobrara County Library Board is pleased to offer this opportunity for people to clear their library fines and help stock the Food Pantry at the Niobrara Senior Center. One unexpired, non-perishable food item is equal to $1.50 of your local library fine, for more information stop by the library.

Did you know you have access to a database of blank and easily completed legal forms that are professionally created, Wyoming-specific and continually updated? Documents address subjects such as wills and estates, bankruptcy, divorce, power of attorney, real estate, taxation and landlord/tenant law. This resource is provided by the Niobrara County Library Foundation. Your library card number and PIN will give you complete access.

Holiday books are now on display. Stop in soon to browse the collections! Library hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and Noon to 7 p.m. on Wednesday.

Margaret Coel’s newest book is “The Man Who Fell from the Sky.” Robert Walking Bear is found in the Wind River Mountains. Although his death appears to be an accident, it isn’t long before rumors circulate that Robert was murdered by his cousins for the map he was using to hunt for Butch Cassidy’s buried loot – a map believed to have been drawn by the leader of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang himself. Then one of the cousins falls prey to another deadly accident, and a hunt for a killer is on.

Other new fiction books include “The Winged Horse” by Max Brand, “Silver Linings” by Debbie Macomber, “Last Words” by Michael Koryta, “X” by Sue Grafton, “Purity” by Jonathan Franzen, “The Gilded Hour” by Sara Donati, “The Girl in the Spider’s Web” by David Langercrantz, “Point Blank” by Fern Michaels and “A Lesson in Hope” by Philip Gulley. “Trouble is a Friend of Mine” by Stephanie Tromly and “The Sixth Man” by John Feinstein are among the new YA books.

“The Storm of the Century: Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America’s Deadliest Natural Disaster: The Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900” by Al Roker joins “Fat Girl Walking: Sex Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin…Every Inch of It” by Brittany Gibbons and “The Family Handyman’s Ultimate Organizing Solutions” in the new non-fiction section.

The Lennea Lewis Slagle Children’s Library has these new junior books, “Fuzzy Mud” by Louis Sachar, “All That Glitters” by Jill Santopolo, and “Leroy Ninker Saddles Up” by Kate DiCamillo. Some of the new easy titles include “Ruckus on the Ranch” by Harriet Ziefert, “Bear and Hare Go Fishing” by Emily Gravett, “Because Your Grandparents Love You” by Andrew Clements and “The Day the Crayons Came Home” by Drew Daywalt.

334-3274 is the Dial-A-Story number. Dial-A-Story is sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Dial in and hear an exciting story today!

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