Niobrara County News

Library News

The library will be closed on Monday, Christmas Day, December 25, 2017 and on New Year’s Day, Monday, January 1, 2018. Thank you for your support of library programs, activities and fundraisers throughout the year and happy holidays!

Wyoming specific Legal Forms are available for library card holders by visiting the library’s homepage and scrolling down to “Legal Forms.” Your library card number and PIN will give you access to a database of blank and completed legal forms that are professionally created, Wyoming-specific and continually updated. Forms can be downloaded and completed; you can also review documents for your visit to your attorney. Documents address a wide variety of subjects. This resource is provided by the Niobrara County Library Foundation.

John Sandford’s latest novel is “Deep Freeze.” Class reunions are a time for memories – good, bad, and as Virgil Flowers is about to find out – deadly. In Trippton, Minnesota, a woman has been found dead, frozen in a block of ice. Her death might be connected to a high school class that has a reunion coming up. Virgil starts digging into 25 years of trauma, feuds and bad blood. In the end, one thing becomes increasing clear to him – it’s true what they say: high school is murder.

Other new fiction books are “The Noel Diary” by Richard Paul Evans, “Lilac Lane” by Sherryl Woods, “Christmas at Carnton” by Tamera Alexander, “Death Rides the Rails” by James J. Griffin, “How the Finch Stole Christmas” by Donna Andrews, “Dark Signal” by Shannon Baker, “The Gift” by Shelley Shepard Gray, “Holly and Ivy” by Fern Michaels, “Mind Game” by Iris Johansen and “Still Life” by Dani Pettrey. Leigh Bargudo’s newest novel, “The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic” is among new YA titles.

New non-fiction titles are “Fast Food Genocide: How Processed Food is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It” by Joel Fuhrman, M.D., ”Growing Self-Sufficiency: Realize Your Dream and Enjoy Producing Your Own Fruit, Vegetables, Eggs, and Meat” by Sally Nex, ”Modern Esoteric: Beyond Our Senses” by Brad Olsen and “Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : Defeat into Victory” by Michael Korda,

The Lennea Lewis Slagle Children’s Library has these new junior books “The Sliver Mask” by Holly Black and “The Rainstorm Brainstorm” by Valerie Tripp. Some of the newer easy titles are “The Christmas Quiet Book” by Deborah Underwood, “Tiger Family Trip” by Becky Friedman, “Henny, Penny, Lenny, Denny, and Mike” by Cynthia Rylant and “The Mixed-up Chameleon” by Eric Carle.

“North Pole Friends!” is the theme for Storyhour on Tuesday, December 26, 2017. Storyhour is held from 10 to 11 a.m. every Tuesday for children age 3 through kindergarten throughout the year. Call Dial-A-Story, 334-3274 anytime to hear a recorded story! Dial-A-Story is sponsored by the Friends of the Library.