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The movie, “The Divine Order” will be featured during September’s Dinner & Movie series on September 24 at 6 p.m. Deane Tucker, PhD., Chadron State College professor will facilitate the discussion. It’s Switzerland, 1971 and Nora is a young housewife and mother who lives with her husband, their two sons and her father-in-law in a village. In the Swiss countryside, little or nothing is felt of the huge social upheavals that the movement of May 1968 has caused. Nora’s life, too, has been unaffected; she is a retiring, quiet person, well liked by everyone – until she begins to campaign publicly and pugnaciously for women’s right to vote, an issue that will be put before the male voters on February 7th, 1971. A light meal will be served and library programs are free and open to the public.

The fall Krispy Kreme fundraiser as been canceled for Thursday, September 27. We apologize for any inconvenience.

It’s time to “Join the Challenge!” The Carnegie portion of the library will be 100 years old in 2019 and all ages are invited to join the challenge of reading (or listening) to 100 library books during the year! Stop by to sign up and check out your books.

A new novel is “Believe Me” by J.P. Delaney. As a Brit in America without a green card, Claire Wright agrees to become a decoy for a firm of divorce lawyers to entrap straying husbands. When the wife of one of Claire’s targets is violently murdered, the cops are sure the husband is to blame, and they enlist Claire to lure him into a confession. For a woman who’s mastered the art of manipulation, how difficult could it be to tempt a killer into a trap?

Other new fiction books “Providence” by Caroline Kepnes, “Serpentine” by Laurell K. Hamilton, “Heller From Texas” by William Heuman, “Toucan Keep a Secret” by Donna Andrews, “The Lady of Tarpon Springs” by Judith Miller, “Assassin’s Run” by Ward Larsen, “Small Town Rumors” by Carolyn Brown, “To Have and To Harley” by Regina Cole and “Springfield 1880” by William W. Johnstone. “Lost” by P.C. Cast and “The Emerald Sea” by Richelle Mead are among new young adult titles.

New non-fiction titles are “Tech Generation: Raising Balanced Kids in a Hyper-Connected World” by Mike Brooks, “Deadwood in My Blood: Boone May, Gale Hill, Shotgun Messengers on the Deadwood Stage and Their Historic Families” by Patricia A. Campbell, and Evolutions: Fifteen Great Myths that Explain Our World” by Oren Harman.

The Lennea Lewis Slagle Children’s Library has these new junior titles, “”Half-Pipe Panic” by Jake Maddox, “Across the Dark Water” by Jennifer Lynn Alvarez and “Sunny” by Jason Reynolds. A few of the newer easy books are “Daddy Can’t Dance” by Fran Manushkin, “Pinkalicious at the Fair” by Victoria Kann and “The Berenstain Bears and the Ducklings” by Mike Berenstain.

“Autumn Arriving!” is the theme for Storyhour on Tuesday, September 25, 2018. Storyhour is held from 10 to 11 a.m. every Tuesday for children age 3 through kindergarten. The Friends of the Library sponsor a 24/7 storyline, Dial-A-Story. Dial 307-334-3274 anytime to hear a story.

Check out the library’s online resources by going to: https://www.niobraracountylibrary.org. Stop in soon, the library is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Wednesday 12 p.m. to 7 p.m.