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New Resource: Flipster for eMagazines

If you love magazines, you’ll love Flipster, now available in our e-Library.

With Flipster, you get instant acess to the magazines you know and love in digital format.

Browse more than 75 titles including best-sellers like People, Entertainment Weekly, The Atlantic, Parents, Bon Appétit, and National Geographic Kids, and read them for free using your library card!

Read your e-magazines on your computer or by using the app on your mobile device: Flipster App for Android; Flipster App in the App Store.

Celebrate Read an eBook Day!

Hip hip hooray, September 18 is Read an E-book Day! To celebrate, we thought we would share with you a few of our recent favorite e-book titles available through the library’s digital resources, cloudLibrary and Hoopla. So, switch on your tablet, fire up your Kindle Fire, open up your app or browser, and LET’S READ!

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Young Adult Novels About Patriot Day

What is Patriot Day?

It is a reminder of both terrible and hopeful things.

It is a day we remember the attacks on the Twin Towers, World Trade Center, and Pentagon in 2001. It is a day we remember the lives lost to this tragedy. It is a day we remember the feelings of being scared and lost.

It’s also a reminder of hope. While we remember the lives lost on September 11, 2001, we do not forget them. Each year, we do our best to do better. We do our best to not live in fear, but live in hope. Hope that by banding together, we stand united as one force. Hope that by believing in kindness and goodness that we are not defeated.

It is a difficult day, but a day we still need to remember and observe. It can also be a difficult day to talk about, or even imagine.

Literature is a wonderful way to learn and understand more about different perspectives. Assembled here are some young adult novels that show different perspectives and lives changed due to September 11, 2001.

So whether you lived through it, learned from it, or are learning about it, here are some books to help us remember and to hope.

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Cool Off With These Wintry Books!

Summer may be winding down, but warmer temperatures will be with us for a while. So, to get your mind off the warmth and mugginess of late summer in Pennsylvania, we’ve pulled together some books set during the winter (or in a snowy climate) to help you “cool off” or at least imagine that you’re somewhere colder!

Let us know if these quick “trips” to colder temps have helped you weather the weather! (I just couldn’t stop myself with that pun.)

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The Baby-Sitters Club Stories are Still in Business!

Looking for all of those Baby-Sitters Club stories by Ann M. Martin that you know and love from the past? Join Kristy, Claudia, Stacey, Mary Anne, Dawn, and their friends as they re-emerge in new formats, while continuing to embark on epic adventures.

While the original book series has long been out-of-print, there are still many ways to enjoy the Baby-Sitters Club stories today:

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In Case You Missed These…

One of the things I looked forward to when the library reopened was looking through all of the new books. We have gotten a bunch in that are exciting and waiting for you to check out. I’ve picked just a few from my TBR list that you might not know about.

Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham – Four Nigerian siblings are forced to navigate chaotic new circumstances after suffering loss. Themes of family, redemption, and the search for meaning make this unique debut novel universal.

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Help Your Child Achieve Reading Success with Bob Books

Check out a Bob Books set and begin your child’s journey to reading books independently!

What are Bob Books?

Bob Books is a true first reader series, designed to make helping your child learn to read simple and straightforward. Bob Books foster success, confidence, and a love of books in children that are learning to read. Each Bob Books set is packaged with 12 books. Parents and teachers keep coming back to this series because the clean layout, short words, and simple phonics make learning to read a fun and natural step for children.

How Does it Work?

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Conquer Your Reading Olympics List with Help from the Library

The 2020 Summer Olympics may be postponed, but Reading Olympics goes on, and we’ve got the titles you want in print and digital format!

Check out the Reading Olympics 2021 Shelf in cloudLibrary to download ebook and e-audiobook titles. Visit your branch to pick up print titles or place holds through our catalog and use Curbside Pickup to get your books.

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Missing the Summer Olympics & Other Summer Sporting Events? Try These Books!

With most sports canceled or having severely shortened seasons and the Summer Olympics postponed until July 2021, you might be missing your sports fix this summer. In case you need a taste of the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, we’ve compiled a collection of sports books for you to read this summer. Instead of a torch, light a candle, and let the reading marathon begin.

The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey

Surfing was supposed to make its debut as an Olympic sport this year in Japan. Until the medals are handed out next year, you can take a deep dive into the world of big wave surfing with Casey’s book. She provides vivid descriptions of the world’s most punishing surf breaks and the superhuman athletes who ride them. She also gives us pause in describing the larger implications of rising seas and more big waves.

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