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LIBRARY BOARD Jim Szymaszek ------President Moira Maus ------Vice-President APRIL Mary Ellen Morrison-Lovelace -- Secretary 2013 Carol McDougall ------Treasurer John Maus ------Trustee Barbara Winn ------Trustee

WE GOT OUR AUDIOBOOK GRANT!!! Curtis Township Library 4884 ( F-30 ) Bamfield Road We got our audiobook grant. The new books are on display Glennie, Michigan 48737 at the front of the library by the circulation desk. Come in Phone: 989-735-2601 and check them out: Fax: 989-735-2601

Shameless Lucky You Library Winter Hours: Bare Bones New Orleans Mourning Web of Evil The Eleventh Commandment Monday ················································· Closed Ghandi and Churchill Our Endangered Values Tuesday ·························· 11AM—5PM Cream Puff Murders Miss Julia’s School of Beauty Wednesday ··········· 11AM—5PM The Bodies Left Behind Lies of Silence Thursday ····························· 1PM—5PM Plum Pudding Murder Bad Blood Friday ························································· Closed The Lost Quilter Skeleton Coast Just Beyond the Clouds Saturday ······················· 11AM—3PM Deadwood Gulch Obama’s Wars Book of Murdock Sunday ···················································· Closed Vorpal Blade Fallen Claws That Catch THRU APRIL 30, 2013 His Excellency, George Washington Since You’re Leaving Anyway, Take Out The Trash Time to join or renew your membership in the Bobbin lace PROTECTING THE BOOKS Friends of the Curtis Township Our own maintenance Library ! guru, Dan Johnston, and Single - $ 12.00/yr library patron, Andy Family - $ 25.00/yr Thomas, install UV protection film on the FRIENDS OF THE CTL library windows to prevent sun damage to Emily Kemnitz - President our book collection. Joanne Noe - Vice President Thanks, guys! Nancy James - Secretary Elaine Sink - Treasurer Ann & Tom Burton Electronic marquee Char & Dan Craw A truly fascinating demonstration of Vicky Good bobbin lace artistry was given on 2/13 Betty Heyden Linda Howell A library patron donated a 22-inch flat Moira & John Maus screen TV to the library for use as an Marie Schneider announcement board for new books Dorothy Smith and media arrivals as well as upcoming Jim Szymaszek library events. Come and see what our Vivian & Rudy Trecha librarians have done with it!!! Gwendolyn Uptain Check out the other new signage too! Barbara Winn CURTIS TOWNSHIP LIBRARY

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Calendar of library events

4/3 Curtis Township Library Board Meeting - 5PM

4/1 Book Club Meeting at the Chat-N-Chew Restaurant - 7PM 4/15 Book Club Meeting at the Chat-N Chew Restaurant - 7PM

DID YOU KNOW? You can watch a movie in the Michigan Room!

CALLING ALL BICYCLISTS! NEW DVDS

Are you a bicycle tourist or have A Thousand Words you ever dreamed of traveling Eddie Murphy - Allison Janney around the country on a bicycle? Did you know that the library has Alex Cross - Matthew Fox a subscription to Adventure Edward Burns - Rachel Nichols Cyclist Magazine, the official magazine of the Adventure Hope Springs Cycling Association, a nonprofit Meryl Streep - Tommy Lee Jones service organization for The Big Miracle Steve Carell recreational and touring Drew Barrymore - John Krasinski bicyclists. The organization was .Drew Barrymore and John Stolen founded by a handful of young Krasinski star in this incredible - Josh Lucas true story that inspired the world Danny Huston - Malin Akerman people who rode across America in 1976 to celebrate the and captured the hearts of millions. When a family of whales Lawless Bicentennial. Today it is the is trapped by rapidly forming ice in Tom Hardy - Shia LaBeouf Guy Pearce - Jason Clarke granddaddy of touring bicycle the Arctic Circle, a small-town organizations in America. Besides reporter (Krasinski) and an animal- Safe this magazine, they have over loving volunteer (Barrymore) rally Jason Statham - Catherine Chan 40,000 miles of route maps across the entire country designed an unlikely coalition of Alaskan Robert John Burke especially for cyclists, made of waterproof material, that show natives, oil tycoons and the campgrounds, places of interest, restaurants, inns and motels, Russian and American military to Flight hostels, bike repair shops and all the other places that a bike set aside their differences and free Denzel Washington - Don Cheadle tourist needs when traveling across the country. Next time you’re the whales before it's too late. John Goodman in the library check out this magazine and the adventures of NEW BOOKS ordinary folk like you touring Michigan, America and the world.

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The Striker by Clive Cussler The Aviator’s Wife By Melanie Benjamin The Chance Anne Morrow, has stood in the by Karen Kingsbury shadows of those around her, including her father and vibrant Out Of Warranty older sister, who often steals the by Haywood Smith spotlight. Then Anne travels to Mexico City to spend Christmas One Hot Murder The Curtis Township Library just recently with her family. There she meets completed its new meditation labyrinth by Lorraine Bartlett Colonel Charles Lindbergh, fresh located east of the library behind the 7th off his celebrated 1927 solo flight Fox Track Day Adventist Church. This evening across the Atlantic. Enthralled by by Rita Mae Brown view is from the library parking lot facing Charles’s assurance and fame, east. View and use by appointment only. Anne is certain the celebrated aviator has scarcely noticed her. Miss Dimple Suspects You must call in advance. — H.A.F.D. But she is wrong. by Mignon F. Ballard Curtis Township Library -The World At Your Fingertips