Griffin-Spalding County 800 Memorial Drive Griffin, GA 30223 770-412-4770 www.frrls.net Library Newsletter
DECEMBER 2020 - JANUARY 2021
BIG READ READERS’ ADVISORY - cont’d.
COMING MARCH 2021: Amazon Editors’ Partial List of Best Books of 2020 Join your friends and neighbors in reading Station Eleven by Emily St. “A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice and Freedom” By Brittany K. Barnett John Mandel during the NEA BIG READ: “Migrations” By Charlotte McConaghy Griffin-Spalding Reading Together “Blacktop Wasteland” By S.A. Cosby The Big Read is a community-wide “Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of reading initiative with activities and Strangers Saved My Life” By Christie Tate events for all ages. “The Vanishing Half” By Brit Bennett For more info, visit: frrls.net/bigread “Fifty Words for Rain’ By Asha Lemmie
“Caste (Oprah’s Book Club): The Origins of our READERS’ ADVISORY Discontents” By Isabel Wilkerson
New York Times - The 10 Best Books of 2020 “The Girl with the Louding Voice” By Abi Daré The editors of the Times Book Review chose the “Memorial” By Bryan Washington best fiction and nonfiction titles this year. “Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an FICTION American Family” By Robert Kolker “A Children’s Bible” By Lydia Millet DATABASE - NOVELIST PLUS “Deacon King Kong” By James McBride
“Hamnet” By Maggie O’Farrell
“Homeland Elegies” By Ayad Akhtar
“The Vanishing Half” By Brit Bennett
NONFICTION
“Hidden Valley Road” By Robert Kolker Novelist Plus is a Readers’ Advisory database in “A Promised Land” By Barack Obama GALILEO. You can search for Author Read-alikes. “Shakespeare in a Divided America” Looking for another author like your favorite? By James Shapiro Have you read the last book in a series and are “Uncanny Valley; a Memoir” By Anna Wiener looking for similar series to read? Novelist’s Read- “War; How Conflict Shaped Us” alikes are the perfect solution. Page 2 Page 2
CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS LITERACY PRACTICES FOR THE FAMILY STORYTIME FOR TODDLERS We may feel busier this time of year, but don’t let STORIES IN MOTION your early literacy routines with your children fall Every Tuesday morning @ 10:30 am by the wayside. Instead incorporate them into Watch on Facebook Live or view the recording of your holiday tasks and traditions. With the Every our dynamic virtual storytime designed specifical- Child Ready to Read 5 Early Literacy Practices, the ly for toddlers, ages 1-3. Keep your little ones holidays and winter months can be a perfect time connected to books, music, activities, and the to practice those early literacy skills with young library through these engaging online stories. children. Plus books make excellent gifts that keep on giving! STORYTIME FOR PRESCHOOLERS GROWING INTO READERS READ a holiday story, recipe, poem, or toy catalog Every Thursday morning @ 10:30 am with your child. Don’t forget that the library Laugh and have fun with us on Facebook offers - e Read Kids for e-books on your digital Live or view the recording of our dynamic virtual devices at home if physical books are not accessi- storytime designed specifically for preschoolers, ble. ages 4-5. These interactive and engaging books WRITE a letter to Santa, a card to a family and activities will instill a love of books and read- ing in your preschooler. member, or the letters in holiday words and names. Writing helps children learn that letters
and words stand for sounds and that print has GRAB & GO SEASONAL CRAFTS FOR KIDS meaning. Children can learn pre-reading skills December 7, 2020 - January 4, 2021 through writing activities. New craft each week. Pick up at the library while supplies last. PLAY with your child by making holiday crafts, cooking, or baking together. Have conversations TEEN AND ADULT PROGRAMS while you play. Children learn a lot about language through play, and it helps them think TAKE & MAKE CRAFT PROGRAMS symbolically so they understand that spoken and FOLDED BOOK TREE written words can stand for real objects and Pick up at the library while supplies last. experiences. Available starting November 30. SING holiday songs and Christmas carols! Use BOOK PAGE ORNAMENTS jingle bells to break the words into syllables and Pick up at the library while supplies smaller sounds. Singing also slows down last. Available starting December 14 language so children can hear the different sounds that make up words.
JANUARY TAKE & MAKE PROJECTS TBD TALK about your holiday traditions and make a CRAFT TBD group call to someone special that you have not Wednesday, January 6 been able to see. As children hear spoken lan- 12:30-1:30 pm guage, they learn new words and what they Wyomia Tyus Olympic Park, Pavilion 1 mean. This will help children understand the meaning of what they read. 1301 Cowan Road, Griffin Participate in a safe, socially distanced activity at the park. For ages 50+. Please register by calling the Senior Center at 770-467-4385. Page 3
TRIBUTE AND MEMORIAL DONATIONS BOOK CLUB
Memorial and honor donations from the commu- We are offering two options. There is a Virtual nity are used to enrich library programming and Book Club on the third Thursday of each month collection development. You can make your gift to and the new Book Club in the Park (with the honor a loved one, mark a birthday, make a Griffin -Spalding County Senior Center) on the memorial donation, or other special occasion. third Friday for ages 50+. Both clubs will be read-
All gifts to the Griffin-Spalding County Library are ing the same title. tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Every gift makes a difference. Please call 770-412-4770 to register for the Virtual Book Club or 770-467-4385 for the Book TRIBUTES AND DONATIONS FOR OCT - NOV 2020 Club in the Park.
December 2020
American Dirt
By Jean Cummins
Virtual Date: Thursday, December 17
6:30 - 8:00 pm
Park Date: Friday, December 18
1:00-2:30 pm Marta Daniel Dunn
January 2021 Herman Lisle The Tender Land Diane Whatley By William Kent Krueger
Virtual Date: Thursday, January 21 Bequest of the Estate of Charles Ellzey 6:30 - 8:00 pm
TENTATIVE AARP TAX-AIDE LIBBY APP FOR EBOOKS & AUDIOBOOKS
Giving or getting a tablet for Christmas? Don’t forget the Libby app, available with your PINES library card. If health and safety circumstances permit, AARP Tax Assistance will be offered, starting February Use Libby for eBooks and audiobooks! Down- 2021. Look for announcements in January 2021. load the Libby app in the Google Play or Apple
App Store, or go to Libbyapp.com in your CUSTOMER MUST BRING: browser. (If using a Kindle device, visit Photo ID for each person who comes. frrls.net/digitallibrary for instructions). Search Social Security cards for each person who is to for “Georgia Download Destination” as your be named on the tax return whether they are library, and enter your library card number to present or not. get started. Copy of last year’s tax return.
All supporting tax documents (W-2, 1099, Help your gift keep on giving by introducing deductions, etc.) for this tax year. your friends and family to Libby! Spouse, if at all possible. Page 4 MESSAGE FROM FROGSLIB SAVE THE DATE - BOOK BOLT 5K RACE 2021
6th Annual Book Bolt
5K Race Saturday November 6, 2021 TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS AND PARTICPANTS! BOOKSTORE
Gold Sponsor The Bookstore is open for browsing Berry Global, Inc. during regular library hours. Silver Sponsor Rotary Club of Griffin
Bronze Sponsors LIBRARY HOURS Cook’s Piano Service Monday & Thursday — Dutton and Dutton 9:00 am to 8:00 pm Tuesday, Wednesday Eggland’s Best/Specialty 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Friday & Saturday Eggs, LLC. Fulton & Kozak, CPAs Lucy Miyagawa HOLIDAY GIFTS Memorial Drive Veterinary Griffin Scene puzzles are still Clinic available at the bookstore for sale Mt. Zion Baptist Church at $20.00 each. Sharp’s Jewelers United Bank LIBRARY CLOSINGS Literacy Sponsors Dennis and Ann Brown Christmas Holiday Hours Gail Kelly Thursday, December 24 Jesse Vann Friday, December 25 Rita C. Johnson State Farm Saturday, December 26 Teresa Grubbs State Farm Edward Jones (Amy Dunham) New Year’s Eve Griffin Lion’s Club Thursday, December 31 June Barrow Closing at 6:00 pm Rosalyn Payne-Hill New Year’s Day Vera B. McIntosh Friday, January 1 In-Kind Donations Saturday, January 2 City Church Kroger Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Town & Country Florist Monday, January 18 Zumba with Dawn GSCS Maintenance & Facilities/Athletic Department