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Livingston Municipal Library Fall 2015 Volume 1, Issue 3

@ Our Library Summer Reading Super Readers!

Livingston Municipal Library had 98 participants in its The Houston Music of Natural Science will present a “Every Hero Has a Story”-themed Summer Reading program on monarch butterflies on Sept. 29 at 2:00 pm. September 2015 Program, and 34 children earned Top Reading honors For a complete list of upcoming activities, please visit Library Card Sign Up Month during the awards ceremony held on Aug. 7, 2015. the News & Events section of our website, Together, our Top Readers made the most of their www.livingstonlibrary.net. For more information, please September 27 - October 3, 2015 summer vacations by completing over 1800 books and contact us at (936) 327-4252. Banned Books Week activities! That’s a job well done!

October 18 - October 24, 2015 Our top three readers were Leah Wood (120 books), Teen Read Week Reece Henderson and Peyton Hurta, who both read 90 books each. For a complete list of our Top Readers, October 18 - October 24, 2015 please visit our website at www.livingstonlibrary.net. Friends of Libraries Week

The program would not have been a success without November 2015 Picture Book Month support from the Friends of the Library, the many donations from the generous businesses in our area, the performers and presenters from across the state of Texas, as well as volunteers from our community who graciously helped out whenever and wherever we needed them. A special thanks goes to the parents, Upcoming Events grandparents, caregivers, family members and friends who attended the programs and encouraged the  Sept. 1 R.E.A.D. children to read this summer. Your support is always appreciated!  Sept. 8 Grandparents’ Day Toddler Time We hope to recreate the same energy and enthusiasm for next year’s Summer Reading program, On Your Sept. 11 9/11 Flag  Mark, Get Set, Read!, which will focus on sports and Dedication (City Hall) fitness. So get those sneakers ready to race!

 Sept. 16 Play-Doh Story The end of the summer and the reading program does Time not mean the end of the library’s programs and special activities. Toddler Time will be held each Tuesday at  Sept. 18 Book Sale 11:00 am, and Story Time is Wednesdays at 10:30 am.  Sept. 22 Johnny Apple- Themes for these events include honoring Grandpar- Nita Kuehn and Spider-Man, the special guest at the seed Toddler Time ents Day, learning more about Johnny Appleseed, fun with Play-Doh, and celebrating the first day of Fall. Summer Reading Awards Ceremony on Aug. 7, 2015.  Sept. 23 First Day of Fall

Story Time Craft & Party Books that are Scary Good  Sept. 29 Monarch Butter- flies Ghostly frights for Halloween Viva la fiesta (SL 745.5 FRI) Thanksgiving: how to cook it nights (745.594 KAW) well (641.5 SIF)  Nov. 14 Trade Days/Dog The complete photo guide to Show (Pedigo Park) Create a bewitched Fall-o-Ween cake decorating (641.86 CAR) Complete photo guide to candy (745.5941 ROG) -making (eBook)  Nov. 20 Book Adoption Betty Crocker celebrate: a year Day A folk art Halloween (745.594 round guide to holiday food and What’s new, cupcake? LOW) fun (641.568 BET) (YA 641.8 TAC)  Nov. 24 Downtown Livingston Lighting Spooky & bright: 101 Halloween All new crafts for Thanksgiving Gluten-free baking for the Ceremony (City Hall) ideas (745.594 SPO) (JUV 745.594 ROS) holidays (eBook)

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ~ Haruki Murakami

Shelf Space Reader’s Corner If you liked The Bottoms, try...

The best of Joe R. Lansdale (eBook) Livingston Revival - Stephen King (NEW FIC KIN) Municipal Library A dark matter - Peter Straub (FIC STR)

707 N. Tyler Avenue The haunting of Hill House (CD FIC JAC) Livingston, TX 77351 936.327.4252 The fall - Bethany Griffin (eBook) [email protected] The devil in the white city - Erik Larson (CD 364.152 LAR; eBook)

Hours The returned - Jason Mott (FIC MOT) Sunday - Closed Mon - Fri : 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Saturday : 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Banned Books Week Celebrate the freedom to read!

Banned Books Week celebrates The kite runner - Khaled Hosseini Junie B. Jones series - Barbara The library will be closed on the freedom to read. The follow- Captain Underpants - Dav Pilkey Park the following days: ing books are just a few of those My sister’s keeper - Jodi Picoult The upstairs room - Johanna that have been challenged over The hunger games - Suzanne Reiss Sept. 5 - Sept. 7, 2015 - Labor the years. Imagine if these books Collins Goosebumps series - R.L. Stine were taken off library shelves... Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Brave new world - Aldous Huxley Day Paterson The lovely bones - Alice Sebold To kill a mockingbird - Harper Lee The adventures of Huckleberry A wrinkle in time - Madeline Nov. 11, 2015 - Veteran’s Day Animal farm - George Orwell Finn - Mark Twain L’Engle Their eyes were watching God - The Harry Potter series - J.K. Of mice and men - John Steinbeck Zora Neale Hurston Rowling A stolen life - Jaycee Dugard Nov. 26 - Nov. 28, 2015 - Persepolis - Marian Satrapi The giver - Lois Lowry Thanksgiving Author Spotlight: Joe R. Lansdale (Mystery, Suspense, Western, Horror, Science Fiction)

You do not need to look far to find prolific East by his skill as a martial artist; he is the founder Friends of the Texas storyteller, Joe R. Lansdale. The author of Shen Chuan Martial Science, and manages of more than forty novels (and numerous short his own martial arts studio. Library Events stories) calls Nacogdoches home. Lansdale, who is the writer in residence at Because Lansdale is comfortable writing in a Stephen F. Austin State University, lives in variety of genres, his works are an eclectic mix Nacogdoches with his wife, dog, and two cats. Book Sale of mystery, suspense, horror and western (and that’s usually in one novel!). The Edgar Award For more information or to read free short Sept. 18, 2015 -winner has had several of his novels and stories from Lansdale, please visit stories adapted for film and television, including www.joelansdale.com. 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Bubba Ho-Tep, Incident off a Mountain Road, and , which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. “,” based on characters from Lansdale’s Hap and Leonard Book Adoption Day series, is scheduled to premiere on Sundance TV in early 2016. Nov. 20, 2015 His novels, for the most part, are set primarily 10:00 am - 2:00 pm in East Texas. Freezer burn, A fine dark line, Sunset and sawdust, , and The thicket feature the Piney Woods as a back- drop; Livingston has made several brief appearances in his novels as well.

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