Boone Area Library March 1, 2021 (610) 582-5666 Volume 2, Issue 3

March 2021

GRAB A FRIEND & ONE OF OUR MARCH ADULT PACKS – IT’S MOVIE NIGHT!

The weather’s indecisive, and all the pretty snow has turned to slush. What better time to get a bit extravagant with your weekly movie nights? Last month, we focused on our book-loving patrons. But this month, is all about you, film fans!

Beginning Saturday, March 13th, stop by the library during normal operating hours to pick up one of our free grab-and-go Movie Night adult activity packs. Each pack comes with a bag of microwaveable popcorn, two cups, two straws, four reusable ice cubes, creative movie-themed cocktail recipes (for both ‘adult’ and ‘regular’ beverages!) and a fun create-your-own-drinking-game template to use with a movie of your choice.

Fire up the DVD player, break out the good drinks, and get a little inventive with our Movie Night Adult Packs! Available at the library from March 13th while supplies last.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Thank You Advocacy Postcards 2 SUPPORT THE LIBRARY WITH KIMBERTON Get to Know Your Library Staff . 2 WHOLE FOODS’ ROUND UP AT THE REGISTER New Adult Fiction ...... 3 New Adult Non-Fiction ...... 4 PROGRAM New Video Games ………………….4 March Virtual Escape Room ..... 5 You’ve donated your Redner’s Receipts, used your card at Boyer’s, and done your online shopping through Amazon Smile. And now, thanks to Kimberton Whole Foods, there’s New DVDs ...... 5 another easy way to support the library this month: by Rounding Up at the Register! Children’s Craft Packs ...... 6

From March 1st through March 31st, patrons shopping at Kimberton Whole Foods can elect to round up their purchase total to the next dollar. The difference this month will be CHILDREN’S CORNER collected and donated to the Boone Area Library! And, better yet, Kimberton will match  Children’s Zoom Storytime, all customer donations, meaning that rounding up helps the library twice! Monday at 10:15 AM As always, we are so very grateful for your support. Thank you for all that you do, and  Books & Babies Zoom don’t forget to Round Up at the Register this month every time you shop at Kimberton Sessions, Wednesdays at Whole Foods! 10:15 AM

 STEM kits available 03/19  T(w)een Craft Packs available 03/23

Please email [email protected] for more information HELP US SAY ‘THANK YOU’ AS PART OF OUR LIBRARY ADVOCACY CAMPAIGN

Last year, we asked for your help calling Throughout the month of March, we are and writing in to our government officials asking patrons to stop by and pick up a as part of our 2020 Library Advocacy pre-made ‘Thank You’ postcard. Fill it out campaign. With potential budget cuts with a simple message about the looming, it was more important than ever importance of libraries in your life and the to let our representatives know how name of your representative (we can help important public library services are to with that!) We’ll collect everyone’s our communities during times of hardship responses and mail them out in early and crisis. April.

Thanks to your help, Pennsylvanian Adult and children’s postcards are libraries were granted full funding for the available in the library during normal 2021 fiscal year. And now it is time to operating hours (Curbside and In-Person), reach out once again to our and are due back to us by Saturday, March representatives and thank them for their 27th. support. Thank you so much for your help!

Now it’s time to reach out once again to our representatives and thank them for their support.

GET TO KNOW YOUR LIBRARY STAFF MARCH BOOK CLUB SELECTIONS Crescenda, Library Director New readers welcome! A Favorite Female Historical Figure: Amelia Earhart “Everyone told her she couldn’t; that it wasn’t possible. She did it anyway.” Cliffhanger Book Club March Recommendation: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Reading: The House of Secrets “One of my go-to’s for the gray, brooding months. Eternally witty and charming!” by Brad Meltzer

Meets: TBA @ 6:00 PM (Zoom) Sarah, Youth Coordinator A Favorite Female Historical Figure: Harriet Tubman Eagle’s Eye Book Club “Her bravery, strength, and compassion inspire me and help me keep life in perspective.” Reading: Night Film by Marisha March Recommendation: Soul Surfer (DVD) Pessl “After my children & I watched the film, we felt empowered to face our fears!” Meets: ON HIATUS

Youth Book Club Ashley, Library Aide A Favorite Female Historical Figure: Queen Elizabeth I Reading: Counting By 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan “I can’t think of a specific reason; I just love her!” March Recommendation: Brooklyn (DVD) Meets: Every Thursday on Zoom at 4:30 PM “It’s such a charming and uplifting love story!”

Shelf Indulgence Book Club Elena, Library Aide

Reading: Lincoln in the Bardo A Favorite Female Historical Figure: Princess Diana Spencer by George Saunders “She put up with so much, and was a great mother. She had a passion for helping others.” March Recommendation: Dracula by Bram Stoker Meets: Online Discussion ( facebook.com/groups/ “I love horror, so this is perfect! I’m looking forward to reading it when I can.” shelfindulgencebc ) Ethan, Library Aide For more info: email A Favorite Female Historical Figure: My sister, Abbey [email protected] “She worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab to help build and test the 2020 Mars Rover.” March Recommendation: Needful Things (DVD) “The lengths people go to for material things are scary. This is a great psychological thriller.” 2 MARCH STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS

Crescenda’s Rec: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest is the most renowned of Oscar Wilde’s comedies. It’s the story of two bachelors, John ‘Jack’ Worthing and Algernon ‘Algy’ Moncrieff, who create alter egos named Ernest to escape their tiresome lives. They attempt to win the hearts of two women who, conveniently, claim to only love men called Ernest. The pair struggle to keep up with their own stories and become tangled in a tale of deception, disguise, and misadventure. The elaborate plot ridicules Victorian sensibilities with some of the best loved, and indeed bizarre, characters to be found on the modern stage.

Sarah’s Rec: Soul Surfer (DVD)

NEW ADULT FICTION FOR MARCH Soul Surfer is the inspiring true story of The Affair / Danielle Steel A Matter of Life and Death / Phillip Margolin teen surfer Bethany Body of Stars / Laura M. Walter Meant to Be / Jude Deveraux Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack The Bounty / Janet Evanovich & Steve Hamilton A Million Reasons Why / Jessica Strawser and courageously The Chosen / Jerry B. Jenkins My Brilliant Life / Ae-ran Kim overcame all odds to become a The Committed / Viet Thanh Nguyen No Way Out / Fern Michaels champion again, through her sheer determination and unwavering Danger in Numbers / Heather Graham The Other Emily / Dean Koontz faith. The film features an all-star Dark Sky / C. J. Box The Red Book / James Patterson & David Ellis cast, including AnnaSophia Robb, Devoted to You / Tracie Peterson Remote Control / Nnedi Okorafor Dennis Quaid, and Helen Hunt, with Carrie Underwood in her film debut. Double Jeopardy / Stuart Woods Satellite Love / Genki Ferguson

Eternal / Lisa Scottoline Save the Last Dance / Shelley Shepard Gray Every Last Fear / Alex Finlay Silence is a Sense / Layla Alammar

Fast Ice / Clive Cussler The Sky Worshipers / F. M. Deemyad Haunted Hibiscus / Laura Childs Skyward Inn / Julie Carrick Dalton

In the Quick / Kate Hope Day Wild Sign / Patricia Briggs

Klara and the Sun / Kazuo Ishiguro Win / Harlan Coben

Lightning Game / Christine Feehan The Witch’s Heart / Genevieve Gornichec (cont. on page 4) 3 MARCH STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS

Ethan’s Pick:

Needful Things (DVD)

Leland Gaunt comes to Sheriff Alan Pangborn’s pleasant little New England town and opens a store. What this kindly Satan sells is whatever NEW ADULT NONFICTION FOR MARCH you need, from a surcease from pain to an object which you have The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer / always coveted. The Faustian price Lisa Rodman & Jennifer Jordan is, of course, corruption, and soon the poor sheriff’s town is wracked Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age / Annalee Newitz by jealousy, spite, and violence. Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York /

Elon Green

The Little Book of Cottagecore: Traditional Skills for a Simpler Life / Elena’s Pick: Emily Kent Dracula by Bram Stoker We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy / Kliph Nesteroff Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abra- ham Van Helsing. Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire litera- ture, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, he defined its modern form, and the novel has spawned numerous theatrical, film and television interpretations. NEW VIDEO GAMES FOR MARCH

Detroit Become Human (PS4) Hollow Knight (Nintendo Switch

(cont. on page 6) 4 CAN YOU MAKE IT THROUGH OUR VIRTUAL ESCAPE ROOM?

Hey, history lovers! Looking for a challenge this month to help chase away the winter blues? Beware the Ides of March as the Boone Area Library launches its first virtual escape room!

According to Plutarch (and Shakespeare), Julius Caesar was assassinated on March 15th – the Ides of March – after a soothsayer warned him of that very thing. Our homage isn’t quite as dramatic, but we hope you’ll enjoy solving our Ancient Rome- inspired riddles this month. Play alone or in teams as you work through each virtual ‘room.’ Will you defy the soothsayer’s prediction, or will the Ides prove unlucky for you?

This new virtual program launches Monday, March 15th. Check our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/boonearealibrary) for the link, or stop by the library during normal operating hours on or after March 15th.

Beware the Ides!

Beware the Ides of March as the Boone Area Library launches its first virtual escape room!

MARCH STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS

Ashley’s Pick:

Brooklyn (DVD)

Ireland, early 1950s. Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan) is a young woman working in a grocery shop. She has greater ambi- tions and moves to Brooklyn, New York, leaving her mother and sister, Rose (Fiona Glascott), behind. She is terribly homesick but eventually settles down, finding a job, studying to be a bookkeeper and meeting a nice young Italian man, Tony Fiorello (Emory NEW DVDS FOR MARCH Cohen). Things are going well, but then she learns that Rose has died, and decides to return to Ireland Adverse The Exorcist (Season 2) Scare Me temporarily. She and Tony hastily get All My Life Half Brothers Songbird married, and then she sets off back to American Skin Hannibal (Season 3) Soulmates (Season 1) Ireland, alone. Life is about to get complicated. Another Round Money Plane The Undoing

Des Our Friend Wonder Woman 1984 Don’t Tell a Soul Promising Young Woman 5 SNOW STORMS & COVID & DELIVERY DELAYS, OH MY! CHILDREN’S CRAFT PACK SCHEDULE

We’ve been fielding quite a few inquiries this past month about 03/01 - 03/06: Sock Bookworm delivery delays. Please be 03/08 - 03/13: Plush Shamrock Lacing Craft advised that between the inclement weather and COVID 03/15 - 03/20: Rainbow Painting inspired by Alma Thomas quarantine procedures, items 03/22 - 03/27: Paper Napkin Flowers are taking much longer to come in from other libraries. The 03/29 - 04/03: Bookworm Craft ‘shipped’ status in your account does not necessarily mean your item is in. We’ll notify you (by All craft packs are available throughout the week beginning on Monday while phone, email, or text message, supplies last. Come to the library to pick up yours during in-person and depending on your account curbside hours, no appointment necessary! preferences) when your items are ready for pickup. Thank you for your patience!

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