White Hall Express Holiday The wait is over! We have opened up the White Hall Express for a "soft opening" as of Monday, November Crafting with 25. You are now able to check out items that are housed in the unit and return library materials. Creativebug If you stop by and use it: please let us know what you think, and if you encountered any issues, so that we The holiday JoAnn Fabrics. Patrons have can address them. We will season is the an all-access, no-boundaries announce our grand opening and perfect time to pass to explore 1000+ ribbon cutting date once we are sure that everything is working share your classes. People of all skill perfectly! Thank you again for all of creativity with levels and ages can work your support and kind words! friends & family. alongside instructors to learn craft techniques, FREE with Open 24/7 Holds 235 titles Whether making a gingerbread your library card! Will offer new release DVDs, house with little ones, knitting a Video Games, Books (including gift for a friend, or making Head to mcpls.org/education YA, kids books, & Large Print), and Graphic Novels something to decorate your to get started! Patrons can return any item to home, Creativebug has classes the kiosk, and will eventually be that will instruct and inspire you able to have their holds sent through the busiest time of year. there to pick up.
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P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 Feature New STEAM Fairmont Fairview Mannington Marion / Story Releases Bookmobile www.mcpls.org Bestsellers Large Print December Agatha Raisin: Beating About the Bush Agatha Raisin: Beating About the Bush by M.C. Beaton by M.C. Beaton New The Attack by W.E.B. Griffin The Attack by W.E.B. Griffin Children of Virtue and Vengeance The Bridge to Belle Island by Tomi Adeyemi by Julie Klassen Releases Genesis by Robin Cook The Christmas Boutique The Case of the Spellbound Child by Jennifer Chiaverini Find more new releases at http://bit.ly/2z8HAbe by Mercedes Lackey The Confession Club by Elizabeth Berg Genesis by Robin Cook DVDs Inspirational The Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes Abominable An Irish Country Family The Bridge to Belle Island by Patrick Taylor Buttons: a Christmas Tale by Julie Klassen Downton Abbey Let it Snow by Nancy Thayer Forever Hidden by Tracie Peterson Magic Gun: A Western Duo Feast of the Seven Fishes The Lake Season by Denise Hunter The Feud Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Wood- Abraham by Jennifer Beckstrand son Fuller House Season 4 Game of Thrones Season 8 Right Beside You by Mary Monroe How to Train Your Dragon: The Rise of the Magicks Homecoming Misc. Fiction by Nora Roberts Hustlers The Christmas Boutique Robert B. Parker’s Angel Eyes It: Chapter Two by Jennifer Chiaverini by Ace Atkins Judy A Dog’s Promise by W. Bruce Cameron Robert B. Parker’s The Bitterest Pill Killjoys Season 5 The Family Journal by Carolyn Brown by Reed Farrel Coleman Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Frost and Flame by Gena Showalter A Single Light by Tosca Moon Lee Orville Season 2 Grand Union by Zadie Smith Smoke Screen by Terri Blackstock Overcomer Halo: Oblivion by Troy Denning Stealth by Stuart Woods Pup School Christmas Let it Snow by Nancy Thayer The Sword of Kings by Bernard Corn- Rambo: Last Blood Lost and Found by Orson Scott Card wall Ready or Not Meet Her Match by Jude Deveraux To the Land of Long Lost Friends Santa’s Partyland No Judgements by Meg Cabot by Alexander McCall Smith Where’d You Go, Bernadette Pursuit by Joyce Carol Oates Warner and Laura by Giles Tippette WWE 24: The Best of 2019 Right Beside You by Mary Monroe What Comes My Way iby The Shape of the Night White Christmas Comes by Tess Gerritsen by Katherine Spencer Video Games Warrior of the Altaii by Robert Jordan White Christmas Comes Assasin’s Creed Origins (PS4) by Katherine Spencer Non-Fiction Contra (Switch) The World That We Knew The Body by Bill Bryson Dark Souls Remastered (PS4) by Alice Hoffman Elements of Fiction by Malter Mosley Far Cry New Dawn (PS4) Finding Chika by Mitch Albom Ghost Parade (PS4) The Great Pretender Ghost Recon (PS4) by Susannah Cahalan Medievil (PS4) Teens Angel Mage by Garth Nix Grit & Grace by Tim McGraw Need for Speed (XBOX ONE) The End and Other Beginnings Guinness World Records 2020 Paper Mario Sticker Stars (3DS) by Veronica Roth Hand Reflexology & Acupressure
The Fountains of Silence by Chen Feisong by Ruta Sepetys The Happy Hormone Guide CDs The Guinevere Deception by Shannon Lepanski Carols: The Sounds of Christmas by Kiersten White Healing Depression for Life The Best of Christmas Grass Halo: Meridian Divide How to Raise a Reader by Pamela Paul K-12 by Melanie Martinez by Cassandra Rose Clarke Hymns of the Republic by S.C. Gwynne Voice of Truth: Ultimate Hits Light It Up by Kekla Magoon Jay-Z by Michael Eric Dyson by Casting Crowns The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black What You See is What You Get Shadow Frost by Coco Ma Letters from an Astrophysicist by Luke Combs Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind by Neil Degrasse Tyson Them All by Laura Ruby Natural Remedies The Nature Cure BOCD The Nocturnal Brain by Guy Leschziner The Attack by W.E.B. Griffin Graphic Novels Own Your Self by Kelly Brogan Child’s Play by Danielle Steel Batman 11: The Fall and the Fallen The Rabbit Effect by Kelli Harding Dashing Through the Snow by Tom King The Scouting Guide to Basic Fishing by Mary Higgins Clark One Piece Omnibus Volumes 27-29 This Is Your Brain on Birth Control Genesis by Robin Cook Paper Girls Volume 6 by Sarah Hill Santa Cruise by Mary Higgins Superman: The Unity Saga 1 The Transformation by James Gordon Clark by Brian Michael Bendis Ultimate Guide to Raising a Puppy
Scholastic Teachables Sewing: 3D Printing Just in time for the holidays, Scholastic Fairmont Teachables has materials for Join us to make for Adults: Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, and reusable and reversi- Mannington more, as well as generally winter ble wine bottle gift themed projects and coloring pages! bags! These bags Monday, December 9, can be used for any 5:00 pm Download printable lesson plans, gift but will perfectly reading passages, games and puzzles, fit a wine bottle also. Adults: Learn about 3D clip art, and skills sheets for kids in Each attendee will need 2 Fat Quarters Printing while creating a fun Christmas pre-K through 8th grade -- FREE with of material. We recommend cotton card holder; December 9 at 5:00. your library card! quilting fabric. Some festive fabric and all other supplies, including the sewing Registration required. Head to www.mcpls.org/education and machines will be provided. click on Scholastic Teachables to get started! Limited to 6 people per class, call Exploration+ 304-366-1210 or visit our website to Fairmont The Great Courses sign up. Did you write a book
Weekly sessions that will offer a variety during NaNoWriMo Tuesday, December 10: 4 pm of supplemental activities for (National Novel Writing Wednesday, December 11: homeschooling families in areas such Month)? If so, The 2 pm, 4 pm, 6 pm as: storytelling, language, art, and Great Courses may STEM. These sessions are held on have the class for you! Tuesdays from 1-2 pm for children in grades K-4 and from 2-3 pm for grades In the 24 eye-opening 5+. lectures of How to Publish Your Book, December 3: Scientific Method Jane Friedman, publishing industry We will be learning about the expert and educator, provides you with scientific method and how sought-after secrets of the publishing scientists use it to conduct process that will help you navigate this experiments. difficult progression, bypass pitfalls that December 10: Science Fair many novice authors get hung up on, As a follow-up to last week's and improve your chances of being lesson on the Scientific Method, considered for publication. Tech Time we will be discussing the goals and guidelines of the Science She provides the candid scoop on what with Keith Fair projects that will be you need to do in order to increase your Mannington displayed and judged when chances of being considered. The Exploration+ resumes in knowledge you’ll gain by having an 3D PRINTING, LEGO ROBOTICS, AND Febraury 2020. inside expert teaching you how to MORE! position your book for publication gives Fairview you a unique advantage and drastically Tech Time with Keith is a free STEAM Beginning in February, Exploration+ will increases your chances of getting no- program series for Middle Schoolers also take place at the Fairview Public ticed in this increasingly competitive every Thursday at 3:00 pm. Please Library. Contact the Fairview Public industry. contact Keith at 304-986-2803 for more Library at 304-449-1021 or information. [email protected] for more information, You can find the Great Courses on or join us for an Open House on Kanopy! Kanopy is available on most Tuesday, February 10 at 1 pm! devices, including Roku, Chromecast, and FireTV. www.mcpls.org “Policing is About People” Civic Lab
Sat., December 7 1 pm – 2 pm
Please join us for this Civic Lab event to promote greater discussion and shared understanding in our community.
"The Police are the People and 321 Monroe Street the People are the Police. At least Fairmont, WV 26554 304-366-1210 ‘Tween the Pages that's what we want them to be." - Martin J. Schwartz Monday, December 16, 3:30 pm 'Tween the Pages, the middle school Special Agent (retired) Martin J book club, will be discussing The Schwartz spent more than 40 years Magical Holiday Friendship War by Andrew at the federal, state, and local levels Event Clements. Stop by the library to check of law enforcement, and is a veteran Saturday, December 14 out a copy of the book! of the United States Air Force, 1 pm – 3 pm where he served honorably in the Awesome Readers Club Security Police. His book Policing It's the most magical time of the year! Join Monday, December 16, 5 pm About People discusses the us for crafts, activities, and snacks from Awesome Readers Club, the teen book constitutional guarantees afforded to 1:00-2:00 pm, and stay for a captivatingly club, will be discussing Wayward Son the people at the core of all good time with magicians from Philip & (sequel to Carry On) by Rainbow police-citizen interactions. Henry! Rowell. Stop by the library to pick up your copy of the book! Unafraid to speak candidly Schwartz Voices of Fairmont discusses race and bias, fear, cynicism, officer-involved shootings, Senior High School 2020 Murder Mystery: and the mental health and wellness Saturday, December 14 Best Laid Plans of officers. The title of the book is 11 am - 1 pm Friday, January 31, 6 pm the theme of the book as all of these crucial issues involve people. His Join authors Carol Amos and Linda Morgan Join us for a night of murder and chapter entitled “The Expendables for a signing of their book Voices of mayhem! This installment of our in America” is about the people Fairmont Senior High School. This pictorial murder mystery dinner will take place living in Marcellus Shale regions, history book celebrates 150 years of school on Friday, January 31 at 6 pm at the and his view that fracking is less history, and chronicles the lives, loves, and Elks Club in Fairmont. about energy and the environment legends that give voice to Fairmont Senior than it is about people. High School. MCPLS also has a copy Come to the quintessential 'whodunnit' available for check out, courtesy of Amos thriller at the estate of Sir Warren Most importantly, Special Agent and Morgan. Peace and get thrown into a night of (retired) Schwartz discusses ways in mystery, intrigue, and murder you will which we can make policing smarter never forget! The talented actors at the and safer for both the police and the Wise & Wonderful: Murder Mystery Company will pull the citizenry. Christmas Movie Matinee audience into their Old Hollywood Friday, December 13: 1 pm themed dastardly game of intrigue. Friends Book Sale Who is the guilty party? Is it one of our Saturday, December 7 Take a break from your performers, one of your table 10 am - 1 pm preparations and revisit one mates...or is it you!!” of the most well regarded Lots of new donations! Join us for holiday themed films from The price for this year’s event is $20 this month’s $3 per bag sale in the the 1940s, titled "Christmas per person. Reserve your ticket online Book Cave. Side door with gradual in Connecticut". Bring your starting Monday, December 30 at stairs available. Next book sale will favorite holiday mug- we’ll 9 am. Ticket pick up and payment be January 18, weather permitting. provide the hot chocolate begins Monday, January 6 at 9 am. and a snack for this gathering of Wise & Wonderful friends! www.mcpls.org
Homeschoolers Welcome The Fairview Public Library will be starting Exploration + in February. This is a supplemental program to compliment homeschool families with kids in K-4. You do not have to be part of a co-op to participate.
Our first class will be Monday, February 10 at 1 pm. This will 500 Main Street be a 'meet and greet' for Babies, Toddlers, and Fairview, WV 26570 304-449-1021 interested parents/kids to Preschoolers: OH MY! introduce the program, NEW: Beginning February 3rd we will exchange ideas, and be offering Baby Time every Monday at socialize. Registration is 10:15. Join Miss Megan for 30 minutes of recommended, but not songs, stories, bouncy rhymes and more. Early language and literacy skills are mandatory. You can visit our learned best by reading, talking, laughing website, call, or stop by the and playing with your child. Socialization library to sign up. is also very important for the emotional development of young children. Singing and rhyming naturally slows down our ‘Tis the Season speech, breaking it into syllables that for Reading help a young child learn words. Holiday Ornaments Kids, stop in at the Fairview Public Baby Time is a chance for parents to Winter is quickly approaching, Library beginning December 2 to create and our online services are bond, children to socialize, and both to an ornament to decorate our tree. After have fun and interact with each other. the holidays, you may take your prepared for all of your masterpiece home to use on your own cold weather needs! NEW: Miss Julie will be offering an tree next year! additional Toddler Time class beginning Wednesday, February 5 at 10:00 am. eBooks & eAudiobooks: This class will feature interactive songs, Parade & Party WVDELI, Hoopla, Axis 360 stories, games, crafts and snacks for Join us as we celebrate the holidays with children ages 18 mo-3 yrs. The class is the Fairview community on December Music: 21st! The fun begins with the annual limited to 15, so registration is required. Freegal, Hoopla, Stingray Christmas parade at 5 pm, then Our Monday Toddler Time class has continues at the Fire Department with a Qello (Concerts) additional spots available. This class will spectacular family fun event from 6-8 pm resume February 3rd at 11:00 am, so featuring crafts, snacks, games, a Movies & TV Shows: please call or stop by to register. bouncy house for the kids, and a visit Kanopy, Hoopla, Acorn TV from Santa!
Registration for Baby Time and Toddler Times will begin January 2, and can be Calling All Little Artists Magazines: done by visiting our website, stopping by Kids are invited to join rbDigital (formerly Zinio) the Fairview Public Library, or calling us Little Rembrandts, a new at 304-449-1021. beginning painting class Comics & Graphic Novels: for ages 8-13. These Hoopla NEW TIME: Beginning February 5, bi-monthly classes will Story hour will be starting at 11:30 am to begin January 4 at 12 accommodate our new Toddler Time pm. The class is free and Best of all, all of our online class. Please make a note of this. all materials will be services are free to you with provided. Create your your library card, and the masterpiece and have online collection never closes! some fun with us! Check with the front desk or go to our website Visit www.mcpls.org/streaming to register. www.mcpls.org to get started today! Polar Express Party
All aboard! Ride the Polar Express at the Mannington Public Library Satur- day, December 7. The train will leave the station at 10:30 and again at 12:00. You must be a ticket holder to 109 Clarksburg Street board. Please register online. Mannington, WV 26582 304-986-2803 Tech Time with Keith Children, who truly believe, will play Tech Time with Keith is a free STEAM along with the crew, be served re- program series for Middle Schoolers freshments, and enjoy “The Polar every Thursday at 3:00 ! Express” read by the author on YouTube until they reach their desti- Cover 2 Cover nation at the North Pole for a special Pick up your copy of This visit with Santa. Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash and join the To receive a ticket you must be regis- “Cover 2 Cover” book club tered online, our staff is happy to as- on Thursday, sist you with registration. December 19 at 1:30 pm.
Crafty Creations “After their mother's unexpected death, with Carol NEW: Book Worms twelve-year-old Easter and her Wrapping up 2019! It’s a party! Join six-year-old sister Ruby are adjusting to Book Worms Book Club for tweens, Carol December 16, at 5:00 pm. life in foster care when their errant recommended for ages 10-12. Bring a special gift to wrap; we’ll sup- father, Wade, suddenly appears. Since ply the wrapping materials and hot Wade signed away his legal rights, the Pick up a copy of Island of the Blue chocolate, you supply the present only way he can get his daughters back Dolphins by Scott O’Dell and Number and cookies to share. is to steal them away in the night. the Stars by Lois Lowry and join us
December 10 at 2:30 to discuss the Brady Weller, the girls' court-appointed 3D Printing for Adults book, share a snack and book related guardian, begins looking for Wade, and Monday, December 9, 5 pm activity. he quickly turns up unsettling information
linking Wade to a recent armored car Adults: Learn about Island of the Blue Dolphins: heist, one with a whopping $14.5 million 3D Printing while Left alone on a beautiful but isolated missing. But Brady Weller isn't the only creating a fun island off the coast of California, a young one hunting the desperate father. Robert Christmas card Indian girl spends eighteen years, not Pruitt, a shady and mercurial man holder. Registration only merely surviving through her nursing a years-old vendetta, is also required. enormous courage and self-reliance, but determined to find Wade and claim his also finding a measure of happiness in due. her solitary life.
Friends Book Sale Narrated by a trio of alternating voices, Number the Stars: Happy Holidays, spend time with This Dark Road to Mercy is a story about In 1943, during the German occupation your favorite authors this holiday the indelible power of family and the of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie season. Great used books can be primal desire to outrun a past that learns how to be brave and courageous found at the Friends Book Sale, open refuses to let go.” every week Friday 10-4 and Saturday when she helps shelter her Jewish friend 9-1. from the Nazis.
www.mcpls.org Marion Libearian, the town librarian Hello All! It’s that joyous time of year! The holiday season is here! The sounds, the smells, the smiles- such a wonderful time!
Looking for those perfect gifts? Let us help you. From instructions for making personalized crafts to recipes for delicious treats, we have a wide assortment of resources, both inside the library and online!
From all of us at the Marion County Public Library System, we wish you and your family the happiest of holiday seasons!
MCPLS Bookmobile For the most up-to-date calendar of Bookmobile events, please visit www.mcpls.org/bookmobiles
Monday Pleasant Valley: 9:45-10:30. Valley Chapel United Methodist. [1st & 3rd Week] Carolina: 1:45-2:45. Post Office. [1st & 3rd Week] Monongah: 10:00-11:00. Family Dollar. [2nd & 4th Week] Gabriel Brothers: 1:30-2:30. 302 Meadowdale Road. [2nd & 4th Week] Quiet Dell Community Center: 3:00-3:45. E. Grafton Road. [2nd & 4th Week]
Tuesday Teleperformance: 12:00-1:00. Bellview [1st & 3rd Week] Arbors: 2:30-3:30. Cleveland Avenue [1st & 3rd Week] PACE: 11:30-12:30 Big Lots Plaza (Country Club Road) [2nd & 4th Week] Disability Action Center: 2:30-3:30. 102 Benoni Ave. [2nd & 4th Week]
Wednesday Middletown Commons: 9:00-10:00. [1st & 3rd Week] I-79 Technology Park: 12:00-1:00 5000 NASA Blvd. [1st & 3rd Week] Unity Terrace: 3:00-4:00. Leonard Avenue Ext. [1st & 3rd Week] Middletown Commons: 10:30-11:30. [2nd & 4th Week] Farmington: 2:00-2:45. Fire Department. [2nd & 4th Week] Farmington: 2:45-3:45. BCBank. [2nd & 4th Week]
Thursday Rock Lake: 2:00-3:00. Community Center [1st & 3rd Week] Colfax: 3:30-4:30. Community Center [1st & 3rd Week] Marion County Senior Center: 11:30-12:30. Maplewood Drive. [2nd & 4th Week] Barrackville: 2:30-3:30. Dollar General. [2nd & 4th Week]
Friday Woodlands Assisted Living: 10:00-11:00. Hutchinson. [1st & 3rd Week] Miller School Apartments: 12:00-1:00. 2 Pennsylvania Avenue [1st & 3rd Week]
The Bookmobile also visits a number of outreach locations county wide: Sunbeam Early Learning Center, Stepping Stone Inc., and Kidz Connection, as well as a variety of head starts, day cares, Boys and Girls Club locations, and more Fairmont Mannington December 2: Winter Hours Begin December 2: Winter Hours Begin December 3: Baby Time (9:30 am) December 3: Story Time 1 (10:30) December 3: Toddler Time 1 (10:30) December 3: Homeschool December 3, 10: Exploration+ Story Adventure (1 pm) December 4: Toddler Time 2 (10:30) December 4: Story Time 2 (10:30) December 4: Story Hour 1 (4:30) December 5, 12, 19: Middle School December 4, 11, 18: Tabletop Game Tech Time with Keith (3 pm) Group (5 pm) December 6, 13, 20 Friday Friends December 5: Story Hour 2 (10:30) Book Sale (10 am—4 pm) December 5: Toddler Time 3 December 7, 14, 21: Saturday Friends December 6: Story Hour 3 (10:30) Book Sale (9 am—1 pm) December 6: All branches closing at 1 pm December 6: All branches closing at 1 pm December 7: Friends Sale (10 am-1 pm) December 7: Polar Express Party December 7: “Policing is About People” December 9: 3D Printing Class for Adults Civic Lab Event (1 pm) December 10: Book Worm Book Club December 10: Sewing– Wine Bottle Bag (2:30 pm) Island of the Blue Dolphins (4 pm: grades 4-up) and Number the Stars December 11: Sewing– Wine Bottle Bag December 16: Crafty Creations with Carol (2 pm, 4 pm, 6 pm: grades 4-up) December 19: Cover2Cover Book Club December 13: Wise & Wonderful Movie (1:30 pm) This Dark Road to Mercy Matinee: Christmas in Connecticut (1 pm) by Wiley Cash December 14: Voices of Fairmont Senior December 24-26: CLOSED– Christmas High School Book Event (11 am) December 31: All branches closing at 3 pm December 14: Magical Holiday Event for Kids December 16: ‘Tween the Pages Book Club 3:30 pm, Grades 5-8: The Friendship War Fairview by Andrew Clements December 2: Winter Hours Begin December 16: Awesome Readers Book Club December 4: Toddler Time & Story Hour 5 pm, Grades 9-12: Wayward Son by Finale (Fairview Fire Hall) Rainbow Rowell December 21: Christmas Parade & December 24-26: CLOSED– Christmas Holiday Event (Fairview Fire Hall) December 30: Murder Mystery Dinner Online December 6: All branches closing at 1 pm Sign Ups Begin (www.mcpls.org) December 24-26: CLOSED– Christmas December 31: All branches closing at 3 pm December 31: All branches closing at 3 pm