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Salem Township Public Library Serving the southeastern Warren County Townships of Salem, Hamilton, Harlan, & Southern Washington MON-TUE 10:00 am - 8:00 pm 535 W. PIKE STREET WED-THUR 10:00 am - 6:00 pm MORROW, OH 45152 FRI 10:00 am - 5:00 pm (513) 899-2588 SAT 10:00 am - 2:00 pm www.salem-township.lib.oh.us SUN CLOSED OCTOBER 2017 HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR! Frightening fun awaits you at our annual Halloween Spooktacular! Trick-r-treaters are encouraged to wear their best costumes for a night of ghoulish games with candy-filled fun around every corner! MONDAY, OCTOBER 30 | 6:30PM The Buckeye State is home to countless haunts…and many are right in your own backyard. Discover the sites of Warren County’s most haunted locations and hear the tales of the spirits said to inhabit them. Presented by Dylan McCracken OCT. 17 $15.00 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24 | 6:00PM 6:30PM LIMIT 12 HAUNTED HAPPENINGS THIS OCTOBER ADULTS KIDS Book Discussion Group Storytime with Miss Annette! ALL 3RD 6:30 – 8:00PM MONTH TUESDAYS WEDNESDAYS Preschool Ages 3-5 October 3 November 7 Toddlers ages 18 months+ 11:00AM & 2:00PM FOLLY 10:45AM FOR ALL TIME Jude Deveraux Laurie R. King Reading with Raider & Friends Coloring Circle 3RD 16TH 6:30 – 8:00PM 5:00 – 8:00PM Take some time for yourself! Join us for coloring, Rock the Blocks! conversation, and light refreshments. All materials 7TH are supplied, but participants are welcome to 21ST 10:30 – 1:3 0PM bring their own. No artistic ability required! (Ages 18+) Calling all architects! In this all-day, free-build event we provide the LEGOs and you provide the talent! Craft an Autumn Wreath! 17TH PM Trunk- r-Treat 6:30 – 8:00 29TH 2:00 – 4:00PM Adults are invited to make an autumnal wreath from flowers, burlap, and more! $15.00 – limit 12. WWII Lecture: Present ed by Halloween Spooktacular Veteran’s Memorial Museum 30TH 6:30 – 7:30PM 25TH Little Miami Historical Connection (LMHC) 7:00 – 8:00PM Join the Little Miami Historical Connection’s guest speaker, David Shortt (curator of the Veteran’s TEENS Memorial Museum in Germantown, Ohio) at their quarterly meeting to hear a special lecture on the second World War. Teen Movie Night! Yoga Classes 17TH ALL 5:30 – 8:00PM MONTH Mondays, 6:30 – 7:30PM Those interested on becoming more limber, calm, Ohio Haunts and centered may sign-up to join our brand new TH 24 6:00 – 7:00PM yoga classes! $5.00 per class – limit 10. THE SCARIEST STORIES ARE REAL. TRUE CRIME IN COLD BLOOD Truman Capote In November 1959, in a small Kansas town, the entire Clutter family was savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. Five years later, on April 14, 1965, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith were hanged for the crime at the gallows of the Kansas State Penitentiary. It is here, in Capote’s long-heralded masterpiece, that the brutal crime and years of investigation that followed are chronicled—in what is considered the first “true crime” novel ever written. MANSON: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CHARLES MANSON Jeff Guinn More than 40 years ago Charles Manson and his commune killed nine people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate, in the culmination of a criminal career that author Jeff Guinn traces back to Manson's Cincinnati childhood. Painting Manson as a killer in the context of the turbulent 1960’s, Guinn shows us how Manson created and refined his message to fit the times…and combined it with a bizarre “race-war” obsession that would result in the brutally infamous murders still discussed to this day. MURDER & MAYHEM ON OHIO’S RAILS Jane Ann Turzillo Make no mistake—railroading was a dangerous job in bygone days. The West may have had Jesse James and Butch Cassidy, but Ohio had its own brand of train robbers. Ride the rails with some of the most vicious killers and robbers and learn their stories: how Alvin Karpis knocked off an Erie Railroad train and escaped with $34,000, how the first peacetime train holdup took place in North Bend, and how numerous passengers and crew alike were robbed and killed. A KILLING IN AMISH COUNTRY: SEX, BETRAYAL, AND A COLD-BLOODED MURDER Gregg Olsen Barbara Weaver was as pretty and happy as any of the women depicted on the covers of her favorite "bonnet" stories—romance novels set in Amish America. She had everything she wanted: five beautiful children, a home, a husband, and her faith. But while Barbara was happy to live as the Amish have for centuries—without modern conveniences—her husband, Eli, was more tempted. It what was only the third murder in hundreds of years of Amish life in America, Barbara would end up killed in her own bed, shot at close range by a woman linked to her own husband through the internet, sex, and the ultimate betrayal. YOGA CLASSES (18+) Mondays 6:30-7:30PM Special session Thursday, Oct. 5 2:00-3:00pm $5 per class – limit 10 per class Register at the Front Desk today! WANTED BOOKS OTHER READERS HAVE LIKED MAP OF THE HEART | Susan Wiggs Camille Adams’ hometown of Bethany Bay has recently become stifling. Then a man named Finn steps into her life, hoping that she can recover photos on a 40-year-old roll of film that might explain his father's final mission in Cambodia, and an old trunk from the family home in the South of France. His mother died in labor, and his father was a collaborator with the Germans during World War II. Will the items in the trunk draw them to his ancestral home in France…and to one another? YOU! GLASS HOUSES | Louise Penny Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is back, now the head of the Sûreté Do you have a du Québec, which seems to be a sinking ship heading for an iceberg. From an October murder scene in the village of Three Pines, to a trial in special collection a steamy summer courtroom in Montréal, the tale of a region that you’d like to devastated by drugs unfolds. But Gamache and his team have a plan show off in our to save their beloved province, which may not succeed and will almost Display Case? certainly result in the destruction of their careers. LET US KNOW! THE RIGHT TIME: A NOVEL | Danielle Steel Alexandra Winslow always loved the mystery stories she read with her Stop by our Front father. It was only a matter of time until she was writing them herself. After her father's early death though, Alex is taken in by the nuns of a Desk and ask for local convent, where she finds twenty-six mothers to take the place of “Fay” to find out the one she lost, and the time and encouragement she needs to pursue how you can her gift. But as she climbs the ladder of publishing success, she does so share with us! with her father's admonition firmly in mind: men only read crime stories by men—and so begins Alexandra’s publishing journey under the PROGAM IDEA? pseudonym Alexander Green. Y IS FOR YESTERDAY | Sue Grafton If you have a In 1979, four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a program or classmate—and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing presentation you and the suspected thief is murdered. Now, it's 1989 and one of the would like to see perpetrators, Fritz McCabe, has been released from prison—and a copy us host, we would of the missing tape arrives with a ransom demand. As Kinsey Millhone is drawn into the case, a vicious sociopath with a grudge against her like to know! suddenly emerges…and leaves behind traces of himself for her to find. DROP US A MURDER IN THE MOUNTAINS: THE MURIEL BALDRIDGE STORY | Charles Crisp SUGGESTION! Revisit the slaying of Muriel Baldridge, the 17-year old high school cheerleader who was found beaten to death on the morning of June 28, We have a 1949 in Prestonsburg, Kentucky. After a decades-long investigation that featured an amazing array of twists and turns, including a sensational trial Suggestion Box and a controversial verdict, the case that is considered "the most bizarre located to the left and confusing case in the annuals of Eastern Kentucky crime” remains of our New unsolved. Releases display. It’s completely Do you a have a recommendation? anonymous! Let us know what you’ve enjoyed! THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) In the intelligent, fast-paced classic thriller, agent Clarice Starling of the FBI's behavioral science section is assigned to conduct a psychological profile of Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter, a psychiatrist-turned-serial-killer. Using Lecter’s advice proves invaluable as Starling soon finds herself using the madman to catch another serial killer that has been eluding the FBI for months. POOH’S HEFFALUMP HALLOWEEN MOVIE (2005) It's a haunted Halloween in the Hundred Acre Wood and Roo's best new pal, Lumpy, is excited to trick-or-treat for the first time. That is, until Tigger warns them about the dreaded Gobloon who'll turn you into a jaggedy lantern if he catches you. Celebrate the bumpity and spookable Halloween season with Pooh and his pals in their first Halloween-themed film in eight years. WHEN A STRANGER CALLS (2006) You’re home alone. The phone rings. A voice on the other end tells you that you’re being watched.