FREE COMIC BOOK DAY It’s that time of year again! That action packed fun day of the year where you can come to the library for FREE COMIC BOOKS! Free Comic Book Day will take place at the Fairmont branch on Saturday, May 7. Crafts and activities will accompany the day. Every year we have a special guest superhero visit the library, but this year there are TWO! That’s right- Captain America will be here alongside Spiderman! Be sure to bring your camera for great photos with these popular superheroes. Comic Books will available starting at 12 pm and the heroes and activities will be from 2-3:30 pm. Swing on by for an action packed annual family fun event! Look at the back of this newsletter to see which comics will be available! Costumes are welcome. this issue P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 Features New Fairmont Fairview Mannington Marion Coloring Releases Bookmobile Page www.mcpls.org Best Sellers The Emperor’s Revenge by Clive Cussler Audio Books Expected in May Find Her by Lisa Gardner The 15th Affair by James Patterson The Girl from Summer Hill The Apartment by Danielle Steel The 14th Colony by Steve Barry by Jude Deveraux Aunt Dimity and the Buried 15th Affair by James Patterson The House of Daniel Treasure Nancy Atherton The Aparment by Danielle Steel by Harry Turtledove Beyond the Ice Limit As Time Goes By The Island House by Nancy Thayer by Douglas Preston by Mary Higgins Clark Night Shift by Charlaine Harris A Daughter’s Dream Blood Flag by Steve Martini Prayers the Devil Answers by Shelley Shepard Gray The Emperor’s Revenge Boar Island by Nevada Barr by Sharyn McCrumb by Clive Cussler Cape Hell by Loren D. Estleman Sorcerer’s Daughters by Terry Brooks Family Jewels by Stuart Woods The City of Mirrors by Justin Crohn Tall Tail by Rita Mae Brown The Girl From Summer Hill The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Two if by Sea by Jacquelyn Mitchard by Jude Deveraux Terror by Joyce Carol Oates Wedding Cake Murder The Obsession by Nora Roberts by Joanne Fluke One With You by Sylvia Day Wild and Wonderful: West Virginia Til Death Do Us Part by Amanda Quick by Janet Dailey Large Print Wilde Lake by Laura Lippman 15th Affair by James Patterson Young Adult At the Edge of the Orchard Ask Me How I Got Here by Tracy Chevalier Playaway by Christine Heppermann Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben The Boy at the Top of the Lightning Lingers Launchpad Mountain by John Boyne by Barbara Freethy On The Move (ages 3-5) Dime by E.R. Frank No Safe Secret by Fern Michaels Pretend With Me (ages 3-5) Paper Hearts by Meg Wivott Off the Grid by CJ Box Mind Missions (ages 5-7) Promposal by Rhonda Helms The Passenger by Lisa Lutz Super Math Minds (ages 5-7) On the Edge of Gone Rustler’s Moon by Jodi Thomas Science Explosion (ages 8-10) by Corinne Duyvis Treachery at Lancaster Gate The Raven King by Anne Perry by Maggie Stiefvater Wagon Train West by Lauran Paine Playaway View Spirit Level by Sarah Harvey Your Heart’s Desire Lots & Lots of Toy Trains: Vol 1 by Melody Carlson Lots & Lots of Toy Trains: Vol 2 We Sign Animals Graphic Novels Wild Animal Orphans Vol 1 Deadpool Kills the Marvel Non-Fiction Universe Because They Hate The Walking Dead, Volume 25 by Brigitte Gabriel Picture Books by Robert Kirkland Dark Money by Jane Mayer The Airport Book by Lisa Brown Eat Dirt by Josh Axe The Animal’s Ark Hippie, INC by Michael Klassen by Marianne Dubuc DVDs I am N by Voice of the Martyrs Have a Look, Says Book The Witch In This Together by Ann Romney by Richard Jackson The 5th Wave My Year of Flops by Nathan Rabin Pigs and a Blanket by James Burks Dirty Grandpa A Problem From Hell The Popcorn Astronauts Fifty Shades of Black by Samantha Power by Deborah Ruddell The Finest Hours Silent Cry by Dorothy Newton Squirrel Me Timbers The Forest by Louise Pigott Jane Got a Gun Joy Playaway Krampus Clawback by J.A. Jance Juvenile Fiction Lady in the Van Darkness by Karen Roberts The Apprentice’s Quest Norm of the North Family Jewels by Stuart Woods by Erin Hunter Revenant Flawless by Heather Graham The Fog Diver by Joel Ross Ride Along 2 Miller’s Valley by Anna Quindlen Darth Vader and the Lost Command Daddy’s Home The Obsession by Nora Roberts by Haden Blackman Star Wars Episode VII Wonder Woman at Super Hero Star Wars Episode VII Bu-Ray www.mcpls.org High by Lisa Yee Book Sale The May Friends of the Library Book Sale will take place Saturday, May 7 from 9 am to 1 pm. Paperbacks are free, all other books are a $3 per bag. Donations arrive weekly, so every sale has something new to offer. Adult Craft Class Join us on Tuesday, May Fairmont 17, at 5 pm for 321 Monroe Street our Adult Craft Fairmont, WV 26554 Class. This Books on Tap 304-366-1210 month we will Our new book club, be doing some beginning painting. Books on Tap, will be We will create a beautiful starting on Friday, May mountain scene. Bring your own 13. The first meeting Awesome Readers Teen acrylic paints and a flat 1/2-3/4" will take place at El brush. Rey Mexican Book Club restaurant at the Middletown Mall at Our teen book club will Paper and instruction will be 6 pm. We will be discussing The Girl be meeting Monday, provided. This is the beginning in on the Train by Paula Hawkins. May 23 at 5 pm to a series of learn to paint classes discuss The Murder that will be spaced out this year. Order your own appetizers and/or Complex by Lindsay Class is limited to 10, so call or drinks and have a great time Cummings stop by the library today to Discussing the book, playing trivia, register. and socializing. There are still The book can be picked several spots available; and the up at the circulation desk. books are now available for pickup! Book It Games, snacks and Call or stop in at the library to Book It will meet Thursday, May discussions will take register today! 19 at the library starting at 6 pm to place. Join us for a fun filled hour with discuss The Buccaneers by Edith fellow book lovers! Color Me Crazy Wharton Do you like to color? Do you love to “Meadow Woodson, a fifteen-year-old girl socialize? Do you like food? Most Set in the 1870s, the same period who has been trained by her father to importantly, are you over 20? Then as Wharton's The Age of fight, to kill, and to survive in any grab your crayons, markers, or Innocence, The Buccaneers is situation, lives with her family on a colored pencils and join us at the about five wealthy houseboat in Florida. library for our new adult coloring American girls club! No sign up required, stop by denied entry into The state is controlled by The Murder Color Me Crazy on May 26 at 5 pm. New York Society Complex, an organization that tracks the because their population with precision. The plot starts parents' money is too Coming Soon: On Your to thicken when Meadow meets Zephyr new. At the Mark, Get Set, READ! James, who is—although he doesn't suggestion of their Sign ups begin June 1st for know it—one of the MC's programmed clever governess, our annual summer assassins. the girls sail to reading programs! Be on London, where they the lookout for summer Is their meeting a coincidence? Destiny? marry lords, earls, activities for toddlers, kids Or part of a terrifying strategy? And will and dukes who find their beauty (grades K-5), teens Zephyr keep Meadow from discovering charming—and their wealth (grades 6-12), and adults! the haunting truth about her family? extremely useful.” -Amazon Action-packed, blood-soaked, and chilling, this is a dark and compelling debut novel by Lindsay www.mcpls.org Cummings.” -Amazon More Than Just May Flowers Patrons ages 14 and up are eligible to participate in our monthly trivia competition, “What Do You Know about That?,” on May 26 from 9 am - 4 pm. Be sure to stop in to tease and test your brain on even more pop culture, current events, and sports topics. A prize will be awarded to the individual with the top score. Fairview 500 Main Street Light up the Night Fairview, WV 26570 304-449-1021 Teen Crafternoon Don’t forget to stop by the We will be hosting our “Light up the circulation desk and give us your best Night” teen craft program on May 17 guess for our monthly guessing Summer Reading at 3:30 pm. With the help of Daybrook game, “When Life Gives You Sign Ups resident Mary Mason, Ms. Linda will Lemons…” Guess the number of Summer Reading be providing participants the Lemonhead candies in the jar before registration for opportunity to create their very own May 27, be the closest without going children, teens, and beaded night light works of art. over, and you’ll be the adults begins on lucky winner. May 23 and will This program will be continue through available to This month’s June 13, or until patrons ages 12-18, entryway display classes are filled. and refreshments continues from “ April You may register in will be served.