@ Your Library August/September 2018 Manchester Public Library Lutz Programs For Children The Lutz Children’s Museum will be presenting two programs at the library in August. These programs are for 1st through 5th graders and registration is required. Both programs will be at Mary Cheney. Thursday, August 23rd, 6-7 p.m. Rock, Paper, Airplane, Scissors! Learn to make and launch a paper airplane while exploring the science and math behind its folds and flights. Thursday, August 30th, 4-5 p.m. Prehistoric Life E-Magazines Are Back! Explore the life and history of prehistoric creatures by getting up 50 different titles of electronic periodicals are now available on close and personal with real fossils Overdrive and its Libby app. These items can be used by from dinosaurs, plants, and sea life. multiple patrons simultaneously, so they can be accessed You’ll even have the opportunity to instantly – no waiting, no holds! There is also no limit on the create your own fossil to take home. number of periodicals you can check out. Patrons can browse the collection and within individual magazines on the Overdrive website. To download the magazines, the Libby app is required, which is available for Android and Apple products. Below is the list of titles that are available. Atlantic Country Woman Arts and Crafts Home ELLE Backpacker Elle Décor New Automatic Bloomberg Businessweek Entrepreneur Renewal Policy Continued on page 2 Car and Driver ESPN The Magazine In mid-June the library began an automatic renewal policy. All library Clean Eating Esquire materials without holds that are Cosmopolitan Fast Company eligible for renewal will be automatically renewed three days Country Livings Field & Stream before they are due. Please see library staff for additional details. Continued on Page 2 August /September 2018 Manchester Public Library Book Review E-Magazines Cont. Food Network Magazine Outside Seven Sisters Series by Lucinda Riley Guideposts Oxygen This series is a sweeping epic tale of love, family, joy, fear, pain, loss and above all, hope. Lucinda Riley’s Harper’s BAZAAR PC Magazine Seven Sisters novels are based on the legends of the HGTV Magazine PCWorld Seven Sisters of Pleiades (Maia, Alcyone, Sterope, Celaeno, Taygeta, Electra, Merope). Pa Salt adopted House Beautiful Popular Mechanics the sisters from the four corners of the earth. Upon his Inc. Popular Science death each sister is handed a tantalizing clue to her true heritage. Each book in the series takes one sister on a Lonely Planet Traveller Reader’s Digest journey to find the pieces to her own story. Each woman written about within these tales accepts that she Macworld REDBOOK wants and needs love in her life but not necessarily in Marie Claire Saveur the traditional form. Maxim Seventeen The first installment, also entitled the Seven Sisters, has Maia the oldest of the daughters traveling to a Motor Trend Simple & Delicious crumbling Rio de Janeiro mansion and finding clues to Muscle & Fitness Soap Opera Digest her heritage from the 1920's story of Izabela Bonifacio and architect Heitor da Silva Costa. Heitor designed the National Enquirer Star huge famous statue called Christ the Redeemer. Heitor, Izabel, and his family will travel to Europe to meet the New York Magazine Taste of Home fabricator of the statue and within those studio walls, Newsweek TV Guide Magazine Izabel’s life will change forever. OK! Woman’s Day Book 2 – Alcyone – Storm Sister Book 3 – Asterope – Shadow Sister Oprah Magazine Yoga Journal Book 4 – Celaeno – Pearl Sister Book 5 – Taygete – Moon Sister – to be released in November 2018 Manchester Public Library 586 Main St., Manchester, CT 06040 -Michelle, Reference Librarian library.townofmanchester.org Front Desk: 860-643-2471 Reference: 860-645-0821 Children’s Room: 860-645-0577 Hours: Monday-Thursday: 9am-9pm Friday-Saturday: 9am-5pm Whiton Branch 100 N. Main St., Manchester, CT 06042 library.townofmanchester.org Phone: 860-643-6892 Hours: Monday-Thursday: 10am-8:30pm Friday: 9am-5pm 2 .