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Fort Scott Public Library Newsletter November/December 2019 |
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Storytime Join Miss Val for Storytime on Tues. or Wed. at 10 am weekly for a themed children's program! Storytime features stories, crafts, snacks, singing, and sometimes, special guests, all centered around seasonal themes or ideas from attendees. The program is free and open to all ages! Each event also features a play and coloring table, which families with energetic little ones or special needs children find especially helpful. Join us and see for yourself! Upcoming themes: Firefighters & Fire Trucks (with a special appearance by our Fort Scott Fire Dept. on Nov. 19!), Thanksgiving, Royalty, Dragons & Fantasy Creatures, and the Holidays. Tell us your child's theme ideas here. Miss Val is always seeking volunteers to help with programs and prep. Interested? Contact her at vcyouthlib@gmail.com. |
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 Come to Holidays Maker Monday! December 9, 4 - 5 pm Create holiday gifts, cards, ornaments, and decorations with Miss Val! Enjoy snacks & water and work as a family at this free program. Kids 2nd grade and below must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Marvelous Monday November 18, 2 - 3 pm Go on an Autumn and Digital Walking Scavenger Hunt down Main Street at our Marvelous Mondays program for homeschool families and friends! Each participant may try to fill in our BINGO hunt cards and earn a free book for each BINGO. After our walk, we will share treats and crafts in the event room, and complete a brief survey to share tips with fellow homeschool families. In case of inclement weather, we will have an indoor library scavenger hunt. |
Middle & High School Students, come on Wednesdays at 4:15 p.m. for a free program just for you! Join our ongoing reading challenge, which will run through the end of next May. Reading prizes and books will be awarded for every 500 pages of reading. FIGHTERS stands for Familiar Inviting Group Helping Those Entities Recover from School. The name was chosen and voted on by our members. November & December meetings will run as follows: November 20, 4:15 - 5 pm: Steampunk-Themed Games & Snacks Night November 27: NO MEETING DUE TO THANKSGIVING December 4, 4:15 - 5 pm: Community Service: Decorate the library for the Holidays & WinterDecember 11, 4:15 - 5 pm: Holiday craft night December 18, 4 - 6 pm: Teen & Tween Holiday Party Games Night NO Meetings on Dec. 25 or Jan. 1 due to Christmas & New Year's. Need a ride from public school to FIGHTERS? Parents or guardians, call Joe Allen at 223-0800 to arrange bus transportation for your student. |
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A book of bones
by John Connolly
Three murders in different regions of England reveal the work of a sinister killer who is sacrificing victims for an evil agenda, compelling Charlie Parker’s gripping search for clues in multiple countries.
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A keeper : a novel
by Graham Norton
Returning to Ireland after her mother’s death, Elizabeth Keane is focused only on saying goodbye to that part of her life until, while she is going through her mother’s belongings, she discovers a small stash of letters that reveal a startling truth.
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A Mrs. Miracle Christmas : a novel
by Debbie Macomber
Struggling with her grandmother’s failing health and her inability to have a child, a woman receives unexpected help from a kindhearted stranger at the same time her dreams begin coming true. By the best-selling author of Alaskan Holiday.
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After the flood : a novel
by Kassandra Montag
A tale set in an anarchic near-future America of mountaintop colonies surrounded by rising oceans finds an independent woman trading for supplies and information about the daughter who was stolen from her eight years earlier.
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Bloody genius
by John Sandford
When a culture war between rival departments at a local state university culminates in the death of a renowned scholar, Virgil Flowers struggles to identify a killer among a group of wildly passionate, diametrically opposed zealots.
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Blue moon
by Lee Child
A highly anticipated latest installment in the best-selling series finds Jack Reacher offering aid to an elderly couple only to be confronted by the most dangerous opponents of his career.
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Child's play : a novel
by Danielle Steel
Enduring her late husband’s death by embracing strict self-discipline to secure her career and the prospects of her children, a prestigious Manhattan attorney is confronted by astonishing secrets and an out-of-wedlock baby.
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Dachshund through the snow
by David Rosenfelt
Wanting to grant the selfless Christmas wishes of a child in need, lawyer Andy Carpenter and his wife track down the boy’s father, who has been arrested for a murder that his family swears he did not commit.
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Ninth house
by Leigh Bardugo
Surviving a horrific multiple homicide, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks is unexpectedly offered a full scholarship to Yale, where her mysterious benefactors task her with monitoring the university’s secret societies.
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Olive, again
by Elizabeth Strout
A sequel to Olive Kitteridge finds Olive struggling to understand herself while bonding with a teen suffering from loss, a woman who gives birth unexpectedly, a nurse harboring a longtime crush and a lawyer who resists an unwanted inheritance.
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Quantum
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
Detecting a tripped alarm on the eve of a top-secret space mission, NASA pilot and cybercrime investigator Captain Calli Chase uncovers disturbing clues that point to her missing twin. By the Edgar Award-winning author of the Kay Scarpetta series.
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The 19th Christmas
by James Patterson
As the holidays approach, Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friends are celebrating the fact that crime is down. Soon, a criminal known only as "Loman" shows up in the headlines. If the Women's Murder Club can't be together this Christmas, a killer is to blame.
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The Guardians
by John Grisham
The best-selling author of The Reckoning and The Rooster Bar presents his latest fast-paced legal thriller, incorporating his signature inventive twists and turns into a courtroom drama inspired by some of today’s most hot-button issues.
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The water dancer : a novel
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
A Virginia slave narrowly escapes a drowning death through the intervention of a mysterious force that compels his escape and personal underground war against slavery. By the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me.
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Final option
by Clive Cussler
Chairman Juan Cabrillo and his team of government-sponsored operatives hide their state-of-the-art weaponry and cutting-edge scientific technologies while navigating a dangerous mission aboard the Oregon.
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Kiss the girls and make them cry : a novel
by Mary Higgins Clark
A #MeToo investigative journalist discovers that the man who once sexually assaulted her has become a successful industrialist on the brink of a billion-dollar deal.
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Twisted twenty-six
by Janet Evanovich
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is challenged to protect one of her own when her suddenly widowed grandmother is targeted by ruthless gangsters.
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The Andromeda evolution
by Daniel H. Wilson
A 50th-anniversary sequel to The Andromeda Strain finds a Brazilian drone detecting a bizarre anomaly in the middle of the jungle with the same chemical signature of the microparticle that nearly ended all life on Earth.
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Call sign chaos : learning to lead
by James N. Mattis
A former secretary of Defense and a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine join forces to off an account of how they learned to lead in a chaotic world.
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Inside out : a memoir
by Demi Moore
Even as Demi was becoming the highest paid actress in Hollywood, she was always outrunning her past, just one step ahead of the doubts and insecurities that defined her childhood. As her success grew, Demi found herself questioning if she belonged in Hollywood, if she was a good mother, a good actress and, always, if she was simply good enough.
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No Saints in Kansas
by Amy Brashear
When their tiny mid-20th-century Kansas hometown is shattered by the murder of a family, a tutor newly arrived from New York struggles to clear the name of a student's boyfriend only to find herself in trouble with both the police and the real killers, in a modern adaptation of In Cold Blood. A first novel.
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Serpent & Dove
by Shelby Mahurin
A first entry in a fantasy duology, set in a world where witches are burned at the stake, finds a young witch forced into marriage with a church huntsman, a situation that is further complicated by their growing feelings for each other.
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Star Trek vs. Transformers
by John Barber
"When Kirk, Spock, and the entire crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise investigate problems at a remote mine, they're met with an explosive battle between powerful warriors who change into vehicles from the 20th century! As the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons rages, it's up to Kirk to decide--does he violate the Prime Directive and interfere in a war that's raged for millennia? And how will the Klingons complicate the issue? It's cartoony fun between two of the most popular science fiction franchises in the world!"
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All of This is True
by Lygia Day Peñaflor
When Long Island teens Miri, Soleil, Penny, and Jonah befriend a bestselling YA novelist, they find their deepest, darkest secrets in the pages of her next novel, with devastating consequences. Told from different perspectives as interviews, journal entries, and book excerpts.
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Missing, Presumed Dead
by Emma Berquist
Foreseeing a murder but unable to prevent it, 18-year-old Lexi is compelled by the victim's ghost to conduct an investigation that places her in the path of a serial killer. By the author of Devils Unto Dust. 3, first printing.
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The Babysitters Coven
by Kate Williams
After new student Cassandra Heaven joins seventeen-year-old Esme Pearl's babysitters club, the girls learn that being a babysitter really means a heroic lineage of superpowers, magic rituals, and saving the innocent from evil.
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Dating Disasters of Emma Nash
by Chloe Seager
A humiliating online breakup triggers a teen's misadventures in dating and life, which she chronicles in a private blog with unexpectedly hilarious results.
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Monster Academy: Where do Little Monsters go to School?
by Jane Yolen
Filled with laugh-out-loud humor enhanced by highly imaginative illustrations, an award-winning writer teams up with her daughter to present colorful monster kids who have familiar human issues, such as making friends and learning to help others.
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Monsters Unleashed
by John Kloepfer
A debut entry in a new series by the author of the Zombie Chasers stories introduces the character of Freddie Liddle, who accidentally unleashes monsters on his community after bringing monster sketches to life with a 3D printer, a dilemma that challenges him to team up with the school bullies who inspired his artwork.
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Owl Bat, Bat Owl
by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick
And owl and a bat family endeavor to share living spaces on the same tree branch, where initial wariness is overcome by the curiosity of the families' babies on a wild and stormy night that compels them to set aside their apprehensions. By the award-winning creator of There.
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Skeleton Tree
by Kim Ventrella
Taking a photo of a strange bone that is growing in his backyard, a would-be discovery contest winner is baffled when the bone does not appear in any of his photos and begins to transform into a sinister full skeleton that only children can see.
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The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine
by Mark Twain
Johnny, a poor young boy who has acquired magical seeds that allow him to speak with animals, sets off with his animal friends to rescue a kidnapped prince.
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
by J. K Rowling
A heavily illustrated rendering of the fourth book in the best-selling series follows Harry Potter’s high-stakes participation in a mysterious multi-school competition and is complemented by full-color art by the award-winning illustrator of A Monster Calls. Illustrations.
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Dr. Seuss's Horse Museum
by Seuss
Based on a manuscript and sketches discovered in 2013, a previously unpublished Dr. Seuss book whimsically tours a museum filled with full-color photographic reproductions of pieces by master artists, from Picasso to Jackson Pollock and many others. Illustrations.
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Dead Voices
by Katherine Arden
"Trapped at a haunted ski resort, Ollie, Coco, and Brian must rely on their friendship and sharp minds if they want to escape."
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