LibraryAware January 2022

MRLS Newsletter — January 2022

Did You Read It?

Here are the top 10 circulated books in 2021!

January Closings

Read with Libby

Check out ebooks and audiobooks anytime with the Libby app!

The Library offers over 19,000 ebooks, audiobooks, and videos through the Libby (OverDrive) app. Just sign in with your library card number and start reading (or listening, or watching)!

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Cuddle Up with a Good Book!

Cozy
by Jan Brett -- Picture Book

The coat of a huge wooly musk ox named Cozy is the winter home for a growing number of Alaskan animals who mostly get along.

Fox Versus Winter
by Corey R. Tabor -- Easy Reader

Fox does not like winter. None of his friends are around to play. He is bored and alone. Then Fox has an idea. If he cannot escape winter, he will fight it!.

Snow Falls
by Kate Gardner -- Picture Book

Snow softens, snow tricks, snow tracks, snow glows and snow snows and snows and snows, transforming a small village into a winter wonderland. A girl and her dog set out and make the most of every snow-filled moment: sledding, building snowmen and snowforts, making snowangels (and snowdogs), and drinking cocoa by a cozy fire as the snow continues to fall.

Events Calendar

January Book Highlights

The Midnight Lock
by Jeffery Deaver - Adult Fiction

When he is fired as a consultant for the NYPD, Lincoln Rhyme decides to risk jail to solve a case involving “the Locksmith”—a sociopathic intruder who can break through any lock or security system ever devised, terrorizing the entire city.

The Left-Handed Twin
by Thomas Perry - Adult Fiction

When Jane, who helps disappear people, agrees to help a woman escape a crazed ex-boyfriend who is friends with members of a Russian organized crime brotherhood, thus begins a bloodthirsty chase through the northeast where nothing—and no one—can be trusted.

Wish You Were Here
by Jodi Picoult - Adult Fiction

With everything perfectly on track, Diana O’Toole finds things going off the rails when she is quarantined during her dream vacation in the Galapagos due to a virus, forcing her to reevaluate herself and her life when she makes a connection with a local family.