MRLS Newsletter — Oct 2020
Fall in love with reading this month! 
 
We're Expanding Our Hours
MRLS will be expanding hours beginning on October 5, 2020
 
Both branches will be open: 
Monday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday: 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday: 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday: 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday: 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
 
Celebrate TEENtober
TeenTober is a month long celebration promoting
library services to teens! 
 
Check out our Facebook each week this month as we highlight services we provide for our teen patrons!
 
Click here to head to our Facebook 
 
October is Family History Month
We can help you research your family history!
 
Dr. William McCaddin Pritchett Local History Room

The Local History Room, located in the Brunswick County Library, contains valuable historical information relating to the localities our library system serves. The History Room is reserved for researchers only and is available for use during our normal hours of operation.
Ancestry: In-Library Edition
 
The Library offers our patrons access to Ancestry while using library computers only. The In-Library Edition provides access to Census, Military, Immigration, Vital Records, and more. Stop by the library today to access these great resources! 
Click here to find out more information! 
 
Check out these Spooky Reads for Kids
My baby loves Halloween
by Jabari Asim

Complemented by eye-catching foil accents, a gift-appropriate board book celebrates the sweet things that Baby discovers on her first Halloween, from candy and costumes to tricks and treats.
Mr. Pumpkin's tea party
by Erin Barker

A seasonally themed counting story combines deep-hued watercolor artwork with bouncing rhymes in the tale of Mr. Pumpkin, who throws a whimsical tea party in the crisp chill autumn air for his ghoulish friends. A first picture book. 
The ghosts went floating
by Kim Norman

A Halloween rendering of “The Ants Went Marching” song incorporates whimsical artwork and early math concepts into a spooktacular adventure that finds an incremental number of floating ghosts joined by skeleton, witch, werewolf and zombie friends. 
October Closings
 
 The Library will be closed Monday, Oct 12 for the
Columbus Day Holiday
 
October Book Highlights
Transcendent kingdom
by Yaa Gyasi

"A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"
Anxious People
by Fredrik Backman

Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers—including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages and a plucky octogenarian—discover their unexpected common traits. 
Vanguard : How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
by Martha S. Jones

Examines the struggle of African American women to achieve equality and political power by examining the lives and work of black women, including Maria Stewart, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Fannie Lou Hamer. 

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