LibraryAware September 2024

MRLS Newsletter — September 2024

Library Card Sign Up Month

How much money has your Library saved you?

Since 1987, Library Card Sign Up Month has been held each September to mark the beginning of the school year. During this time, the American Library Association and libraries unite in a national effort to ensure every child signs up for their own library card.

During the school year, parents and caregivers can save hundreds of dollars on books and educational resources for students. From free access to books and media, programs/activities, digital resources, and virtual homework help, to the expertise of library staff, a library card is one of the most cost-effective back-to-school supplies available.

Want to know how much money you've saved by using the Library? Check out the Library Value Calculator!

Monthly Events

Fall Is Almost Here!

Dinosaur, dinosaur, fall is here and other rhymes / : And Other Rhymes
by Danielle McLean

"Seasonal rhymes with a dinosaur twist fill the pages of this adorable board book that celebrates the wonders of fall, from hayrides to picking pumpkins. Illustrations."

It's fall!
by Renâee Kurilla

"This ode to fall, written in sweet and simple verse, celebrates the joys of the season, from jumping in piles of leaves to trick-or-treating to enjoying cider and donuts! Illustrations. "

Falling for Autumn
by Kim Dean - Picture Book

Realizing how much he appreciates everything the autumn season has to offer, an ever-groovy Pete the Cat participates in corn mazes, hay rides and apple picking.

Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn
by Kenard Pak - Picture Book

Lyrical text and evocative illustrations combine in the story of a young girl who observes seasonal changes from summer to autumn while walking through increasingly vibrant wooded areas near her community.

September Closings

New Book Highlights

What have you done? / : A Novel
by Shari Lapena

When the body of Diana Brewer is discovered in a hayfield by a local farmer, sleepy little Fairfield, Vermont, a town of friendly, familiar faces becomes a town of suspects and a place of fear and paranoia where everyone wants answers.

Fire and bones
by Kathy Reichs

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan investigates a deadly fire in a Washington, DC neighborhood called Foggy Bottom with a colorful past and ties to gangs in the present, in the latest addition to the long-running series following The Bone Hacker. Simultaneous.

Hard to kill
by James Patterson

Attorney Jane Smith takes on the case of an unlucky man accused of killing a family of three in the Hamptons and potentially a second family in the third novel of the series following Jane Effing Smith. 300,000 first printing.