NEW RELEASES

March 12
The Pioneer Woman Cooks by Ree Drummond $22.00
Infamous (The Chronicles of Nick #3) by Sherrilyn Kenyon $15.00

March 19
Stay Close by Harlan Coben $18.00
Force of Nature by C.J. Box $18.00 sponsored
Fall from Grace by Richard North Patterson $18.00

March 26
Guilty Wives by James Patterson $18.00
Betrayal by Danielle Steel $18.00
The Big Miss : My Years of Coaching Tiger Woods by Hank Haney $18.00
Loving by Karen Kingsbury $12.00 Sponsored

April 2
The Lost Years by Mary Higgins Clark $20.00
The Beginner’s Goodbye by Anne Tyler $18.00
The Big Cat Nap (Mrs. Murphy series #20) by Rita Mae Brown $18.00
Death Comes Silently by Carolyn G. Hart $18.00

April 9
Calico Joe by John Grisham $18.00
Come Home by Lisa Scottoline $18.00
The Fiddler by Beverly Lewis $12.00

April 16
The Witness by Nora Roberts $18.00
The Innocent by David Baldacci $18.00
Unnatural Act (Stone Barrington #23) by Stuart Woods $18.00
What Doesn’t Kill You by Iris Johansen $18.00

Thanks to the Bowman Rotary Club and the Bowman County Commission, we have the Rosetta Stone language learning program installed on 3 of our computers, which is available for public use, free of charge! Learn Spanish or English. In addition to these materials, we have many other programs and services available.

As many of you know, our librarian Leah King hosts Story Time every Wednesday at 10:30AM. This program is open to children ages 3 to 6 and is a great way to introduce your children to the magic of reading. Note to parents and grandparents: There will be no Story Time on Wednesday, March 14th.

The North Dakota Humanities Council, Pioneer Trails Regional Museum and the library have combined resources to hold a Civil War book discussion. We have has a good turn out for the first two books, March by Geraldine Brooks, and Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam by James McPherson, and look forward to a successful turn out for the final meeting, which will be held on March 27th at 7PM in the Frontier Room of the Museum. The book we will be discussing, America’a War edited by Edward L. Ayers, is available at the library. If you haven’t already, stop in and sign up.

In addition to these book discussions, Dr. Frank Varney, Assistant Professor of History from Dickinson State University, will be giving a talk about the American Civil War on Saturday, March 10th at 3:30 at the library. Please stop in and learn a little about the most deadly war our country has ever seen.

In preparation for the upcoming Summer Reading Program, we are holding a penny drive at the library to help with the cost of materials. This year’s program theme is Dream Big READ! We are planning many exciting things and hope for good community participation. We will keep you informed of the scheduling details as we get closer to the summer months. If you’d like to help out, we’d love to take those pesky pennies off your hands. Next time you dig through the couch cushions, think of us.

A book doesn’t have to be new to be a great read. Often, they gain late popularity through word-of-mouth or by being made into a movie. For example, The Hunger Games, The Help and many books by the author Nicolas Sparks fall into this category. If there is something everyone is talking about, call or stop in to see if we have it. If it is checked out to someone else, we’d be glad to put your name on the waiting list.

As for new books, we have acquired a variety of material, including non-fiction books on everything from geology to floor plans, cooking to meditating. We have plenty new fiction books, including Celebrity in Death by JD Robb and A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison. We also both books from Phil Rustad’s Dan Neumann Series, Dart and Alamo, North Dakota.

INCOMING!!

Loving (Book 4 in the Bailey Flanigan series) by Karen Kingsbury

Force of Nature (Book 12 in Joe Pickett series) by C.J. Box

Good in a Crisis: A Memoir by Margaret Overton

Many more. Stop in and see!

• The Library had 25,350 visitors inside the Library.
• You checked out 23,770 books, DVDs, ebooks and more in 2011.
• The computers had over 9,100 log-ins.
• Volunteers donated over 350 hours of service to the Library
• The Library borrowed 365 books and DVDs from other libraries. We loaned 101 books and DVDs to other libraries.
• The Children’s programs like the uber-popular Story Time had 1,650 plus visitors.
• The Librarians answered 5,410 reference questions

We hope to continue to serve you in 2012! Thank you for your support of the Bowman Regional Public Library.

Pennies for more thoughts? The Bowman Regional Public Library wants your pennies and spare change. Help us raise funds to support the Summer Library programs for children. We will turn your change into free community activities and reading challenges for kids during the Summer months.

Thank you for your support. Stay tuned to the Library blog for details about this program.

Discussion will be Tuesday, February 21st in the Frontier Room of the Pioneer Trails Regional Museum (use the alley entrance). Our discussion will be facilitated by Tim Rodenberger.

For more information about this book, CSPAN has a video of the author speaking about this book. You can find the video at this link.

Salon.com has a review of the book here.

For more information about obtaining a copy of the book or about the discussion group, call the museum at 523-3600 or the library at 523-3797.

See you there!

With a grant from the American Library Association (ALA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Let’s Talk About It: Making Sense of the American Civil War, is a scholar-led reading and discussion program.

The books chosen include works of historical fiction and non-fiction. They include:

• March, by Geraldine Brooks;
• Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam, by James McPherson; and
• America’s War: Talking About the Civil War and Emancipation on their 150th Anniversaries, a new anthology edited by Edward L. Ayers.

Discussions will be led by Civil War scholar, Tim Rodenberger.

Copies of the books are available at the Bowman Regional Public Library.

The first discussion will be January 24th, 7PM at the Frontier Room of the Pioneer Trails Regional Museum. The dates of the following discussions are February 21st at 7PM and March 20th at 7PM, also at the museum.

For more information call 523-3600 or 523-3797

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(Thanks to the West Fargo Public Library for publishing these videos)

Downloading books to your Amazon Kindle

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