Three pieces inspired by Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti are now on display on the Entrance Porch and in the Reference Room, on long-term loan courtesy of local artist, Dick Shanley (pictured above with Library Director Helen Crosson). Stop in and see them!
Election Day is Tuesday, November 2. The polls will be open from 6:00am to 9:00pm. This year, voters will be using paper ballots and optical scanning equipment; the old lever machines will not be in use. Polling places will also have at least one ballot marking device that makes it possible for individuals with disabilities to vote independently and privately.
Visit the library or follow the links below for more information.
Halloween is almost here! Enjoy a scary novel or non-fiction account of the paranormal.
Superstition by David Ambrose
A university researcher’s psychology experiment goes horribly awry when a group of volunteers, instructed to create a fictitious ghost, succeeds all too well and raises a specter that begins to take their lives.
Isis by Douglas Clegg
After her beloved brother dies after saving her from her rageful governess, Isis Villiers learns that the family burial crypt on the grounds holds mystical powers to raise the dead.
The House of Lost Souls by F.G. Cottam
In an effort to save his sister from the madness that is threatening the lives of guests at derelict Fischer House, Nick Mason teams up with a troubled man who escaped the house a decade earlier, and learns of an unspeakable crime that occurred at the house in the 1920s.
The Strain: Book I of The Strain Trilogy by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
A vampiric virus infects New York and spreads outward, threatening the city and then the world, as a CDC doctor and a Holocaust survivor fight to save humanity.
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
A collector of obscure and macabre artifacts, unscrupulous musician Judas Coyne is unable to resist purchasing a ghost over the Internet, which turns out to be the vengeful spirit of his late girlfriend’s stepfather.
The Dead Path: A Novel by Stephen M. Irwin
After the death of his wife, Nicholas Close is haunted by ghosts doomed to repeat their final violent moments, a situation that sweeps him into a disturbing series of disappearances and murders involving an evil spirit.
No Doors, No Windows: A Novel by Joe Schreiber
After his father’s death, Scott Mast discovers an unfinished manuscript that is a riveting ghost tale about a house with a hidden wing. Learning that the house is real, Scott moves in to complete the novel.
A Winter Haunting by Dan Simmons
Returning to his hometown to pick up the pieces of his shattered life, Dale Stewart leases an empty farmhouse of a long-dead friend and finds that the house is haunted.
The New Annotated Dracula by Bram Stoker
An illustrated tribute to Stoker’s classic shares additional insights into the historical plausibility of vampire lore, surveying more than two centuries of popular culture and myth.
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Read a memoir, view a documentary about breast cancer survivors and educators, and research current information in the library’s collection.