The Eccles-Lesher Memorial Library is once again affiliated with the Rimersburg Senior Center.
Miss Kelly will return to the Senior Center on Monday, December 19th at 11:00 am to present the “A Christmas Carol” program.
Join us that morning for another spin on this classic!
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Featuring “Looking for Alaska” by Goodreads Eccles-Lesher, On the Same Page Book Club, and John Green. Due to the holiday, the book club will skip his December and hold its next meeting on Tuesday, January 10th at 10am.
Here’s a synopsis from Amazon.com for this title: First prank. first friend. First love. The last word. Miles Halter is fascinated by her famous last words and is fed up with her safe life at home. He heads to boarding school to search for what the dying poet François Rabelais called “perhaps great potential.” Many Miles await at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who pulls Miles into her labyrinth and throws her into great potential. “Searching for Alaska” brilliantly documents the lasting impact one life can have on another. Modern His classic, this stunning debut marked the emergence of #1 best-selling author John Green as a groundbreaking new voice in contemporary fiction.
This book is available in print, audiobook, and ebook format. Join us for this January discussion.
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Novel Idea Book Club: Thursday, January 26, 5pm (back to Eccles-Lesher Library), featuring Stephen King’s “Fairy Tale”.
First book of 2023 and nominated for Best Fantasy at the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award!
“As if my imagination was waiting to be questioned, I saw vast deserted cities – deserted, but alive. Empty streets, haunted houses, gargoyles. I saw a head lying on the street with its head upside down I saw a broken statue (I didn’t know it, but I finally figured it out) With a tip so high it pierced the clouds I saw vast expanses of palaces with glass towers, and those images unlocked the stories I wanted to tell.”
Legendary storyteller Stephen King dives into the deepest wells of his imagination in this charming novel about a 17-year-old boy who inherits the key to a parallel world where good and evil are at war. world or ours.
Join us for this January discussion.
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Novel Idea Book Club: Thursday, February 23, 5 PM, featuring “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue” by VE Schwab. This her Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fantasy (2020) nominee is our pick for February.
See the synopsis for Goodreads: France, 1714: In a desperate moment, a young woman makes a Faustian deal to live forever, cursed to be forgotten by all she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Adi Larue, a dazzling tale that unfolds for centuries across continents, history and art as young women learn how far they will go to leave their mark on the world. adventure begins. But after nearly 300 years, everything changes when Addie runs into a young man in her hidden bookshop and he remembers her name.
Join us for a discussion of this historic romantic fantasy on the last Thursday of February.
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Upcoming CareerLink events:
• Thursday, December 22nd at 12:00 noon CareerLink Workshop — Check Online Presence. The purpose of this workshop is to explain the importance of first impressions and to review and analyze your social media presence.
To register, contact Dani at (814) 272-4020, call or text (814) 678-5065, or email danielle.ditz@nwpacareerlink.org.
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Library Closures for the Next Holidays — Stop by to get the materials you need or handle any last-minute service you need before the library closes for Christmas and New Year on: Saturday, December 24, Monday 26th December, Saturday 31st December, Monday 2nd January.
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year!
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Library winter hours:
• Monday, Tuesday, Thursday — 11:00 am to 6:00 pm
• Friday — 11:00 am to 4:00 pm
• Saturday — 11:00 am to 3:00 pm
• Closed on Wednesdays and Sundays.