Happy Thanksgiving

Just a reminder...the Library will close at 6PM tomorrow, November 23rd and all day Thursday, November 24th in observance of Thanksgiving.  We WILL be open regular hours Friday & Saturday.  We wish all our wonderful Barr Library patrons a safe and Happy Thanksgiving!

No Story Hour & No Teen Tuesday

There will be no Story Hour nor Teen Tuesday on Tuesday, November 22, 2011.  Join us again after the Thanksgiving Holiday on Tuesday, November 29th.

Lunch Bunch Book Discussion

Join us for our next Lunch Bunch Book Discussion, Wednesday, December 7, 2011 @ 11AM.  December's pick is a classic, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.

From http://www.barnesandnoble.com/:

Internationally acclaimed with more than 5 million copies in print, Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury′s classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published nearly 50 years ago.

Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires...

The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning...along with the houses in which they were hidden.

Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames...never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid.

Then he met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think...and Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do!

Annotation

First published in 1953, Fahrenheit 451 is a classic novel set in the future when books forbidden by a totalitarian regime are burned. The hero, a book burner, suddenly discovers that books are flesh and blood ideas that cry out silently when put to the torch.

Come by the Library to check out your copy today!

Holiday Hours

The Library will close at 6PM Wednesday, November 23, 2011 and all day Thursday, November 24, 2011 for Thanksgiving.  We will reopen Friday, November 25, 2011 at 9AM.

New Books @ Barr Library

Click here for selected titles and availabilty.

Chick Lit Film Festival

This Saturday kicks off our Chick Lit Film Series!  Join us Saturdays @ 12PM in November for some definite laughs and maybe even a few tears.  Call the Library @ 624-1232 for more information. 

BLUE STAR HOLDERS:

FREE CHILDCARE FOR THIS EVENT!

MUST PREREGISTER IN ADVANCE FOR CHILDCARE

BY CALLING -502-624-1838

Lunch Bunch Book Discussion - The Emperor of Ocean Park

Be sure to join us today @ 11AM for our discussion of The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter.