New Audiobooks @ the Library

Tom Clancy's new novel is one of our featured new audiobooks...click here to see a selection of new audiobooks.

New Books @ the Library

New books have been steadily hitting our shelves...click here for a selection our latest additions!

2012 Authors at Your Library Series Announced!

New York Times Bestselling Author Steve Berry, author of The Templar Legacy and the forthcoming The Columbus Affair, headlines this year's Authors at Your Library series.   Our programs begin April 26.  A limited number of each of the author's work will be available for sale prior to the program.   Each author will discuss their work, take audience questions, and autograph participants' books.

Here's a rundown of this year's exciting authors.  Click on the author's name for more information about them. 

Ann H. Gabhart
Thursday, April 26: 6:30 PM
Ann H. Gabhart, Christian Inspiration author, will speak about the Kentucky Shakers and her new book Words Spoken True.

Chris Kolakowski
Thursday, May 17, 6:30 PM
Chris Kolakowski, historian and Director of the George S. Patton Museum of Leadership, will discuss his Civil War history The Stones River and Tullahoma Campaigns: This Army Does Not Retreat.
 
Maggie Green
Thursday, June 7, 2012, 6:30 PM
Nutritionist and author Maggie Green will share seasonal Kentucky recipes and talk about her work The Kentucky Fresh Cookbook.  This is part of our 2012 "Reading is So Delicious" Summer Reading programming.

Bill Noel
Thursday, July 19, 6:30 PM
Bill Noel, executive vice president of the Sullivan University System and author of the Folly Beach mystery series, will discuss his newest release, Ghosts: A Folly Beach Mystery.

Ron Elliott
Thursday, August 23, 6:30 PM
Historian Ron Elliott will speak about the the life of Kentuckian Franklin Sousely, whose story is recounted in Elliott's From Hilltop to Mountaintop: The Life & Legacy of One Iwo Jima Flag Raiser.

Kelly Creagh
Wednesday, September 12, 6:30 PM
Kelly Creagh, author of the popular Edgar Allan Poe inspired young adult novel Nevermore, returns to Fort Knox to discuss this August's sequel, Enshadowed.

Steve Berry
Wednesday, September 26, 6:30 PM
Steve Berry, the New York Times bestselling author of thrillers such as The Templar Legacy, The Amber Room, and 2012's The Columbus Affair, caps the 2012 Authors at Your Library series speaking about his work.

BONUS PROGRAM ADDED APRIL 2012:
Jen Lancaster
Thursday, October 18 at 6:30 PM
New York Times bestselling memoirist Jen Lancaster, author of books such as Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office and 2012's Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It's Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner, brings her wit and wisdom to Fort Knox.

The Library is now Mobile!

On the run and need to ask a question?  Renew a book?  See if a title is available at the Library?  If the answer is "yes", visit the Library's new mobile friendly website at http://www.barrlibrary.mobi/.  The site allows you to access the Library catalog and place reserves, update your account, learn about upcoming programs, and much more!  For more information please call the Library @ 502-624-1232.

Internet Basics

Join us this Wednesday, February 15, 2012, @ 11AM for our Internet Basics class.  This class is for beginning computer users.  Learn how to use a web browser, navigate websites, and find information online.  For more information contact the Library @ 624-1232.

Book Buddies Today @ 4PM

Book Buddies is featuring Young Abe Lincoln today at 4PM.  The National Park Service from the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace will talk about the early life of Abraham Lincoln.  Hands-on materials will allow children to experience Lincoln's boyhood. 

March Lunch Bunch Book Discussion

The Lunch Bunch will be discussing Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay on Wednesday, March 7 @ 11AM.  Pick up your copy at the Library today!

From Booklist:

Virtuoso Chabon takes intense delight in the practice of his art, and never has his joy been more palpable than in this funny and profound tale of exile, love, and magic. In his last novel, The Wonder Boys (1995), Chabon explored the shadow side of literary aspirations. Here he revels in the crass yet inventive and comforting world of comic-book superheroes, those masked men with mysterious powers who were born in the wake of the Great Depression and who carried their fans through the horrors of war with the guarantee that good always triumphs over evil. In a luxuriant narrative that is jubilant and purposeful, graceful and complex, hilarious and enrapturing, Chabon chronicles the fantastic adventures of two Jewish cousins, one American, one Czech. It's 1939 and Brooklynite Sammy Klayman dreams of making it big in the nascent world of comic books. Joseph Kavalier has never seen a comic book, but he is an accomplished artist versed in the "autoliberation" techniques of his hero, Harry Houdini. He effects a great (and surreal) escape from the Nazis, arrives in New York, and joins forces with Sammy. They rapidly create the Escapist, the first of many superheroes emblematic of their temperaments and predicaments, and attain phenomenal success. But Joe, tormented by guilt and grief for his lost family, abruptly joins the navy, abandoning Sammy, their work, and his lover, the marvelous artist and free spirit Rosa, who, unbeknownst to him, is carrying his child. As Chabon--equally adept at atmosphere, action, dialogue, and cultural commentary--whips up wildly imaginative escapades punctuated by schtick that rivals the best of Jewish comedians, he plumbs the depths of the human heart and celebrates the healing properties of escapism and the "genuine magic of art" with exuberance and wisdom. ~ Donna Seaman

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is the winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.