May is Get Caught Reading Month! Where do you like to read? Most everyone has a special place or favorite chair that comes to mind when you find a few minutes in a busy day to read. Go to the CMRLS Facebook page during the month of May and let us know where you can be caught reading!
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---------- All CMRLS Libraries will be closed Monday, May 28 in observance of National Memorial Day. Regular library hours will resume on Tuesday, May 29. ------------
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Check out the CMRLS Virtual Reference Collection, an online Library available 24/7 with information you can trust. Customer Service Email: custsvc@cmrls.lib.ms.us
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Family Movie
Thursday, May 17, 3:30 pm
Showing: Paddington 2; featuring Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson, Hugh Bonneville, and Sally Hawkins. Warner Bros., (PG), 1 hour, 45 minutes. Free popcorn available while supplies last.
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Movie Matinee
Thursday, May 24, 11:00 am
Showing: "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," featuring Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Heather Ripley, Lionel Jeffries, and Adrian Hall. Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. in 1968, (G), 2 hour, 25 minutes. Free popcorn available while supplies last.
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Trivia Night @ MUGSHOTS
Tuesday, May 15, 6:30 pm
Mugshots on the corner of Airport Rd and Lakeland Dr
Join us for a night of family friendly fun. Trivia-Nite will be held at the Mugshots in Flowood. Presented by the Reservoir and Flowood Libraries.
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Sensory Story Time
Monday, May 21, 3:00 pm
Sensory-Enhanced Story Time is a program designed for all ages who have a sensory processing disorder and is presented at a preschool level of development. The purpose of the story time is to offer a modified experience that our audience will benefit from. Parents, guardians, or caretakers will need to remain near their child throughout the story time. It will be on the last Monday of the month at 3pm, but will be moved to a different day if that falls on a holiday. To ensure adequate space for movement, the group size will not exceed five children. Since the group size is limited, preregistration is required.
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Loose Knit Group
Every Tuesday, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
You will enjoy meeting knitters and crocheters who will share ideas with you.
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Summer Reading Registration
Begins Monday, May 21,
Reservoir Public Library
Come by any time this week to register and find out about all the exciting things planned for this summer!
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Unbury Carol
by Josh Malerman
A woman prone to secret temporary comas that make her appear to be dead receives protection from a redemption-seeking former lover who would save her from being buried alive by her fortune-hunting husband. By the best-selling author of Bird Box
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The girl who never read Noam Chomsky : a novel
by Jana Casale
A college student's procrastination over reading a Noam Chomsky novel becomes a metaphor throughout subsequent decades of milestones that reflect the disparity between the carefully planned life she wants and the person she is really meant to be. A first novel.
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The comedown : a novel by Rebekah Frumkin
A street-smart drug dealer and a simpering addict become unlikely partners when a deal gone tragically wrong and the disappearance of a quarter of a million dollars set in motion a series of odd and captivating events that evince racial, class, religious and generational divides.
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Big Guns
by Steve Israel
"When Chicago's Mayor Michael Rodriguez starts a national campaign to ban handguns from America's cities, towns, and villages, Otis Cogsworth, the wealthy chairman and CEO of Cogsworth International Arms worries about the effects on his company. In response he and lobbyist Sunny McCarthy convince an Arkansas congressman to introduce federal legislation mandating that every American must own a firearm. Events soon escalate"-- Provided by publisher.Book Annotation
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Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies.
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Losers Bracket
by Chris Crutcher
When a family argument breaks out at Annie's swim meet and her nephew goes missing, she seeks help from her friends, her foster brother, and her social worker to find him and get him into a safe home.
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Hiding by Henry Turner
"When a teen boy who excels at being unseen finds himself hiding in his ex-girlfriend's house, he uncovers carefully concealed truths about her, her family, and himself"
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Lizzie
by Dawn Ius
A modern-day reimagining of the story of Lizzie Borden, casting her as a shy seventeen-year-old whose blackouts become worse after her father and stepmother try to prevent her from studying to be a chef
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The Lincoln project by Dan Gutman
Invited by the enigmatic billionaire Miss Z to travel through time and photograph some of history's most important events, Luke, Isabel, David and Julia are sent to the year 1863 to capture Abraham Lincoln delivering his famous Gettysburg Address. By the best-selling author of the Genius Files series.
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Rebound
by Kwame Alexander
In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.
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Autonomous by Andy Marino
"William wins a driverless car that takes him and his friends anywhere they want to go . . . and to some places they don't"
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Goldfish on vacation
by Sally Lloyd-Jones
Three goldfish live in a small bowl, in an apartment building, in the middle of a big city, until one summer they get to go on vacation--in a fountain, with lily pads, and reeds, and other neighborhood goldfish
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Walking in the City With Jane : A Story of Jane Jacobs by Susan Hughes
A fictionalized version of the life of urban thinker and activist Jane Jacobs shares how her curious mind and observation of her surroundings led her to believe each city was an ecosystem to be protected.
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Rusty the Squeaky Robot
by Neil Clark
Rusty the robot does not like the way he squeaks when he moves, but when he meets Belle, Hoot, and Twango, they show him that having a funny sound is what makes him unique.
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Trash Revolution : Breaking the Waste Cycle by Erica Fyvie
Offers an illustrated exploration of the entire life cycle of everyday things people use, including water, food, clothing, paper, plastic, metals, electronics, and space waste, with a focus on what is being done to eliminate waste, and what the future holds.
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