February is Library Lover's Month! Show love to your local library! - Join your local Library Friends group!
- Volunteer!
- Let your elected officials what your Library means to you, your family, your community.
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All CMRLS Libraries will be closed on Monday, February 19, 2018 Regular Library hours will resume on Tuesday, February 20.
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Are you looking for a golden oldie, country ballad, or new top 40 love song to add to a digital 'mix tape' to share with your Valentine? Check out FREEGAL Music! It's your Library's collection of over 14 million FREE songs and music videos from 40,000 music labels and more than 100 countries.Download 5 free songs each week and stream 3 hours each day. You just need a CMRLS Library card to download!
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CMRLS Libraries will be closed on Friday, February 2, for Staff Development. Libraries will resume regular operating hours on Saturday, February 3. CMRLS Libraries will be closed on Monday, February 19, in observance of President's Day. Libraries will resume regular operating hours on Tuesday, February 20.
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Free Family Film Feature Thursday, February 15, 3:30 pm. Join us as we watch the Lions Gate Films, inc. 2017 film "Wonder". Rated PG and staring Julia Roberts, Jacob Tremblay, Owen Wilson, and Mandy Patinkin, the film has a run time of 1 hour, 53 minutes. Free popcorn will be available while supplies last. Based on the New York Times bestseller, this tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time. | |
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Movie Matinee
Thursday, February 22, 11:00 am
Join us as w watch the Paramount Pictures 2017 release "Same Kind of Different as Me". Rated PG-13 and staring Greg Kinnear, Renee Zelleweger, Djimon Hounsou, and Jon Voight, the film has a run time of 1 hour, 59 minutes. Free popcorn will be available while supplies last.
International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to Deborah, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.
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Family Trivia Nite@Mugshots |
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Mugshots & CMRLS are continuing to present "A Family Trivia Nite!" It will be held on the third Tuesday, monthly, at 6:30 PM at the Mugshots on the corner of Lakeland Drive and Airport Road. For February, that will be Tuesday the 20. We've had a lot of fun at the previous events and look forward to the next one. Great questions! Great prizes! Great fun! Swing by the Reservoir Library for more information and a flyer for a Free Rotel Dip for participants.
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Reservoir Library is proud to present a Sensory-Enhanced Story Time. This is a program designed for all ages who have sensory processing disorders 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. The February story time will be held on Monday, February 26, at 3 pm. To ensure adequate space for movement, the story time group size cannot exceed 5 children, thus, preregistration is required. Please call the Reservoir Library at 601-992-2539 to register today.
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Are you trying to learn a new craft? How about knitting or crocheting? Would you like some help with a handicraft? Please join us on Tuesday's at 1 pm for help, inspiration, or simply work on your project while meeting new people. Come knit or crochet with us as often as you like.
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Selected Books for February
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Altered carbon
by Richard K. Morgan
In a twenty-fifth-century world in which death is nearly obsolete, thanks to a technology that allows a person's consciousness to be downloaded into a new body, former U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs, re-sleeved into a new body after a brutal death, finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly far-reaching conspiracy that could have horrifying repercussions.
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An American marriage
by Tayari Jones
"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. An insightful look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control"
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The Innocents by David Putnam
Bruno Johnson, a newly minted LA County Sheriff Violent Crimes detective, gets the worst assignment possible--infiltrate a sheriff's narcotics team that may be involved in murder for hire. Gain their trust and be brought into the scheme. If he succeeds, he will have to arrest and testify against his fellow deputies. To make matters worse, his ex-girlfriends shows up on his doorstep with their daughter, stunned and terrified, he now faces immediate fatherhood.
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Batman : Nightwalker
by Marie Lu
"The Nightwalkers are terrorizing Gotham City, and Bruce Wayne is next on their list.... Bruce will walk the dark line between trust and betrayal as the Nightwalkers circle closer"
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Wonder Woman : Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo
Determined to prove herself to her legendary warrior sisters, Diana throws away her chance at glory and breaks Amazon law, risking exile, to save a mere mortal who is unwittingly fated to bring about an age of bloodshed and misery.
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Everless
by Sara Holland
In a land where the rich are able to hoard time, Jules Ember returns to the estate where she and her father used to be servants and where the youngest son of an aristocratic family is planning to marry the daughter of the queen.
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Ink by Alice Broadway
In Saintstone everyone gets tattoos recording their deeds from birth until death, and the ink lets every other citizen know your triumphs as well as your sins; so when Leora's father dies and she sees glimpses a symbol of a horrible crime on the back of his neck she is horrified, and sure it is a mistake--and in her efforts to find out the truth she discovers the lengths that Saintstone will go to preserve its "perfect" society.
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All rights reserved
by Gregory Scott Katsoulis
Preparing to deliver her Last Day speech to celebrate her new adulthood in a world where every word and gesture is copyrighted, patented or trademarked, a 15-year-old girl elects to remain silent rather than pay to speak, a decision that threatens to unravel the fabric of society.
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A land of permanent goodbyes by Atia Abawi
After their home in Syria is bombed, Tareq, his father, and his younger sister seek refuge, first with extended family in Raqqa, a stronghold for the militant group, Daesh, and then abroad
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Dead end in Norvelt
by Jack Gantos
In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, 12-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore. By the author of the Newbery Honor book, Joey Pigza Loses Control.
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Abigail Adams, Pirate of the Caribbean by Steve Sheinkin
Abby and her stepbrother, Doc, must persuade Abigail Adams to disband her newly acquired crew of Caribbean pirates and return as First Lady of the White House.
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Abraham Lincoln, pro wrestler
by Steve Sheinkin
Abby and her stepbrother, Doc, must persuade Abraham Lincoln to play his part in history after one too many comments about history being boring cause him to go on strike
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The journey of little Charlie by Christopher Paul Curtis
When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing
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A hippy-hoppy toad
by Peggy Archer
A tiny toad suddenly finds himself in a tree then, as other creatures startle him with a peck, a buzz, or a bump, he hops to new locations along the road
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I can be anything : don't tell me I can't! by Diane Dillon
Zoe is sure that she can be anything she wants to be, despite a little voice of doubt that points out the problems with her ideas--but first she needs to learn how to read
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Love, Mama
by Jeanette Bradley
When Kipling's mother goes on a trip he quickly begins to miss her, but after receiving a special package from his Mama he knows that he is always loved.
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Old Hat by Emily Gravett
After buying one outrageous hat after another in an attempt to keep up with the latest fashions set by his teasing animal friends, Harbet the dog learns that true happiness comes from being yourself.
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