LibraryAware January 2025

MRLS Newsletter — January 2025

Did You Read It?

January Closings

Read with Libby

Download the Libby app to access our entire library of OverDrive titles

Libby gives you the ability to read ebooks and magazines, listen to audiobooks, and browse catalog guides and library lists with ease!

With Libby, you can:

Read across devices -- all your loans, bookmarks, and reading progress sync across your devices.
Get access offline -- download ebooks and audiobooks for offline reading, or stream them to save space.
Listen in your car -- enjoy audiobooks in your car through Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, or a Bluetooth connection.
Send your books to Kindle -- if you prefer reading on your Kindle, Libby can send your library books to Kindle devices and the Kindle app.
Customize how you read -- Libby allows you to adjust font size, book layout, and lighting, as well as add bookmarks, notes, and highlights. You can even look up definitions of words!
Add multiple library cards -- if you are a member of multiple libraries that subscribe to OverDrive, you can add each card and toggle easily between them.

Libby is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play. If you need help downloading or using Libby, call or stop by your closest branch.

January Is National Hobby Month!

Check out these books to learn new ways to

craft, quilt, cook, and more!

Monthly Events

New Book Highlights

An insignificant case
by Phillip Margolin

Charlie Webb is a third-rate lawyer who graduated from a third-rate law school and because he couldn't get hired by any of the major law firms, has opened his own law firm, where he gets by handling cases for dubious associates from his youth and some court appointed cases.

Trial by fire
by Danielle Steel

"In this inspiring novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, the life of a Parisian woman changes in a heartbeat when she's trapped by wildfires in Napa Valley"

The grey wolf
by Louise Penny

A missing coat, an intruder alarm, a note for Chief Inspector Gamache reading“this might interest you,” a puzzling scrap of paper with a mysterious list—and then a murder all propel Gamache and his team toward a terrible realization: something much more sinister than any one murder or any one case is fast approaching.