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The SWGRL Spotlight A monthly e-news and information publication of the Southwest Georgia Regional Library System. September 2017 Volume 9, Issue 2 A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert. ~ Andrew Carnegie |
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The Decatur County - Gilbert H. Gragg Library will host a community event on September 25 and October 2 at 5:30 p.m. with Carol Buckley, founder of Elephant Refuge North America in Attapulgus. Join us at the library event, where Carol will present on her efforts in Attapulgus and worldwide and answer any questions you have on the refuge or her work. The event on September 25 will be geared towards adults, and the event on October 2 will be geared towards children. Elephant Refuge North America is a project of Carol Buckley's organization, Elephant Aid International. The organization strives to improve the treatment of elephants in captivity. The 845 acre refuge in Attapulgus represents an effort to create a new model for captive care of elephants. |
Southwest Georgia Library for Accessible Services |
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SWGLAS has partnered with Georgia Cares to provide Medicare Assistance each month. There are two certified Medicare Counselors available on the third Thursday of each month between 10 am - 12 pm in Decatur. Georgia Cares also visits the 3rd Monday of each month from 10:30 am - 12:30 pm in Miller County and from 1:30 pm -3:30 pm in Seminole County.
This is a FREE service and does not require registration.
For any questions about Medicare assistance or other services SWGLAS offers, contact us at 229-248-2680. |
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Book Clubs @ Your Library |
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Check out local toddler and story times at your library! Decatur County offers Toddler Time every Tuesday and Thursday at 10 a.m. Miller County offers Toddler Time on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 10 a.m. Seminole County offers Toddler Time every Tuesday morning at 10:30 a.m. Join us for stories, songs, and activities! |
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Waiting for Wednesday : a Frieda Klein Mystery
by Nicci French
While consulting on the murder of housewife, who was hiding a shocking secret, brilliant psychotherapist Frieda Klein is brought closer to a serial killer who has long escaped detection and wonders if she is solving both cases or if she just the victim of her own paranoid, fragile mind.
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The Roanoke girls
by Amy Engel
Returning to her family's Kansas estate in the hopes of discovering the fate of her missing cousin, Lane reconnects with a young man from her past and is confronted by dark family secrets that prompted her to flee years earlier. A first adult novel by the author of The Book of Ivy. Read by Bittany Pressley. Simultaneous.
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The fallen
by Ace Atkins
Investigating a series of bank robberies that have been orchestrated with skill and precision worthy of a military raid, Mississippi sheriff and former Army Ranger Quinn Colson calls on old allies and new enemies in his effort to outmaneuver a sophisticated band of elite criminals. By an Edgar Award-nominated author. (suspense). Simultaneous.
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Fates and furies
by Lauren Groff
Marrying in a whirlwind amid predictions of future greatness, Lotto and Mathilde are shaped throughout a subsequent shared decade by complications, secrets, and powerful creative drives
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The art forger : a novel
by Barbara A. Shapiro
An artist whose reputation has been tarnished stumbles on a piece of art that disappeared twenty-five years ago and agrees to forge it for a gallery owner, until she realizes that the art she is forging may itself be a forgery
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Wired
by Julie Garwood
Needing to recruit a top-notch computer expert who can help him identify a mole, a hotshot FBI agent encounters difficulties coordinating with a beautiful computer hacker who is hiding secrets that she does not want revealed. By the best-selling author of Slow Burn. Read by Saskia Maarleveld. Simultaneous.
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Two nights : a novel
by Kathy Reichs
A stand-alone thriller by the best-selling author of the Temperance Brennan series introduces Sunday Night, a woman whose secret past has left her with scars and a killer instinct that proves helpful to a desperate family in the wake of a bomb explosion and a girl's disappearance.
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Red swan : a novel
by Peter T. Deutermann
When the death of a behind-the-scenes CIA operative reveals that the CIA has been compromised by a Chinese infiltrator, retired CIA officer Preston Allender makes a shocking discovery that upends the entire American intelligence network. By the award-winning author of Pacific Glory
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You say it first : A Small-town Wedding Romance
by Susan Mallery
A sculptor from a loveless artist family works as a carpenter between paying commissions while falling in love with a theme wedding planner whose domineering mother would have her give up her career to work in the family business. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Fool's Gold series. 15,000 first printing.
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Owl bat, bat owl
by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick
And owl and a bat family endeavor to share living spaces on the same tree branch, where initial wariness is overcome by the curiosity of the families' babies on a wild and stormy night that compels them to set aside their apprehensions. By the award-winning creator of There.
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Schedule of Upcoming Events: |
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September Bookmobile Schedule |
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Southwest Georgia Regional Library
301 S Monroe St
Bainbridge, Georgia 39819
229-248-2665www.swgrl.org |
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