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The SWGRL Spotlight A monthly e-news and information publication of the Southwest Georgia Regional Library System. May 2019 Volume 10, Issue 10 "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library." ~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice |
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In this Issue
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Join us for the Summer Reading Program!
Starting May 13, sign up and receive your reading log.
For each 15 minutes you read, place a sticker on your reading log.
Each log is 12.5 hours of reading! Show your first complete reading log to receive a certificate.
Place your name on the wall so everybody who visits will know you filled up your log!
For each log you turn in, get a prize and an entry for the final prize drawing. All reading logs are due no later than July 12. |
Check out local toddler and story times at your library! Decatur County hosts Toddler Time on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 am. Miller County hosts Toddler Time on the third Thursday of the month at 10 am. Seminole County hosts Story Time on the second Tuesday of the month at 4 pm. Join us for stories, songs, and activities! |
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New Books at the Library! |
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Neon Prey
by John Sandford
After the U.S. Marshals find a jungle full of graves at Clayton Deese's rural Louisiana cabin, Lucas Davenport tracks the prolific serial killer.
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Before We Were Wicked
by Eric Jerome Dickey
Ken Swift from Bad Men and Wicked Women falls obsessively in love with a Harvard-bound beauty before a one-night stand culminates in an unplanned pregnancy that is further complicated by their disparate backgrounds
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Someone Knows
by Lisa Scottoline
Haunted by her role in a covered-up prank gone wrong decades earlier, Allie returns to her childhood home and resolves to uncover the truth, before making a shattering discovery. By the Edgar Award-winning author of After Anna
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New Children's Books at the Library! |
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The Squatchicorns
by Ellen Potter
Taking refuge from a mysterious curse in Hugo's Widdershins Cavern home, a new friend from a tribe of Sasquatches offers to escort Hugo through the North Woods in time for Boone's birthday party.
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Another
by Christian Robinson
The Caldecott Honor-, Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor- and Newbery Medal-winning artist of Last Stop on Market Street presents an author-illustrator debut that invites children on a playful, imaginative journey into another world.
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The frog book
by Steve Jenkins
The Caldecott Honor-winning creators of What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? explore form, colors and patterns as they uniquely appear on a rainbow assortment of the world's most diverse and threatened frog species.
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Schedule of Upcoming Events |
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1st First Wed. Book Club 10 am SEM Chess Club 4 pm DEC
2nd Toddler Time 10 am DEC Minecraft Club 4 pm DEC Legos at the Library 4 pm MIL 4th Dungeons & Dragons 10 am DEC
6th Fortnite at the Library 4 pm DEC Knitting Club 6 pm DEC 7th Toddler Time 10 am DEC First Tuesday Book Club 10 am MIL Bainbridge Bookworms 5 pm DEC 8th Bridge Club 1:30 pm DEC
Chess Club 4 pm DEC 9th Toddler Time 10 am DEC Fortnite at the Library 4 pm MIL 11th Dungeons & Dragons 10 am DEC
13th SUMMER READING PROGRAM REGISTRATION BEGINS Fortnite at the Library 4 pm DEC 14th Intro. Computer Class 10 am DEC* Toddler Time 10 am DEC Minecraft Club 4 pm MIL
Story Time 4 pm SEM 15th Intro. Computer Class 10 am DEC* Bridge Club 1:30 pm DEC Chess Club 4 pm DEC |
16th Intro. Computer Class 10 am DEC* Toddler Time 10 am DEC Toddler Time 10 am MIL Legos & More 4 pm DEC 18th Dungeons & Dragons 10 am DEC
20th Bookends Book Club 10 am DEC Craft Club 3:30 pm SEM Fortnite at the Library 4 pm DEC
21st Toddler Time 10 am DEC 22nd Bridge Club 1:30 pm DEC
Chess Club 4 pm DEC
23rd Toddler Time 10 am DEC Lunch & Learn: Financial Advice 12 pm DEC 25th Dungeons & Dragons 10 am DEC 27th ALL LIBRARIES CLOSED
FOR MEMORIAL DAY 28th Toddler Time 10 am DEC Minecraft Club 4 pm SEM 29th Bridge Club 1:30 pm DEC Chess Club 4 pm DEC 30th Toddler Time 10 am DEC Miller County Library Book Club 6 pm MIL |
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DEC = Decatur; MIL = Miller; SEM = Seminole Counties |
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May 1st Recovery Community Center 10-11 am May 6th Attapulgus Community Center 10-11 am May 15th Gibbs Bainbridge Village Apartments 10-11 am May 22nd Parkside Mini Mart 10-11 am The Bookmobile containing books, DVDs, and more travels to a stop near you! Visit Ms. Arlene to get your hands on these materials. |
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Southwest Georgia Regional Library
301 S Monroe St
Bainbridge, Georgia 39819
229-248-2665www.swgrl.org |
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