From the desk of Alison Gibson, Director
For many of you, this was the building of high school memories! Bristow Drug Co. had these printed, possibly in the 1950s. Just a reminder, the RULH Alumni dinner is less than 3 weeks away, and tickets are available at the Ripley library as a convenience, but they are also available online.
We are less than a month away from our start of the summer reading program. We will be having awesome programs at all three libraries, fun incentives for ages 3-11, and for the older tweens and teens, we will have our scratch-off slips for small prizes that worked well last year.
The Ripley Friends of the Library have set their date for the summer booksale. Saturday, June 6th from 10-4. We’ve received a good number of donations since the last booksale and it is always a great opportunity to pick up some summer reading, non-fiction special interest, extra kids books, cookbooks, history and soooo much more.
Books due out this month that should interest our readers include: James Patterson’s next in the Women’s Murder Club 26 Beauties, Michael Connelly’s Ironwood, Kathryn Stockett (author of the very popular and provocative The Help) offers The Calamity Club, of course Freida McFadden keeps readers in suspense with The Divorce, and Nora Roberts tantalizes with The Final Target. For a few non-fictions, we are offering American Rambler: Walking the Trails of Johnny Appleseed by Isaac Fitzgerald, National Geographic’s Small Towns U.S.A. (alas, no town in Brown County made it!), David Sedaris’ crazy observations in The Land and Its People and Cody’s Wish: A Boy, a Racehorse and a Fight for Life. As always, this is just a small sampling of the titles we will be adding in May.