Library Half-off Book Sale Runs Saturday

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Library Half-off Book Sale – Saturday,  Jan.29  – 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Don’t miss the Friends of the Shelby Township Library’s Half-off  Book Sale on Sat., Jan. 29.  Hard covers are $1 and paperbacks are 30 cents.

Adult Services Librarian Sue Ferrell says it’s a great time to stock up on books for winter, vacation, and beach reading.  And, all proceeds are used to purchase materials and fund programs that are not in the library’s budget.

The books will be located in the bookstore, just past the circulation desk, and in the card room by the children’s exit.

Get there early for the best selection.  The sale starts at 9 a.m.

Visit the Books Connection of Shelby

A recent story on the Books Connection of Shelby should have read, “Hours are Mon.-Fri 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.  Closed Sunday.”  Thank you, Toni Brady, owner.

Afternoon Book Club Selects Titles

Now in its 26^th year, the Afternoon Book Club meets on the Third Thursday of each month at the Shelby Township Library.  Discussions start at 1 p.m.

The club made its reading selections for the year at its January meeting:

On Feb. 17, the club will discuss “My Antonia” by Willa Cather. 

Romance, separation and heroism play out on the Nebraska prairie in one of Cather’s best- known works.

March 17:  “Still Alice” by Lisa Genova.

In Genova’s debut novel, a Harvard professor faces the onset of Alzheimer’s disease at age 50.

April 21:  “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” by Jamie Ford.

Discovery of a relic from his past triggers one man’s journey into lost love, betrayal and redemption.

May 19: “House Rules” by Jodi Picoult.

A teen boy with a passion for forensic analysis becomes the focus of a murder investigation.

June 16:  “Cry the Beloved Country” by Alan Paton.

Apartheid complicates a man’s struggle to bring his troubled family together in 1940s South Africa.

July 21:  “Room” by Emma Donoghue.

A “stunning and original novel of survival in captivity.”

August 18:  “Ice Trap” by Kitty Sewell.

Suspense set in a remote Canadian village near the Arctic Circle.

September 15:  “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson

Wildly popular international bestseller.

October 20:  “Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand” by Helene Simonsen

Simonsen’s debut novel about an unexpected friendship between an English widower and a Pakistani widow.

November 17:  “The Alchemist” by Paul Coelho

A translation of the  best-selling fable about finding your “personal legend.”

December 15: “Remarkable Creatures” by Tracy Chevalier

By the author of “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” a tale about two eccentric women who search for fossils on English beaches.

Adult Services Librarian Sue Ferrell says the 2011 book club brochure will be posted on the library’s website soon at www.libcoop.net/shelby.