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Our Spring Book Bonanza begins tomorrow, Saturday, April 22, at 9 am. We will continue until our stock is gone. Come and find an old favorite or a new read. The bonanza will continue Monday – Friday, April 24-28 during regular library hours, 9 am – 6 pm.

A come-and-go retirement celebration hosted by the City of Chandler for Sandy Helm, assistant/children’s librarian, will be on Friday, January 20 beginning at 2 pm. Come and thank her for her years of service!

Bring Your Child to the Library Day is celebrated on the first Saturday of February every year. On February 4 during library hours, 9 – 12 am, you can make a craft, get a special gift for completing our Library Scavenger Hunt, grab a snack, add a block to our tower for every book you check out, and receive a sticker for being part of our first Bring Your Child to the Library Day. You can also sign up for the 1KB4K (1000 Books Before Kindergarten) early literacy challenge!

If you have been using Overdrive for the Oklahoma Virtual Library eBooks, please be aware that it is being phased and replaced by Libby by the end of April. You should download the Libby app and log in. If you need help, of course, you can come by and we will help.

Oh, and of course – the new books in this month! We have the new Brad Meltzer non-fiction, Nazi Conspiracy, two new Danielle Steel books, The Whittiers and Without a Trace, or check out Wrong Place, Wrong Time, by Gillian McAlister. Also in this week: Clive Cussler: The Sea Wolves, Jack Du Brul, Daughter of Dr. Moreau¸ Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Forbidden, T. Davis Bunn, House Across the Lake, Riley Sager, Now is Not the Time to Panic, Kevin Wilson, Sleep No More, Jayne Ann Krentz, Wyoming Homecoming, Diana Palmer, and One Italian Summer, Rebecca Serle.

We also have three new children’s Easy Reader books: I Love You Like Yellow, Andrea Beaty, Knight Owl, Christopher Denise, and My Parents Won’t Stop Talking by Emma Hunsinger.

We’d love to see you at the library!

The Library finished 2021 by ordering new books which came in right after the new year. The Library received the nonfiction book Act Like You Got Some Sense by Jamie Foxx and a children’s graphic novel Cat Kid Comic Club Perspective by Dav Pilkey. New adult fiction books include Autopsy by Patricia Cornwell, The Becoming (Dragon Heart Legacy #2) by Nora Roberts, The Beginning by Beverly Lewis, Clive Cussler’s The Devil’s Sea by Dirk Cussler, Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doer, Criminal Mischief by Stuart Woods, Curse of Salem by Kay Hooper, Flying Angels by Danielle Steel, Forgiving Paris by Karen Kingsbury, Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, Mercy by David Baldacci, The Midnight Lock by Jeffery Deaver, Sorority Murder by Allison Brennan, Tom Clancy Chain of Command by Marc Cameron, Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult and Fear No Evil by James Patterson.

The Library recently purchased over 20 new books for the library including a young adult book by Chandler alumnus Ginny Myers Sain called Dark and Shallow Lies.
We also have Another Kind of Eden by James Lee Burke, Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty, Burning by Jonathan Kellerman and his son Jesse, Cellist by Daniel Silva, Cul-de-Sac by Joy Fielding, Daughter of the Morning Star by Craig Johnson, Forgotten in Death by J.D. Robb, High Stakes by Iris Johansen, Jailhouse Lawyer and Noise both by James Patterson, Robert B. Parker’s Stone’s Throw by Mike Lupica, Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins, Viral by Robin Cook, Vortex by Catherine Coulter, Wish by Nicholas Sparks and 19 Yellow Moon Road by Fern Michaels.
Christmas books have started coming and we have three romances by your favorite authors, Christmas Wedding Guest by Susan Mallery, Santa Cruise by Fern Michaels, Santa Suit by Mary Kay Andrews.
We also purchased You Were Made for This Moment: Courage for today and hope for tomorrow by Max Lucado