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Feature of the Month for July-God Bless America
Our feature of the month for July will focus on patriotism, the founding of our country and the sacrifice for freedom. An American Family Portrait series by Jack Cavanaugh, books by Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney, W.E.B. Griffin, Bill O’Reilly, God, Guns, Grits and Gravy by Mike Huckabee, Washington’s Spies by Alexander Rose and the play Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow.
New books for summer @ the Library
We just received several new releases at the Chandler Library including Tom Clancy’s Line of Sight, Turbulence by Stuart Woods, The Moscow Deception by Karen Robards, Shelter in Place by Nora Roberts, The Escape Artist by Brad Meltzer, The Outsider by Stephen King, The President Is Missing by James Patterson and Bill Clinton, We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter, Dreams of Falling by Karen White, The Gray Ghost by Clive Cussler and To the Moon and Back by Karen Kingsbury.
Also new are nonfiction books Robin by David Itzkoff, George & Barbara Bush: A Great American Love Story by Ellie LeBlond Sosa, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden Gate Killer by Michelle McNamara and Adrift by Tami Oldham Ashcraft. New young adult and children’s books include: The Burning Maze (The Trials of Apollo series) by Rick Riordan, I Am Martin Luther King Jr. by Brad Meltzer, Who Was Maya Angelou by Ellen Labrecque, and We’re All Wonders by R.J. Polacio.
Feature of the Month for June
The Feature of the Month will be about Fathers in honor of Father’s Day. Selections include Chicken Soup for the Father’s Soul by Jack Canfield, Courageous (book based on the movie) by Randy Alcorn, G-Man by Stephen Hunter, The Fixer by Joseph Finder, A Blessing & a Curse by Rashonda Tate-Billingsley, 700 Sundays by Billy Crystal, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Atonement by Ian McEwan, Worst Case by James Patterson, Natchez Burning by Greg Iles, Calico Joe by John Grisham, A Daughter’s Tale: the memoir of Winston Churchill’s youngest child, The Horse Boy: a father’s quest to heal his son by Rupert Isaacson, In My Father’s House: the years before “The Hiding Place” by Corrie ten Boom,
More new books for May
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson, Princess: a Private novel by James Patterson, Love and Ruin by Paula McLain, The High Tide Club by Mary Kay Andrews, The Abbot’s Tale by Conn Iggulden, The Other Lady Vanishes by Amanda Quick, The Rising Sea by Clive Cussler, The Forgotten Road by Richard Paul Evans, Cave of Bones by Anne Hillerman, By Invitation Only by Dorothea Benton Frank, The 49th Mystic by Ted Dekker, The Crooked Staircase by Dean Koontz, The Cast by Danielle Steel, The Sugarhouse Blues by Mariah Stewart.
Books Sandwiched In takes summer break
Books Sandwiched In book discussion group will meet Wednesday, May 2 from noon until 1 p.m. Then the group will take a break for the summer. At the May meeting members will discuss whether to continue the book discussion club. So bring your lunch, your favorite book and come the Community Room at the Library and enjoy discussion of the books you and others are reading.
Chandler Public Library Teen Program Update
Chandler Public Library will host the first Teen Program on Wednesday, May 16, not Tuesday, May 15 as previously announced. Due to conflicts with using the Community Room on Tuesday the program was rescheduled for Wednesday, May 16 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Kids going into 6th grade through high school are encouraged to participate in the program.
During the first part of the program, teens will make crafts and help decorate the Community Room for the children’s Summer Reading Programs.
At noon we will get some pizza and sit in the Community Room and discuss the books we are reading. Everyone will have a few minutes to talk about their favorite books. This format allows everyone to read the books they enjoy and talk about them while hearing about books others are reading and perhaps spark some interest in other genres of reading.
This is the same format that is used in Books Sandwiched In book club which meets the first Wednesday of each month at noon.
The program will take place in the Community Room of the Chandler Public Library at 1021 Manvel. For more information call the Library at 405-258-3204.
Chandler Library has new books for May
The Library recently purchased fiction, nonfiction and young adult books include After Anna by Lisa Scottoline, In Places Hidden by Tracie Peterson, The Sixth Day by Catherine Coulter, The Cutting Edge by Jeffery Deaver, The Fallen by David Baldacci, I’ve Got My Eyes on You by Mary Higgins Clark, As You Wish by Jude Deveraux, The Hush by John Hart, Shattered Mirror by Iris Johansen, The Kremlin Conspiracy by Joel Rosenberg, Duel to the Death by J.A. Jance, If I Live by Terri Blackstock, Red Alert: An NYPD Red Mystery by James Patterson, The Bad Daughter by Joy Fielding, Hold Back the Dark by Kay Hooper, Agent in Place by Mark Greaney, Twisted Prey by John Sandford and Shoot First by Stuart Woods.
A new young adult book, Dark Tracks by Philippa Gregory and a nonfiction book, Living the Life You Love: Embracing the Adventure of Being Led by Joyce Meyer were also added to the Library collection.
Lots of activities in April at the Library
Story Time resumed on Tuesday, April 2, 2018 and will continue through Tuesday, May 21. Children will be celebrating National Library Week April 10 during Story Time with a party including treats, games, crafts and reading. Story Time is for pre-school aged children.
The annual Book Bonanza will begin Saturday, April 7 at 9 am. and run through Thursday, April 12. Surplus books per sack for a $2 donation.
Chandler Public Library will celebrate National Library Week April 8-16 by offering an amnesty program. If you have overdue books, no matter how long, the fines will be waived if you return the books during that week. Books returned in the book drop on Friday will also have fines waived.
The Library has four computers with internet access for the public and free wi-fi. The card catalog is on the computer with nearly 13,000 books, books on compact disc, and movies on DVD available for checkout. The Library also offers fax and copy services to the public for a small fee. Interlibrary loan services are also available for $3 for mailing materials. If there is a book not in the Library’s collection another library may loan it to us for our patrons.
The Library also has e-books available for checkout. Go to okvirtuallibrary.lib.overdrive.com to see what is available. For more information on checking out e-books come into the Library or go to the Library’s web site for directions.
The Library is located at 1021 Manvel. Check out the Library’s new web site at chandlerlibrary.okpls.org. Library hours are Monday-Friday from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. until noon.
Celebrating Poetry Month as the Feature of the Month
April is poetry month and the Library is celebrating by featuring local and well known poets and biographies of poets for the Feature of the Month. Some of the poets which will be featured are Wilma McDaniel, a Stroud native, who published many books and whose books are being re-printed through a grant from OSU. Also featured are Chandler native and last years Oklahoma Poet Laureate, Ben Myers. Another Chandler native, Mari Battle, will be featured, God’s Queen, poems and essays.
Well known poetry by Shel Silverstein, Robert Frost and Maya Angelou are featured as well as some children’s and young adult poetry.
New books for the beginning of March
Twenty-five new books were added March 1 to the Chandler Library collection including New Boy by Tracy Chevalier, Fifty Fifty by James Patterson, All That Glitters by Diana Palmer, The Cowboy’s Housekeeper (large print) by Lori Copeland, The Woman at the Window by A.J. Finn, The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, Night Moves by Jonathan Kellerman, The Deceivers by Alex Berenson, Still Me by Jojo Moyes, Surprise Me by Sophie Kinsella, The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin, Penhale Wood: a mystery by Julia Thomas, Margaret Truman’s Allied Danger, Secrets of Cavendon by Barbara Taylor Bradford, The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks, Dark in Death by J.D. Robb, The Masterpiece by Francine Rivers, House of Secrets by V.C. Andrews, Look for Me by Lisa Gardner, An American Marriage (Oprah Book Club) by Tayari Jones and Raspberry Danish Murder by JoAnn Fluke.
Also nonfiction books Murder Beyond the Grave by James Patterson and Killing Albert Berch by Oklahoma author Alan Berch Hollingsworth. Also added were a children’s book Fancy Nancy: Oodles of Kittens by Jane O’Connor and young adult book Hollow City: the second novel of Miss Peregine’s Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.