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Great News from our friends at the Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation: $1200 Grant for our eBook collection!
Did you know that libraries may pay more than 3 times as much for an eBook as an individual consumer does? In our Harwinton Library, eBook circulation is climbing every year – it’s already up 18% over last year! But the high price of eBooks makes it hard for us to keep up with the demand.
Now, thanks to the generous support of the Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation, we’ll have a little help buying new titles and purchasing extra copies to reduce the long waiting lists for some of our most popular books.
Watch for new eBooks in our OverDrive collection!
What Are We Reading This Month?
Afternoon Book Discussion Group - Thursday, December 19 @ 1:30 pm
What She Left Behind
by Ellen Marie Wiseman
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
Ten years ago, Izzy’s mother fatally shot her father. Devastated by her mother’s apparent insanity, Izzy refuses to visit her in prison. But her new foster parents, museum employees, enlist Izzy’s help in cataloging items at a long-shuttered state asylum. There, Izzy discovers a stack of unopened letters, a decades-old journal, and a window into her own past.
Evening Book Discussion Group - Monday, December 16 @ 7 pm
Farewell to Manzanar
by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
& James D. Houston
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp along with ten thousand other Japanese Americans. This is the true story of one spirited family’s attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention.