Take charge of your money this year with a series on important financial topics. Presented by Financial Advisor Dennis Lint of Edward Jones. Call the Library at 330-343-6123 for more information or register online.
February 20: Protect What You’ve Worked For (Retirees)
March 20: Prepping Your Portfolio
April 17: Stocks: The Nuts and Bolts Seminar
You might think that people have one particular favorite movie, but that is not the case for me! I have several that I would call my favorites, ranging from old classics to 
current movies. Some of my favorite titles are The Ugly Dachshund, Sabrina, Charade, To Catch a Thief, Move Over Darling, Dirty Dancing, and any Star Wars or Star Trek movie. Believe me, that list could go on! I often check out an old movie for the weekend, and if I get time, I will burrow into my sewing room with a project, pop in a movie, and relax for a couple of hours.
I am fortunate enough that I get to order our movie selection for the library, so I see a variety of genres come in. With some of the selections, it’s hard to tell if they will be good or not by their descriptions, but it is fun to read about them and develop the library’s collection. We have a wide variety of movies and TV series, and we are always up for any title suggestions you may have.
Hope to see you soon checking out our large movie collection!
Wendy Contini
Technical Services Manager
PS: If you like Classic Movies, too, be sure to join us every Monday at 2:00 PM for our Classic Movie Mondays! This week, I hear we’re watching the fabulous Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron in a classic musical set in Paris. 😉
“Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.”
-Maya Angelou
“Normal is a setting on a washing machine. Be awesome.”
-Unknown
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
-Mark Twain
“Dear Emma, if I could give you one thing in life, I would give you the ability to see yourself through my eyes. Only then would you realize how special you are to me. Love, Dad”
-Garth Callaghan
These are just a few of the napkin notes that the author packed in his daughter’s lunch bag every morning. His promise was to write 826 napkins so that Emma, his daughter, would have one every day until she graduated from High School.
He started making lunches and packing napkin notes when she was small. After Emma turned twelve, her father Garth was diagnosed with kidney cancer. The prognosis was not good. Garth was diagnosed with cancer four time and was given an 8% chance to live long enough to see his daughter graduate from High School.
I found this book to be very inspirational. The big message is to treasure what is really important – relationships and friendships that matter. Emma started to save all her Dad’s notes. There would never be any doubt what her Dad believed in and what he stood for.
Pack. Write. Connect. Life is short, and Napkin Notes by Garth Callaghan is a positive statement about hope.
-Jan Ridenour
Technical Services Specialist
Well folks, it’s here! The tree is up, lights are on the porch, wreaths hung on the doors. Our favorite sitcoms are planning their holiday specials and every commercial is promoting the latest Christmas sale. If you often feel like Luther Krank in John Grisham’s, “Skipping Christmas,” and are tired of the commercialized mess of the modern Christmas season, then I encourage you to take a deep breath and to considering coming to hear author Annie Tipton on Thursday, December 15 at 6:30 PM
discuss her new book, “God Bless Us Every One! Devotional Inspiration from A Christmas Carol.” Tipton write’s: “Alongside scenes from the beloved Charles Dickens classic, you’ll learn eternal lessons of charity, kindness, goodwill, heart-transformation, and more.” Who isn’t influenced by the story of Tiny Tim and Ebenezer Scrooge? I encourage you to come and be renewed this Christmas season. Annie will discuss her new book, writing, and more. Pick up a signed copy of Annie’s book for a gift for a loved one! All welcome at this free event. In the immortal words of Ebenezer Scrooge: “God Bless Us Every One!”
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer here! I am so important because I lead Santa’s sleigh! Yeah, LEAD the sleigh! That’s right, I’m a VERY important Moose…errr, I mean reindeer. And I fly! How cool is that?! My mom was just telling me the other day, “Mortimer, you are a very important moose!” Oh, I meant “Rudolph” instead of Mortimer. Oh, and “reindeer” instead of moose. Flying so much makes me forgetful.
Anyway, I want to tell you that my best bud Santa will be here at the library Thursday, December 15th for pictures and stories and ho ho ho’s! Yea Santa! I’m sure he will ask me to light up the whole room with my bright nose, which might be too bright for inside, so maybe not. Still, it will be an awesome evening! I’ll see you here at 5:45! Oh, and don’t forget to call and sign up! Just tell them you heard it from Mortimer the red-nosed reindeer! No, I mean Rudolph the red-nosed moose. No, wait…
Just come, and we’ll work out the details later…
Robin Yocum: A Brilliant Death: A Novel
Thursday, November 17 at 6:30 PM
Amanda Baron died in a boating accident on the Ohio River in 1953. Or, did she? Travis Baron was an infant when his mother disappeared. Now in high school, Travis yearns to know more about his mother. With the help of his best friend, Mitch Malone, Travis begins a search for the truth. With the help of an unlikely ally, the two boys start to put the pieces together. What will they do with the information they find?
Our Nights at the Round Table author series gives you the opportunity to connect with writers in a way that is fun, inspiring, and often life-changing. We hope to see you around the Round Table! A book signing will follow this free event. Call the Library at 330-343-6123 to register or for more information.
It’s almost November! And that means it’s almost NaNoWriMo!
NaNoWriMo? What’s that? How do you say it?
It’s National Novel Writing Month, the month when writers everywhere try to write a whole 50,000 word novel in 30 days. I’ll save you the math: that’s about 1,667 words a day, for 30 days. For a normal typist (40 words per minute), that’s about 42 minutes of straight typing per day. And it’s pronounced “Nan – Oh – Wry – Mo.” As the organization says on their website, “Valuing enthusiasm, determination, and a deadline, NaNoWriMo is for anyone who has ever thought about writing a novel.”
This year, the Dover Public Library is offering up our Lounge as a Come Write In location. That means you can stop in and use our Lounge as a quiet space to write any time during NaNoWriMo. As always, the Lounge will remain available to the public unless it has been reserved by an organization.
In addition to the Lounge being available the whole month, we’re also hosting several scheduled events for writers to meet, get inspiration, and write.
Happy NaNoWriMo!
Liz
Teen Librarian