Wii want you for our Teen Only Game Day. Play our Wii and X-Box with your friends. 

We will discuss the entire Rot & Ruin Series by Jonathan Maberry. Refreshements. We will SKYPE with the author!!!! 

Do you have a question about Houseplants? Is your green thumb turned upside down? Never Fear! Master Garder Joe from Penn State Extensions will be on hand to help during this informative lecture to answer all your questions. Registration required. Each participant will receive a houseplant!  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLbEnJC8M80&feature=c4-overview&list=UUgBSgMp-TBqUoczoVQsUTIQ

We will watch the movie then discuss the comparision to the book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg. You do not need to read the book to come to this program, but it would help! Refreshments. 

Like to write?  Like to write serious things or silly things or things that are somewhere in between? Haven’t done much writing but feel like trying your hand at it?  We’ll do some focused writing exercises and share reading suggestions.

If you would like the instructor to read a sample of your writing before class, send it as a word file by 7 p.m. Wednesday, December 11th  (poems(s), an essay or a story; no more than five double-spaced pages total, please). She’ll read it before class and make a few notes on it for you to read privately; if you arrive at 3:30, you can chat with her about it before the workshop starts. If you have any favorite writers  or books already, feel free to send her their names or titles, too.

Instructor Rachel Carpenter’s stories and essays been published in literary magazines and online, and read on the radio. She recently found a copy of The House with a Clock in its Walls at one of those free-for-all bookshelves at her local train station, and is reading it for the first time and enjoying it greatly. (She also, of course, reads “grown-up” books.)

The Orchardist, by Amanda Coplin.

“Eloquent, moving…an immensely affecting first novel...Coplin refuses to sentimentalize. Instead, she demonstrates that courage and compassion can transform unremarkable lives and redeem damaged souls.” --- Publishers Weekly Starred Review

In her stunningly original and haunting debut novel, Amanda Coplin evokes a powerful sense of place, mixing tenderness and violence as she spins an engrossing tale of a solitary orchardist who provides shelter to two runaway teenage girls in the untamed American West, and the dramatic consequences of his actions. At once intimate and epic, The Orchardist is historical fiction at its best, in the grand literary tradition of William Faulkner, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Ondaatje, Annie Proulx, and Toni Morrison.

It’s Friday the 13th and it’s your lucky day!    

Join us for a screening of The Nightmare Before Christmas! (Rated G, 76 minutes)

Beginning at 4PM, make a Jack Skellington treat to enjoy while you watch the movie!

All ages welcome, children eight and under must be accompanied by parent or ADULT guardian. 

Join us each Saturday and learn how to play Chess. Great for increasing focus, learning how to think logically. Chess Coaches available to assist. Refreshments 

Tis the season to rock! Teens and tweens are invited to join us for karaoke and to rock away their fines! Each song sung will take a dollar of fines away up to $5.00. Don’t have fines? Still come and rock away wearing your most unique holiday sweater.

Decorate cookies and help cheer on our singers. Prizes to the winner of the ugliest sweater contest!

Age 8 and up. Please call with questions about allergies.

“We like smiling! It’s our favorite!”

 Join us for Elf, rated PG; 95 minutes; 2003 

          Light refreshments served.

Join us each Saturday and learn how to play Chess. Great for increasing focus, learning how to think logically. Chess Coaches available to assist. Refreshments 

Be our guest and join our Beauty and the Beast sing a long! Join us for a screening of the 1991 Disney carton.

Lyrics will be provided and you are encouraged to sing a long.

Monday, December 23rd beginning at 12P. All ages welcome.

Countdown to Noon is BACK!

Can’t quite make it to midnight? Join your library friends, Monday 12/30 beginning at 11AM for books and crafts and help us bring the ’noon’ year in with a bang!

All ages are welcome, children please bring your grown ups!

Designed for children ages 2 to 3 and their caregivers, toddler storytimes consist of books, music, fingerplays, rhymes, and puppets. The program is free but please register in advance.

Monday's are Murder @ Lansdowne Library!

The January 6, 2014 selection is The Man with a Load of Mischief, by Martha Grimes.

“For readers who value wit, atmosphere and charm.”—The Washington Post Book World 

Long Piddleton had always been wary of newcomers. But the quiet town was stunned when the first stranger was found dead, upended in a butt of ale in the cellar of the Men with a Load of Mischief. Then the second body appeared, swinging in place of the mechanical man above the door of the Jack and Hammer.

Suddenly Long Piddleton had good reason to be wary of everyone! Its cozy pubs and inns with their polished pewter and blazing hearths had become scenes of the most bizarre crimes. Who were the victims? And who was the murderer? A stranger? A maniac? Or the disarmingly friendly man next door?

The January 9, 2014 selection is A Week in Winter, by Maeve Binchy.

“Reading this novel is like ducking out of a cold rain into a fire-warmed pub filled with laughter.” —People

Published posthumously, the late great Binchy’s last novel is an appropriately heartwarming and spirit-restoring swan song. In classic Binchy style, the gentle story is populated with a large cast of often eccentric, always endearing, characters who effortlessly weave their way in and out of a deceptively simple narrative. Stone House, a country inn on the West Coast of Ireland, is owned and operated by Chicky Starr, a Stoneybridge native lately returned after living a largely lonely life in the U.S., and it serves as the cozy setting for these interrelated tales of love, loss, friendship, and community. Specializing in winter holidays, Stone House plays host to a variety of guests whose lives are bound to change for the better once they succumb to both its vintage charms and the restorative powers of companionship and human kindness. Pour yourself a cup of tea, put your feet up, and prepare to savor this bit of comfort food for the soul. High-Demand Backstory: The late Binchy’s last hurrah does not disappoint; expect even more demand than usual for this final love letter to her legion of fans. --Margaret Flanagan, Booklist

Join us each Saturday and learn how to play Chess. Great for increasing focus, learning how to think logically. Chess Coaches available to assist. Refreshments 

Designed for children ages 2 to 3 and their caregivers, toddler storytimes consist of books, music, fingerplays, rhymes, and puppets. The program is free but please register in advance.

Join us each Saturday and learn how to play Chess. Great for increasing focus, learning how to think logically. Chess Coaches available to assist. Refreshments 

Join us each Saturday and learn how to play Chess. Great for increasing focus, learning how to think logically. Chess Coaches available to assist. Refreshments 

Designed for children ages 2 to 3 and their caregivers, toddler storytimes consist of books, music, fingerplays, rhymes, and puppets. The program is free but please register in advance.