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August 19, 2020
Book some time at the Bandera Library
By Mauri Guillén Fagan
Bandera Library Director
This week, the digital copies of the Bandera Library’s collection of yearbooks for Bandera High and Middle School are now available. The yearbooks have been scanned into a pdf format which means they are searchable and printable. While you can peruse the physical copies in the library’s genealogy room, with the new digital copies the librarians can help you locate specific pages and pictures. You can even print out or save pages to keep for your own.
In addition to the Dungeons and Dragons group and the Library Monthly Book Club, we now have the Pokemon League that will be meeting online. Pokemon League is open to kids and teens and will meet online on Sundays from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Email BanderaPokemonLeague@gmail.com to get signed up. DnD will meet online on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Email BanderaDnD@gmail.com to join in on their adventure.
New titles this week include a novel by Peter Geye called “Northernmost.” Geye’s vivid description of snow, tundra and glaciers will be welcome while the temperatures hover in the 100s this week. The story is set both in Norway in the late 1890s and in present day Minnesota. After a harrowing adventure in the Artic, Odd Einar Eide returns home in the middle of his own funeral. His wife, Inger, is shocked to see the man she was convinced perished. Inger has difficulty warming up to him because she blames him for their daughter Thea leaving for America and never returning. Almost a hundred years later, Greta Nansen has decided to end her crumbling marriage. For reasons she can’t explain, she feels drawn to visit the town of Hammerfest in Norway where her great-great grandmother was born. The two stories are both of love and survival.
Also new this week is Alex Kava’s latest Ryder Creed thriller called “Hidden Creed.” Creed is in Florida’s Blackwater River State Forest with his scent dog Grace working a training exercise. In the middle of the exercise, Grace picks up a scent and leads Creed directly to a shallow grave. As Creed’s dogs begin finding more remains, he and the team of investigators realize the culprit knows this forest intimately and has been using it to hide his victims for years. Soon they will learn just how far the kill is willing to go to keep his secrets hidden.
The library is open by appointment only. Appointments are available Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. To make an appointment, call 830-796-4213. Curbside checkouts and copy/fax services are still available.
Happy tales, y’all.
In addition to the Dungeons and Dragons group and the Library Monthly Book Club, we now have the Pokemon League that will be meeting online. Pokemon League is open to kids and teens and will meet online on Sundays from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Email BanderaPokemonLeague@gmail.com to get signed up. DnD will meet online on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Email BanderaDnD@gmail.com to join in on their adventure.
New titles this week include a novel by Peter Geye called “Northernmost.” Geye’s vivid description of snow, tundra and glaciers will be welcome while the temperatures hover in the 100s this week. The story is set both in Norway in the late 1890s and in present day Minnesota. After a harrowing adventure in the Artic, Odd Einar Eide returns home in the middle of his own funeral. His wife, Inger, is shocked to see the man she was convinced perished. Inger has difficulty warming up to him because she blames him for their daughter Thea leaving for America and never returning. Almost a hundred years later, Greta Nansen has decided to end her crumbling marriage. For reasons she can’t explain, she feels drawn to visit the town of Hammerfest in Norway where her great-great grandmother was born. The two stories are both of love and survival.
Also new this week is Alex Kava’s latest Ryder Creed thriller called “Hidden Creed.” Creed is in Florida’s Blackwater River State Forest with his scent dog Grace working a training exercise. In the middle of the exercise, Grace picks up a scent and leads Creed directly to a shallow grave. As Creed’s dogs begin finding more remains, he and the team of investigators realize the culprit knows this forest intimately and has been using it to hide his victims for years. Soon they will learn just how far the kill is willing to go to keep his secrets hidden.
The library is open by appointment only. Appointments are available Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. To make an appointment, call 830-796-4213. Curbside checkouts and copy/fax services are still available.
Happy tales, y’all.