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January 25, 2021
The latest at the Bandera Library
By Mauri Guillén Fagain
The Bandera Prophet
Thanks to support from the Friends of the Library we recently have been able to improve the online catalog experience for our patrons. When searching for a title, the catalog will pull up not just the title and the location of the book in the library. You can now read reviews from professionals and other patrons. If you hover the mouse curser over the book icon you can take a peek inside the book.
Additionally, the new catalog will allow you to read a short biography of the author. This way, you can get a much better sense of the book from the catalog entry. Check out our new and improved online catalog at www.banderabiblionix.com/catalog.
If you are looking for some healthy inspiration for the New Year still, come check out the featured titles wall. We have new books on all kinds of ways to incorporate healthy practices into your everyday life.
New titles this week are the latest thriller from Gregg Hurwitz called The Prodigal Son. In this novel, we meet again with Evan Smoak aka Orphan X. As a small child, Smoak was taken out of his foster home and put into an off-the-books operation that churched out secret assassins for the government and given the code name Orphan X. While he was able to eventually break free from that program, Orphan X, who now goes by The Nowhere Man, makes a living carrying out clandestine operations vowing to help those who most desperately need his help. When a woman claiming to be his birth mother comes to him for help, The Nowhere Man has to weigh his desire to help those in need and an incredibly tempting proposition from the government offering a new life without a record. The only stipulation is he must stop his covert activities.
Also out this week is a new non-fiction title called American Baby: A Mother, A Child and the Shadow History of Adoption by Gabrielle Glaser. The book shares the secrets of a big-bucks industry of adoption and also tells a tale of love, loss and recovery. During the Baby Boom in post-World War II America, the business of baby adoptions was booming. Glaser tells the story of a young unwed mother in 1961 who was pressured by family and others to give up the baby boy she very much wanted. Millions of women were coerced into giving up their children for adoption and misled desperate couples looking to complete their families. This is investigative reporting at its finest.
The Bandera Library is open Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturdays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Curbside service is still available for checkouts and business services. Free Wi-Fi is available 24/7. Check out our website www.banderacountylibrary.org for all up-to-date information.
Happy tales, y’all.
Additionally, the new catalog will allow you to read a short biography of the author. This way, you can get a much better sense of the book from the catalog entry. Check out our new and improved online catalog at www.banderabiblionix.com/catalog.
If you are looking for some healthy inspiration for the New Year still, come check out the featured titles wall. We have new books on all kinds of ways to incorporate healthy practices into your everyday life.
New titles this week are the latest thriller from Gregg Hurwitz called The Prodigal Son. In this novel, we meet again with Evan Smoak aka Orphan X. As a small child, Smoak was taken out of his foster home and put into an off-the-books operation that churched out secret assassins for the government and given the code name Orphan X. While he was able to eventually break free from that program, Orphan X, who now goes by The Nowhere Man, makes a living carrying out clandestine operations vowing to help those who most desperately need his help. When a woman claiming to be his birth mother comes to him for help, The Nowhere Man has to weigh his desire to help those in need and an incredibly tempting proposition from the government offering a new life without a record. The only stipulation is he must stop his covert activities.
Also out this week is a new non-fiction title called American Baby: A Mother, A Child and the Shadow History of Adoption by Gabrielle Glaser. The book shares the secrets of a big-bucks industry of adoption and also tells a tale of love, loss and recovery. During the Baby Boom in post-World War II America, the business of baby adoptions was booming. Glaser tells the story of a young unwed mother in 1961 who was pressured by family and others to give up the baby boy she very much wanted. Millions of women were coerced into giving up their children for adoption and misled desperate couples looking to complete their families. This is investigative reporting at its finest.
The Bandera Library is open Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturdays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Curbside service is still available for checkouts and business services. Free Wi-Fi is available 24/7. Check out our website www.banderacountylibrary.org for all up-to-date information.
Happy tales, y’all.