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April 9 – 14 is National Library week! Stop in for an open house on Thursday, April 12 from 2-4pm at the Ortonville and Graceville Public Libraries! Everyone is WELCOME!

CHAD LEWIS TALKS ABOUT MINNESOTA’S GANGSTER HISTORY

Posted by Julie on Apr 10, 2012 in Author Visits, Graceville, Library News, Ortonville | 0 comments

Chad Lews will be at Grace Home in Graceville at 2pm and in Ortonville at the Library at 7pm on Thursday, April 19

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LIBRARY NEWS

Posted by Julie on Apr 4, 2012 in Library News, Ortonville | 0 comments

Upcoming events in April are:

April 9 – Kylie Jean Party: this party is for all girls in grades 1-2-3. There will be games, a chance to win Kylie Jean books and her pink cowboy hat! Come dressed as one of Kylie Jean’s characters and lets all have some fun!

April 15 – Benefit at the Matador for Laurie Kurth from 11-2

April 16 – Tweens will have a demonstration on how to make cartoons with a program called “Scratch” and create their own. Class size is limited. Please call if you have not made your reservation already.

April 19 – Chad Lewis – Minnesota’s Gangster Past – Land of 10,000 Crimes program at the Ortonville Public Library at 7 p.m. Chad Lewis was here last year with his Ghosts of Minnesota.

The noon mystery club will be reading Gillian Flynn’s “Dark Places” Copies are available if you are interested in this book. Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She lost some fingers and toes, but she survived–and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, Ben sits in prison, and troubled Libby lives off the dregs of a trust created by well-wishers who’ve long forgotten her. The Kill Club is a macabre secret society obsessed with notorious crimes. When they locate Libby and pump her for details–proof they hope may free Ben–Libby hatches a plan to profit off her tragic history. For a fee, she’ll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club . . . and maybe she’ll admit her testimony wasn’t so solid after all. As Libby’s search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the narrative flashes back to January 2, 1985. The events of that day are relayed through the eyes of Libby’s doomed family members–including Ben, a loner whose rage over his shiftless father and their failing farm have driven him into a disturbing friendship with the new girl in town. Piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started–on the run from a killer.
The regular book club is reading “Sarah’s Key” by Tatiana de Rosnay. Copies are also available for this book to be picked up. A young girl. A fateful key. A woman searching for the truth… Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten-year-old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door to door arresting Jewish families in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard—their secret hiding place—and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Sixty Years Later: Sarah’s story intertwines with that of Julia Jarmond, an American journalist investigating the roundup. In her research, Julia stumbles onto a trail of secrets that link her to Sarah, and to questions about her own future.

If you have not paid for your DVD of the Cultural Kaliediscope program, please do so as soon as possible. We need to get the information all compiled and sent in for the grant. You can drop your money off at the Library or to Ortonville School in an envelope marked Attn: Shawnda.