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Welcome to Holy Week, Explore Your Career Options Week, Reach Out and Read Week, and National Organize Your Files Week. Today is National Stress Awareness Day and Pet Owners Independence Day. Tuesday is also the 225th anniversary of Paul Revere’s Ride to warn American patriots that the British were coming! Friday is Kindergarten Day, Saturday is Remembrance Day, and Sunday is Easter. Monday is the 200th Anniversary of the Library of Congress.
WHAT'S HAPPENING?
At Wednesday's 10:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. story times and Saturday morning’s 10:00 story time, children will celebrate Easter with a variety of stories and crafts featuring bunnies and eggs.
BOOK TALK
Librarian Barbara Harris provides this week's book information. Fiction series have had loyal fans since the days of Sir Walter Scott, and in recent years, few have been as popular as those from religious publishers. Here are a few of the newer series and some from authors that may not be familiar to many readers of this genre.
Judith Pella and Tracie Peterson turn their historical fiction skills to life in the 1860s on the journey west and in the California gold fields in the Ribbons West series. The Gold Rush also begins Stephen Bly’s multigenerational saga, the Old California series. Carrie Bender’s new Dora ’s Diary series features the daughter of the characters in her earlier Miriam’s Journal series and continues the Amish story in Minnesota. Linda Chaikin, noted for her fiction’s exotic settings, weaves together the West Indies, buccaneers, and double identities in her Trade Winds series. A new series from the experienced and popular Bodie and Brock Thoene is the Galway Chronicles, set in Ireland in the 1830s and 1840s.
Irish people on both sides of the Atlantic are portrayed in B.J. Hoff’s Song of Erin series. Angela Elwell Hunt has called her new series The Heirs of Cahira O’Connor, and she uses it to trace determined women from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-first Century. Norway and Maine are the settings in Lisa Tawn Bergren’s Northern Lights series. In Catherine Palmer’s series, A Town Called Hope, people come to pioneer Kansas to find new lives. Faith on the Home Front, a series by Penelope J. Stokes, portrays the struggles of a couple through World War II and its aftermath.
DID YOU KNOW?
The following information comes from the article, "The First Thanksgiving (The Pilgrims Missed It), by Pauline Chavez Bent, which appeared in the March 1999 issue of "New Mexico Genealogist." The author says, "Thanksgiving Day in the United States is a holiday like no other: families gather to celebrate and enjoy the blessing of this land of freedom and plentitude. But to those of us who descend from the original colonizing families of New Mexico, our special day is April 30."
"On April 30th four centuries ago, our ancestors, led by Don Juan de Onate reached the banks of El Rio Bravo (Rio Grande). The first recorded act of thanksgiving by colonizing Europeans on this continent occurred on that April day in 1598 in Nuevo Mexico, about 25 miles south of what is now El Paso, Texas." Before the bountiful meal of roasted meat and fish, Onate nailed a cross to a tree and offered a prayer for security and peace.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: "The question is: Where can we put our hatred while we say our prayers?" (unknown)
JUDY ARMSTRONG, 624-7276
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