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     Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and quarantine, many of us have gone through our attics and basements to purge unwanted items; these items range from your dad’s old comics, a television, and great-grandma’s moth-eaten dresses, to a safe where you discovered dozens and dozens of pictures of your relatives. These pictures contained names of your relatives, but you aren’t sure who...

It’s the holiday season! “Happy Holiday” from “The Andy Williams Christmas Album” is playing in the back of my mind while I write this article. Late this month, the Salvation Army’s bells will be ringing and Thanksgiving will be a distant memory when we turn our calendar pages to December 1st.   The hustle and bustle of planning family get-togethers, preparing holiday meals, decorating, sh...

Brian Andrews – W.E.B. Griffin Rogue Asset
Ted Bell – Sea Hawke
Alice Blanchard – The Witching Tree
Jane K. Cleland – Jane Austen’s Lost Letters
Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe’s Assassin
Shea Ernshaw – A History of Wild Places
Lyndsay Faye – Observations by Gaslight
Christopher Fowler – Bryant & May: London Bridge is Falling Down
Victoria G...

Fiction
Hidden Treasures by Michelle Adams
The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom
Off the Wild Coast of Brittany by Juliet Blackwell
The Robin’s Greeting by Wanda Brunsetter
The Postmistress of Paris by Meg Waite Clayton
The Nameless Ones by John Connolly
Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
Then She Vanishes by Claire Douglas
The Na...

I’ve always been interested in learning a new language.  In high school I took 4 years of Spanish, and looking back now, I do regret that I didn’t stick with it.  That’s why I’m very happy that the Adams County Library System subscribes to Mango Language. From the comfort of my home, I have access to more than 70 world languages that I can learn just by using my library card number fo...