Review of the Week!

Warm up with a good book, earn a free coffee drink, and win great prizes! Join the Adult Winter Reading Program! Sign up at the Reference Desk.

This week we feature Anita Millard's review of We Shall Not Sleep by Anne Perry. Call # PERRY

"The final book of Perry's WWI series gives us the horror of total war and the image of a new society forged out of the pain and unimaginable destruction of men, land and innocence. This is bittersweet at best, as we know that the seeds of WWII are already sown. Marvelous writing!"

John Updike, R.I.P.

John Updike, who wrote the iconic Rabbit series, died at age 76 after a battle with lung cancer. He was a true literary great.

R.I.P.

Frenchtown's First Year

Frenchtown School & Community Library is celebrating our first anniversary this week! What an exciting day it was last January when we held our Grand Opening...

We can hardly believe it's been a full year at the branch, so much has been going on. A few stats on the past year: We had 3,400 visitors to the branch, who logged more than 1,500 computer sessions and asked more than 1,200 reference questions. Plus, 400 residents took the time to attend our programs. It was great to see you there!

Stop by the branch and help us celebrate all week long - you'll even have a chance to win some fun prizes! Don't forget the branch is currently located at the Frenchtown Elementary School, but will be moving back to our permanent home at the newly remodeled Frenchtown High School this fall. Branch hours are Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 4:30-8:30 p.m., and Saturdays 10 a.m.-3 p.m. You can reach us at 626-2635.

Here's to another great year!

Review of the Week!

Warm up with a good book and join the Adult Winter Reading Program. Earn a free coffee drink at eddie's coffee shop @ the Missoula Public Library and win great prizes! Sign up at the Reference Desk.

Don't miss our Mystery Lovers Book Discussion on Thurs. Jan. 29 at 7:00 p.m. featuring local mystery author Jon Jackson!

This week we feature Kelly Cooper's review of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig. Call # WILLIG

"Painful, painful to read! I kept hoping it would redeem itself and it just got worse. Instead, read The Scarlet Pimpernel."

Overdrive Troubles (are no more!)

After our system upgrade that happened early this week, our audio book download site, Overdrive, is not working with our patrons. People are working right now to get this corrected, so hopefully it will be back up and running in the next day or so. Until then, I can point you to two different websites that offer free, legal audiobooks for download.

Open Culture

Open culture scans the web for available audio book downloads and centralizes them. There are a lot of popular books on this site from Issac Asimov to William Butler Yates.

Librivox

Librivox is a fantastic project that pairs public domain materials with willing readers and posts the results free for you to download and listen to. The selection on this site is amazing, so be sure to check it out.

We'll let you know as soon as Overdrive is back up and running, but until then, you should have enough listening material to keep you busy from these two, outstanding resources.

*Update - 2:30 pm* It looks like Overdrive is back up and running. Thanks to everyone who worked to get this service going as quickly as possible. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't take a look at the other audio book services as well!