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Bowman Library

(540) 869-9000
871 Tasker Road
P. O. Box 1300
Stephens City, VA 22655
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Mon-Thu: 10:00am-6:00pm
Fri: 10:00am-5:00pm
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Clarke County

(540) 955-5144
101 Chalmers Court, Suite C
Berryville, VA 22611
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Handley Library

(540) 662-9041
100 West Piccadilly St.
P. O. Box 58
Winchester, VA 22604
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Winter Reading Recap

Community Winter Reading Challenge for Kids and Teens Sees Positive Results The program ran in January and featured a mix of virtual programs and reading incentives designed to connect literacy to entertainment.  Reading Program Results 2,718 Books Read by Kids and Teens 1,712 Badges Earned by Completing ...
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3-Part Virtual Series: Exploring the Library

We have a special 3-part series designed to educate the public on different ways to use library services in March  titled Exploring the Library.  These virtual sessions will be offered through Zoom with registration required and are ideal for new, prospective, and current users of all library system locations – Bo...
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Browse What's New

Browse our virtual shelf from over 15 different genres to find your next great read!  These are some of the latest released, hottest authors, current events, and relevant stories all curated in one spot.  You can receive these reading recommendations through email too by signing up here.  Our virtual shelves ...
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Introducing the Graphic Novel Book Club!

Are you familiar with our adult graphic novel collection? Graphic novels are not just for children or teens. Whether you enjoy fiction, nonfiction, biographies or memoirs, these novels are a format that encompasses all genres and has something for everyone. It is one reason why I enjoy them, since the combination of text an...
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    Perry Mason: The Complete First Season

    Set in 1932 Los Angeles, this series will focus on the origin story of famed defense lawyer Perry Mason, based on characters from Erle Stanley Gardner's novels.

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    Words on Bathroom Walls

    Diagnosed with a mental illness halfway through his senior year of high school, a witty introspective teen struggles to keep it a secret while falling in love with a brilliant classmate who inspires him to open his heart and not be defined by his condition.

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    Guest Artist

    The story of a young man coming face to face with his hero an exploring the tangled relationship between the dreams of youth and the wisdom of age.

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    Brahms: The Boy II

    When a young family moves to the Heelshires' residence, terror strikes when a boy from the family discovers a doll called Brahms that appears to be eerily human.

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    After We Collided

    Hardin will always be ... Hardin. But is he really the deep, thoughtful guy Tessa fell madly in love with or has he been a stranger all along? She wishes she could walk away. It's just not that easy. Not with the memory of the passionate nights they spent together. Still, Tessa's not sure she can endure one more broken promise. She's focused on her studies and just starting an exiciting new internship at Vance Publishing. She's also being pursued by Trevor, a handsome new co-worker who is exactly the kind of guy she should be with.

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    Nancy Drew, Season One

    Nancy Drew (Kennedy McMann) is a brilliant teenage detective whose sense of self had come from solving mysteries in her hometown of Horseshoe Bay, Maine - until her mother's untimely death derails Nancy's college plans. Devastated by her mother's passing, Nancy swears off crime-solving while crossing off the days until she can re-apply to college. But when a socialite is murdered, Nancy finds herself a prime suspect in the crime, along with a group of other teens present at the scene.

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    Balthazar: Series One

    Suave, smart, and somewhat strange, Raphal Balthazar can make the dead speak like no one else. As a forensic pathologist in Paris, he works with chief inspector Hlne Bach to solve the city's most disturbing crimes. But there's one case that continues to haunt him, the murder of his wife over a decade ago.

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    The Secrets She Keeps

    Although they are both heavily pregnant and due at the same time, their lives could not be more different. Both women have secrets. And both will risk everything to conceal the truth. But their worlds are about to collide in one shocking act that cannot be undone.

     

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    The Outsider

    Follows an investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy as the case begins to involve contradictory evidence and a supernatural force.

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    The Rental

    Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them. Before long, what should have been a celebratory weekend trip turns into something far more sinister, as well-kept secrets are exposed and the four old friends come to see each other in a whole new light..

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    Shirley

    In this semi-biographical film, a famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.

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    Kajillionaire

    Two con artists have spent 26 years training their only daughter to swindle, scam, and steal at every turn. During a desperate and hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining them, only to have their entire world turned upside down.

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    Bill and Ted Face the Music

    A visitor from the future tells best friends Bill and Ted that one of their songs can save life as they know it and bring harmony to the universe.

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Staff Picks

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    Moonflower Murders

    Anthony Horowitz

    "Farlingaye Hall is a beautiful hotel in Suffolk on the east coast of England. Unfortunately, it is also the site of the brutal murder of Frank Parris, a retired advertising executive. Stefan Codrescu, a Romanian maintenance man, is arrested after police find blood spatter on his clothes and bed linen. He is found guilty and spends eight years in prison. It appears an open and shut case, but there is more than meets the eye. Alan Conway, the late author of the fictional Magpie Murders, knew Frank Parris and once visited Farlingaye Hall.

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    Secret City

    Lonely Planet

    Ditch the tourist crowds and get to the real heart of a place with Secret City; an essential guide to getting to know the most interesting, rewarding, a cool neighborhoods in cities around the world. Readers will discover the best little-known sights and things to do, plus the coolest places to eat, drink, and shop to create unforgettable trips.

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    A Crooked Tree

    Una Mannion

    A haunting, suspenseful literary debut that combines a classic coming of age story with a portrait of a fractured American family dealing with the fallout of one summer evening gone terribly wrong. "The night we left Ellen on the road, we drove up the mountain in silence." It is the early 1980s and fifteen-year-old Libby is obsessed with The Field Guide to the Trees of North America, a gift her Irish immigrant father gave her before he died.

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    Humans

    Brandon Stanton

    Brandon Stanton’s new book, Humans—his most moving and compelling book to date—shows us the world. Brandon Stanton created Humans of New York in 2010. What began as a photographic census of life in New York City, soon evolved into a storytelling phenomenon. A global audience of millions began following HONY daily. Over the next several years, Stanton broadened his lens to include people from across the world. Traveling to more than forty countries, he conducted interviews across continents, borders, and language barriers. Humans is the definitive catalogue of these travels.

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    Crosshairs

    Catherine Hernandez

    The author of the acclaimed novel Scarborough weaves an unforgettable and timely dystopian tale about a near-future, where a queer Black performer and his allies join forces to rise up when an oppressive regime gathers those deemed “Other” into concentration camps. Set in a terrifyingly familiar near-future, with massive floods leading to rampant homelessness and devastation, a government-sanctioned regime called The Boots seizes on the opportunity to round up communities of color, the disabled, and the LGBTQ+ into labor camps. In the shadows, a new hero emerges.

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    The Best of Me

    David Sedaris

    A lavish gift edition of David Sedaris's best stories, spanning his spectacular bestselling career. Hand-picked by David himself, these are stories that will make you laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time, from "the funniest man alive" (Time Out New York). What could be a more tempting holiday gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume.

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    The Last Wife

    J. D. Robb

    In the new Eve Dallas police thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author J.D. Robb, what looks like a lover's quarrel turned fatal has larger—and more terrifying—motives behind it.

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    This One Wild and Precious Life

    Sarah Wilson

    Will you sleep through the revolution? Or do you want to wake up and reclaim your one, wild and precious life? From New York Times bestselling author Sarah Wilson comes a spiritual guidebook for healing our cultural crisis of disconnection. We live in truly overwhelming times. The climate crisis, political polarization, and Coronavirus have left many of us in a state of spiritual PTSD. We have retreated, morally and psychologically; we are experiencing a crisis of disconnection--from one another, from our true values, from joy, and from life as we feel we are meant to be living it.

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    In an Instant

    Suzanne Redfearn

    A deeply moving story of carrying on even when it seems impossible. Life is over in an instant for sixteen-year-old Finn Miller when a devastating car accident tumbles her and ten others over the side of a mountain. Suspended between worlds, she watches helplessly as those she loves struggle to survive. Impossible choices are made, decisions that leave the survivors tormented with grief and regret. Unable to let go, Finn keeps vigil as they struggle to reclaim their shattered lives.

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    The Butterfly Effect

    Marcus J. Moore

    This first cultural biography of rap superstar and “master of storytelling” (The New Yorker) Kendrick Lamar explores his meteoric rise to fame and his profound impact on a racially fraught America—perfect for fans of Zack O’Malley Greenburg’s Empire State of Mind. Kendrick Lamar is at the top of his game. The thirteen-time Grammy Award­–winning rapper is just in his early thirties, but he’s already won the Pulitzer Prize for Music, produced and curated the soundtrack of the megahit film Black Panther, and has been named one of Time’s 100 Influential People.

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Want to read a "good" book and have no idea where to start? Join us every Monday afternoon as a variety of books for teens  are presented and suggested! Every week is a different theme with a new selection of books; so be sure to check in and...
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It's time to get crafty! Pick up a Grab-and-Go Kit at the Handley branch before the program so you can have the supplies as we do this craft together on Facebook Live! January: Paper Cardinal Ornaments February: Swedish Heart Baskets ...
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