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Bowman Library

(540) 869-9000
871 Tasker Road
P. O. Box 1300
Stephens City, VA 22655
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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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Job Seeker and Career Resources for the Community

We have several ways to help the community during the pandemic with job seeker and career resources through tools in our 24/7 Digital Library, books on career-related topics, and by being a supporter of the Northern Shenandoah Valley Regional Virtual Job Fair on April 29th.  Download the flyer on career books. ...
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Try Some Citizen Science!

It used to be that many scientists did not want help from non-scientists. They thought that a typical person/citizen did not have the skills, knowledge, or training to make a meaningful contribution to their discipline. Wrong! This was a common attitude even though history is littered with self-taught or non-professional pe...
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Library Out Loud! Podcast: Hidden DVD Gems

We have a new podcast episode on Library Out Loud!, the official podcast for Handley Regional Library System.  In this episode we talk with Karen at Handley Library about DVD recommendations with a few surprises. We talk about Barbarella, David Hyde Pierce, and more. These are true gems in our DVD collection you wil...
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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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What to Watch

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    Centigrade

    In 2002, a young American couple, Matthew and Naomi, travel to the arctic mountains of Norway. After pulling over during a snowstorm, they wake up trapped in their SUV, buried underneath layers of snow and ice. As if the stakes aren't high enough, it is revealed that Naomi is eight months pregnant in their frozen prison. With few resources, a dwindling food supply, and nothing but time, tension, blame, and personal secrets bubble to the surface.

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    The Sounds

    Set against the stunning Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand, this twisty thriller follows a married couple looking to start a new life. But when Maggie joins her husband, Tom, in an idyllic small town halfway around the world, their reunion proves short-lived. As Maggie discovers Tom's secrets, she begins to plumb the dark depths of paradise.

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    Miss Scarlet & the Duke

    Eliza Scarlet joins forces with a Scotland Yard inspector to solve crime in nineteenth century London.

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    Archenemy

    Max Fist claims to be a hero from another dimension who fell through time and space to Earth, where he has no powers. No one believes his stories except for a local teen named Hamster. Together, they take to the streets to wipe out the local drug syndicate and its vicious crime boss known as The Manager.

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    All Creatures Great & Small: Season One

    The numerous adventures of a friendly staff at a country veterinarian practice in 1930s to 1940s Yorkshire. "Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, James Herriot ... follows his dream to become a vet in the magnificent Yorkshire Dales. He soon discovers that treating the animals is as much about treating their owners, and the Dales' farmers are a tough crowd to please. At Skeldale House James gets to know his newly formed dysfunctional family; his chaotic and erratic boss Siegfried Farnon ... his wayward brother Tristan ... and the shrewd housekeeper Mrs. Hall ...

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    Billie

    Billie Holiday had one of the greatest voices of all time. She was a woman of breathtaking talent and global popularity who was unafraid of stirring controversy. She started a notable rebellion singing “Strange Fruit,” which exposed the realities of Black life in America and earned her powerful enemies. Raw, emotional and brutally honest, Billie is filled with incredible unheard testimonies from musical greats like Charles Mingus, Tony Bennett, Sylvia Syms and Count Basie. Billie showcases an American legend, capturing her depth and complexity through the voices of those who knew her best.

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    Lovecraft Country: Season One

    Based on Matt Ruff's novel, this series follows Korean war vet Atticus Freeman, his friend Letitia and his Uncle George on a journey across 1950's Jim Crow America where they face racist terrors and the terrifying monsters of an H.P. Lovecraft paperback.

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    Promising Young Woman

    Everyone said Cassie was a promising young woman, until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. But nothing in Cassie's life is what it appears to be. She's wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she's living with a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs of the past in this thrilling and wildly entertaining story.

     

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  • cover for twilight zone season two

    The Twilight Zone: Season Two

    Jordan Peele and Simon Kinberg's modern re-imagining of the classic TV series continues the legacy of socially conscious storytelling. The series' second season uses introspection and self-exploration to usher viewers into a dimension filled with endless possibilities.

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    A Call to Spy

    At the beginning of WWII, with Britain becoming desperate, Churchill orders his new spy agency, SOE, to recruit and train women as spies.

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    Our Friend

    Journalist Matt, his vibrant wife Nicole and their two young daughters, have their lives upended by Nicole's heartbreaking diagnosis of terminal cancer. As Matt's responsibilities as caretaker and parent become increasingly overwhelming, the couple's best friend Dane Faucheux offers to come and help out. As Dane puts his life on hold to stay with his friends, the impact of this life-altering decision proves greater and more profound than anyone could have imagined.

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    Schitt's Creek: Seasons 5 & 6

    When filthy-rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira and their two kids -- uber-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis -- suddenly find themselves broke, they are forced to leave their pampered lives to regroup and rebuild their empire from within the rural city limits of their only remaining asset - Schitt's Creek, an armpit of a town they once bought as a joke.

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    Wonder Woman 1984

    Fast forward to the 1980s as Wonder Woman's next big-screen adventure finds her facing an all-new foe: The Cheetah and Max Lord.

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Staff Picks

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    A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself

    Peter Ho Davies

    When does sorrow turn to shame? When does love become labor? When does chancebecome choice? And when does fact become fiction?

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    The Secret Diaries of Juan Luis Vives

    Tim Darcy Ellis

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    Backyard Homesteader

    Alison Candlin

    The essential beginner's manual on living a greener, healthier, and more self-sufficient lifestyle. Easy-to-follow advice on planning, establishing, and maintaining a small-acre farm or a backyard garden. With step-by-step instructions, photographs, and illustrations, this book is a practical and comprehensive guide to living off the land.

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    Hidden Bodies

    Caroline Kepnes

    Still mourning the loss of his girlfriend, bookstore employee Joe Goldberg falls for a co-worker who mysteriously vanishes, prompting a cross-country move to Los Angeles to search for her.

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    Summerwater

    Rachel Joyce

    "It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson--a sensible schoolmarm and lonely spinster--is just trying to get through life. But one day, she reaches her breaking point, abandoning her job and her tidy, circumscribed life, to set out on an expedition to the other side of the world in search of an insect that may or may not exist: the golden beetle of New Caledonia, Margery's childhood obsession ever since her father gave her a book on cryptozoology right before he killed himself.

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    To Raise a Boy

    Emma Brown

    A journalist's searing investigation into how we teach boys to be men--and how we can do better.

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    Foregone

    Russell Banks

    A searing novel about memory, abandonment, and betrayal from the acclaimed and bestselling Russell Banks At the center of Foregone is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Fife, now in his late seventies, is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.

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  • Cover image for The Umbrella Lady

    The Umbrella Lady

    V.C. Andrews

    A young girl who has lost her father finds herself at the mercy of a mysterious woman who is not quite what she seems in this atmospheric and unputdownable novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Flowers in the Attic series turned into popular Lifetime movies. Left on a train platform in an unfamiliar village, little Saffron Faith Anders is certain her father will return shortly, just like he promised. She holds out hope even as the hours pass and the station grows dark.

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    Nöthin' But a Good Time

    Tom Beaujour, Richard Bienstock

    The New York Times Bestseller The Explosive National Bestseller "A backstage pass to the wildest and loudest party in rock history—you'll feel like you were right there with us!" —Bret Michaels of Poison Nothin' But a Good Time is the definitive, no-holds-barred oral history of 1980s hard rock and hair metal, told by the musicians and industry insiders who lived it. Hard rock in the 1980s was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that perfectly encapsulated—and maybe even helped to define—a spectacularly over-the-top decade.

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    The Removed: a Novel

    Brandon Hobson

    Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago--from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimer's in her husband, Ernest. Their adult daughter, Sonja, leads a life of solitude, punctuated only by spells of dizzying romantic obsession.

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  • Cover image for A Bright Ray of Darkness

    A Bright Ray of Darkness

    Ethan Hawke

    The blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut in Henry IV just as his marriage implodes--an utterly transfixing book about art and love, fame and heartbreak from the acclaimed actor/writer/director. Hawke's first novel in nearly twenty years is a bracing meditation on fame and celebrity, and the redemptive, healing power of art; a portrait of the ravages of disappointment and divorce; a poignant consideration of the rites of fatherhood and manhood; a novel soaked in rage and sex, longing and despair; and a passionate love letter to the world of theater.

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    What Is Life?

    Paul Nurse

    The Nobel Prize-winning scientist's elegant explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and their uses today.

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    The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry

    C. M. Waggoner

    Hard-drinking petty thief Dellaria Wells is down on her luck in the city of Leiscourt -- again. Then she sees a want ad for a female bodyguard, and she fast-talks her way into the high-paying job. Along with a team of other women, she's meant to protect a rich young lady from mysterious assassins. At first Delly thinks the danger is exaggerated, but a series of attacks shows there's much to fear. Then she begins to fall for Winn, one of the other bodyguards, and the women team up against a mysterious, magical foe who seems to have allies everywhere.

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    The Jigsaw Man

    Nadine Matheson

    A serial killer and his copycat are locked in a violent game of cat and mouse. Can DI Angelica Henley stop them before it's too late? On the day she returns to active duty with the Serial Crimes Unit, Detective Inspector Angelica Henley is called to a crime scene. Dismembered body parts from two victims have been found by the river. The modus operandi bears a striking resemblance to Peter Olivier, the notorious Jigsaw Killer, who has spent the past two years behind bars.

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    The Little Book of Cottagecore

    Emily Kent

    Unplug, relax, and return to the simpler life with these easy, step-by-step ideas for your favorite cottagecore activities including baking from scratch and easy container gardening. Returning to the simpler life has never been easier. If you’re craving the aroma of freshly baked bread, spending more time in nature, or seeing the sunlight filtering through homemade curtains, then cottagecore is for you! The Little Book of Cottagecore helps you make simple living a reality with delightful cottagecore activities you can enjoy no matter where you live.

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Apr 22 2021 Thu

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Apr 22 2021 Thu

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Experience yoga for the entire family while we move, stretch, and read together. January: "Wonderful Winter" February: "Love Is..." March: "Kindness Counts" April: "Earth Day"     ...
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Apr 23 2021 Fri

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Apr 23 2021 Fri

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Enjoy an early literacy program for the entire family who will learn through stories, rhymes, songs and more. Join us over Zoom for interactive fun each storytime week. *Registration required.     ...
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Apr 26 2021 Mon

Middle Grade Book Spotlight

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Apr 26 2021 Mon

Middle Grade Book Spotlight

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Middle Grade Book Spotlight:  Looking for a new and exciting book to read?  Join us every Monday afternoon as books geared toward upper elementary and middle schoolers are presented and shared; each week is centered around a different theme...
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Apr 26 2021 Mon

Teen Book Spotlight

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Apr 26 2021 Mon

Teen Book Spotlight

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Program Type: Story Sharing, Virtual Programs
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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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Apr 28 2021 Wed

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Apr 28 2021 Wed

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Program Type: Story Sharing, Virtual Programs, Storytimes
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Join Ms. Donna on Facebook as we premier on the Handley Regional Library System Facebook page. Tune in for a read-aloud and special puppet guests or catch the program anytime after the event on our YouTube Playlist.  ...
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Apr 28 2021 Wed

Graphic Novel Book Club

7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Apr 28 2021 Wed

Graphic Novel Book Club

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Do you love graphic novels so much you just have to talk about it? Maybe you can't squeeze in a full novel each month but you still want to talk about books? We have the solution for you! Join our brand new graphic novel book club and get o...
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May 4 2021 Tue

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May 4 2021 Tue

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Celebrate Star Wars Reads Day with your library through an interactive virtual program, complete with Star Wars trivia and a chance to win a prize! Pick up your Grab-and-Go Kit at the Handley branch to join in on the fun. *Registration required for...
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May 5 2021 Wed

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12:00pm - 1:00pm
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May 5 2021 Wed

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May 8 2021 Sat

After-Hours Game Night

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May 8 2021 Sat

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Spend Saturday night with the library on Discord playing tabletop games online! We will have a wide selection of games to choose from on BoardGameArena.com and both voice and text chat channels open throughout. Discord and Board Game A...
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