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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-8:00pm
Fri-Sat: 10:00am-5:00pm

Clarke County

(540) 955-5144
101 Chalmers Court, Suite C
Berryville, VA 22611
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Mon-Thu: 10:00am-8:00pm
Fri-Sat: 10:00am-5:00pm

Handley Library

(540) 662-9041
100 West Piccadilly St.
P. O. Box 58
Winchester, VA 22601
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100 W. Piccadilly St.
P.O. Box 58
Winchester, VA 22604
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Try a Paperback Classic!

If you are looking for something to read for the Adult Summer Reading Program, why not try a paperback classic? What makes a work of literature a classic? We may think of a classic book as one written by an author who has died, but there are contemporary classics by living authors, too. Classics are books that are well-writ...
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Handley Regional Library System Launches Mobile App

Now Handley Regional Library patrons can hold the library in the palm of their hands! With a new mobile app, called MyLIBRO, Handley Regional Library System patrons have access to a variety of library resources through their mobile phones and tablets. The MyLIBRO app is already available through the App Store. “This app ...
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Handley Library Branch to Hold Two Upcoming Behind the Scenes Tours for the Public

The Handley Regional Library System is excited to offer two upcoming tours of the downtown Handley Library Branch on Saturday, September 10, and October 8 at 11 AM. This tour is FREE and open to the public. Meet in the Rotunda to start your tour at 11 AM. The Handley Library branch tour will take you behind the scenes to...
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National Moon Day

On July 20th, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to land on the moon and said his famous line. “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” If you’d like to learn more about Armstrong, you can check out a biography we have about him: Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight by Jay Barbree. We also have some m...
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    The Sinner: Season Four

    Still reeling from the trauma of a previous case a year ago, the now-retired Harry Ambrose travels to Hanover Island in northern Maine for a recuperative getaway with his partner, Sonya. When an unexpected tragedy occurs involving the daughter of a prominent island family, Ambrose is recruited to help the investigation, only to be thrown into a mystery of mounting paranoia that will turn this sleepy tourist island, and Ambrose's life, upside down.

     

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    The Walking Dead, World Beyond: Season One

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    American Siege

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    The Hating Game

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    Octopus Pot

    A broken man finds the one thing he can't live without, only to lose it. He can't bring back the woman he loves, but he can cover the ground with the blood of his enemy.

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    A House Divided: Season Three

    With a long legacy that has brought them from slavery to the heights of wealth and power in Los Angeles, the Sanders family is now at a crossroads. Their world is turned upside down when matriarch Pamela Sanders suddenly and mysteriously dies, leaving her husband Cameran desperately trying to keep the family united. His daughter Theresa's scandalous affair, young Torrance's potential NBA career and Cameran Jr.s' out of control lifestyle all threaten to tear the Sanders apart.

     

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    Cold Feet, The New Years: Season One

    Older, but not necessarily wiser, the gang is reunited when Adam returns to Manchester from working abroad to make an announcement, but not everyone is as thrilled as he is. Follow the highs and lows of these much loved characters as they fail and thrive in equal parts in their search for a sure path in life.

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    Hollington Drive: Series One

    When a young boy goes missing from an idyllic suburb, the community is grief stricken. Two sisters struggle to hold their lives and their families together.

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    The Humans

    Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter's apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group's deepest fears are laid bare. The piercingly funny and haunting debut film from writer-director Stephen Karam, adapted from his Tony Awardʼ-winning play, THE HUMANS explores the hidden dread of a family and the love that binds them together.

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    The Mallorca Files: Series One

    Follows British detective Miranda Blake and German detective Max Winter as they team up to investigate crimes on the Spanish island of Mallorca.

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    The Requin

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    The Thirteenth Tale

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    When her health begins failing, the mysterious author Vida Winter decides to let Margaret Lea, a biographer, write the truth about her life, but Margaret needs to verify the facts since Vida has a history of telling outlandish tales.

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    The Inheritance

    Joann Ross

    With a dramatic wartime love story woven through, JoAnn Ross's brilliant new novel is a gorgeous generational saga about the rivalry, history and loyalty that bond sisters together When conflict photographer Jackson Swann dies, he leaves behind a conflict of his own making when his three daughters, each born to a different mother, discover that they're now responsible for the family's Oregon vineyard--and for a family they didn't ask for.

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    The Kobalt Dossier

    Eric Van Lustbader

    Evan Ryder is back in The Kobalt Dossier, the stunning follow-up to The Nemesis Manifesto from New York Times bestselling author Eric Van Lustbader. After thwarting the violent, international, fascist syndicate known as Nemesis, Evan Ryder returns to Washington, D.C., to find her secret division of the DOD shut down and her deceased sister’s children missing. Now the target of a cabal of American billionaires who were among Nemesis’s supporters, Evan and her former boss, Ben Butler, must learn to work together as partners – and navigate their intricate past.

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    The Backyard Bird Sanctuary

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    Identify beautiful birds right in the comfort of your backyard with this illustrated, easy-to-use introductory guide to birding. Ever wonder how to attract beautiful birds right to your backyard? Now you can create a bird-watching paradise with this accessible guidebook that teaches you everything you need to know about welcoming your new feathered friends and how to care for them while they’re visiting. Backyard Bird Sanctuary helps you attract fifty of the most common and sought-after birds in the United States.

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    Librarian Lucy’s new historic house comes with a lot of baggage and family secrets. Can she put them to rest or will a killer bring Lucy’s family to their downfall, in the 9th Lighthouse Library mystery. It’s spring in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and Lucy and Connor have moved into their new home at last, a historic cottage on the Nags Head Beach. The house needs a lot of renovations, but they worked hard over the winter to get it ready. Lucy is now happily immersed in her work at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, planning her wedding, and decorating the house.

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    Susan Wilson

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    Jane and the Waterloo Map

    Stephanie Barron

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    Read Dangerously

    Azar Nafisi

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    Suspects

    Danielle Steel

    Theodora Morgan, fashion royalty and one of the most successful businesswomen in the world, forms an instant connection with a man who, unbeknownst to her, is a CIA agent sent to protect her from the very same people involved in the kidnapping of her husband and son, which ended in tragedy.

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    I Have Something to Tell You

    Susan Lewis

    Don't miss the captivating new book from Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Lewis! High-flying lawyer Jessica Wells has it all. A successful career, loving husband Tom and a family she adores. But one case - and one client - will put all that at risk. Edward Blake. An ordinary life turned upside down - or a man who quietly watched television while his wife was murdered upstairs? With more questions than answers and a case too knotted to unravel, Jay suspects he's protecting someone... Then she comes home one day and her husband utters the words no-one ever wants to hear. Sit down...

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    I'll Be You

    Janelle Brown

    Two identical twin sisters and former child actors have grown apart—until one disappears, and the other is forced to confront the secrets they’ve kept from each other in this twisty suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Things. “You won’t be able to put this novel down, and you won’t want to.”—Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—PopSugar, CrimeReads “You be me, and I’ll be you,” I whispered.

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Upcoming Events

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This event is in the "Ages 6-11" group.
Aug 22 2022 Mon

Lego Club @ Bowman Library

5:00pm - 6:00pm
Bowman Library
This event is in the "Children" group.
This event is in the "Ages 6-11" group.
Aug 22 2022 Mon

Lego Club @ Bowman Library

5:00pm - 6:00pm
Bowman Library
Library Branch: Bowman Library
Room: BL Children's Room
Age Group: Children, Ages 6-11
Program Type: STEAM
Event Details:
Bring your imaginations and join us every week for a different building challenge!! This week is all about building Animals--either real or imagined! ...

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HRLS is strongly recommending the use of masks for ALL patrons during this program to ensure the highest safety for library patrons and staff. Thank you for your cooperation.

This event is in the "Teens (12+)" group.
Aug 22 2022 Mon

Teen Movie Night!

6:00pm - 8:00pm
Bowman Library
This event is in the "Teens (12+)" group.
Aug 22 2022 Mon

Teen Movie Night!

6:00pm - 8:00pm
Bowman Library
Library Branch: Bowman Library
Room: Bowman Meeting Room
Age Group: Teens (12+)
Program Type: Film, Hangout
Event Details:
Join us as we watch a favorite movie and hangout with friends! ...
Aug 23 2022 Tue

Private Staff Event

10:00am - 3:00pm
Bowman Library
Aug 23 2022 Tue

Private Staff Event

10:00am - 3:00pm
Bowman Library
Library Branch: Bowman Library
This event is in the "Children" group.
This event is in the "Ages 0-5" group.
This event is in the "Families" group.
Aug 23 2022 Tue

Baby Playtime

10:30am - 11:00am
Handley Library
This event is in the "Children" group.
This event is in the "Ages 0-5" group.
This event is in the "Families" group.
Aug 23 2022 Tue

Baby Playtime

10:30am - 11:00am
Handley Library
Library Branch: Handley Library
Room: Storytime Nook
Age Group: Children, Ages 0-5, Families
Program Type: Storytimes
Event Details:
It’s time to play! Join us for a special playtime activity with Tinkergarten as we take a Storytime Break.   ...
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This event is in the "Ages 0-5" group.
This event is in the "Ages 6-11" group.
Aug 23 2022 Tue

Storytime Fun

11:00am - 11:30am
Clarke County
This event is in the "Children" group.
This event is in the "Ages 0-5" group.
This event is in the "Ages 6-11" group.
Aug 23 2022 Tue

Storytime Fun

11:00am - 11:30am
Clarke County
Library Branch: Clarke County
Room: CCL Children's Area
Age Group: Children, Ages 0-5, Ages 6-11
Program Type: Reading Program, Story Sharing, Storytimes
Event Details:
Come to the Clarke County Library Children's Room for stories and fun! ...
This event is in the "Children" group.
This event is in the "Ages 0-5" group.
Aug 24 2022 Wed

KidSTEAM

10:30am - 11:30am
Handley Library
This event is in the "Children" group.
This event is in the "Ages 0-5" group.
Aug 24 2022 Wed

KidSTEAM

10:30am - 11:30am
Handley Library
Library Branch: Handley Library
Room: HL Children's Room
Age Group: Children, Ages 0-5
Program Type: STEAM
Event Details:
Join us for a variety of thematic STEAM activities that littles and their grown-ups can do together. Explore and create in this problem solving program. Then, take home a Grab-and-Go Kit that includes all supplies and extension activities to do later...
This event is in the "Ages 0-5" group.
This event is in the "Ages 6-11" group.
Aug 24 2022 Wed

Lego Club at Clarke

4:00pm - 4:45pm
Clarke County
This event is in the "Ages 0-5" group.
This event is in the "Ages 6-11" group.
Aug 24 2022 Wed

Lego Club at Clarke

4:00pm - 4:45pm
Clarke County
Library Branch: Clarke County
Room: CCL Children's Area
Age Group: Ages 0-5, Ages 6-11
Program Type: Gaming, STEAM
Event Details:
Come to the Clarke County Library children's room for Lego Fun. A different theme every week! ...
This event is in the "Children" group.
This event is in the "Ages 0-5" group.
This event is in the "Families" group.
Aug 25 2022 Thu

Toddler Playtime

10:30am - 11:00am
Handley Library
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This event is in the "Ages 0-5" group.
This event is in the "Families" group.
Aug 25 2022 Thu

Toddler Playtime

10:30am - 11:00am
Handley Library
Library Branch: Handley Library
Room: Storytime Nook
Age Group: Children, Ages 0-5, Families
Program Type: Storytimes
Event Details:
It’s time to play! Join us for a variety of playtime activities each week as we take a Storytime Break.   ...
This event is in the "Children" group.
This event is in the "Ages 0-5" group.
Aug 25 2022 Thu

Trit Trot to Bowman

11:00am - 11:30am
Bowman Library
This event is in the "Children" group.
This event is in the "Ages 0-5" group.
Aug 25 2022 Thu

Trit Trot to Bowman

11:00am - 11:30am
Bowman Library
Library Branch: Bowman Library
Room: BL Children's Room
Age Group: Children, Ages 0-5
Program Type: Story Sharing, Music & Movement, Storytimes
Event Details:

Storytime for infants (birth to 15 months). An early literacy program designed to introduce your babe to the joys of books, language, movement, and music! Learn fun baby games, nursery rhymes, and more! Meeting in the Bowman Library Children’s Room. Free, no registration required.

Today's theme is...TBD ...

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Programs, events, and daily happenings sponsored by Handley Regional Library System may be photographed or recorded.  Attendance at any sponsored program, event or general library use constitutes the consent of all attendees and the consent of the parents or legal guardians of any minor children in attendance, to the future broadcast, publication, and other use of photography or videos at the sole direction of Handley Regional Library System.

While we do allow professional photography inside the property of Handley Regional Library System, we do ask that we are notified ahead of time of photoshoots at 540.662.9041 x 25.  Photography activities may be limited to specific areas due to reserved use and cannot impede any patron activity using the library. 

HRLS is strongly recommending the use of masks for ALL patrons during this program to ensure the highest safety for library patrons and staff. Thank you for your cooperation.

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