Upcoming Events
Come to the Clarke County Library Children's Room for stories and fun! Miss Bonnie will share a new adventure with early readers and their families each week. All are welcome!
Hooks and needles and fiber, oh my!
Lego fun for everyone!
Join us after school every Wednesday at 4pm for Lego time!
Join us for our evening Book Club at 6 pm on the first Thursday of the month at Clarke County Library!
The Handley Library branch tour will take you behind the scenes to all floors of the building. Come learn about the architecture and history. Walk on the famous glass floors and peer down the well built into the stage. Meet on the Lower Level.
Come to the Clarke County Library Children's Room for stories and fun! Miss Bonnie will share a new adventure with early readers and their families each week. All are welcome!
Hooks and needles and fiber, oh my!
What's New
Prisoners of Congress: Philadelphia's Quakers in Exile, 1777-1778
Many locals will be familiar with the connection to prisoners of war camps the Winchester area has had throughout history: the Hessian prisoners brought here during the Revolutionary War and the German prisoners during World War II. Many may be unfamiliar with the story of a small group of 20 men from Philadelphia, PA exiled out of the commonwealth and sent to Winchester for months during the Revolutionary War. Norman Donoghue’s new book Prisoners of Congress: Philadelphia’s Quakers in Exile, 1777-1778 examines that topic.
A Few of My Favorite Things
There's one more chance to attend our popular Archives After Hours event this year. The final one will be held on Thursday, October 24 @ 5:30 pm. If you haven't heard, each Archives After Hours event begins with a presentation concerning special items found within the collection and an explanation of how those items can help the researchers that visit the space.
What's The Teal Pumpkin Project?
Halloween is a fun holiday for many kids. You can dress up in a fun costume and go trick-or-treating, collecting lots of candy. But what if you had a food allergy, which causes your immune system to overreact to certain food proteins? Trick-or-treating might not feel like a possibility with the high risk of being exposed to an allergen. FARE (Food Allergy Research & Education) decided to help change that with the Teal Pumpkin Project.
What to Watch
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Babes
BABES follows childhood best friends Eden and Dawn, now in different phases of adulthood. When single Eden decides to have a baby on her own after a one-night stand, their friendship faces its greatest challenge.
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NCIS: Sydney - Season One
When an American Submariner dies during a ceremony honouring Australia and the United States' alliance under the AUK-US agreement; American NCIS Agents and Australian AFP Officers are thrust together in a joint investigation. However, what first appears as an accident soon reveals itself to be murder, and our nascent team must work together to secure military secrets and prevent disaster on Sydney Harbour.
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Darkness of Man
Russell Hatch is a washed up, former Interpol operative who vowed to protect the son of an informant killed years earlier in a raid gone wrong. When merciless street gangs start an all-out turf war and the kid is caught in the middle, Hatch will stop at nothing to keep him safe and fight anyone who gets in his way.
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Longlegs
In pursuit of a serial killer, an FBI agent uncovers a series of occult clues that she must solve to end his terrifying killing spree.
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Prey
After their lives are threatened by an extremist militant group, a young couple must flee their missionary post in the Kalahari Desert. But when their aircraft crashes in an animal preserve, they must battle man and beast in a fight for their lives.
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The Exorcism
When troubled actor Anthony Miller, begins unraveling while on the set of his latest horror film, his daughter, Lee, questions if his past addictions or something darker is at play.
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The adventures of Ozzie & Harriet : video scrapbook
For a record-breaking 14 seasons and 435 episodes, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet aired on ABC-TV from 1952-1966, becoming one of the most cherished cultural touchstones of the 20th century. The gentle humor of the prolific and popular sitcom was brought to the screen by the real-life Nelson family: Ozzie and wife Harriet with their sons David and Rick, all portraying themselves in a trendsetting blend of fact-meets-fiction comedy. The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet Video Scrapbook serves as a fun and fascinating companion to the complete restored series.
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The Fabulous Four
A comedy for grownups that follows a group of life-long friends on an outrageous trip to Key West, Florida, to be bridesmaids in the surprise late-in-life wedding of their college girlfriend.
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Fast Charlie
Charlie Swift is a fixer with a problem: the target he's whacked is missing his head and the only way Charlie will be paid is if the body can be identified. Enter Marcie Kramer, the victim's ex-wife and a woman with all the skills Charlie needs.
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Force of nature : the dry 2
Five women participate in a hiking retreat but only four come out the other side. Federal agents Aaron Falk and Carmen Cooper head into the mountains hoping to find their informant still alive.
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A Nashville Legacy
Naima and Damian meet and begin to get close with each other, sharing their love for music and their desire to leave their respective marks on the world.
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Romance With a Twist
Ex-dancer Luna pairs up with Bennett, a world-class aerialist, when he finds himself without a partner for his upcoming silks performance at the local arts festival.
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Sasquatch Sunset
In the North American wilderness, a family of Sasquatches embark on an epic, hilarious & poignant journey over the course of a year. The Zellner Bros bring you the greatest Bigfoot story ever told.
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A Walk With Grace
A modern day retelling of the Prodigal Son, A WALK WITH GRACE follows a widowed L.A. businessman, Nate Lassiter. After his mother passes the week before Easter, Nate returns to his hometown in Ohio to sign away his family's factory. As Nate continues to face adversity, a divine intervention helps him reconnect with his first love, Grace. With the power of forgiveness, community, and God's love, Nate begins to see all the glory that has been missing from his life.
Staff Picks
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Bridgerton : the official cookbook
With dishes from all of our favorite Bridgerton characters that offer new takes on traditional Regency recipes, this gorgeously photographed book features only the most fabulous fare, alongside stills from the series, favorite quotes, and historical asides, certain to fascinate even the savviest of dinner guest.
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The last one at the wedding : a novel
From the bestselling author of Hidden Pictures comes a breathtaking work of suspense about a father trying to save his daughter from a life-altering decision that will put everything he loves on the line. Frank Szatowski is shocked when his daughter, Maggie, calls him for the first time in three years. He was convinced that their estrangement would become permanent. He's even more surprised when she invites him to her upcoming wedding in New Hampshire. Frank is ecstatic, and determined to finally make things right. He arrives to find that the wedding is at a private estate-very secluded, very luxurious, very much out of his league. It seems that Maggie failed to mention that she's marrying Aidan Gardner, the son of a famous tech billionaire. Feeling desperately out of place, Frank focuses on reconnecting with Maggie and getting to know her new family. But it's difficult: Aidan is withdrawn and evasive; Maggie doesn't seem to have time for him; and he finds that the locals are disturbingly hostile to the Gardeners. Frank needs to know more about this family his daughter is marrying into, but if he pushes too hard, he could lose Maggie forever. An edge-of-your-seat thriller that delves deep into the heart of one family, The Last One at the Wedding is a work of brilliant suspense from a true modern master.
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The restless wave : a novel of the United Sates Navy
The first in a series of historical novels about the 20th century US Navy, centered around an American naval officer and his key relationships, professional and personal, set during WWII.
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Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
In the early 2000s, after years of hard work and determination to breakthrough as an actor, Bethany Joy Lenz was finally cast as one of the leads on the hit drama One Tree Hill. Her career was about to take off, but her personal life was slowly beginning to unravel. What none of the show’s millions of fans knew, hidden even from her costars, was her secret double life in a cult.
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The women behind the door
A powerful, moving mother-daughter story filled with struggle and redemption by Booker-Prize winning author Roddy Doyle. At sixty-six, Paula Spencer-mother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivor-has finally started to live her life. She has a job at the dry cleaners she enjoys, her boyfriend Joe is a text away when she needs him, and her four children now have the healthy families and petty dramas that Paula could have only hoped for. Despite its ghosts, Paula has started to push her past aside. That is until her eldest, Nicola, turns up on her doorstep one day. Nicola is everything Paula wasn't-independent, affluent, a loving wife and mother, a "success"-but now she is suddenly determined to leave it all behind. She has left her family and come to stay. As Nicola gradually confides in Paula the secret that unleashed this moment of crisis, mother and daughter must untangle past memory, trauma, and revelations to confront what they mean to each other-and who they want to be. A timely and powerful novel of regrets, reparations, and reconciliations, The Women Behind the Door is a delicately devastating portrait of shame and the inescapable shadow it casts over families. Many readers will welcome the chance to reconnect with this strong, singular character whom we have seen in The Woman Who Walked into Doors and Paula Spencer, but all readers will be glad to have Paula in their life now.
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Dust
In this haunting, speculative coming-of-age novel about finding your place in an unforgiving environment, a partially deaf teen questions everything she knows about family, love, and her future.
After her father has a premonition, Thea and her family move to the Bloodless Valley of southern Colorado, hoping to make a fresh start. But the rivers are dry, the crops are dying, and the black blizzards of Colorado have returned. Much like the barren land, Thea feels her life has stopped growing. She is barely homeschooled, forbidden from going to the library, and has no way to contact her old friends―all due to her parents’ fear of the outside world’s dangerous influence.
But to make ends meet, Thea is allowed to work at the café in town. There, she meets Ray, who is deaf. Thea, who was born hard of hearing, has always been pushed by her parents to pass as someone who can hear. Now, with Ray secretly teaching Thea how to sign, she begins to learn what she’s been missing―not just a new language but a whole community and maybe even a chance at love. -
Meet me at the starlight
Harlow Hayes came to Sea Blue Beach, Florida, to hide and heal. Instead she finds a former co-star with a ruined career, and his plucky grandmother who runs the local landmark skating rink. The place has a kind of magic, but when it's threatened for demolition, saving the Starlight might be the second chance everyone needs.
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The glass girl
Everyone in fifteen-year-old Bella’s life needs something from her. Her mom needs her to help around the house, her dad needs her to not make waves, her ex needs her to not be so much. The only person who never needed anything from her was her grandmother—and now she’s dead.
There’s only one thing that dulls the pressure: alcohol. Vodka, beer, peppermint schnapps—alcohol smooths the sharp edges of Bella’s life. And what’s the big deal? Everyone drinks. Besides, Bella can stop whenever she wants. But after she gets blackout drunk at a Thanksgiving party and wakes up in the hospital, it’s time to face reality. And for Bella, reality means rehab.
Gorgeously written and deeply compassionate, Kathleen Glasgow’s The Glass Girl is a candid exploration of the forces pushing young women toward addiction—and what it really takes to help them get better. -
Adult survivors of emotionally abusive parents : how to heal, cultivate emotional resilience & build the life & love you deserve
If you grew up with a parent who was self-centered, manipulative, or emotionally abusive, you may still struggle with feelings of anger, sadness, fear, or hopelessness as an adult. You may avoid emotional intimacy with others for fear of being hurt or abandoned. And you may even feel like the abuse was somehow your fault. But it was not your fault, and there are tools you can use to heal and move forward. With this compassionate guide, you'll gain a greater understanding of what happened in your past, transform deep pain into emotional resilience, and build the life that you deserve. You'll also learn how to set boundaries, assert your needs, and overcome emotional avoidance to develop authentic and mutually respectful relationships with others. The pain you experienced growing up doesn't have to define you. Let this book be your guide on the path to healing, wholeness, and self-discovery.
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Sleep like death
Princess Eve was raised with one purpose: to destroy the Knight. Far too many of subjects of Queen's Bridge have been devastated by this evil sorcerer's trickery. Eve's own unique magic--the ability to conjure weapons from nature--makes her a worthy adversary.
As she approaches her seventeenth birthday, Eve is ready to battle. But her mother, Queen Regina, has been acting bizarrely, talking to a strange mirror alone every night. Then a young man claiming to be the Knight's messenger appears and shares a shocking truth about Eve's past. Unsure of who to trust, Eve must find the courage to do what she's always done: fight. But will it be enough to save her family and her queendom? -
We shall be monsters
Drawing from Indian mythology, a teen girl desperate to bring her sister back from the dead is forced to first resurrect the kingdom's fallen prince, but accidentally awakens the wrong boy.
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Exodus: The Archimedes Engine
Forty thousand years ago, humanity fled a dying Earth. Traveling in massive arkships, these brave pioneers spread out across the galaxy to find a new home. After traveling thousands of light-years, one fleet of arkships arrived at Centauri, a dense cluster of stars with a vast array of potentially habitable planets. The survivors of Earth signaled to the remaining arkships that humanity had finally found its new home among the stars.
Thousands of years later, the Centauri Cluster has flourished. The original settlers have evolved into advanced beings known as Celestials and divided themselves into powerful Dominions. One of the most influential is that of the Crown Celestials, an alliance of five great houses that controls vast areas of Centauri. As arkships continue to arrive, the remaining humans and their descendants must fight for survival against overwhelming odds or be forced into serving the Crown Dominion.
Among those yearning for a better life is Finn, for whom Earth is not a memory but merely a footnote from humanity’s ancient history. Born on one of the Crown Dominion worlds, Finn has known nothing but the repressive rule of the Celestials, though he dreams of the possibility of boundless space beyond his home.
When another arkship from Earth, previously thought lost, unexpectedly arrives, Finn sees his chance to embrace a greater destiny and become a Traveler—one of a group of brave heroes dedicated to ensuring humanity’s future by journeying into the vast unknown of distant space. -
The marriage act : a novel
Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has the answer to society's ills--the Sanctity of Marriage Act, which actively encourages marriage as the norm, punishing those who choose to remain single. But four couples are about to discover just how impossible relationships can be when the government is monitoring every aspect of our personal lives--monitoring every word, every minor disagreement ... and will use every tool in its arsenal to ensure everyone will love, honor and obey.
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The traitor : a novel
An MI6 operative is found dead, locked in a suitcase inside his own apartment. Despite an exhaustive search, no fingerprints are found at the scene. Emma Makepeace and her handler, Ripley, know an assassination when they see one, and such an obvious murder can mean only one thing: Someone is sending a message. As she digs into his past, Emma discovers that the unfortunate spy had been investigating two Russian oligarchs based in London. He'd become obsessed with the idea that the two were spies, aided by a third man-whose identity he had yet to uncover. When he shared his findings within MI6 in the weeks before he died, the response came back fast and clear: Drop the investigation and move on. Had he uncovered a secret that cost him his life? To pick up where he left off without ending up in a suitcase of her own, Emma goes undercover on one of the oligarch's million-dollar yachts, scheduled to set sail from the Cote D'Azur to Monaco. Under other circumstances, this would be a dream vacation. But if Emma's real identity gets discovered, it's a death sentence. As Emma's work reveals secrets she'd be safer not knowing, the danger ratchets up. The killer may be closer to home than any of them imagined. And Emma won't be safe until he-or she-is caught.
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Poison or protect
Lady Preshea Villentia, the Mourning Star, has four dead husbands and a nasty reputation. Fortunately, she looks fabulous in black. What society doesn't know is that all her husbands were marked for death by Preshea's employer. And Preshea has one final assignment: a house party with minimal bloodshed. Preshea hadn't anticipated Captain Gavin Ruthven, a massive, Scottish, quietly irresistible werewolf-- who's working for the enemy. Now Preshea must risk her own heart-- a terrifying prospect, as she never knew she had one.