REGULAR PROGRAMS  Music and Movement for toddlers is Tuesday at 10 AM.  Stories and Songs, for ages 2 – 4, is on Saturdays at 10 AM.  There will be no drop-in computer help tonight.  Call the library or check online for all of the details on all of our upcoming events. 

JUST ARRIVED  We have new novels by James Patterson (The 18^th Abduction,) Tad Williams (Empire of Grass,) Guy Gavriel Kay (A Brightness Long Ago,) Dean Koontz (The Night Window,) Ann Hillerman (The Tale Teller,) Michael Koryta (If She Wakes,) Jennifer Chiaverini (Resistance Women,) Jeffrey Deaver (The Never Game,) Elly Griffiths (The Stone Circle,) Patricia Briggs (Storm Cursed,) Janet Evanovich (The Big Kahuna,) and Danielle Steel (Blessing in Disguise.)  Disappearing Earth, by Julia Phillips, follows the aftereffects of the disappearance of two young girls in far northeastern Russia.  Max Porter’s Lanny also features a vanished young child, possibly kidnapped by a supernatural forest-dwelling being.  David Quantick’s All My Colors is about a man who plagiarizes a book that may or may not exist, while in Vessel by Lisa A. Nichols the sole survivor of a trip to another planet can’t remember what happen to her crew or how she returned.  In If You Cross the River by Geneviève Damas a boy tries to figure out why his father has restricted so much of his life, while a city dwelling boy searches for his neighbor’s missing caretaker in Catherine Ryan Hyde’s Have You Seen Luis Velez?.  A woman is charged with two murders she can’t remember committing in The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins.  In nonfiction, take a trip to the edge of the solar system with the Voyager probes and their golden records in Jonathan Scott’s The Vinyl Frontier or probe the mysteries of the universe in Anthony Aguirre’s Cosmological Koans.  If you’re more interested in the here-and-now, try Rob Walker’s The Art of Noticing and peer into baseball’s varied homes in Paul Goldberger’s Ballpark.  Discover novelist Gabriel García Márquez’s career in journalism with the selections in The Scandal of the Century, or discover forgotten crimes with Harper Lee (Casey Cep’s Furious Hours) or a former president (Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense by Dan Abrams.)  Learn about the history of medicine through its pharmaceutical discoveries in Thomas Hager’s Ten Drugs.  Finally, In Love with the World is the story of Buddhist master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche confronting his own lingering arrogance amidst a brush with death.

THANK YOU  We would like to thank all the Friends of the Library and members of the public who helped make the spring book sale a success.  Look for a special sale of children’s books this summer.  The next full book sale will be in the fall.

ORIGAMI FROGS  Children ages 6 and up can come learn to make hopping origami (folded paper) frogs this Thursday the 23^rd at 5 PM.

LIBRARY CLOSED  The library will be closed next Monday the 27^th in honor of Memorial Day.

Meet Richard Fitzgerald, author of Down Home Thinking, on Monday May 20th from 5 - 7 PM.

BOOK SALE  It’s almost here!  Doors open at 5 PM on Thursday the 9^th, and the sale will continue through the library’s regular hours until 3 PM Saturday the 18^th.  Hardcover books will be $3, paperbacks $1, and children’s books 50 cents.  DVDs will go for $2 each, and CDs for $1, while puzzles with also be $1 and magazines 10 cents each.  Members of the Friends of the Library will receive half off their purchases from the 9^th through the 17^th (excluding any special-priced items,) and memberships will be available on the spot.  There will be a bag sale on Saturday the 18^th, with bags supplied by the library and priced at $5 for as much as they will hold.  Stop in to pick up something new-to-you and help the Friends support library programming throughout the year.  Follow our Facebook pages for updates.

SOCIAL HOUR  Join us for coffee, treats, and conversation this Wednesday the 8^th at 2 PM.

ADULT CRAFT  Paint wine glasses to look like tulips and celebrate spring this Thursday the 9^th at 2 PM.

DISPLAY  Stop in to the library to see part of the Dr. Mary Bryan  collection on display this month.  Dr. Bryan  was a groundbreaking physician in the United States and India in the late 1800s, and her collection includes many objects from her time abroad.  She was born in Lisbon and spent the later years of her life as a general practitioner in Ogdensburg.

FAMILY BOOK CLUB  Talk about E. B. White’s beloved children’s classic Charlotte’s Web and learn to crochet this Thursday the 25^th at 5 PM.  New families are always welcome.

BOOK SALE  Please join the Friends of the Library for their Spring Book Sale from the evening of May 9^th through the 18^th.  Proceeds fund library programming and other purchases throughout the year.  Further details on the sale will follow.

MAY PROGRAMS  Social Hour returns to the second Wednesday of the month at 2 PM, and we’ll be having the Adult Craft – tulip painted glasses – on Thursday the 9^th at 2 PM.  Movie Night, featuring a dogged film, will be Thursday the 16^th at 5:30 PM.  Children can make and race origami frogs on Thursday the 23^rd at 5 PM, and Family Book Club will meet to discuss Roald Dahl’s Matilda on Thursday the 30^th at 5 PM.  Computer Help Drop-In hours will be on Saturdays the 4^th and 18^th from 11 AM – 12 PM and Tuesdays the 7^th and 28^th from 6 – 7 PM.  The library will be closed on Monday the 27^th in honor of Memorial Day.