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"New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours." -Alex Morritt JANUARY 2020
The Middlesboro-Bell
County Public Library is
hosting a Census 2020
Job Fair on Tuesday,
January 21st, from
10:00-2:00. The U.S. Census Bureau is currently
recruiting applicants from Bell County to fill a
variety of temporary positions to support the
upcoming 2020 Census. These are good-paying
jobs with flexible schedules perfect for anyone
over age 18 wanting to make extra income. Census
Bureau staff will be on hand at the job fair to assist
applicants in completing the on-line application and
to answer any questions. A valid email address is
required to apply.
“Breakfast With Santa” was well-attended in both Middlesboro
on Dec. 7th and Pineville on Dec.
21st. Thanks to everyone who
worked so hard to make this a special time for the
children of Bell County! (Pictures on page 5.)
The Pineville Library
sponsored a wonderful concert
on Dec. 17th at the Bell Theater!
(Pictures on Page 3.)
Pineville Craft Drop-In Club Craft Day
Pg. 4 Pg. 3
Miss Piddle and
her husband David
Osborne rode on
the Bookmobile in
the Middlesboro
Christmas Parade
on Dec. 7th!
See pg. 8
Good Reads!! Good News!! Bel l Co . Pub l i c L ibrary Dis tr ic t ~~ January 2020
The Middlesboro & Pineville Public Libraries & the Bookmobile will be CLOSED on:
Monday, January 20, 2020– Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
(No items will be marked due on these dates.)
On the Go with the ookmobile!
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"New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours." -Alex Morritt JANUARY 2020
New York Times Best Sellers:
Hardback Fiction - January 5, 2020
Out of the top 15 titles, our libraries have 14
for your reading pleasure!
1. Where the crawdads sing / Owens, Delia
2. The guardians / Grisham, John
3. The institute : a novel / King, Stephen
4. Criss cross / Patterson, James
5. Blue moon /Child, Lee 6. A minute to midnight / Baldacci, David
7. The Dutch house / Ann Patchett
8. Twisted twenty-six / Evanovich, Janet
9. The silent patient / Michaelides, Alex
10. The testaments / Atwood, Margaret
11. The water dancer : a novel / Coates, Ta-Nehisi
12. Olive, again / Strout, Elizabeth
13. The giver of stars / Moyes, Jojo
14. The starless sea / Morgenstern, Erin
NEW: ADULT FICTION
The bone ships / Barker, R. J.
Daring Duval / Brand, Max,
Galway girl : a Jack Taylor novel / Bruen, Ken
The guardians / Grisham, John
Dark ambitions / Hannon, Irene
What the wind knows / Harmon, Amy
Meg & Jo / Kantra, Virginia
The twisted ones / Kingfisher, T.
Right beside you / Monroe, Mary
The cheffe : a cook's novel / NDiaye, Marie,
The moon sister : Tiggy's story / Riley, Lucinda,
Reputation : a novel / Shepard, Sara
Realm of ash / Suri, Tasha
The glovemaker : a novel / Weisgarber, Ann
The wicked redhead / Williams, Beatriz
NEW : ADULT NON-FICTION
Adults Returning to School 2018
The origin of (almost) everything / Lawton, Graham
Jamestown's number power : geometry / Mitchell, Robert
Caring for your dog / Fogle, Bruce
Home comforts : the art and science of keeping house / Mendelson, Cheryl
Cooking for your dog / Pils, Ingeborg
The Encyclopedia of embroidery techniques / Brown, Pauline
Embroidery basics : a NeedleKnowledge book / Fall, Cheryl
Bibliostyle : how we live at home with books / Freudenberger, Nina
Don't go up Kettle Creek : verbal legacy of the Upper Cumberland : with a new foreword / Montell,
William Lynwood
A Name in the Sand: The World War II Memoir of Eugene Howard / Howard, Eugene
About my mother : true stories of a horse-crazy daughter and her baseball-obsessed mother : a
memoir / Rowe, Peggy
The way I heard it / Rowe, Mike
How we fight for our lives : a memoir / Jones, Saeed
NEW : YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Witch's pyre / Angelini, Josephine
The mortal instruments : the graphic novel / Clare, Cassandra,
The fever code (Maze Runner, Book Five; Prequel / Dashner, James
The last true poets of the sea / Drake, Julia
Every stolen breath / Gabriel, Kimberly
War girls / Onyebuchi, Tochi
I hope you get this message / Rishi, Farah Naz
Harley Quinn. : a graphic novel / Tamaki, Mariko
NEW: JUVENILE FICTION
The final tide / Cole, Norma
The clue in the papyrus scroll / Garretson, Dee
Wrecking ball / Kinney, Jeff
The story that cannot be told / Kramer, J. Kasper
Slay / Morris, Brittne
NEW: JUVENILE & YA NON- FICTION When a family is in trouble : children can cope with
grief from drug and alcohol addiction / Heegaard,
Marge Eaton
My dad loves me, my dad has a disease : a child's view of living with addiction / Black, Claudia
Hearts, cupids, and red roses : the story of the valentine symbols / Barth, Edna
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"New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours." -Alex Morritt JANUARY 2020
NEW: EASY FICTION
I want a dog / Agee, Jon
The important thing about Margaret Wise Brown / Barnett, Mac
Berlioz the bear / Brett, Jan
Poppy & Sam and the mole mystery / Cathon
The Underhills : a tooth fairy story / Graham, Bob
This is not that kind of book / Healy, Christopher
After the fall : how Humpty Dumpty got back up again / Santat, Dan
The Polar Express / Van Allsburg, Chris
Who is the Mystery Reader? / Willems, Mo
NEW: EASY NON-FICTION
Twinkle, twinkle, little star / Cabrera, Jane
The twelve dancing princesses / Isadora, Rachel
How do you feel? / Rockwell, Lizzy
The Big Book of Bugs
RECENTLY ADDED DVDS
Smallville : the complete 8th, 9th, and 10th seasons
CSI: Miami : the complete 1st and 2nd seasons
Bosom buddies: The first season
X-Men : the ultimate collection
Max Payne
Henry VIII
Barbie & her sisters in a pony tale
Barbie as the princess and the pauper
Barbie in a mermaid tale
Barbie. Princess charm school
Barbie, spy squad
Spartan
The wolf of Wall Street
Presumed innocent
Christmas jars : the miracle of one jar
Welcome to Death Row
Seems like old times
The frozen North
African safari
Two hats
Katt Williams : 9 lives
Napoleon Dynamite
Middlesboro Activities in
December
Drop-In Craft Day:
Gingerbread people and house decorating
Toddler Time Holiday Party
Thank You to everyone who made the
“Christmas Under the Stars” concert a success!
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"New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours." -Alex Morritt JANUARY 2020
Teen Tuesdays
Tuesdays, January 14th, 21st, & 28th
@ 4:00 p.m.
Ages 11-17
Join us for book parties, games,
activities, prizes, and snacks!
Toddler Time
Wednesdays @ 10:30 a.m. January 22nd & 29th
Ages 6 mos. – 4 yrs
Toddler Time
Tuesday, January 7th 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Ages 18 mos. – 4 yrs.
Arts / Crafts
@ 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, January 7th – Mason Jar Crafts
(ages 10+)
Tuesdays & Thursdays, Jan. 21st, 23rd, & 30th
Crafts
Tuesday, January 28th - DIY Club with Bell
County Extension Office
MOVIE DAY - Tuesday, Jan. 9th
@ 3:30 p.m.
All ages Welcome!
Milk & Cookies Book Club
Thursdays, January 23rd & 30th
@ 4:30 p.m.
Book title: TBD
Ages 6-10
Dungeons & Dragons “Beginners Quest”
Ages 11-17
This club will meet every other
Wednesday, beginning January 29th.
4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, January 14th
@ 3:30 p.m.
Outdoor Skills Club with
Brian Good, from the
Bell County Extension Office.
Monday, January 27th @ 11:00 a.m.
Stories, Songs, and Stretches with Rebecca
from BC Extension Office
Craft Club in
December Painting Holiday
Ornaments
Children & Youth Programs
PINEVILLE BRANCH
MIDDLESBORO BRANCH
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"New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours." -Alex Morritt JANUARY 2020
Middlesboro Library
Pineville
Library
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"New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours." -Alex Morritt JANUARY 2020
Monday’s R Murder Mon., January 6, 2020
@ 10:00 a.m.
Hostage, by Robert Crais
Next Month: Feb. 3, 2020 –
You Belong to Me, by Mary Higgins Clark
CROCK POT COOKIN’
Time for Tea & Thee Book Club
Tues., January 14, 2020 @ 10:30 a.m.
Their Eyes were Watching God,
by Zora Neale Hurston
Next Month: Feb. 11th –
I Could Write a Book, by Karen M. Cox
Stephanie's Painting Class
Wed., January 15, 2020 @ 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
(Limited seating: Registration required)
Drop-In Computer/Device Help Want to learn more about computers? Do you have
questions about your devices? Drop by the library and
ask for Bonnie Banks, or call 606-248-4812 to schedule
an appointment.
Mystery Loves Company
Book Club and
Book Bunch Book Club
…will not meet in January.
ALSO:
Stephanie’s Painting Class will not meet in Pineville in January.
Check back for February dates!
KISS Yoga & Exercise Class
Classes will start back the third
week of January:
Mon., Jan. 13th & 27th
Wed., Jan. 15th, 22nd, and 29th
Tuesdays & Thursdays
* Weather Permitting *
January 14th, 16th, 21st,
23rd, 28th, & 30th
5:00 p.m.
(clipart.email)
(Left): Hannah and
Stephanie Turner, and
Erica Baker sing during
the Pineville Tree
Lighting Ceremony.
(Photo Credit: Raymond Welch)
(Right): Stephanie & Erica went caroling around Pineville!
Middlesboro Pineville
Adult Programs @ your library
We will meet on Monday, January 6, 2020 at
1:00 p.m. at the Middlesboro Library. The
program will be on “Know the Limits” and the
recipe will be “Garlic Pork”.
Upcoming programs will be on Mondays:
Feb. 3rd Mar. 1st April 6th Red Beans & Rice Santa Fe Soup Bean Soup
Call Christy Blevins at the Bell County Extension
Office, 606-337-2376, sign up at the Middlesboro Library, or call 606-248-4812 to reserve a seat.
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"New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours." -Alex Morritt JANUARY 2020
January is… National Blood Donor Month
Cervical Cancer Awareness Month
National Hobby Month
Hot Tea Month
National Oatmeal Month
National Soup Month
Day by day…
1 New Year’s Day
3 Fruitcake Toss Day
4 Trivia Day
5 National Bird Day
6 Cuddle-Up Day
8 Bubble Bath Day
10 Houseplant Appreciation Day
13 International Skeptics Day
14 Dress-Up Your Pet Day
15 National Hat Day
16 Appreciate a Dragon Day
17 Ditch New Year’s Resolutions Day
18 Thesaurus Day
18 Winnie the Pooh Day - The Birthday
of Winnie's author A.A. Milne
19 National Popcorn Day
20 Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday
20 Penguin Awareness Day
21 National Hugging Day
22 National Blonde Brownie Day
23 National Pie Day
23 National Handwriting Day
23 Measure Your Feet Day
24 Compliment Day
25 Opposite Day
26 Spouse's Day
27 Chocolate Cake Day
28 Fun at Work Day
28 National Kazoo Day
29 National Puzzle Day
31 Inspire Your Heart with Art Day
JANUARY 2020 Monthly & Daily Holidays, Special and Wacky Days
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"New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours." -Alex Morritt JANUARY 2020
Middlesborough-Bell County
Public Library 126 S. 20th Street / P O Box 1677
Middlesboro KY 40965-3677
Telephone: 606-248-4812
606-248-8766 (fax)
Hours: M-F 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Saturday 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Pineville-Bell County
Public Library 214 Walnut Street / P O Box 1490
Pineville KY 40977-1490
Telephone: 606-337-3422
606-337-9862 (fax)
Hours: M-F 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Saturday 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Monday, JANUARY 6
Day Care Centers: Kidz Korner, Noah’s Ark,
Pride & Joy, Small Wonders, and Smart Start
Tuesday, JANUARY 7 & 21
Ferndale Apts.; Mnt. View Health Care
Jan. 21 also: Middlesboro Day Care Centers
Wednesday, JANUARY 8 & 22 - ONLY
CCBBC; Horizon Adult Daycare
Thursdays, JANUARY 12 & 26
Bell County Forestry Camp; Frakes;
Henderson Settlement
Clients at Just
Family Adult
Daycare decorated
Christmas Wreaths
and Ornaments on
December 16th.
Mondays, JANUARY 13 & 27
Middlesboro Homebound; M’boro Health Care
Tuesday, JANUARY 14 - only
Just Family Adult Day Care
Wednesday, JANUARY 15
Comprehensive Care
Thursdays, JANUARY 2, 16, & 30
Kettle Island; Stoney Fork;
Wilderness Trail Manor
Residents at Wilderness
Trail Manor decorated
Christmas Ornaments on
December 18th.
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Bell County Bookmobile Schedule Schedule runs bi-weekly; please check our website’s
online calendar @ bellcpl.org, call the libraries
@ 606-248-4812 or 606-337-3422, or Piddle Johnson
@ 606-302-6035 for exact dates.
Jan. 1st & 20th – CLOSED - NO RUNS
Web-Address
http://www.bellcpl.org Check us out!!
http://www.bellcpl.org/