The library will hold its annual book sale June 9 through June 11 in the community building at the William Ray Memorial Park. It will be Thursday and Friday 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and on Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
With the price of everything going up we have decided to keep our sale at the same price since it started. Only $5.00 a sack full and you get to pick the books that go into the sack which we provide for you. You can’t beat a bargain like that so come see us and load up on some good books.
Peggy Witherspoon, a widow, mother and pilot flying for the Women's Airforce Service in 1944 clashes with her new reporting officer. Army Air Corp Major Howie Berg was injured in combat and is now stationed at Bolling Field in Washington D. C.
Most of Peggy's jobs are safe, predictable, and she can be home each night with her three daughters, until a cargo run to Cuba alerts her to American soldiers being held captive there, despite Cuba being an ally. Will Peggy go against orders to help the men, even risking her own life? Find out in Mrs. Witherspoon Goes to War by Mary Davis.
Rome, 1943: University student Marina Tozzi is on her way home when she finds out that her father has been killed for harboring a Jewish artist in their home. Fearful of the consequences, Marina flees to Villa I Tatti, the Florence villa of her father's American friend Bernard Berenson and his partner Belle da Costa Greene, the famed librarian who once curated J.P. Morgan's library. Florence is a hotbed of activity as partisans and Germans fight for control of the city.
Marina, an art expert, begins helping Bernard catalog his library as he makes the difficult trek to neutral Switzerland, helping to hide precious cultural artifacts from the Germans. Adding to the tension, their young neighbor Carlos, a partisan, seeks out Marina for both her art expertise and her charm. Marina, swept up in the romance, dreams of a life together after the war.
But when Carlos disappears, all of Marina's assumptions about her life in Florence are thrown into doubt, and she'll have to travel halfway around the world to unravel what really happened during the war. A Girl During the War by Anita Abriel is an unforgettable story of strength, love, and survival.
In March 1942, at the age of 25, kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger was deported from her hometown in Slovakia along with 998 other young women. They were some of the first Jews to be sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Very few would survive the next three years until liberation. The SS soon discovered that by putting prisoners in day-to-day charge of the accommodation blocks and even the camps at large called Blockälteste and Lagerälteste respectively, they could both reduce the number of guards required to use these "leaders" to deflect attention away from themselves.
Magda was one such Jewish prisoner selected for leadership. Like many others during the war, she found herself constantly treading a fine line: how to save lives, if only a few at a time, while avoiding being too "soft" and likely sent to the gas chambers.
Through her own inner strength and ingenuity, she was able to rise above the horror and cruelty of the camps and build pivotal relationships with the women under her watch, and some of Auschwitz's most notorious Nazi senior officers. Based on Magda's own personal account and completed by her daughter's extensive research, The Nazis Knew My name: a remarkable story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz, by Magda Hellinger and Maya Lee with David Brewster is an awe-inspiring story that offers us incredible insight into human nature under the pressure to survive, the power of resilience, and the goodness that can shine through even in the most horrific of conditions.