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License to Chill

Tues, Jan 6 drop in 5:00 - 7:00 pm

Take a break from the hubbub of winter with an evening of fun indoor activities at the Campbell Library!  Warm up with a hot cocoa, try an escape room, make winter art with Jill Levene, check out the winter sensory play room, and enjoy some live music. Sensory friendly hour from 5 - 6 pm.

Dead of Winter

by Darcy Coates 

COATES 

Christa hoped a retreat to the Rocky Mountains would help her escape her haunted past, but a brutal snowstorm strands her in an abandoned cabin with eight strangers, and a killer who won't stop until no one is left. 

Snow Kissed

by RaeAnne Thayne

THAYNE 

Christmas has always been single mom Holly Goodwin Moore’s favorite time of year. The twinkly lights on the tree, the cookies in the oven, the snow on the ground. But she’s just not feeling it this year. The wedding in her ex’s family is almost here, her daughter, Lydia, is bursting at the seams to be a flower girl…and Holly couldn’t be dreading it more. She told a little white lie about having a new boyfriend as her plus-one, hoping to save face. She needs a date for the wedding…and she needs it now. 

Christmas at the Cupcake Café

by Jenny Colgan 

COLGAN 

Life is sweet for Issy Randall, owner of the Cupcake Cafe. Not only is business thriving, the icing on the cupcake is that she also happens to be head over heels in love. But when her boyfriend Austin is scouted for a possible move to New York, Issy is forced to contemplate the prospect of a long-distance romance. And when the Christmas rush at the cafe, with its increased demand for her delectable creations, begins to take its toll, Issy has to decide what she holds most dear. 

The Heart in Winter

by Kevin Barry  

BARRY 

A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city of Butte, Montana is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers. Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and ballad-maker of the town, but also a doper, a drinker, and a fearsome degenerate. Just as he feels his life is heading nowhere fast, Polly Gillespie arrives in town as the new bride of the extremely devout mine captain Long Anthony Harrington. 

Explore more snowy winter reads in our catalog!

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12/18/2023

The library will be closed December 23–25 for Christmas and December 30–January 1 for the New Year.

Simply Tomato

100 recipes for enjoying your favorite ingredient all year long 
by Martha Holmberg

Call Number: 641.6564 HOLMBERG

Americans eat more tomatoes than any vegetable except for the potato. But what do we do with all those tomatoes? Acclaimed chef, cooking teacher, and author Martha Holmberg shares 100 recipes to turn the tomato into glorious dishes.

The Last Kind Words Saloon

by Larry McMurtry

Call Number: Western MCMUTRY

In this book, Larry McMurtry chronicles the closing of the American frontier through the travails of two of its most immortal figures, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday.

Return of the Taliban

Afghanistan after the Americans left
by Hassan Abbas

Call Number: 958.1048 ABBAS

In this groundbreaking new account, Hassan Abbas examines the resurgent Taliban as ruptures between moderates and the hardliners in power continue to widen.

Little Thieves

by Margaret Owen

Call Number: Young Adult OWEN Little v.1

Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother’s love?and she’s on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja’s otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back… by stealing Gisele’s life for herself.

If you need help accessing any of these titles or using front door pickup, email or call us and we will be happy to assist you!

12/4/2023

All are welcome to come and make some winter themed perler bead creations. We'll have patterns and beads available; just bring your imagination! Join us Monday, December 11 @ 5:30pm.

Hands of Time

A watchmaker's history
by Rebecca Struthers

Call Number: 681.114 STRUTHERS

Journey through watchmaking history–from the earliest attempts at time-keeping, to the breakthrough in engineering that gave us the first watch, to today–where the timepieces hold cultural and historical significance beyond what its first creators could have imagined.

High Prairie

by E.E. Halleran

Call Number: Western HALLERAN LP

When the snow melted, tempers tightened in the Big Horn Basin. Men muttered of trouble coming — between small ranchers and big combines — between nesters and cattlemen. Big trouble, killing trouble. Over in Johnson County, they said, the war had already started. Hired gunmen, a small army of professional killers, were raiding and burning, slaughtering anyone who stood against them.

Malady of the Mind

Schizophrenia and the path to prevention
by Jeffrey Lieberman

Call Number: 616.898 LIEBERMAN

Drawing on his four-decade career, Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman expertly illuminates the past, present, and future of this historically dreaded and devastating illness.

The Scarlet Veil

by Shelby Mahurin

Call Number: Young Adult MAHURIN

Six months have passed since Célie took her sacred vows and joined the ranks of the Chasseurs as their first huntswoman. With her fiancé, Jean Luc, as captain, she is determined to find her foothold in her new role and help protect Belterra. But whispers from her past still haunt her, and a new evil is rising—one that Célie herself must vanquish, unless she falls prey to the darkness.

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