Sale planning underway, donations needed

The Friends of the Library meet at 10:30 p.m. Monday in the library classroom. They are planning for their annual book sale to be held 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. April 27 and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 28. The Friends are now accepting donations of books and audiovisual materials in good condition for the sale. Donations can be brought to the library service desk during open hours.

Our children’s Story Time will be taking a little break before the spring session begins again on March 27. The next session runs through May 1. The half-hour story times will be at 10:30 a.m. each Tuesday with themes including springtime and flowers. No registration is necessary.

The Superior Public Library recently received a $10,000 grant from the Mead Witter Foundation, Inc., to be used for print materials. Our library is already purchasing many new fiction and nonfiction titles, children’s materials and magazines with this grant funding. The Mead Witter Foundation’s 2011 Library Grant Program was “designed to provide help in an area where budgets have been tight and community services may be stressed.” We thank the Mead Witter Foundation of Wisconsin Rapids for its generosity to our community’s library.

Artist Sandra Cragin’s work is displayed this month in our lobby art window. Sandra is back in our area after 15 years in Arizona. She paints “non-objective” art mainly in acrylic, and items from her “Orange Collection” are now on display through March. Please stop by and see this lovely collection of paintings.

New DVDs: “The Help,” “The Rum Diary,” “Far From the Madding Crowd,” “Downton Abbey: The Complete Second Season,” “Warrior,” “Breaking Dawn Part 1,” “A Better Life,” “The Big Year,” “I Am,” “Real Steel,” and “Drive.”

New nonfiction: “How to Win Friends & Influence People in the Digital Age,” “Coming Apart: The State of White America,” “The Primal Blueprint: 21-day Total Body Transformation,” “Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy,” “The World of Downton Abbey,” and “Frommer’s …Ireland.”

New fiction: “Lone Wolf” by Jodi Picoult, “Believing the Lie: An Inspector Lynley Novel” by Elizabeth George, “The Dark Rose” by Erin Kelly, “Victims: An Alex Delaware Novel” by Jonathan Kellerman, and “The House I Loved” by Tatiana de Rosnay.

New music CDs: “French Impressions” by Joshua Bell, “100 Proof” by Kellie Pickler, “Old Ideas” by Leonard Cohen, “Soul 2” by Seal, “Scars & Stories” by Fray, “Kisses on the Bottom” by Paul McCartney, and “Grammy Nominees 2012.”

New juvenile books: “There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover!” “Titanium vs. Iron!” “Llama Llama, Nighty-Night,” “My Big Girl Undies,” “A Giant Crush,” “Mater to the Rescue!” “Drawing Vehicles,” and “If You Lived Here: Houses of the World.”

Library hours are 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in Superior; 2-7 p.m. Monday and 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Thursday in Solon Springs; and 2-7 p.m. Wednesday in Lake Nebagamon. Call 394-8860 in Superior, (715) 378-4452 in Solon Springs, or (715) 374-3477 in Lake Nebagamon.

Sue Heskin is the director of the Superior Public Library.

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