Lots to offer for holiday season

Get a jump on your Christmas shopping at our Merry Little Book Sale. The Friends of the Library is selling gently used books just in time for the holiday season 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. each Wednesday through Dec. 19. Free gift wrapping is provided.

What happens when a gnome disappears from your garden? Find out 4:30-6 p.m. Monday when author Joy Bashara and Superior resident and illustrator June Nyberg will give a program in the library’s classroom. They discuss their new children’s book Eilert the Gnome Loses Home.

The first of a four book series written for children from five- to ten-years-old, the book follows Eilert the Gnome on his journey to find home. During his journey he learns many truths, including that life is filled with changes you can handle, family are the people who care for you, and home is a place in your heart.

Grandmothers for Peace holds its annual toy drive and our Children’s Room is helping out. The library will be collecting unwrapped, nonviolent toy donations at the Children’s Desk now through December.

For the Thanksgiving holiday, the library is closed from 6 p.m. today through Sunday. We wish you a happy Thanksgiving holiday.

New music CDs: “Glad Rag Doll” by Diana Krall; “Love This Giant” by David Byrne; “Sun” by Cat Power; “Shields” by Grizzly Bear; and “Battle Born” by Killers.

New nonfiction: “Twin Cities Haunted Handbook” “The Big Disconnect: the Story of Technology and Loneliness”; and “Who Stole the American Dream.”

New fiction: “The Middlesteins” by Jami Attenberg; “The Operative” by Andrew Britton, “Die a Stranger” by Steve Hamilton; “Into the Woods” by Kim Harrison; and “Too Rich for a Bride: A Novel” by Mona Hodgson.

New DVDs: “Marvel’s The Avengers”; “Bones,” season seven; “Prometheus”; “Rock of Ages”; “Madagascar 3”; and “Big Top Scooby-Doo.”

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 715-394-8860 in Superior, 715-378-4452 in Solon Springs, or 715-374-3477 in Lake Nebagamon.

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