On Wednesday March 25 at 10:00 am, we will have another Tea at Ten presentation featuring new books. If you are looking for new authors, come and listen to our librarians speak about new books they have read and enjoyed. We’d love to hear your book ideas too! Tea and refreshments will be offered.
March 20, 2009
March 9, 2009
Edible Book Festival Update #1
Get your tickets now for our 2nd Annual Edible Book Festival on Sunday March 29, 2009. Your ticket purchase gets your Starbucks coffee, Starbucks’ Tazo tea, cake, a chance to vote for the People’s Choice winner, and entrance to the Friend’s of Marple Public Library’s silent auction! You’ll also get to meet our celebrity judges: best-selling romantic suspense author Mariah Stewart! Marple Township Commissioner Trudy Riddell! Mrs. Mary Todd Lincoln, a.k.a. historian Jo Ann Tufo! Just $5 for adults; $2.50 for seniors 65+ and children 6-17; children 5 and under are free with adult ticketholders. It’s sure to be a fun day!
February 19, 2009
Icelandic Author
If you enjoy stark Scandanavian crime/mystery writers such as Henning Mankell, give Arnuldar Indridason a try. He just published the fourth novel in his crime series starring detective Erlendur Sveinsson (The series begins with Jar City). Set in Iceland, this series is gripping and intelligent, and provides a fascinating look at life in Iceland. His characters are flawed, damaged and true to life.
February 4, 2009
A Quick Book Review from Jennifer
I’m about 60 pages until the end of the new Pam Jenoff novel, Almost Home, and I can’t wait to leave my post here at the Reference Desk and finish the story! It is different from her first two books, which were set during World War II and the post-War period. Almost Home is set in modern-day London and Cambridge, and the heroine is the American Jordan Weiss, who works for the State Department. She’s been away from London since her boyfriend died ten year’s earlier. Her best friend has ALS; she meets with a former Cambridge crew-mate who insists that Jordan’s boyfriend’s death was murder, and somehow it’s all tied to Albanian organized crime and Nazi war criminals. It’s suspenseful, fast-paced and the characters are believable. I highly recommend it.
February 3, 2009
Our Abraham Lincoln Programming Guide is Now Here
We’ve finalized the programming for this year’s celebrations of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. Our brochure lists all the lectures, book discussions and even a bus trip to Gettysburg that we’ve scheduled for 2009. Sign up for any of the lectures by clicking on the Library Events button on our website’s homepage. And start thinking about your entry for the 2nd Annual Edible Book Festival; there’s a special category for Edible Lincoln entries, along with the regular edible book entries that are “bookish” through the use of text, literary inspiration or form. Cash prizes will be awarded to the winners!
January 21, 2009
Job Searching
If you are job searching, don’t forget that the library has resources available to you. We have books on resume and cover letter writing, job searching, interviewing, and career choices. Check out our new brochure on job searching. Just ask at the reference desk for a copy. The Delaware County Library System also has a database called Career Cruising that you can use with your library card. Just go to www.delcolibraries.org and click on Databases/Power + and then scroll down to Career Cruising.
January 2, 2009
1809 – 2009 @ Marple Public Library
We’re celebrating the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth all year long here at Marple, along with other famous folk born in that same year. Look for our monthly Lincoln programs, along with all of our regularly scheduled book clubs, Socrates Cafes, and Tea @ Ten book talks.
We also ask that you join us and Save your Lincolns for the library. Drop your pennies (and even your $5 bills) into our Abraham Lincoln top hat bank at the circulation desk. Your donations will be used to help enhance library services throughout the year.
December 23, 2008
Happy Holidays !
Happy Holidays from the staff of Marple Public Library. We have enjoyed serving the residents of Marple Township and Delaware County this year and look forward to seeing you in 2009. Keep reading !
December 14, 2008
Celebrate Jane Austen – December 16
Make plans to stay at Marple Public Library all day on December 16, as we celebrate the birthday of Jane Austen. Films start at 10:00AM and run until 6:00PM, and we’ll have cake and tea at 2:30PM. Stop by and try your hand at matching quotes from her novels with their proper title. We will also be drawing the winning ticket in our quilt, pillow and tablerunner raffle.
You’ll definitely want to be here at 7:15PM, when the Friends of the Marple Public Library present “An Evening with Jane Austen”. Elizabeth Jane Steele of the Jane Austen Society of North America will discuss the life and times of Jane Austen. Desserts will be available after the presentation.
December 3, 2008
Spotlight on New Books
This morning we offered a Tea at Ten presentation focusing on new books (published sometime in 2008) that we have read and enjoyed. We had a good group and enjoyed tea and refreshments while discussing books. We’d love to have you join us and we plan to have another presentation in March, so please watch for the date. If you visit our website, click on our Reader’s Advisory link and you will find brochures from past presentations! This site is great if you want to find new books and authors to read.
