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"New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours." -Alex Morritt JANUARY 2020

The Middlesboro-Bell

County Public Library is

hosting a Census 2020

Job Fair on Tuesday,

January 21st, from

10:00-2:00. The U.S. Census Bureau is currently

recruiting applicants from Bell County to fill a

variety of temporary positions to support the

upcoming 2020 Census. These are good-paying

jobs with flexible schedules perfect for anyone

over age 18 wanting to make extra income. Census

Bureau staff will be on hand at the job fair to assist

applicants in completing the on-line application and

to answer any questions. A valid email address is

required to apply.

“Breakfast With Santa” was well-attended in both Middlesboro

on Dec. 7th and Pineville on Dec.

21st. Thanks to everyone who

worked so hard to make this a special time for the

children of Bell County! (Pictures on page 5.)

The Pineville Library

sponsored a wonderful concert

on Dec. 17th at the Bell Theater!

(Pictures on Page 3.)

Pineville Craft Drop-In Club Craft Day

Pg. 4 Pg. 3

Miss Piddle and

her husband David

Osborne rode on

the Bookmobile in

the Middlesboro

Christmas Parade

on Dec. 7th!

See pg. 8

Good Reads!! Good News!! Bel l Co . Pub l i c L ibrary Dis tr ic t ~~ January 2020

The Middlesboro & Pineville Public Libraries & the Bookmobile will be CLOSED on:

Monday, January 20, 2020– Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

(No items will be marked due on these dates.)

On the Go with the ookmobile!


New York Times Best Sellers:

Hardback Fiction - January 5, 2020

Out of the top 15 titles, our libraries have 14

for your reading pleasure!

1. Where the crawdads sing / Owens, Delia

2. The guardians / Grisham, John

3. The institute : a novel / King, Stephen

4. Criss cross / Patterson, James

5. Blue moon /Child, Lee 6. A minute to midnight / Baldacci, David

7. The Dutch house / Ann Patchett

8. Twisted twenty-six / Evanovich, Janet

9. The silent patient / Michaelides, Alex

10. The testaments / Atwood, Margaret

11. The water dancer : a novel / Coates, Ta-Nehisi

12. Olive, again / Strout, Elizabeth

13. The giver of stars / Moyes, Jojo

14. The starless sea / Morgenstern, Erin

NEW: ADULT FICTION

The bone ships / Barker, R. J.

Daring Duval / Brand, Max,

Galway girl : a Jack Taylor novel / Bruen, Ken

The guardians / Grisham, John

Dark ambitions / Hannon, Irene

What the wind knows / Harmon, Amy

Meg & Jo / Kantra, Virginia

The twisted ones / Kingfisher, T.

Right beside you / Monroe, Mary

The cheffe : a cook's novel / NDiaye, Marie,

The moon sister : Tiggy's story / Riley, Lucinda,

Reputation : a novel / Shepard, Sara

Realm of ash / Suri, Tasha

The glovemaker : a novel / Weisgarber, Ann

The wicked redhead / Williams, Beatriz

NEW : ADULT NON-FICTION

Adults Returning to School 2018

The origin of (almost) everything / Lawton, Graham

Jamestown's number power : geometry / Mitchell, Robert

Caring for your dog / Fogle, Bruce

Home comforts : the art and science of keeping house / Mendelson, Cheryl

Cooking for your dog / Pils, Ingeborg

The Encyclopedia of embroidery techniques / Brown, Pauline

Embroidery basics : a NeedleKnowledge book / Fall, Cheryl

Bibliostyle : how we live at home with books / Freudenberger, Nina

Don't go up Kettle Creek : verbal legacy of the Upper Cumberland : with a new foreword / Montell,

William Lynwood

A Name in the Sand: The World War II Memoir of Eugene Howard / Howard, Eugene

About my mother : true stories of a horse-crazy daughter and her baseball-obsessed mother : a

memoir / Rowe, Peggy

The way I heard it / Rowe, Mike

How we fight for our lives : a memoir / Jones, Saeed

NEW : YOUNG ADULT FICTION

Witch's pyre / Angelini, Josephine

The mortal instruments : the graphic novel / Clare, Cassandra,

The fever code (Maze Runner, Book Five; Prequel / Dashner, James

The last true poets of the sea / Drake, Julia

Every stolen breath / Gabriel, Kimberly

War girls / Onyebuchi, Tochi

I hope you get this message / Rishi, Farah Naz

Harley Quinn. : a graphic novel / Tamaki, Mariko

NEW: JUVENILE FICTION

The final tide / Cole, Norma

The clue in the papyrus scroll / Garretson, Dee

Wrecking ball / Kinney, Jeff

The story that cannot be told / Kramer, J. Kasper

Slay / Morris, Brittne

NEW: JUVENILE & YA NON- FICTION When a family is in trouble : children can cope with

grief from drug and alcohol addiction / Heegaard,

Marge Eaton

My dad loves me, my dad has a disease : a child's view of living with addiction / Black, Claudia

Hearts, cupids, and red roses : the story of the valentine symbols / Barth, Edna

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NEW: EASY FICTION

I want a dog / Agee, Jon

The important thing about Margaret Wise Brown / Barnett, Mac

Berlioz the bear / Brett, Jan

Poppy & Sam and the mole mystery / Cathon

The Underhills : a tooth fairy story / Graham, Bob

This is not that kind of book / Healy, Christopher

After the fall : how Humpty Dumpty got back up again / Santat, Dan

The Polar Express / Van Allsburg, Chris

Who is the Mystery Reader? / Willems, Mo

NEW: EASY NON-FICTION

Twinkle, twinkle, little star / Cabrera, Jane

The twelve dancing princesses / Isadora, Rachel

How do you feel? / Rockwell, Lizzy

The Big Book of Bugs

RECENTLY ADDED DVDS

Smallville : the complete 8th, 9th, and 10th seasons

CSI: Miami : the complete 1st and 2nd seasons

Bosom buddies: The first season

X-Men : the ultimate collection

Max Payne

Henry VIII

Barbie & her sisters in a pony tale

Barbie as the princess and the pauper

Barbie in a mermaid tale

Barbie. Princess charm school

Barbie, spy squad

Spartan

The wolf of Wall Street

Presumed innocent

Christmas jars : the miracle of one jar

Welcome to Death Row

Seems like old times

The frozen North

African safari

Two hats

Katt Williams : 9 lives

Napoleon Dynamite

Middlesboro Activities in

December

Drop-In Craft Day:

Gingerbread people and house decorating

Toddler Time Holiday Party

Thank You to everyone who made the

“Christmas Under the Stars” concert a success!

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Teen Tuesdays

Tuesdays, January 14th, 21st, & 28th

@ 4:00 p.m.

Ages 11-17

Join us for book parties, games,

activities, prizes, and snacks!

Toddler Time

Wednesdays @ 10:30 a.m. January 22nd & 29th

Ages 6 mos. – 4 yrs

Toddler Time

Tuesday, January 7th 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Ages 18 mos. – 4 yrs.

Arts / Crafts

@ 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, January 7th – Mason Jar Crafts

(ages 10+)

Tuesdays & Thursdays, Jan. 21st, 23rd, & 30th

Crafts

Tuesday, January 28th - DIY Club with Bell

County Extension Office

MOVIE DAY - Tuesday, Jan. 9th

@ 3:30 p.m.

All ages Welcome!

Milk & Cookies Book Club

Thursdays, January 23rd & 30th

@ 4:30 p.m.

Book title: TBD

Ages 6-10

Dungeons & Dragons “Beginners Quest”

Ages 11-17

This club will meet every other

Wednesday, beginning January 29th.

4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Tuesday, January 14th

@ 3:30 p.m.

Outdoor Skills Club with

Brian Good, from the

Bell County Extension Office.

Monday, January 27th @ 11:00 a.m.

Stories, Songs, and Stretches with Rebecca

from BC Extension Office

Craft Club in

December Painting Holiday

Ornaments

Children & Youth Programs

PINEVILLE BRANCH

MIDDLESBORO BRANCH

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Middlesboro Library

Pineville

Library

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Monday’s R Murder Mon., January 6, 2020

@ 10:00 a.m.

Hostage, by Robert Crais

Next Month: Feb. 3, 2020 –

You Belong to Me, by Mary Higgins Clark

CROCK POT COOKIN’

Time for Tea & Thee Book Club

Tues., January 14, 2020 @ 10:30 a.m.

Their Eyes were Watching God,

by Zora Neale Hurston

Next Month: Feb. 11th –

I Could Write a Book, by Karen M. Cox

Stephanie's Painting Class

Wed., January 15, 2020 @ 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

(Limited seating: Registration required)

Drop-In Computer/Device Help Want to learn more about computers? Do you have

questions about your devices? Drop by the library and

ask for Bonnie Banks, or call 606-248-4812 to schedule

an appointment.

Mystery Loves Company

Book Club and

Book Bunch Book Club

…will not meet in January.

ALSO:

Stephanie’s Painting Class will not meet in Pineville in January.

Check back for February dates!

KISS Yoga & Exercise Class

Classes will start back the third

week of January:

Mon., Jan. 13th & 27th

Wed., Jan. 15th, 22nd, and 29th

Tuesdays & Thursdays

* Weather Permitting *

January 14th, 16th, 21st,

23rd, 28th, & 30th

5:00 p.m.

(clipart.email)

(Left): Hannah and

Stephanie Turner, and

Erica Baker sing during

the Pineville Tree

Lighting Ceremony.

(Photo Credit: Raymond Welch)

(Right): Stephanie & Erica went caroling around Pineville!

Middlesboro Pineville

Adult Programs @ your library

We will meet on Monday, January 6, 2020 at

1:00 p.m. at the Middlesboro Library. The

program will be on “Know the Limits” and the

recipe will be “Garlic Pork”.

Upcoming programs will be on Mondays:

Feb. 3rd Mar. 1st April 6th Red Beans & Rice Santa Fe Soup Bean Soup

Call Christy Blevins at the Bell County Extension

Office, 606-337-2376, sign up at the Middlesboro Library, or call 606-248-4812 to reserve a seat.

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January is… National Blood Donor Month

Cervical Cancer Awareness Month

National Hobby Month

Hot Tea Month

National Oatmeal Month

National Soup Month

Day by day…

1 New Year’s Day

3 Fruitcake Toss Day

4 Trivia Day

5 National Bird Day

6 Cuddle-Up Day

8 Bubble Bath Day

10 Houseplant Appreciation Day

13 International Skeptics Day

14 Dress-Up Your Pet Day

15 National Hat Day

16 Appreciate a Dragon Day

17 Ditch New Year’s Resolutions Day

18 Thesaurus Day

18 Winnie the Pooh Day - The Birthday

of Winnie's author A.A. Milne

19 National Popcorn Day

20 Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday

20 Penguin Awareness Day

21 National Hugging Day

22 National Blonde Brownie Day

23 National Pie Day

23 National Handwriting Day

23 Measure Your Feet Day

24 Compliment Day

25 Opposite Day

26 Spouse's Day

27 Chocolate Cake Day

28 Fun at Work Day

28 National Kazoo Day

29 National Puzzle Day

31 Inspire Your Heart with Art Day

JANUARY 2020 Monthly & Daily Holidays, Special and Wacky Days

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Middlesborough-Bell County

Public Library 126 S. 20th Street / P O Box 1677

Middlesboro KY 40965-3677

Telephone: 606-248-4812

606-248-8766 (fax)

Hours: M-F 9:00 am – 6:00 pm

Saturday 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Pineville-Bell County

Public Library 214 Walnut Street / P O Box 1490

Pineville KY 40977-1490

Telephone: 606-337-3422

606-337-9862 (fax)

Hours: M-F 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Saturday 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Monday, JANUARY 6

Day Care Centers: Kidz Korner, Noah’s Ark,

Pride & Joy, Small Wonders, and Smart Start

Tuesday, JANUARY 7 & 21

Ferndale Apts.; Mnt. View Health Care

Jan. 21 also: Middlesboro Day Care Centers

Wednesday, JANUARY 8 & 22 - ONLY

CCBBC; Horizon Adult Daycare

Thursdays, JANUARY 12 & 26

Bell County Forestry Camp; Frakes;

Henderson Settlement

Clients at Just

Family Adult

Daycare decorated

Christmas Wreaths

and Ornaments on

December 16th.

Mondays, JANUARY 13 & 27

Middlesboro Homebound; M’boro Health Care

Tuesday, JANUARY 14 - only

Just Family Adult Day Care

Wednesday, JANUARY 15

Comprehensive Care

Thursdays, JANUARY 2, 16, & 30

Kettle Island; Stoney Fork;

Wilderness Trail Manor

Residents at Wilderness

Trail Manor decorated

Christmas Ornaments on

December 18th.

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Bell County Bookmobile Schedule Schedule runs bi-weekly; please check our website’s

online calendar @ bellcpl.org, call the libraries

@ 606-248-4812 or 606-337-3422, or Piddle Johnson

@ 606-302-6035 for exact dates.

Jan. 1st & 20th – CLOSED - NO RUNS

Web-Address

http://www.bellcpl.org Check us out!!
http://www.bellcpl.org/

Documents

Good Reads!! Good News!!...Barbie as the princess and the pauper Barbie in a mermaid tale Barbie. Princess charm school Barbie, spy squad Spartan The wolf of Wall Street Presumed innocent