Spring is in full swing. We’ve got plenty of books on gardening and venturing outdoors. New titles in both fiction and nonfiction are arriving this month. Now is the perfect time — with road construction season also in full swing — to check out a new book to have on hand as you wait at the stoplight around Salmon Lake.
A local patron has donated various materials on brain injuries and brain health. Due to their own injury and subsequent experience of people not understanding, the patron did their own homework. As a gift to the library the patron donated the materials gathered so that others — both those with injuries and those who love them — could have readily available this amazing information. You’ll find out about strokes, brain aneurysms, balance issues, concussions, how different injuries to different parts of the brain present, as well as a guide to living with a brain injury from the Brain Injury Alliance of Montana. Stop by to review these important materials.
While you’re here, check out our local library book club. We meet the first Thursday of every month at 11:00 a.m., including today, April 4. Today’s discussion is on the novel, Atonement, by Ian McEwan. The May book club pick is Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America by Liz Carlisle. Swing by the library for a copy. The next gathering will be May 2. New participants are always welcome (whether you’ve read the book or not).
If your schedule doesn’t allow you to come the first Thursday of the month, you can start your own book club. The Missoula Public Library has over 200 Book Chat Kits available for any local patron to check out. You can find the list of both fiction and nonfiction titles available in kits on the catalog website (type in “book kits” in the search field).
Your local Seeley Lake Public Library has also added more new titles to the Montana Collection. These were all contestants for the 2023 Montana Book Award.
Fiction: Crow Mary by Kathleen Grissom; and Lookout by Christine Byl (Montana Award Honor Book).
Outdoors: Big Sky, Big Parks: An Exploration of Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks, and All That Montana In Between by Ednor Therriault; and Wisdom River: Meditations of Fly Fishing and Life Midstream by Larry Kapustka and Chad Okrusch (eds).
For kids: Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars: Fun Projects, Skills, and Adventures for Outdoor Kids by Steven Rinella; Sky and Timby by Rick Ferruggia.
Memoir: Wheel of Rocks: An Unexpected Spiritual Journey by Sister Marya Grathwohl.
West (US) History and Pop Culture: True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America by Betsy Gaines Quammen. You may remember her from a recent reading with Alpine Artisan’s Open Book Club.
Come on in and check them out this spring!
Important Dates: The library will be closed Monday, May 27 for Memorial Day. Summer Reading Program fun begins Wednesday, June 12.
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