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Rosa Parks was born on this date in 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Learn more about this courageous woman in Rosa Parks by Christine Taylor-Butler.

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To have a mental illness is frustrating - to the person who has one and very often to those around her.  Jenny Lawson has several, including OCD, ADD, depression and an anxiety disorder.  As bad as things can get at some times in her life, Lawson believes in seizing the moment and experiencing as many positive adventures as possible.  She calls this being “furiously happy”. 

 Lawson is a best-selling author and a well-known blogger and is often hilarious.  This book reads like a collection of blogs based on real episodes in her life; on the c...

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Head to your library and check out the book you love best!

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One day, Girl and Dragon played a game of hide and seek.  First, Dragon hid, curling his “Drag-enormo-self” behind a very small rock.  Try as she might, looking everywhere, even climbing a tree to get a better look, Girl cannot find him until Dragon jumps out with a resounding, “BOO!”  When it is Girl’s turn to hide, she runs far away, through the woods, across the logs in the bog, across a tall, tall bridge, “to a faraway place with such a hidey-hole place,” and she didn’t make a sound.  There she waited for Dragon. . ...

In this, his first novel, Graeme Cameron takes the reader into the complex mind of a serial killer, a unique character who remains nameless, and whose undoing is built up, throughout the story. Prone to violence from his past, and frustrated by the disillusioned and complicated relationships with the women in his life, the character becomes more greatly understood as his demise unfolds, and the extremes that are “normal” to the character, become to the reader as well. Cameron’s ability to create a cast of such deeply conflicted characters whose complexities intertwine in d...

Writing Tutors Available at the Butman Fish LibraryThe Saginaw Community Writing Center (SCWC) is open for FREE tutoring and writing workshops on the second and fourth Tuesday of every month from 4-7:30 p.m. at the Butman Fish Library. The SCWC is staffed by trained, SVSU Writing Center tutors. There is no need to register for workshops or tutoring in advance.WorkshopsFebruary 9 6-7:30 Creative Writing for grades 6-12February 23 6-7:30 Writing for the SATMarch 8 6-7:30 Creative Writing for grades 6-12March 22 Cover Letter and Resume Writing

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Pieby Sarah Weeks is a delicious mystery story which also contains 14 different pie recipes.

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I listened to this book on an audiobook.  I love listening to books as I drive to and from work and out on errands.  It really makes the mundane tasks more tolerable especially if it is good book and reader.  This book gets a thumbs up on both accounts from me.  Okay, onward with my review.

Kimberly Rossi is a want-to-be author with some devastating heartbreaks in her past.  These heartbreaks have taken a toll on her and are especially hard at Christmas.  She hears about a writers retreat in Vermont at the Mistletoe Inn and is intrigued.  After all,...

      A meaningful story about a boy named Jackson and his family that have fallen on hard times.  Money is tight and they may have to move again.  Jackson takes on so much of the worry that his old friend Crenshaw the cat comes back to visit him.  The only problem is that Crenshaw is an imaginary friend and Jackson does not understand why he has come back now.  The last time Jackson saw Crenshaw he was seven and he thinks he is now way too old for an imaginary friend!  But he slowly figures out he needs someone to lean on and talk to and Crenshaw the...

This federal holiday honors the life and achievements of this influential civil rights leader. Check out Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney.

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Did you know that we have the hit music you love?

 

Visit http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100 for Billboard's Hot 100, then visit the Public Libraries of Saginaw to check out your favorite music for three weeks at a time. You can have five CDs at a time checked out to your library card and, as long as you get them back on time, it won't cost you a thing!

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To celebrate, read the beautifully illustrated picture biography Martin’s Big Words  by Doreen Rappaport.

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Zeke Reynolds is a sci-fi super geek.  He knows all the games, movies, comics and TV shows as if he was living in them along with the rest of the characters—like Captain Kirk or Han Solo.  He’s also something of a bully magnet—and when he sticks up for himself and manages to get the better of his nemesis, it’s Zeke who ultimately gets in trouble.   His father, also a sci-fi aficionado, disappeared many years before, and his mother recently found she has an incurable disease.  Zeke is at a rough spot in his life when he finds that the science ...

Picture Books

Winner:          

The Farmer and the Clown by Marla Frazee

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Honor Books:

It’s Only Stanley by Jon Agee

Once Upon an Alphabet by Oliver Jeffers

Fiction

Winner:

Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms by Katherine Rundell

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Nonfiction

Winner:

The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, & the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming

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