August 8,  2014

   



August 11 to 16

Visit Our Booth at the Queen Anne's County Fair!

Play the Chicken/Cow/Pig/Duck Flinging Game and put your name in to win a Library Logo folding beach chair! FREE coloring books and book markers!

Mark Your Calendar
Kent Island
25th Anniversary of the opening of the Kent Island Branch Library

Friday, September 5 - 5 to 7 p.m.
Wine and Cheese Anniversary Party!

Saturday, September 6 - 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Fun for the Family Celebration Party!


For more information view Library Director John Walden on QACTV YouTube page.
Delmarva Shorebirds Summer Reading Game was Rained Out
The Summer Reading Delmarva Shorebirds Game was rained out.

Anyone with FREE summer reading give-a-way tickets may use their tickets for ANY remaining Shorebirds game.

The rained out game has been rescheduled for Sunday, August 24.
Quick Jump
Happy 25th!
Shorebirds
Library Friends
Highlighting a Community Partner
KI Children Events
KI Adult Events
CEN Children's Events
CEN Adult & Teen Events
What Staff Are Reading
Did you know...
Branches
Quick Links
  
Library Friends

Front Porch Book Sale

Saturday, August 23 - 11 a.m. to 2 p.m

Both Centreville and Kent Island Branches 
 
Join the Friends at the Member level and receive a Friends library card. Join the Friends at the Supporter level and receive the Friends library card and Friends book bag. Friends flyers are available at both circulation desks
 
For more information on the Friends and how to join the fun, visit their web page.
 Like us on Facebook here!
Highlighting a Community Partner
 
Queen Anne's County Extension Office

The Queen Anne's County office of the University of Maryland Extension offers educational programs to the residents of the county. University of Maryland Extension is a unique educational organization involving a partnership between federal, state, and county governments designed to "Solutions in your community." Queen Anne's County faculty strives to stimulate a positive learning change educating audiences in four critical areas: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Family & Consumer Science, 4-H & Youth  Development programs and Home Horticulture including the Master Gardeners programs. Unbiased research information is delivered to county residents through workshops, seminars, clinics, classes, newsletters and media efforts.

Click here to learn more about your County Extension Office! 
 Kent Island Branch Children's Events

 

Cooking for Kids: Easy No-Heat Recipes for Kids and Parents 
Tuesday, August 12 at 10:30 a.m. 
For ages 6 to 16 
Join us to learn how you can make fruit salad with yogurt
.
Please register by calling 410-643-8161.  


Crocamole  
Thursday, August 14 at 10 and 11 a.m.
For ages 5 to 7
Hear a story about a crocodile and then make crocamole: a guacamole dip that looks like a crocodile! Led by Ms. Julie and Pampered Chef consultant Tara Fontz. Please call 410-643-8161 to register.  

 

Read to Rover

Tuesday, Aug. 19 at 4:30 p.m.

For Kdg - 5th grade
Read to a dog from Pets on Wheels to develop reading skills and confidence.  See that smiling girl? She practiced her reading skills and earned a plush dog through our Read to Rover program. That's a good reason to smile!  Please call 410-643-8161 to reserve your time slot or if you have questions. 
Kent Island Adult Events


The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Tuesday, August 12th at 7 p.m. 
Book Discussion Group 
Join the Tuesday Nighters Book Club as we discuss "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer. Light refreshments will be provided. Call 410-643-8161 with any questions.
 
Computer & e-Reader/Tablet Assistance

Do you have questions about a Microsoft Office product? Do you need to set up an email account, but don't know how? Or maybe you have questions about how to download a library book to your e-Reader. We can help answer your computer and e-Reader questions at the Kent Island Branch. Just call 410-643-8161 to set up an appointment today.

 

Centreville Branch Children's Events 

Pajama Story Time
Thursday, August 14 at 7:00 p.m.
For ages birth to 5 with a parent or caregiver
Wear your pjs and bring your favorite stuffed animal or blanket and enjoy stories, songs and a craft!



Centreville Branch Adult & Teen Events

 

Teen Advisory Board

Tuesday, August 12 from 5:00 to 5:45 p.m.

For teens 13 to 18

Come to the TAB meeting and help plan future programs, pick out books and work on projects for the library! 

 

 

Creative Fiction Writers with Peggy Jaegly

Aug. 28, Sept. 4 & 25, Oct. 2 & 23, Nov. 6 and Dec. 4

from 7 to 8:30 p.m. 

Creative Fiction Writers is an independent and non-competing group for both beginner and advance writers who are serious about learning and improving their craft of creative writing.Members will learn how to provide and receive helpful critiques and explore various avenues to publish and market their work. Meetings may open with a discussion focusing on one aspect of writing, publishing or marketing to be followed by a voluntary critique session. Writers choosing to participate in the critique session may read no more than 10 pages of double-spaced in 12 point font (manuscript format) of their current writing project to receive a critique from those attending. Writers offering critique must first read and agree to the critique rules.

 

 

Selection Night

Thursday, August 21 at 7 p.m.

Book Discussion Group

This is a great time to join in the conversation! Bring a couple of books that you'd like to nominate for upcoming book discussions. We will also be talking about what we're reading in addition to voting for upcoming selections.   

 

 

 

The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande

Thursday, September 18 at 7 p.m.

Book Discussion Group 

Join us to talk about the 2014 One Maryland One Book selection. At a time when immigration politics are at a boiling point in America, Reyna Grande is an important public voice for Mexican Americans and immigrants of every origin. The Distance Between Us has the power to change minds and hearts. 

 

Computer & e-Reader/Tablet Assistance

Do you have questions about a Microsoft Office product?  Or maybe you have questions about how to download a library book to your e-Reader. We can help answer your computer and e-Reader questions at the Centreville Branch. One-on-one tutorial sessions are available. Just call 410-758-0980 to set up an appointment today.
What Staff are Reading


Jenny is reading...

Silver by Chris Wooding 
   
When the students at Mortingham Boarding Academy find a group of strange, silvery beetles on school grounds they are excited, but when the beetles attack them and a mysterious virus stars spreading, a group of mismatched students must work together to survive.


 
The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the epic age of flight 
By Winston Groom 



Other staff are reading...

Moving Target by J.A. Jance

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport

Taming the Drunken Monkey by William L. Mikulas

 
Letting Go by Maya Banks


 
 
 
For a list of the Top 10 Books published this month that librarians 
across the country love check out Library Reads
 
 

 

Did you know?


Items returned in the night drop are back dated
when they are checked in!


Also...the back parking lot night drop at the Centreville Branch is open 24/7.
 
Queen Anne's County Library
 
Centreville Branch - 121 S. Commerce St., Centreville, MD 21617 - 410-758-0980
Kent Island Branch - 200 Library Circle, Stevensville, MD 21666 - 410-643-8161