Park County Library System

Teresa Jordan, author of several books about the American West including the ranch memoir, Riding the White Horse Home, will be giving a talk about her work-in-progress, Learning the Language - Close Encounters of the Spoken Kind on Friday, April 11.  She will be at the Park County Library in Cody at 3:00 p.m., and at the Powell Branch Library in Powell at 7:00 p.m.   Teresa describes her book as being travel literature set in Argentina, and focused on language.  She realized when she turned 50 that if she were to ever learn a second language the time was now, so she enrolled in an immersion  program in Argentina and soaked up the culture. Continue Reading »

Remember when the a/v department at your library meant LPs and filmstrips? Well, the a/v department has changed dramatically over the years. Powell Branch Library’s audio/visual collection boasts some of the most up-to-date music and movies around, such as George Clooney in Michael Clayton and Rihanna’s latest disc. We pride ourselves on keeping our collection current, and even bringing in indie movies and music that you may not have heard of yet. We also love input and ideas. Please let us know if there is something out there that we have accidentally missed, and we’ll look into acquiring it for the collection. Contact us at the following: 307-754-8828 or powell@parkcountylibrary.org

Wyoming’s very own Craig Johnson is the featured blogger over at the Penguin Group blog, and he even mentions Meeteetse!

Craig has written three novels involving Walt Longmire, Sheriff of Absoroka county. You won’t be able to find it on a map, but you’ll recognize it as Wyoming as soon as you open up one of Craig’s books.

Check out The Cold Dish, Death Without Company, and Kindness Goes Unpunished. The library has all three books on CD, and The Cold Dish and Death Without Company are also available as downloadable audiobooks.

Fiction
Winter in Madrid by CJ Sansome–A reluctant British spy finds himself caught up in the intrigue of the Spanish Civil War, where his oldest friend went to fight Franco and then disappeared.

Ice Trap: A Novel of Suspense by Kitty Sewell–A Welsh doctor returns to the small Arctic town where he once spent a year when a girl who claims a DNA test proves she is his daughter contacts him out of the blue.

Split Estate by Charlotte Bacon–It’s always a gamble to buy a book that reviewers say gets the Wyoming landscape and “Western ethos” just right, but I decided to take a chance on this one. After his wife’s suicide, a New York City lawyer decides to move himself and his two children to his mother’s ranch in Wyoming, where she is busy fighting the people who own the mineral rights to her land. Continue Reading »

In January 2008, Park County library patrons searched the catalog for over 1000 authors. Here’s a visual version of the top 100 author searches in January:

Sadly, not all of these searches produce results. If you’re having trouble finding something in the catalog, here are a few tips: Continue Reading »