Park County Library System

That’s right, 2010 is the Powell Library’s 100 year anniversary. One way we are celebrating is by letting you vote on a new meeting room name. After 100 years of service to the community we felt that the meeting room deserved a more interesting name other than Meeting Room. You can place your vote using the Vote To Name Powell Library’s Meeting Room survey. Only one vote per survey is allowed but you can come back to the website to vote as many times as you like.

Family matinee will be Clifford’s Really Big Movie. Clifford, the biggest, reddest dog ever hits the big screen in this animated adventure, Saturday, February 20 at 11:00am.

This film is rated G. Children under 7 must be accompanied by an adult. Refreshments will be served.

Showing this month will be The Time Traveler’s Wife on Thursday, February 18 at 6:30 p.m. This story shows us how love knows no boundaries and transcends time and death and stars Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana, Arliss Howard, and Ron Livingston.

The movie is rated PG-13 and will be in the Powell Branch Library Meeting Room. Refreshments will be served.

Graphic novels aren’t just for kids any more. We’re slowly adding more to the adult collection. So, for something entirely different . . .

Are you a Stephen King fan? Try this graphic serial adaptation of King’s hugely successful novel The Stand. First is Captain Trips. The second is American Nightmares, with more gore to come. Read about the legendary “Man in Black,” Johnny Cash, in this new graphic biographic novel, Johnny Cash: I See A Darkness by Reinhard Kleist. Don’t forget Grandville, a novel that features a wily detective character who always gets his man. If you like them, let us know. If you have any more graphic novel suggestions, let us know that too!

Journey to the Center of the Earth will be showing in the Powell Branch Library Meeting room on Thursday, February 11 at 6:00 p.m.

A scientist with radical theories enters a cave in Iceland which leads him to the bowels of the earth, and his adventures begin. This movie is rated PG and refreshments will be served!

Powell Branch Library’s Classic Movie feature will be Roman Holiday, a story about a princess traveling incognito to experience a “normal life.” A reporter discovers her secret and the story continues. This film is not rated. Showing will be at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 9 in the Powell Branch Meeting Room. Free to the public and refreshments will be served!

The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs by Jack Gantos — Ivy loves her mother. She has never known her father, but she isn’t bothered by that: the twins across the street, Ab and Dolph, have always been like fathers to her. When she finds a shocking surprise in their basement, however, she questions who they are — and what that could mean for her. If you like fantastic writing and Gothic themes, you’ll be right at home with this book.

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman — Richard Mayhew is nothing special, as far as he can tell. He works a boring job in London and tries to keep his demanding fiancée happy. Just before he is supposed to meet her at a chi-chi event, he runs into the wounded Lady Door. His decision to save her life will draw him into London Below, the dangerous city beneath the city he knows, where friends are as untrustworthy as enemies and death is a footstep away. Continue Reading »

Reggie the Leonberger therapy dog will be at the Powell Branch Library starting on Tuesday, February 9. Children are encouraged to sign-up to read with Reggie from 3:45 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Powell Branch Meeting Room.

Our next T.W.E.R.L. (Teen Wednesday Early Release) meeting is coming up on Wednesday, February 3 at the Powell Branch Library. Middle school and high school students are welcome to join us in the meeting room on this early release day for paper bead making from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m. Let your creative juices flow as we learn the art of making beads from recycled paper. As always, there will be plenty of games and popcorn as well!

Fiction
Deeper Than the Dead by Tami Hoag — The “See No Evil Killer” glues his victim’s eyes and mouths shut and pierces their eardrums before he tortures them to death. One such body is discovered by a couple of fifth graders, and soon their teacher is drawn into the investigation (and drawn to the cop leading it).

Village of the Ghost Bears by Stan Jones — Native Alaska Trooper Nathan Active and his girlfriend come across a body in a creek. Meanwhile, in a small northern village, a fire at the recreation center kills eight people? Could the two be related?

Desert Lost: A Lena Jones Mystery by Betty Webb — Lena Jones stumbles on the body of a woman who turns out to have been a member of a polygamous cult five hours away. Continue Reading »