Keep on top of library hours

If the weather so far this win­ter is any indi­ca­tion, it’s likely that we are in for a snowy few weeks! When the weather turns ugly, unex­pected clo­sures are likely to occur at the Delaware County Dis­trict Library. We cer­tainly do not want to incon­ve­nience you in any way; how­ever, for your safety and the safety of our staff, the library will always and imme­di­ately close when the Delaware County Sher­iff issues a Level 2 or Level 3 snow emer­gency, and will remain closed until the level has been reduce or canceled.

When an emer­gency sit­u­a­tion causes the library to close, we will notify the local media (the Gazette, news sta­tions on Colum­bus tele­vi­sion, radio, and so forth) as well as post clos­ing infor­ma­tion on delawarelibrary.org. We will also use social media tools such as Face­book and Twit­ter to get the word out. All four library loca­tions will pro­vide clos­ing infor­ma­tion on their answer­ing machines to com­mu­ni­cate any irreg­u­lar­ity in hours, too.

Among the Delaware Main Library, and the Pow­ell, Ostran­der and Orange Branches, we are open 250 hours per week, and we are closed only on seven hol­i­days each year: New Year’s Day, Memo­r­ial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanks­giv­ing, Christ­mas Eve and Christ­mas Day. We are also closed on Mar­tin Luther King Jr. Day for staff train­ing. Mak­ing the library acces­si­ble to you is impor­tant to us, and we min­i­mize the days and times we will be closed as much as pos­si­ble. Nev­er­the­less, emer­gen­cies do unfor­tu­nately hap­pen, so we will do our best to let you know as soon as pos­si­ble if the library has to close unexpectedly.

The next time you’re in the library, look for these books due out in January.

• The Bub­ble Gum Thief by Jeff Miller. It all started with the theft of a pack of gum, and the omi­nous note he left behind: THIS IS MY FIRST CRIME. MY NEXT WILL BE BIGGER. Every two weeks, he deliv­ers on this pledge, com­mit­ting a big­ger crime, and promis­ing that the next will be even worse. When petty theft gives way to bloody mur­der, the stakes become clear. He may have begun with the small­est crime pos­si­ble, but he’s build­ing toward the biggest crime imaginable.

• Civil War Dynasty: The Ewing fam­ily of Ohio by Ken­neth J. Heine­man. For years the Ewing fam­ily of Ohio has been lost in the his­tor­i­cal shadow cast by their in-law, Gen­eral William T. Sher­man. The Ewing fam­ily raised Sher­man, got him into West Point, and pro­vided him with the finan­cial resources and polit­i­cal con­nec­tions to suc­ceed in war. The patri­arch, Thomas Ewing, coun­seled pres­i­dents and clashed with rad­i­cal abo­li­tion­ists and south­ern seces­sion­ists lead­ing to the Civil War, and three Ewing sons became Union generals.

• Crys­tal Cove by Lisa Kley­pas. When Jus­tine Hoff­man was born her mother cast a spell to pro­tect her from heart­break, and as a result, she is inca­pable of falling in love. How­ever, when Jus­tine meets the mys­te­ri­ous Jason Black, she acci­den­tally unleashes a storm of desire and dan­ger that will threaten every­thing she holds dear … and together Jus­tine and Jason dis­cover that love is the most pow­er­ful magic of all.

• A Cul­tural Hand­book to the Bible by John J. Pilch. Bridges the cul­tural divide by trans­lat­ing impor­tant social con­cepts and apply­ing them to bib­li­cal texts. In short, acces­si­ble chap­ters. Pilch dis­cusses 63 top­ics related to the cos­mos, the earth, per­sons, fam­ily, lan­guage, human con­scious­ness, God and the spirit world and enter­tain­ment. Pilch’s fresh inter­pre­ta­tions of the Bible chal­lenge tra­di­tional views and explore top­ics often over­looked in commentaries.

• Farewell to Free­dom by Sara Blaedel. Copenhagen’s Detec­tive Louise Rick inves­ti­gates the grisly mur­der of a young woman and the dis­cov­ery of an aban­doned baby and uncov­ers ties to human traf­fick­ing in this new novel of the inter­na­tional best-selling series fol­low­ing Call Me Princess.

• John Wayne: The Leg­end and the Man: an exclu­sive look inside Duke’s archive. Cel­e­brat­ing the Duke’s life and legacy through film stills and back­stage pho­tos and snap­shots, this fas­ci­nat­ing por­trait of the actor, who was the ulti­mate per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of Amer­i­can courage and honor, shares his pri­vate moments, inner thoughts and famil­ial memories.

• Pri­vate Lon­don by James Pat­ter­son and Mark Pear­son. Dan Carter, head of the Lon­don divi­sion of Pri­vate, the world’s most exclu­sive detec­tive agency, must join forces with his ex-wife if he is going to save Amer­i­can stu­dent Han­nah Shapiro from a threat that has stalked her for eight years.

• The Trapeze Artist by Will Davis. Appear­ing to his fam­ily and teach­ers as a duti­ful youth but secretly hat­ing his drab and ordered world, Edward all but destroys his home to build a trapeze and tor­tures his mus­cles with train­ing before get­ting in his car at the age of 40 to fol­low and join the circus.

• The Vio­lin: A Social His­tory of the World’s Most Ver­sa­tile Instru­ment by David Schoen­baum. Traces the his­tory of the instru­ment, from its first appear­ance in the mid-sixteenth cen­tury to its mod­ern use by artists, writ­ers, and Hol­ly­wood and dis­cusses how the afford­able, portable instru­ment can be used to play Beethoven, jazz and indie rock.

If you have a ques­tion that you would like to see answered in this col­umn, mail it to Mary Jane San­tos, Delaware County Dis­trict Library, 84 E. Win­ter St., Delaware, OH 43015, or call 740–362-3861. You can also email your ques­tions by vis­it­ing delawarelibrary.org or directly to Mary Jane at mjsantos@delawarelibrary.org. No mat­ter how you con­tact us, we’re always glad you asked!

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