Jervis Public Library, 613 N. Washington St., is once again open to the public! Face masks and social distancing are required.
Library hours are 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday to Thursday; 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Fridays; and 10 a.m.- 3 p.m. Saturdays through June 19.
The library has 110,000 books; tens of thousands of digital books, audiobooks, movies, comics, and music via the hoopla app; nearly 20,000 digital books and audiobooks via OverDrive’s Libby app (midyork.overdrive.com); 4,500 DVDs; 6,000 books on CD; nearly 200 magazines and newspapers; and 155 digital magazines.
Borrow unique items including fishing poles, karaoke machine and CDs, DVD player, VCR, and Kill-a-Watt meter. The library also offers meeting rooms, licensed Notary Public, and one-on-one tech help — call ahead for availability. Access all this with a free library card. To get your library card, bring in identification with your current address.
Call 315-336-4570, e-mail askJPL@jervislibrary.org, or go online to www.jervislibrary.org or www.facebook.com/jervispubliclibrary for more information.
Attraction passes
‘Tis the season for borrowing passes for area attractions. Call 315-336-4570 to check the availability of passes; if available, we will keep the pass on hold for you until the close of business on the day you call to reserve it. They cannot be reserved for a particular day. Passes available this year include:
Adirondack Experience (50% off family admission)
Empire Pass (free admission to NYS Parks)
Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse (free admission for two adults; under 12 are free)
Fort Rickey Game Farm (50% off admission for up to four adults and six children)
The Wild Center in Tupper Lake ($10 admission for each of up to two adults (18 and up) and up to four children for free)
You must show your library card to take advantage of these offers at many of the sites so make sure you pack those in your picnic basket.
To round out your travel planning, we will also be selling discounted tickets to Water Safari beginning in early June, and are already selling EZPass for the NYS Thruway. Call the library for more information.
Did you know?
On May 26, 1897, the novel Dracula by Irish author Bram Stoker was published. This is the best known of 17 novels penned by Stoker.
Enjoy Dracula or another classic horror novel in book, movie, physical, or digital format with your free library card. Don’t have one? You can sign up for a library card online ( https://tinyurl.com/yab4mv9y ) or call the library at 315-336-4570 to have a card mailed to you or to make an appointment to sign up for a card in person.
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“The Guncle” by Steven Rowley. From G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. But in terms of caretaking and relating to two children, no matter how adorable, Patrick is, honestly, overwhelmed.
So when tragedy strikes and Maisie and Grant lose their mother and Patrick’s brother has a health crisis of his own, Patrick finds himself suddenly taking on the role of primary guardian. Quickly realizing that parenting–even if temporary–isn’t solved with treats and jokes, Patrick’s eyes are opened to a new sense of responsibility, and the realization that, sometimes, even being larger than life means you’re unfailingly human.
“The Invisible Husband of Frick Island” by Colleen Oakley. From Berkley.
Piper Parrish’s life on Frick Island—a tiny, remote town smack in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay—is nearly perfect. Well, aside from one pesky detail: Her darling husband, Tom, is dead. When Tom’s crab boat capsized and his body wasn’t recovered, Piper, rocked to the core, did a most peculiar thing: carried on as if her husband was not only still alive, but right there beside her, cooking him breakfast, walking him to the docks each morning, meeting him for their standard Friday night dinner date at the One-Eyed Crab.
And what were the townspeople to do but go along with their beloved widowed Piper?
A young ambitious journalist, Anders Caldwell had rather hoped he’d be a national award-winning podcaster by now, rather than writing fluff pieces for a small town newspaper. But when he gets an assignment to travel to the remote Frick Island and cover their boring annual Cake Walk fundraiser, he stumbles upon a much more fascinating tale: an entire town pretending to see and interact with a man who does not actually exist.
“Local Woman Missing: A Novel” by Mary Kubica. From Park Row.
Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold.
Now, eleven years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they’ll find…
Kid’s Corner
“1001 Bees” by Joanna Rzezak. From Thames & Hudson.
We’re on an adventure with 1,001 bees! Come visit the bees in their hive, meet their queen, and discover how they collect pollen. Then join them as they visit their favorite flowers, work on their honeycombs, and venture out to find good spots for their home.
1,001 Bees is an engaging nonfiction book for children full of fascinating facts about nature. With lively and appealing illustrations, it’s a must-have for children who are curious about bugs and the animal kingdom.
“Oddity” by Eli Brown. From Walker Books US. YA
It’s the early 1800s, and Clover travels the impoverished borderlands of the Unified States with her father, a physician. See to the body before you, he teaches her, but Clover can’t help becoming distracted by bigger things, including the coming war between the US and France, ignited by a failed Louisiana Purchase, and the terrifying vermin, cobbled together from dead animals and spare parts, who patrol the woods.
Most of all, she is consumed with interest for Oddities, ordinary objects with extraordinary abilities, such as a Teapot that makes endless amounts of tea and an Ice Hook that freezes everything it touches.
Clover’s father has always disapproved of Oddities, but when he is murdered, Clover embarks on a perilous mission to protect the one secret Oddity he left behind.
“We Are Inevitable” by Gayle Forman. From Viking Books for Young Readers. YA
Aaron Stein used to think books were miracles. But not anymore. Even though he spends his days working in his family’s secondhand bookstore, the only book Aaron can bear to read is one about the demise of the dinosaurs. It’s a predicament he understands all too well, now that his brother and mom are gone and his friends have deserted him, leaving Aaron and his shambolic father alone in a moldering bookstore in a crusty mountain town where no one seems to read anymore.
So when Aaron sees the opportunity to sell the store, he jumps at it, thinking this is the only way out. But he doesn’t account for Chad, a “best life” bro with a wheelchair and way too much optimism, or the town’s out-of-work lumberjacks taking on the failing shop as their pet project.
