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College Reads

            College students are beginning to roll back into our quiet town, filling the streets with the energy that comes with a new semester. At the same time, many local kids from the class of 2013 are both excited and nervous to be leaving home for college for the very first time. Catch the spirit with our college reads! We have campus fiction as well as practical and humorous guides to college life to usher in the new school year.

            If you’re a freshman headed off to campus, check out Harlan Coben’s The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College. In this guide, Coben takes you behind the scenes to prepare you for those experiences your guidance counselor never told you about.  Included are crazy stories from students at over 100 college campuses.

            We’ve added the following 2014 College Board guides to our reference collection: the College Handbook, Getting Financial Aid, the Book of Majors and the Scholarship Handbook. Stop in to peruse this wealth of information for students and prospective students. (College Board guides are located in the YA New Book section).

            Even if you aren’t enrolled this semester, you can experience college life through our campus fiction. Attend Dupont University (inspired by Ivy League campuses) with a brilliant but backwoods student in Tom Wolfe’s novel I am Charlotte Simmons.  Charlotte expects to find herself in an intellectual playground; instead, she’s surrounded by materialistic, partying rich kids who make her feel like an awkward outsider. Find out how Charlotte is transformed and influences her peers in this critique of 21st century universities.

            Look at college life through the eyes of a professor in Straight Man by Richard Russo.  In this novel, William Henry Devereaux Jr. is the reluctant chairman of the English department of a Pennsylvanian college that is struggling financially. Throughout the course of one week, Devereaux battles a variety of real and imagined issues in this comedic adventure. 

            If you participated in our Summer Reading Challenge, don’t forget to turn in your reading logs by Friday, August 23rd for a chance to win a Summer Gift Bag filled with goodies: North Country red wine, New York maple syrup, maple sugar candies, Harmony Farm honey, raspberry jam, Noble Farm beef jerky, Wild Water skin and bath products, gift certificates to The Glow and The Blackbird Café, a reading mug, a library t-shirt, a Book of Secrets and a Groundbreaking Reads journal. The winner will be announces on Monday, August 26th.

Teen Event
            The Anime Club continues to explore the Tokyo Underworld on Wednesdays at 3pm. Come join the supernatural adventure! Ages 13-19. For more information, email kbriggs@ncls.org or call 386-3712.

Family Movie Event

            Discover the trials and rewards of life as a demigod on Thursday, August 22nd at 2pm. Zeus, Poseidon and Medusa are a few of the mythological creatures who make an appearance in this film adaptation of Rick Riordon’s popular teen novel The Lightning Thief. Rated PG.

Toddler Storytime

We invite you to bring your toddler to the library for a fun storytime experience! Registration has begun for the fall and winter sessions of Toddler Storytime, a program at the Canton Free Library for children 18-35 months of age accompanied by a caregiver. The start dates for the three possible sessions are September 16th, October 21st and November 25th, and each runs for four weeks. Programs involve books, songs, finger plays, felt board stories and art activities, and take place on Monday mornings from 10:30-11:00 AM. The program is free, but space is limited. Please call 386-3712 ext 4 or email vwhite@ncls.org to register.

Book Club

            Share your love of reading with fellow patrons! The CFL Book Group is currently reading Empire Falls by Richard Russo. You’re invited to come discuss this novel on Wednesday, September 4th at 6pm in the upstairs meeting room.

Patron Discount

            Looking for a great activity for the end of summer? Visit the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake. Canton Free Library patrons receive a 50% discount on admission to the museum when they present their library cards with the library pass. Check out the pass at our library and bring it on your adventure. Find more information about the museum at adkmuseum.org.

VHS Sale

            We’re withdrawing all of the remaining children's VHS tapes from our collection. Visit our book sale to purchase your favorites. All proceeds benefit the library and help us purchase new materials.

For a list of Canton Free Library’s recent additions to the collection and our hours of service, visit cantonfreelibrary.org and “like” us on Facebook. Welcome back, college students!