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Read more about the article Sinners

Sinners

  • Post author:JVB Librarian
  • Post published:November 26, 2025
  • Post category:Nik/Staff Picks

Sinners is a sophisticated Jim Crow Era Horror Movie, that not only uses symbolism thru jazz music but also thru the depiction of societal fear in relation to race and…

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Read more about the article Assistant to the Villain

Assistant to the Villain

  • Post author:JVB Librarian
  • Post published:November 26, 2025
  • Post category:Shiela/Staff Picks

Evie is a "sunny" executive assistant who works for her very grumpy boss "The Villain." She has to help the boss with his evil office duties like mayhem and terror…

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Read more about the article The Oxford Children’s Book of Science

The Oxford Children’s Book of Science

  • Post author:JVB Librarian
  • Post published:November 26, 2025
  • Post category:Jacquie/Staff Picks

This book is great for tweens and teens. The pictures draw you in and the topics are rich and intriguing.

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Read more about the article The Love of My Afterlife

The Love of My Afterlife

  • Post author:JVB Librarian
  • Post published:November 26, 2025
  • Post category:Melissa/Staff Picks

When Delphie chokes on a microwaveable burger alone in her apartment, she wakes up in the afterlife with nothing to show for her time on earth aside from the "Shine…

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Ordinary Love

  • Post author:JVB Librarian
  • Post published:November 26, 2025
  • Post category:Courtney/Staff Picks

We meet Emily on the precipice of life-altering change after the final straw in her marriage leads her to separate herself and her two children from her husband, whose short…

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Library receives grant for Plunketts Creek Township ‘Link’

  • Post author:JVB Librarian
  • Post published:November 25, 2025
  • Post category:News

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – The James V. Brown Library, 19 E. Fourth St., recently was the recipient of $1,000 in grant funding from the Plunketts Creek Township Foundation Fund at the…

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Read more about the article You Dreamed of Empires

You Dreamed of Empires

  • Post author:JVB Librarian
  • Post published:November 11, 2025
  • Post category:Brian/Staff Picks

Set on a single day in November 1519, this historical novel reimagines themeeting between Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and Aztec emperorMoctezuma II in the city of Tenochtitlan (present-day Mexico City).…

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Read more about the article Canadian Boyfriend

Canadian Boyfriend

  • Post author:JVB Librarian
  • Post published:November 11, 2025
  • Post category:Jill/Staff Picks

I thought this book would be a cute rom-com, and yes it has light hearted moments, but there’s more substance to this story. Teenage Aurora meets Mike while serving coffee…

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Read more about the article Serpent and the Wings of Night

Serpent and the Wings of Night

  • Post author:JVB Librarian
  • Post published:November 11, 2025
  • Post category:Savannah/Staff Picks

The Serpent and the Wings of Night is an intense, beautifully written fantasy-romance novel that follows Oraya, a human adopted by a vampire king, who must fight her way through…

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Read more about the article The Marsh King’s Daughter

The Marsh King’s Daughter

  • Post author:JVB Librarian
  • Post published:November 11, 2025
  • Post category:Rachel/Staff Picks

The Marsh King's Daughter is an engaging psychological thriller with themes of family dynamics, child abduction, and survivalism. The narrative switches between present day and flashbacks to the protagonist's childhood,…

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