Regular Hours
*The Library begins shutdown
15 minutes before close*
| Monday | 8:00 a.m. | to | 7:00 p.m. |
| Tuesday | 8:00 a.m. | to | 7:00 p.m. |
| Wednesday | 8:00 a.m. | to | 4:00 p.m. |
| Thursday | 8:00 a.m. | to | 7:00 p.m. |
| Friday | 8:00 a.m. | to | 7:00 p.m. |
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Saturday |
8:00 a.m. | to | 4:00 p.m. |
*Public Internet & WiFi services shutdown
15 minutes before close*
Telephone
(931) 484-6790 Library
(931) 456-2006 Archives
(931) 484-2350 Public Fax
(931) 707-8956 Business Fax
Address
Art Circle Public Library
3 East Street
Crossville, TN 38555
Library News Article for November 19
The Library is pleased to have two extremely talented artists on display in the cases at the main entrance. Twyla Marti and her mixed media work and Manny Marti’s stained glass pieces are sites to behold. Don’t miss these exquisite works.
Tomorrow Wednesday, November 20, at noon in the Cumberland Room, Al Bonnis, a fingerstyle guitarist and a member of JR and Friends, will entertain us with fancy pickin’ and memorable songs.
There will be no concert on Wednesday, November 27. Happy Thanksgiving!
Great New Books
Cher: The Memoir, Part One by Cher
After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir. Her remarkable career is unique and unparalleled. The only woman to top Billboard charts in seven consecutive decades, she is the winner of an Academy Award, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Cannes Film Festival Award, and an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who has been lauded by the Kennedy Center. She is a lifelong activist and philanthropist. As a dyslexic child who dreamed of becoming famous, Cher was raised in often-chaotic circumstances, surrounded by singers, actors, and a mother who inspired her in spite of their difficult relationship. With her trademark honesty and humor, Cher: The Memoir traces how this diamond in the rough succeeded with no plan and little confidence to become the trailblazing superstar the world has been unable to ignore for more than half a century.
The City and its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami
The latest work from award-winning Murakami transports readers to a small town where residents have lost their own shadows, clocks have no hands, and the high wall surrounding the community can move and change its boundaries. A young man infatuated with a 16-year-old girl narrates. With the girl's help, he becomes a "dream reader" in a library without books or textual materials. He explores different realities as he delves into the dreams he experiences while reading. In his mid-40s, he finally finds a fulfilling position as head librarian in a rural area many miles away. Along a walking path between work, home, and the local cemetery, he frequents a coffee shop and befriends its owner. When he stops by one evening to have dinner with the coffee shop owner, she has just finished reading Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera. That magical realism tale sheds a floodlight of insight into the narrator's mind, just as Murakami's book, a masterpiece, will with readers.
The Mirror by Nora Roberts
The suspenseful second installment of bestseller Roberts's Lost Bride Trilogy brings more cozy romance and heightened ghostly scares. Sonya MacTavish and her best friend, Cleo Fabares, have settled into a comfortable life in Lost Bride Manor, the haunted house Sonya inherited in coastal Maine in book one, despite increasing antipathy from one of the manor's many ghosts, the evil witch Hester Dobbs. Over the previous two centuries, Dobbs murdered seven brides who married into the Poole side of Sonya's family and it's on Sonya to find the brides' wedding rings and break the curse Dobbs placed on the manor. Along with her beau, Trey, and cousin Owen (who has strong chemistry with Cleo)--as well as their loyal pets--Sonya is determined to flourish in her new home. This volume digs deeper into the haunting of Lost Bride Manor, elucidating more of the players and expanding the worldbuilding through effective flashbacks that deliver necessary backstory without slowing the momentum. The result is quintessential Roberts.
Library Laugh I
What is red and sometimes explodes in the fruit section? A pomegrenade.
Stingy Schobel Says
There are two helpful tips you should use to maximize the amount of gasoline that actually makes it into your car’s tank. First, fill up in the morning. Gasoline is more dense when it’s cold outside. Gas expands as it warms up throughout the day, so avoid filling up in the afternoon and early evening. And fill your gas tank slowly: Applying the most pressure on the pump increases the chance of vapor giving a false sense that the tank is full (and you'll be charged for that phantom gas).
Library Laugh II
What did the grape do when it was stepped on? It let out a little wine.
Libraries=Information
We’ve all heard about the problem of “fast furniture” -- cheaply made pieces like tables, chairs and sofas that are easier to throw away than to take with you when you move. But for those of us on a budget, investing in lifetime pieces that cost way more is equally out of consideration. Enter a new wave of furniture rental companies that offer high-quality pieces. Websites like Mobley, Fernish and Feather offer current, high-end pieces for a monthly fee, and they take them back when you no longer need them.
Fall Foliage Bonus
What does Batman like in his drinks? Just ice.
