#InternationalWomen’sDay 2019
The staff of the Forest Lodge Library wishes everyone a Happy International Women’s Day! We hold up half the sky! C’mon in and check out a title featuring an amazing woman!
Staff Picks-Sarah-March 2019
CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? (picks don’t always have to be books, ya know!) Melissa McCarthy is Lee Israel, a best selling biographer who can’t get her latest book published. She decides to start forging letters from deceased writers and playwriters to make ends meet and is soon caught up in a situation she can’t…
Director Lendved goes to Pre-School!
Director Lendved LOVES being invited to come to the Cable PreSchool to read a few books to the kids…especially during Dinosaur Week! We looked at a few non-fiction books, and offered up some dino facts and science. Then we read a couple of FUN ones. Everybody really liked TYRANNOSAURUS REX VS. EDNA THE CHICKEN. Everybody…
New Arrivals February 2019
These fresh titles have JUST ARRIVED! We need to get them cataloged & processed…but, the time to call and get your name on the HOLD list is now! 715-798-3189…or, of course, HOLD them yourself via the catalog.
Birkie Carb Load
For those of you looking to carb load tomorrow evening…or just enjoy some yummy spaghetti…head on over to the Cable Community Centre between 4 & 8…for the Annual American Legion Birkie Spaghetti Feed hosted by the Northwoods Preschool. And, if you miss Friday, head out to the Stokes-Liebman American Legion Post 487 on Saturday from…
Kristine’s February 2019 Staff Pick
ALICE ISN’T DEAD by Joseph Fink “Keisha Taylor lived a quiet life with her wife, Alice, until the day that Alice disappeared. After months of searching, presuming she was dead, Keisha held a funeral, mourned, and gradually tried to get on with her life. But, that was before Keisha started to see her wife, again,…
Blind Date with a Book…or Movie
Looking for that special someone…or something…for your Valentine’s Day? DO come in and partake of our annnual Blind Date with a Book or Movie event! Choose a wrapped title…based on a brief description. You might end up with something you”d have never chosen…based on the cover. Complete with a “rate your date” sheet. It’s a…
A Candidate’s Forum – Town of Cable Chair/Primary
The Town of Cable has three individuals who have placed their names in contention for the Town Chairmanship, which necessitates a Primary Election. In an effort to give the prospective candidates an opportunity to talk about why they are running, and area voters a chance to hear from them, the Forest Lodge Library has scheduled…
Vikki’s Staff Pick – December 2018
THE GREAT ALONE by Kristin Hannah I had not read any of Kristin Hannah’s works before this, but it has been popular, and the location intrigued me: Alaska. It is a coming-of-age novel that is pretty intense. It’s 1974; Leni is 13 and lives in Seattle with her mom, Cora, and her POW father, Ernt.…
Sarah’s Staff Pick – December 2018
Transcription by Kate Atkinson I really enjoyed Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series, and was looking forward to her newest stand alone novel. Juliet is an 18 year old woman in 1940s England and is recruited into MI5. She is charged with transcribing meetings between British Fascist sympathizers and an undercover British agent. She is soon asked…