Hoppy Easter! New (and Old) Children's Titles

 5-Minute Easter Stories is from Disney Press. "Each of the twelve stories in this collection is the perfect length for reading aloud in about five minutes. The treasury stars beloved characters from the Disney Bunnies and Winnie the Pooh to Monsters, Inc., and Cinderella. With stories about spring-time fun or Easter Egg hunts, every story may be read before bedtime, at story time, or anytime"--Amazon.com. 

Inspire both excitement and reverence for the Easter holiday in this colorful picture book--How to Celebrate Easter: Holiday Traditions, Rituals, and Rules in a Delightful Story--by P.K. Hallinan. "Brightly illustrated in beautiful spring colors, P. K. Hallinan takes the reader from the early discovery of an Easter basket through a quick search for eggs. Then it’s time to jump into brand-new Easter outfits and join the neighbors for church. After church, it’s back outside for games and then home to reflect on the wonderful day. Each joyful activity is brimming with the heart-stirring warmth associated with all of P. K. Hallinan’s children’s books. As always, Hallinan is careful to make fitting transitions from reverie to reverence—he delicately encourages respect for the Easter message, subtly exploring the hope that this favorite holiday brings. Parents have come to expect their children to identify with P. K. Hallinan’s lovable, familiar characters, and they may once again in this delightful look at Easter through a child’s eyes." (from Amazon.com)

Tina Gallo adapts Charles Schultz's Peanuts characters in No Rest for the Easter Beagle. "Get ready for Easter with Snoopy and the Peanuts gang in this special Level 2 Ready-to-Read! It’s almost Easter and Snoopy is exhausted! He still has lots of eggs to color and hide. When Lucy recommends that the Easter Beagle take a break, it’s up to the Peanuts Gang to color and hide all the eggs. Everyone wants to help, but are they up to the task?" (from Amazon.com)

Author Eric James pens a fun Easter Tale with Tiny the Mississippi Easter Bunny.

It's Easter morning in Mississippi,

and Tiny is out for a jog,

but he STOPS in his tracks and discovers

the Easter Bunny STUCK in a log!

"With the Easter Bunny trapped, it's up to Tiny to save Easter in Mississippi! But being a bunny isn't as easy as it looks, especially for an elephant. In this fun and playful story, find out how Tiny uses his own special talents to save Easter!" (from Amazon.com)

Remember, the library will be open the Friday before and the Monday after Easter.

New Biographies for Women's History Month

Grammy-winning artist Alicia Keys lays her life bare in More Myself: A Journey. Since Alicia rose to fame, her public persona has contradicted a deep personal truth: she has spent years trying to please others without realizing or honoring her own worth. She started asking questions of herself after holding back for so long: Who am I really? How can I become brave enough to embrace the answer? Part autobiography, part narrative journey, Alicia’s true self is revealed not only through her discoveries, but through the observations of those closest to her. From her girlhood in Hell’s Kitchen and Harlem to the process of growth and self-discovery that almost everyone goes through, this is a complete look at the beautiful soul and talented spirit of Alicia Keys.

Eleanor--the biography of Eleanor Roosevelt written by David Michaelis--is the first cradle-to-grave, single-volume biography of this major American figure in decades. She was the longest serving First Lady, her husband’s surrogate during his governorship and presidency, a humanitarian, activist, and after FDR’s death, a diplomat. Eleanor Roosevelt is one of the most influential and widely admired American women of all time. She was the orphaned niece of President Theodore Roosevelt and converted her Gilded Age childhood of denial and secrecy into an irreconcilable marriage with her ambitious fifth cousin Franklin. Despite not being able to make one another happy, Franklin transformed Eleanor from a settlement house volunteer on New York’s Lower East Side into his partner in the most important power couple in a generation. When she discovered his infidelity with her younger, prettier social secretary, Eleanor offered a divorce and vowed to face herself honestly. She accepted FDR’s relationship with his executive assistant, and she allowed her children to live their own lives, as she never could. She needed emotional connection, so she pursued deeper relationships wherever she could find them. Throughout her life and travels, there was always another person or place she wanted to heal. Eleanor became a voice for the voiceless and a champion for international human rights.

           

Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics by Dolly Parton is a celebration of her remarkable life and career in both country music and pop culture. Written in her own down-home words, readers get to hear and explore the songs that defined her journey of stardom. For over 60 years, Dolly has written songs and this work highlights 175 of them and gives listeners the story behind the lyrics. There are personal stories, candid insights, and a myriad of memories shared with the listener. You will learn the history behind classic songs like “Jolene,” “9 to 5,” and “I Will Always Love You.” Dolly is an undisputable icon across generations, genders, and social and international borders. If you are a Dolly Parton fan, lover of country music or music history, then this is a good choice for you. (Available in Audio CD)

Newly elected Vice President Kamala Harris has a new memoir with The Truths We Hold: An American Journey. Covering her life from her upbringing in Oakland, California through her time as a United States Senator, this book seeks to point out the core truths that unite us all and how we can act upon them. Kamala Harris is the daughter of immigrants and civil rights activists who was raised in a community the deeply cared about social justice. Her experiences as she rose to notoriety in the political sphere would become her foundation as she grappled with an array of complex issues and brought a voice to those who had none. In this book, she endeavors to deal with the big challenges that we face together. She draws on her own experience as well as the work of those who have most inspired her to articulate a vision of shared struggle, shared purpose, and shared values as we face the challenges of our times.

Happy Irish-American History Month & St. Patrick's Day

 

Saying Goodbye to Local Historian

Gordon Cotton was an invaluable member of the Vicksburg community. He was an author, educator, and historian whose works helped to tell the story of Vicksburg and the area. The library has many of his works available for checkout:

·         Of prim­i­tive ­faith and order: a his­to­ry of the Mis­sis­sip­pi Prim­i­tive Bap­tist Church, 1780-1974

·         A history of the Waterways Experiment Station, 1929-1979

·         Asbury : a history      

·         Vicksburg: ­Southern Stories of the Siege

·         Vicksburg and the war

·         Yankee Bullets, Rebel Rations

·         From the pen of a she-rebel: the Civil War diary of Emilie Riley McKinley           

·         15 China and other tales

·         Like a hideous night­mare: Vicksburg ­women remember the horrors or the Civil War     

·         Vicksburg       

·         Vicksburg: Town and Country

Vicksburg under glass: a collection of early photographs from the glass negatives of J. Mack­ Moore

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