[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein reserve now! All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon reserve now! With his critically acclaimed Among the Missing and Fitting Ends, award-winning author Dan Chaon proved himself a master of the short story form. He is a writer, observes the Chicago Tribune, who can “convincingly squeeze whole lives into a [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] Pet Sematary by Stephen King reserve now! When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son -- and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it [...]
Phoenixville Public Library is celebrating the freedom to read with a special display for Banned Books Week, September 24 - 30. See the display of books that have been banned or challenged around the world, in the display case at the top of the stairs. Pick up a bookmark, an informative handout, and check out [...]
The Phoenixville Area School District has announced that there will be a scheduled Internet ouage on Thursday, September 22, between 5:00 PM and 6:00 PM, for upgrades and maintenance that will be performed on the PASD network. During this outage, wired and wireless Internet access will not be available in the library, and the library catalog [...]
PLEASE JOIN US FOR THIS VERY INFORMATIVE EVENT AT THE HIGH SCHOOL. OUR KEY NOTE PRESENTER WILL BE DR. MARYLYN CALABRESE. DR. CALABRESE WILL SPEAK ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE COLLEGE ESSAY. STUDENTS WILL LATER BE ABLE TO SUBMIT THEIR ESSAYS TO DR. CALABRESE WITH A FOLLOW-UP APPOINTMENT ON EITHER OCTOBER 11TH OR OCTOBER 19TH [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] Left Neglected by Lisa Genova reserve now! Sarah, a career-driven young mother, suffers a traumatic brain injury in a car accident that leaves her unable to perceive left-side information. The disability causes her to struggle through an uncertain recovery as she adapts to her new life. [divider sid="divider-1307557145" type="blank" [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner reserve now! The plans of four women--including a college student egg donor, a working-class surrogate mother, a wealthy woman, and her stepdaughter--are thrown into turmoil when the wealthy woman's husband suddenly dies and names the stepdaughter the unborn baby's guardian. [divider sid="divider-1307557145" type="blank" [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] Turning the Tide by Ed Offley reserve now! The United States experienced its most harrowing military disaster of World War II not in 1941 at Pearl Harbor but in the period from 1942 to 1943, in Atlantic coastal waters from Newfoundland to the Caribbean. Sinking merchant ships with impunity, [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins reserve now! Imagine there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women share a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore. Imagine them part of a novel [...]
