Bill of Rights Day is December 15

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December 7, 2018

Jean de Brunhoff (12-09-1899 to 10-16-1937) French writer and illustrator who created the Babar books. We have one (B-2 Babar the King. December 13th we celebrate Santa Lucia Day, festival

Jean de Brunhoff (12-09-1899 to 10-16-1937) French writer and illustrator who created the Babar books. We have one (B-2 Babar the King.

December 13th we celebrate Santa Lucia Day, festival of lights celebrated in Sweden, Norway, and Swedish-speaking areas of Finland.

December 15th is Bill of Rights Day - the Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution.

Books added to our shelves this week include: (F) Heads You Win by Jeffrey Archer; Long Road to Mercy by David Baldacci; Master of His Fate by Barbara Taylor Bradford; Night of Miracles by Elizabeth Berg; Past Tense by Lee Child; Sea of Greed by Clive Cussler; Shadow Tyrants by Clive Cussler; Look Alive by Janet Evanovich; Target: Alex Cross by James Patterson; A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult; Beauchamp Hall by Danielle Steel; Tony’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani; Desperate Measures by Stuart Woods; (MF) You Don’t Own Me by Mary Higgins Clark; Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly; Vendetta by Iris Johansen; Shell Game by Sara Paretsky; (JNF) Fly With Me by Jane Yolen.

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