New virtual program: Making Your Money Last – Wed Oct 28 at 6 pm

Have you retired recently? Are you planning to retire soon? Sign up for Making Your Money Last, Wednesday, October 28 at 6 pm.

This virtual presentation discusses ideas to help build a reasonable and sustainable strategy for managing income and expenses during retirement. We’ll explore how to address key concerns such as inflation, health care expenses and market volatility as well as ways to prepare for things that may not go as expected. Provided by Edward Jones.

Click here to register. This program supports PA Forward Financial Literacy.

Business resources for entrepreneurial success!

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If you’re a business owner or thinking about starting a business, we have resources for you, available online and in our libraries.


Check out Entrepreneur and Fast Company magazines on Flipster, free with your library card.

Entrepreneur magazine is the trusted source for growing your business and offers surefire strategies for success.


Fast Company magazine is dedicated to reporting about how the “fast companies”; entrepreneurs, and cutting-edge are doing what they do.

Visit https://chescolibraries.org/downloads and scroll to Flipster to sign in with your card.


For more business books, visit our print catalog here.

These eBooks and eAudiobooks are available now. Visit our OverDrive catalog here.


And check out our online, self-paced course on Entrepreneurship from Cisco Networking Academy to help you explore potential career pathways, develop technical mastery, and build critical thinking and problem-solving skills needed to succeed. This course is free and can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection. Get started here.

World Mental Health Day – October 10 – valuable resources for you

Today is World Mental Health Day, observed with the overall objective of raising awareness of mental health issues around the world and mobilizing efforts in support of mental health.

You can learn more from the World Health Organization here and about past World Mental Health Days here.

In addition, the World Health Organization will host, for the first time ever, a global online advocacy event on mental health. World leaders, mental health experts and celebrity guests will join WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, to tell the world what we can all do to improve our mental health and how we can help make sure that quality mental health care is available to everyone who needs it. Learn more about this event here.

Our library system also has many print and digital library resources for you.

In addition, you can access Yoga and Mindfulness magazines on Flipster, free. Visit https://chescolibraries.org/downloads and scroll to Flipster to sign in with your library card.

Hankin Whodunits Mystery Book Club to meet via Zoom on Wednesday, October 21

The Hankin Whodunits Mystery Book Club will meet via Zoom on Wednesday, October 21 at 1 pm to discuss Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Copies of Rebecca  are available at the Henrietta Hankin Branch Circulation Desk while supplies last.

The classic Gothic suspense novel by Daphne du Maurier — winner of the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century — is now a Netflix film starring Lily James and Armie Hammer.

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .

The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady’s maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives—presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.

All are welcome! Register here.

 

 

Read these home fix-up magazines on Flipster with your library card

Are you getting ready to start some home improvement projects? Check out these home fix-up magazines on Flipster.

Flipster is a great way to read magazines on your computer, smartphone or tablet. We have more than 130 magazines just waiting for you! Users can also download a free app to view or download the magazines to a mobile device.

To get started, visit https://chescolibraries.org/downloads and scroll to Flipster to sign in with your library card.

Hankin Whodunits Mystery Book Club to meet via Zoom on Thursday September 17

The Hankin Whodunits Mystery Book Club will meet via Zoom on Thursday, September 17 at 1 pm to discuss The Escape Room by Megan Goldin. Copies of The Escape Room are available at the Henrietta Hankin Branch Circulation Desk while supplies last.

This book is guaranteed to generate a great discussion! What’s it about?

In Megan Goldin’s unforgettable debut, The Escape Room, four young Wall Street rising stars discover the price of ambition when an escape room challenge turns into a lethal game of revenge.

Welcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive.

In the lucrative world of finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie, and Sam are at the top of their game. They’ve mastered the art of the deal and celebrate their success in style—but a life of extreme luxury always comes at a cost.

Invited to participate in an escape room as a team-building exercise, the ferociously competitive co-workers crowd into the elevator of a high rise building, eager to prove themselves. But when the lights go off and the doors stay shut, it quickly becomes clear that this is no ordinary competition: they’re caught in a dangerous game of survival.

Trapped in the dark, the colleagues must put aside their bitter rivalries and work together to solve cryptic clues to break free. But as the game begins to reveal the team’s darkest secrets, they realize there’s a price to be paid for the terrible deeds they committed in their ruthless climb up the corporate ladder. As tempers fray, and the clues turn deadly, they must solve one final chilling puzzle: which one of them will kill in order to survive?

All are welcome! Join our fun group here.

Entrepreneurship Panel: Insights from Chester County Small Biz Owners

There’s still time to register for this exciting event – hear from three local business entrepreneurs and learn from their experiences! Hear how they got started, the challenges they faced and advice to those considering starting a business. Click the link below to register.

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Join us for this exciting new panel featuring the unique perspectives of local small business owners as they share their entrepreneurship stories: how they got started, the resources they used, the lessons they learned along the way, and the advice they’d give people looking to start or grow their own business now.

Click here to register. Registration is required and will close 2 hours prior to the scheduled start time of the event. A Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 2 hours before the program starts. Make sure to check the email address you registered with to receive the link. You do not need a Zoom account to attend the virtual program.

This program supports PA Forward Financial Literacy.

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Celebrate Global Sleep Under the Stars Night with these digital downloads

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Tonight is Global Sleep Under the Stars Night and whether you pitch a tent in your backyard or study the skies from your deck or patio, here are a few astronomical digital titles to help you celebrate:

First on the Moon – The Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Experience by Rod Pyle


Packing for Mars – The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach


The Sun, Stars, and Galaxies – The Solar System by Britannica Educational Publishing

 

Series Starters – eBooks and eAudiobooks ready to download

If you like book series, we have a whole digital collection of Series Starters in a variety of genres ready for download to your device. Take a look at these selections of fiction, mystery, thriller, romance fantasy and historical fiction and get ready to dig into something new! Here is just a sampling of what we have:

Visit our Series Starters collection here and you’ll be on your way to a great reading weekend!