If you will be joining the ranks of Medicare soon, are already in the Medicare system and have questions, are helping a friend or relative obtain Medicare coverage, or just want to understand what Medicare is all about, this session is for you. Learn about Medicare A, B & C; the drug benefit (Part D); the types of health care insurance available in Chester County; benefits available to low income beneficiaries; and things to consider when selecting your medical coverage. APPRISE is Pennsylvania’s free, unbiased health insurance counseling program.
Registration is required. Registration 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.
If you’re thinking about retiring, these Flipster magazines can help you make important decisions about the next chapter in your life.
The latest issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance features the best places to retire and offers information about investing and managing your portfolio.
Kiplinger’s Retirement Report includes helpful information about second careers, taxes, health care and recommended cars for older drivers.
And in the June/July issue of Moneymagazine, you will find articles on what you need to do before you retire and the best way to recession-proof your retirement.
These and more than 130 additional magazines are available online with your library card. Visit https://chescolibraries.org/downloads and scroll to Flipster to sign in.
Sadie is a New York Times bestseller and an Edgar Award Winner, appearing on over 30 Best Book of 2018 lists including The Boston Globe, Bustle, Buzzfeed, Globe and Mail, Good Morning America, NPA, and Publishers Weekly. It is also a YALSA Top 10 Quick Pick.
When popular radio personality West McCray receives a desperate phone call from a stranger imploring him to find nineteen-year-old runaway Sadie Hunter, he’s not convinced there’s a story there; girls go missing all the time. But when it’s revealed that Sadie fled home after the brutal murder of her little sister, Mattie, West travels to the small town of Cold Creek, Colorado, to uncover what happened.
Sadie has no idea that her journey to avenge her sister will soon become the subject of a blockbuster podcast. Armed with a switchblade, Sadie follows meager clues hoping they’ll lead to the man who took Mattie’s life, because she’s determined to make him pay with his own. But as West traces her path to the darkest, most dangerous corners of big cities and small towns, a deeply unsettling mystery begins to unfold—one that’s bigger than them both. Can he find Sadie before it’s too late?
Alternating between Sadie’s unflinching voice as she hunts the killer and the podcast transcripts tracking the clues she’s left behind, Sadie is a breathless thriller about the lengths we go to protect the ones we love and the high price we pay when we can’t. It will haunt you long after you reach the final page.
We are holding our existing book groups as virtual programs. Please see our August titles and dates below. These groups are all being held online via Zoom. We are requiring registration for these online book groups in order to send out the Zoom meeting information. Click on the date below to register. Information on our adult book groups can also be found on our website: http://bit.ly/chescolibs-bookgroups.
The Page Turners Book Group will be back in September.
Registration is required for all book groups. Registration will close 2 hours prior to the scheduled start time of the book group. A Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 2 hours before the book group 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 book group.
VIRTUAL TRAINING: CITIZENSHIP BASICS Empower yourself with knowledge about U.S. Immigration and Naturalization.
Join Jwana Smith, a Community Relations Officer for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, who will go over the basics of immigration and applying for citizenship. We will focus on resources that USCIS provides for those wishing to pursue citizenship.
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.
Please also note that while we will be taking questions during the program, if you have any you’d like to submit in advance to make sure the topic is covered, you can send them to Jamie Claxton at jclaxton@ccls.org.
Please join us virtually on Thursday, July 30th, for Introduction to Genealogyfrom 7:00-8:30PM. Take advantage of the Ancestry- Library Edition database being available remotely until the end of August with this program.
Registration is required (you can register at the link above). 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.
Learn how to use the library databases Ancestry- Library Edition and HeritageQuest for family research. Get genealogy searching tips, research guidance, & more. Genealogy researcher Mike Sheldon will demonstrate introductory methods used to research a family tree, using Ancestry – Library Edition and FamilySearch.org.
So if any of you are like me, staring at a computer screen all day is both enlightening and exhausting. While I love technology and the various opportunities it affords for learning, exploration, and entertainment, the blue light of the screen can do a number on my eyes and my head, often causing some major headaches. This is why I have a whole bookshelf full of journals filled with handwritten stories dating all the way back to when I was in middle school. Plus, there’s just something so satisfying about sprawling out on my bed, penning out scenes and character arcs and story ideas, and seeing my notebooks slowly fill up with my fictional worlds.
But story journaling doesn’t necessarily have to be fictional. There are two types of story journaling. First is fictional story journaling, where you use your journal as a space to plot out your fictional narratives, sketch out brain maps, scribble down quick thoughts and ideas, write out scenes and dialogue. It’s an excellent way to get your thoughts on paper right in front of you, no matter how messy or disjointed your writing might be. My favorite way to do this is to use pen – no erasing! The most important part of the exercise is just to write something. You can always edit later. (Don’t have any story ideas right now? Check out some of the links below for some inspiration!)
The other type of story journaling is life story journaling. It’s very similar to regular journaling, where you write out your thoughts and feelings and events of the day, but with a key difference: the perspective. When you sit down to write in your life story journal, you do so with the mindset of an author writing a story; but in this case, that story is about you. Take a look at your day, and then think about how that day contributes to the story of your life as a whole. Where are you in your dramatic structure diagram? Are you in the rising action section, working towards a particular aspiration or mission? Maybe you’re relaxing in the resolution section, after you’ve completed a major goal and enjoyed or suffered the consequences of it, and you’re preparing to begin the next stage in your life. Wherever you are, this method of writing allows you to see yourself almost from the outside, to understand what has shaped you as a character in your own story and determine what will motivate you into a better future.
When you look to the skies at night, chances are you can identify the Big Dipper and maybe the North Star, but what about everything else that’s up there?
Sky and Telescope magazine is your essential guide to astronomy and you can read it on Flipster with your library card.
Inside the September issue are articles about the volcanic histories of the inner solar system, how scientists are searching for moons outside our solar system, what’s up in September’s skies, a gallery of breathtaking images and many more articles about the world outside our own.
It’s easy to access Sky & Telescope magazine. Here’s how: visit https://chescolibraries.org/downloads and scroll to Flipster to sign in with your library card.
From the author of The Dollhouse and The Masterpiece comes the compelling national bestselling novel about the thin lines between love and loss, success and ruin, passion and madness, all hidden behind the walls of The Dakota—New York City’s most famous residence.
What’s it about?
When a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the architects of the grand New York apartment house the Dakota, leads to a job offer for Sara Smythe, her world is suddenly awash in possibility—no mean feat for a servant in 1884. The opportunity to move to America. The opportunity to be the female manager of the Dakota. And the opportunity to see more of Theo, who understands Sara like no one else…and is living in the Dakota with his wife and three young children.
One hundred years later, Bailey Camden is desperate for new opportunities: Fresh out of rehab, the former interior designer is homeless, jobless, and penniless. Bailey’s grandfather was the ward of famed architect Theodore Camden, yet Bailey won’t see a dime of the Camden family’s substantial estate; instead, her “cousin” Melinda—Camden’s biological great-granddaughter—will inherit almost everything. So when Melinda offers to let Bailey oversee the renovation of her lavish Dakota apartment, Bailey jumps at the chance, despite her dislike of Melinda’s vision. The renovation will take away all the character of the apartment Theodore Camden himself lived in…and died in, after suffering multiple stab wounds by a former Dakota employee who had previously spent seven months in an insane asylum—a madwoman named Sara Smythe.
A century apart, Sara and Bailey are both tempted by and struggle against the golden excess of their respective ages—for Sara, the opulence of a world ruled by the Astors and Vanderbilts; for Bailey, the nightlife’s free-flowing drinks and cocaine—and take refuge in the Upper West Side’s gilded fortress. But a building with a history as rich, and often as tragic, as the Dakota’s can’t hold its secrets forever, and what Bailey discovers inside could turn everything she thought she knew about Theodore Camden—and the woman who killed him—on its head.
Copies of the eBook and eAudiobook are available for download now!
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