Steve Robertson Book Signing at the Library - Jan. 10

Santa Display at the Library

Everyone needs to drop by the Winston County Library and see the wonderful Santa Claus display,” says librarian Beth Edwards. The collection, on loan from Mrs. Nannie Finch of Louisville, includes dancing Santas, cooking Santas, sleigh-riding Santas, singing Santas and much more. Mrs. Nannie is seen here with her collection of MSU Santas.

Wyatt Waters at Winston County Library - Dec. 13

Meet and Greet With Zoe Bigham - Dec. 17

Come by to congratulate Zoe and help us celebrate her success.

Louisville Community Blood Drive at the Library - Dec. 20

All donors receive a long-sleeve T-shirt and one $500 Amazon gift card winner will be drawn each day!

Santa is Coming to the Library - Dec. 21

There will be stories, crafts, music and cookies.

Check It Out At The Winston County Library!

 NOVEMBER 2019

The following FICTION books are now available for checkout at the library:

• John Sanford – Bloody Genius
• Lee Child – Blue Moon
• Nelson DeMille – The Deserter
• Jude Deveraux – Met His atch
• Michael Connelly – The Night Fire
• Debbie MaComber – A Mrs. Miracle Christmas
• Laura Childs – Mumbo Gumbo Murder
• Meg Cabot – No Judgements
• Tess Gerritsen – The Shape of Night
• John Grisham – The Guardian
• Kristin Higgins – Life and Other Inconveniences
• Danielle Steel – Child’s Play
• Jojo Moyes – The Giver of Stars
• Deborah Crombie – A Bitter Feast
• Elin Hilderbrand – What Happens in Paradise
• James Patterson – 19th Christmas
• Sophie Kinsella – Christmas Shopaholic
• John Connolly – A Book of Bones
• Kat Martin – The Deception
• Joyce Carol Oates – Pursuit
• Susan Isaacs – Takes One to Know One
• Alexander McCall Smith – The the Land of Long Lost Friends

The following NON-FICTION BOOKS are now available for checkout at the library:

• Country Stars in an Empty Sky: Trusting God’s Promises for Your Impossibilities – Michael Youssef
• The Pioneer Woman Cooks – Ree Drummond
• The Body – Bill Bryson
• Game Day Eats: 100 Recipes for Homegating Like a Pro – Eddie Jackson
• Rescue Dogs: Where They Come From, Why They Act the Way They Do, & How to Love Them Well – Pete Paxton
• Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot and the Creation of America’s Public Lands – John Clayton
• Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an  Ivy League Giant – Anne Gardiner Perkins
• Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know - Malcolm Gladwell
• The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage & Resilience – Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton

Angel Tree 2019

The Louisville Junior Auxiliary, in partnership with the School District, has put up their annual Angel Tree in the Winston County Library lobby. Please come by the library and pick up a packet of a special child or children to purchase gifts for. “This is such an important project for Junior Auxiliary and our community”, said librarian Beth Edwards. “Were it not for this wonderful program, these children would not receive any gifts for Christmas.” Individuals or groups of people, such as office workers, Sunday Schools, or businesses, can participate in the Angel Tree Project. Please help make a child’s Christmas truly memorable.

Free Medicare Seminar at Library

November Veteran's Day and National American Indian Heritage Displays at Library

Come see the Veteran’s Day Display at the Winston County Library; along with a display honoring National American Indian Heritage Month.

Banned Books Display at Library

September 22-28 is National Banned Books Week. Stop by the Winston County Library and see the display done by Library Sr. Clerk Denise Dickerson. You will be amazed by the titles of some of the books that have, at one time or another, been banned from circulation. Books such as the Bible, Charlotte’s Web, Dr. Seuss, Alice in Wonderland, The Hate U Give, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and many more.

P.J. DeVere Book Event Nov. 20

Breast Cancer Awareness Display at the Library

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the Winston County Library is celebrating with a bright display of books, brochures and giveaways!

Friends of the Library Gift Basket Raffle

Holiday Shopping? Come by the Winston County Library and see what our local Friends of the Library will give away in a drawing on December 2, 2019. We thank our local merchants who have been generous by donating over $1500 worth of gifts for men, women, and children.

Don’t miss this opportunity to have your holiday shopping done for you, as well as, helping fund our local library Friends group. Stop by the Library and buy your ticket today for $5 or three tickets for $10. The proceeds will help Friends further our mission of raising money and public awareness for the needs of our Library by sponsoring events and programs and purchasing items needed by the patrons and staff of the Winston County Library.

MMRLS JOB OPENINGS

Position Title: Library Support 

Position Summary:

Library Support is a highly flexible position, performing a variety of duties related to the cataloging, processing, and delivery of library materials to MMRLS branch locations, as well as working to aid general library operations in a variety of capacities, including as a substitute librarian. 

For additional information on position responsibilities, qualifications and to apply click here

Application Deadline is September 30, 2019

DAR Constitution Week Display at the Library

The Nanih Waiya Chapter of the D.A.R. shows off their display honoring Constitution Week at the Winston County Library. (L-R), Theresa Bridges, Regent; Susan Clark, Treasurer; Emily Ware, Chairwoman Constitution Week. Constitution Week is September 17-23 nationwide.

 

Constitution Week Display also includes a piece done by local ceramist Susan Clark – “Lady Liberty”.

Check it Out at the Library

 SEPTEMBER 2019

The following FICTION books are now available for checkout at the library:

• G. E. Johnson – Darkness in the Delta
• Louise Penny – A Better Man
• V. C. Andrews – Beneath the Attic
• Janet Dailey – Texas Forever
• Phillipa Gregory – Tidelands
• Mary Calvi – Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington’s First Love
• Fern Michaels – Cut and Run
• Alex Kava – Desperate Creed
• Danielle Steel – The Dark Side
• David Lagercrantz – The Girl Who Lived Twice
• James Patterson – Killer Instinct
• Jeffrey Archer – Nothing Ventured
• Christine Feehan – Dark Illusion
• J. D. Robb – Vendetta in Death
• William Kent Krueger – This Tender Land
• Reshonda Tate Billingsley – More To Life
• Laura Lippman – Lady in the Lake
• Mark Greaney – Red Metal
• Iris Johansen – Smoke Screen
• Heather Graham – The Seekers
• Debbie Macomber – Window on the Bay
• Nora Roberts – Under Currents
• Ace Atkins – The Shameless
• Shari Lapena – Someone We Know
• Ben Coes – The Russian
• Sandra Brown – Outfoxed
• James Patterson – The Inn
• Mary B. Morrison – I Do Love You Still
• Robert Crais – A Dangerous Man
• C. J. Box – The Bitterrots
• Stephen Coonts – The Russia Account
• J. R. Ward – Blood Truth
• Mary Blalogh – Someone to Honor
• Mary Alice Monroe – The Summer Guests
• James Patterson – The Warning
• Wanda E. Brunstetter – The Healing Jar
• Lauraine Snelling – A Song of Joy
• Margaret Weis – Kingmaker
• Susan Wiggs – The Oysterville Sewing Circle

The following NON-FICTION BOOKS are now available for checkout at the library:

• Up Jumped the Devil: the Real Life of Robert Johnson
• The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb – Sam Kear
• Hardened to Hickory:The Missing Chapter in Andrew Jackson’s Life-Tony Turnbow
• The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson’s Epic 1863 Civil War Raid Through Mississippi – Timothy B. Smith
• Guinness World Records 2020
• A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death – B.J. Miller, MD
• Elvis in Vegas – Richard Zoglin
• The Method to the Madness: Donald Trump’s Ascent As Told By Those Who Were Hired, Fired, Inspired and Inaugurated – Allen Salkin

Quilt Display at Library

Another beautiful quilt display at the Winston County Library by Martha Dubard throughout the month of September.

Full House for G.E. Johnson Book Event

Had a full house for the author event with G. E. Johnson at the Winston County Library Monday, August 19, 2019. The author is seated in this photo, signing a book for Judy Post (right). Behind her stands her “Louisville family”, Mary Tabor, Brenda Tabor Hunt, Kathleen Read and Bill Tabor..

Celebrate “Library Card Sign-Up Month” with the Mid-Mississippi Regional Library System

Making You HIV/AIDS Aware

Holiday Basket Giveaway!

The Friends of the Winston County Library will be giving away a huge basket of goodies just in time for the holidays as a fundraiser for Friends. We’ve already received gifts from Fashion Boutique, Something Special, ala carte Alice, and many more. Basket would be a great present for a grandparent, mother, or father.

If you’re a local merchant and would like to donate a gift, please bring it to the library before November 15. The drawing will be December 2. We will raffle the basket with tickets of only $5.00 each or three tickets for $10.

Hope you win!

“Get Ready for Kindergarten” Display at Library

It’s that time of year! Children are getting ready to go back to school. August is “Get Ready for Kindergarten” month and the Winston County Library has a special display promoting this. “Come by the library and see this fun display,” says librarian Beth Edwards, “and check out great books, audio books, DVDs and learn about lots of other services the library provides – for free!”

Book Event at the Winston County Library - Aug. 19

Library Blood Drive Very Successful

A very successful blood drive was held last Friday at the Winston County Library, courtesy of Vitalant, formerly United Blood Services. The goal was to obtain 14 units of blood and their goal was fully met. The participants all gave blood in the library meeting room.

Lovejoy Boteler Book Signing - July 19

Water/Awards Day 2019 at the Library

Water Fun!!

Petting Zoo and Face Painting!!

Mississippi Author John Floyd Visits Louisville With New Book

Mississippi State University graduate and Attala County native John Floyd, who in 2018 was named the winner of The Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer Award for lifetime achievement in the writing of short mystery fiction, is coming to Louisville to sign copies of his latest collection of mystery/suspense short stories, The Barrens (Dogwood Press, 2018).

Floyd will visit the Winston County Library on Tuesday, May 21 at 11:30 a.m. Autographed, first-edition copies of The Barrens are $24.95 plus tax. This is Floyd’s seventh book-length collection, all of which have been published by Dogwood Press of Brandon.

“The ideas, as I always tell my students, come from anyplace and everyplace,” Floyd said of his fiction. “People you know, headlines you see in the newspaper. Things that happen to you or your friends and family. And if the situation doesn’t sound quite interesting enough, ask yourself, ‘What if such-and-such happened?’ and go from there.

“With The Barrens, most of the fun in writing these was in creating plot twists and reversals that I hoped the reader wouldn’t see coming. That’s the kind of thing I myself like to run into when I’m reading a story.”

The work of Floyd, who has written well over 1,000 published short stories and features since 1994, can be found in nationally-read publications like Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Woman’s World, The Strand Magazine, and the Saturday Evening Post.

“John set the bar awfully high with Rainbow’s End, his first story collection, but The Barrens just might be his best,” said Joe Lee, Editor-in-Chief of Dogwood Press. “From the first page to the last keystroke, it’s remarkably visual writing that never once loses momentum from story to story, genre to genre. If you’ve never read short stories, this is the place to start.”

“We are thrilled to host John Floyd at our library!” said librarian Beth Edwards. The Friends of the Library will offer free brown bag lunches to the first twenty participants.


The Winston County Library is located at 100 W. Park Street. To reserve signed copies of The Barrens, call 662-773-3212. For information about all Dogwood Press titles, visit www.dogwoodpress.com.

Quilt Display at Library

The Winston County Library is display another beautiful quilt pieced and designed by Martha Dubard and machine quilted by Gayle Wallace.  It is called “Rhapsody In Blue”.  It will be on display through the month of April.

Lawn and Garden Display at Library

April is Lawn & Garden Month and the Winston County Library has a great display for patrons, featuring plants and lots of good books on caring for your lawn and garden.

Couponing Class at Library

Tracy Gregory (center), Family Consumer Science Agent with the Winston County Extension Agency, presented a class on Couponing last week at the Winston County Library. “We learned a lot,” said librarian Beth Edwards. “Tracy is great and we’ll have her back in May to do a budgeting program.”

Check It Out At The Winston County Library!

MARCH 2019

The following FICTION books are now available for checkout at the library:

• Danielle Steel – Silent Night
• Greg Iles – Cemetery Road
• James Patterson – Detective Cross
• Jonathan Kellerman – The Wedding Guest
• J. D. Robb – Connections
• James Grippando – The Girl In The Glass Box
• Sophie Kinsella – I Owe You One
• Colleen Coble – Secrets At Cedar Cabin
• Joseph Finder – Judgement
• James Patterson – Liar, Liar
• Thomas Perry – The Burglar
• Fiona Barton – The Suspect
• JoAnn Ross – Snowfall on Lighthouse Lane
• Robyn Carr – The Best of Us
• Michael McGarrity – Residue
• Taylor Stevens – The Mask
• Lisa Jewell – The House We Grew Up In
• Carl Weber – Trouble in Rio
• Jo Ann Fluke – Chocolate Cream Pie Murder
• Karen Harper – American Duchess: A Novel of ConsueloVanderbilt
• Don Winslow – The Border
• Karen Harper – Shallow Grave
• Stephanie Barron – That Churchill Woman
• Madeline Miller – Circe
• John Lescroat – The Rule of Law
• James Rollins – Crucible
• Brenda Jackson – Love in Catalina Cove
• Beverly Jenkins – Stepping To A New Day

The following NON-FICTION BOOKS are now available for checkout at the library:

• The Southern Living Party Cookbook
• The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World’s Longest Treasure Hunt– Randall Sullivan
• Southern Keto – Natasha Newton
• Home Body – Joanna Gaines
• The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to the Civil War– Joanne B. Freeman
• Medical Medium: Secrets Behind Chronic & Mystery Illness & How to Finally Heal- Anthony William
• Believe Bigger: Discover the Path to Your Life Purpose – Marshawn Evans Daniels
• Small Space Style – Whitney Leigh Morris
• Green Clean: Natural Cleaning Solutions for Every Room of Your Home – Jull Schoff
• The Instant Pot Bible – Bruce Weinstein
• The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump –Andrew McCabe
• Tell Your Children the Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness and Violence – Alex Berenson
• Mar-A-Lago: Inside the Gates of Power at Donald Trump’s Presidential Palace – Laurence Leamer

Local Woman Displays Artwork at Library

Linda Glenn, shown here, is displaying her artwork at the Winston County Library during the month of March. Linda is a Louisville native and she is a self-taught artist.

Celebrating Dr. Seuss’s Birthday

These little angels from First Baptist Church Daycare stopped by the Winston County Library to listen to “The Cat In The Hat” in honor of Dr. Seuss’s Birthday (March 2nd).

UDC Book Donation

Mrs. Frances Woodruff, (pictured, right) presented a book to the Winston County Library recently, on behalf of the Winston Guards, United Daughters of the Confederacy. The book is The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson’s Epic 1863 Civil War Raid Through Mississippi by Timothy B. Smith. Louisville and Winston County are mentioned quite a bit in the book. Also in the photo is Senior Library Clerk Denise Dickerson, who is mentioned in the acknowledgements of the book for all the help she gave the author during his research for the book.

Quilt Display at Library

This beautiful quilt is now on display at the Winston County Library. The pattern is “Misty Mountain Pond” and was pieced by Martha Dubard and quilted by Gayle Wallace.

Friends of the Library Membership Dues 2019

If anyone has not yet paid their Friends of the Library Membership dues or would like to become a Friends member, please do so as soon as possible. You may download, read and fill out the Membership Form from this page, just click here, then mail it to the address provided on the form or go by the library and fill out one there.

We would like to say a very heartfelt Thank You to all Friends of the Library members for your continued support. We could not complete any of our projects if not for all of you. Please read the membership form to see what goals we have set for the 2019 year.

Let's make 2019 the best Friend's year ever!