Check It Out At The Winston County Library!

APRIL 2022

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

• C. J. Box – Shadows Reel
• Phillip Margolin – The Darkest Place
• Harlan Coben – The Match
• Gilly McMillan – The Long Weekend
• Marie Benedict – Her Hidden Genius
• Peter Swanson – Nine Lives
• Ellery Lloyd – The Club
• Annie Ward – Beautiful Bad
• Erica Ferencik – Girl In Ice
• Kristy Woodson Harvey – The Wedding Veil
• M. C. Beaton – Death of a Green-Eyed Monster
• Preston & Child – Diablo Mesa
• Joanne Fluke – Caramel Pecan Roll Murder
• Lucy Foley – The Paris Apartment
• J. A. Jance – Nothing To Loose
• Maisey Yates – Rancher’s Forgotten Rival
• Helen Hardt – Follow Me Under
• Janet Dailey – Calder Grit
• Adele Parks – Woman Last Seen
• Rosie Walsh – The Love of My Life
• Joseph Kanon – The Berlin Exchange
• Francine Rivers - The Lady’s Mine
• Sarah J. Maas – House of Sky & Breath
• Mark Greaney – Sierra Six
• Danielle Steel – High Stakes
• Robert Dugoni – The Silent Sisters
• Stephen King – Gwendy’s Final Task
• Dolly Parton & James Patterson – Run Rose Run
• Christine Feehan – Phantom Game
• W. E. B. Grifin – Rogue Agent
• Brad Meltzer – The Lightning Rod
• Greer Hendricks – The Golden Couple
• Adele Myers – Tobacco Wives
• Josie Silver – One Night On the Island

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

• How To Win The Bachelor - Chad Kultgen
• Coach K – Ian O’Connor
• The Unofficial Guide To Disneyland 2022
• Heiresses: The Lives of Million Dollar Babies – Laura Thompson
• Shadow Man: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling -Ron Franscell
• South To America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon Line to Understand the Soul of A Nation – Imani Perry
• Watergate: A New History – Garrett M. Graff
• Hell’s Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, A Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier – Susan Jonusas
• Scoundrel: How A Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment and the Courts to Set Him Free– Sarah Weinman
• Hidden History of the Mississippi Sound – Josh Foreman
• The President’s Man: The Memoirs of Nixon’s Trusted Aide -Dwight Chapin
• Who Are You Following? Pursuing Jesus in a Media-Obsessed World-- Sadie Robertson Huff
• The 37th Parallel: The Secret Truth Behind America’s UFO Highway – Ben Mezrich
• The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How the Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, And an Extraordinary Reckoning – Ben Raines
• Delta Hot Tamales: History, Stories and Recipes – Anne Martin
• Healthy Heart, Healthy Brain – Bradley Bale, M. D.
• The Unofficial BTS Bible – Dianne Pineda-Kim

New Co-Presidents for Friends of the Library

 Winston County Friends of the Library President, Theresa Bridges, resigned her position as of March 1, 2022. “It is with much regret and sadness that I am resigning my office,” said Bridges, “but I know the Friends will continue to thrive and grow and aid our library in every possible way.”

Under her six-year tenure, despite the pandemic, a lot was accomplished. Through annual membership drives and book sales, the Friends were able to purchase rocker chairs for the Teen Room, surveillance cameras for inside and outside the library, books for the library, hosted several City and County officials thank-you lunches, hosted brown-bag lunches for author events, hosted a Holiday Drawing event of over $1500 worth of merchandise from local businesses, new plants for the lobby, signage boards and even a cleaning unit for the HVAC unit. Friends was also awarded the Margaret Murry Grant in 2021 by the Mississippi Friends of the Library, which enabled them to purchase Wonderbooks for the library’s children’s collection.

Effective April 1, 2022 Cindy Ward and Marion Jones took over as the new co-presidents of the Friends group.

Ward, a Louisville native with over 30 years of experience in education, recently retired from Mississippi State University as Director of PREP (Program of Research and Evaluation for Public Schools). She has also worked with three national assessment companies, ETS of Princeton, NJ, Harcourt Assessment and CTB-McGraw-Hill Testing and was Director of Student Assessment for the Mississippi Department of Education. She was also and Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Research at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Jones, a Delta native (NittaYuma) who now resides in Louisville, is currently the Mathematics Specialist and District Test Coordinator for the Corinth, MS School District. She has also served as Director of Student Assessment at the Mississippi Department of Education, and Director of Mathematics at Harcourt Assessment and Director of the Statewide Migrant Service Center for PREP.

“We were so sad to lose Theresa as head of our Friends group,” said librarian Beth Edwards. “She has been wonderful to work with and so supportive of the library. We will certainly miss her.” Of the new co-presidents, Edwards said “Cindy and Marion are so excited and are already working on fun ideas for fundraising. I look forward to seeing what they come up with!”

Robert Hitt Neill Book Event at the Library - April 8