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At Your Fingertips

iPhone for Beginners magazine coverDid you know that you have access to over 4000 magazines, 24 hours a day, 7 days week?

Download Libby from your App store for your Android device or your iphone/ipad, or read through the Overdrive website on your computer.

 

 

Time Magazine cover: The Magic of LegosGet started today reading your favorite periodicals on your computer, tablet, or phone.  Magazines have no wait time as there are unlimited copies for checkout.

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Kanopy Recommendation

​​​​​​​2 movies for Halloween: 1 silly & 1 scary!

The Raven movie posterThe Raven
1981 - 1 hr, 25 min - Rated G
Uses 4 tickets: 48 hour access

Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff are three rival magicians in this comedy that really has very little to do with Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem. Itr's all played for laughs, with a climactic magic battle that excels in silliness. This one should be good for even timid kiddos.

Let The Right One In movie posterLet The Right One In
2008 - 1 hr, 54 min - Rated R
Uses 2 tickets: 72 hour access

Can a movie be both a tender coming of age story and a terrifying vampire tale? When a 12 year old Oskar meets Eli, both their lives are changed forever. The surprising ending is open to differing interpretations, all both horrifying and poignant for the pair. This movie is definitely not for the kiddos.

Kanopy is free with your library card, providing 21 tickets each month to watch streaming movies, documentaries, and TV shows.

Libby Recommendation

Mythological Romance E-Book

Book cover Us In Ruins

Us in Ruins
The mythical Vase of Venus Aurelia hasn't been seen since 1932, but Margot Rhodes is determined to change that. Drawn by the vase's supposed magical properties, Margot embarks on her school's archaeological trip to Pompeii. She's got something no one else does: lost teenage explorer Van Keane's journal.

Poring over the poetic entries that serve as a map to the vase's missing shards, Margot finds herself falling in love with the boy who wrote it a century ago. She's shocked when her search leads her to a statue that looks exactly like Van, and then the statue comes to life. Catapulted into the present, Van is nothing like the wordsmith Margot imagined. He's all sharp edges, intent on retrieving the relic for all the wrong reasons. Margot and Van must excavate the treasure—and their buried pasts—before their story ends in ruins.

Read Us in Ruins as an ebook with no wait time.  Discover all the great books in Overdrive and Libby.

Friends of the Library logoFriends of the Library

The Friends of the Library provides invaluable assistance to the library in its programs, services, and projects.

Find out more about the Friends, how you can join, and how to help out by volunteering.

Helen's Bistro and Bakery logoHelen's Bistro & Bakery

Phone: 325-212-8255
Call to place an order or for more information.

Helen's Bistro & Bakery Chapter 2, located at Stephens Central Library, serves freshly baked pies, cakes & pastries, as well as soups, sandwiches, and salads.

Hours: Tuesday - Friday: 8am-4pm