Mar 07
Library Book Club Read For March
Cutting For Stone by Abraham Vershese
Discussion on Monday, April 14th
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution.
Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles–and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.
Feb 10
New Book Club Selection For February!
The library book club will be meeting on Monday March 3rd @ 7:00pm to discuss “Same Kind of Different as Me” by Ron Hall. All are welcome to join in!
Synposis:
A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery. An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel. A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream. A story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it.
It begins outside a burning plantation hut in Louisiana . . . and an East Texas honky-tonk . . . and, without a doubt, in the heart of God. It unfolds in a Hollywood hacienda . . . an upscale New York gallery . . . a downtown dumpster . . . a Texas ranch.
Gritty with pain and betrayal and brutality, this true story also shines with an unexpected, life-changing love
Jan 03
Hartington Featured in January/February issue of Nebraska Life Magazine
Check out the January /February 2014 issue of Nebraska Life Magazine featuring the town of Hartington.
Available on our magazine stand/or for checkout at the Library! 
Jan 02
New Frosty is Growing with Good Books Program
Check out our Frosty is Growing with Good Books program.
Stop in and get your child’s Log Sheet today!
Dec 03
New Book Club Selection
The library’s book club will meeting on Monday Feb. 3rd at 7:00pm to discuss “The Seamstress” by Sara Tuvel Bernstein.
“From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein‘ s tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust. She was born into a large family in rural Romania?and grew up feisty and willing to fight back physically against anti-Semitism from other schoolchildren. She defied her father’ s orders to turn down a scholarship that took her to Bucharest, and got herself expelled from that school when she responded to a priest/teacher’ s vicious diatribe against the Jews by hurling a bottle of ink at him?After a series of incidents that ranged from dramatic escapes to a year in a forced labor detachment, Sara ended up in Ravensbruck, a women’ s concentration camp, Aand? managed to survive?she tells this story with style and power.” –Kirkus Reviews
Nov 26
1000 Books Before Kindergarten Awarded
Congratulations to Brynn and Mara Bernecker, daughters of Jay and Miranda Bernecker who completed the “1000 Books Before Kindergarten” program at the Hartington Public Library.
This program was launched in April during National Library Week to instill the love of reading, get children ready for school, and to encourage more parent/child library visits. Books are logged and prizes are awarded along the way. One of the best ways to encourage pre-reading skills is to spend time sharing books each and every day! Reading provides a solid foundation, a key to school and learning success. When you, as a parent, read to your child, you help him or her develop the skills they will need to learn to read by themselves.
If you are interested in learning more about this reading journey for your child, please stop by or call the Hartington Public Library at 402-254-6245.
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