February Monday Night Book Club Book The Things We do for Love by Kristin Hannah

Book Description:

Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken more than Angie DeSaria’s heart. Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her small Pacific Northwest hometown and takes over management of her family’s restaurant. In West End, where life rises and falls like the tides, Angie’s fortunes will drastically change yet again when she meets and befriends a troubled young woman.

Angie hires Lauren Ribido because she sees something special in the seventeen-year-old. They quickly form a deep bond, and when Lauren is abandoned by her mother, Angie offers the girl a place to stay. But nothing could have prepared Angie for the far-reaching repercussions of this act of kindness. Together, these two women—one who longs for a child and the other who longs for a mother’s love—will be tested in ways that neither could have imagined.

Gardendale Library Holiday Hours 2011

Our opening hours will be changing  for the holiday season.  Please note the changes below :


Monday December 19
9am -6pm

Tuesday December 20
9am -6pm

Wednesday December 21
9am -5pm

Thursday December 22
9am -6pm

Friday December 23 - Monday December 26 
CLOSED

Tuesday December 27
9am -6pm

Wednesday December 28
9am -5pm

Thursday December 29
9am -6pm

Friday December 30
9am -5pm

Saturday December 31 - Monday January 2
CLOSED

January Monday Night Book Club: Fragile by Lisa Unger

From Publishers Weekly

Set in the Hollows, a secluded town about 100 miles outside New York City, Unger's contemporary thriller offers solid entertainment, but lacks the tension of her 2008 stand-alone, Black Out. Psychologist Maggie Cooper and her husband, Det. Jones Cooper, disagree on how to handle their rebellious son, 17-year-old Rick, who prefers to spend time with his band or holed up with his girlfriend, Charlene Murray. When Charlene disappears one night after a fight with her mother, Maggie and Jones wonder if she ran off to Manhattan, but are reminded of the disappearance 20 years earlier of Sarah Meyers, whose mutilated body was found after she vanished on her way home from school. Though the alleged killer confessed, there are still unanswered questions, and Maggie and Jones find themselves forced to revisit the past as suspicion falls on Rick. Since the Hollows is so small, characters continually rehash secrets--and rumors--so that Unger relies too heavily on the community's interconnectedness to bolster her plot.

Grand Re-Opening of the Gardendale Public Library

Come join us for our Grand Re-Opening and Open House of the Gardendale Martha Moore Public Library Expansion and Renovation Project!

December 16 from 11am.

After the ribbon cutting, we will be offering tours of the entire library building, including the new Children's Department, Children's program room and also the staff areas that are usually closed to the public.

For you enjoyment we will be serving refreshments.