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Oxford Public Library

486 Oxford Road
Oxford, CT 06478
Phone: (203) 888-6944
                                                Fax:(203)888-2666                   staff@oxfordlib.org
         Monday and Thursday 9 to 8
                            Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday 9 to 4
Closed Saturdays in July and August.

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Jane D. Weiss Family Foundation will be matched to double the donation to the Friends of the Library in Oxford.
Donations of $25 and over with your name and address will be acknowledged as a charitable tax deduction.
Thank you for your continuing support.

Upcoming Events:

Catch the Reading Bug!
Picture by Sandra Davis

Summer Reading Program

June 16 – August 14, 2008

Grades K-6

Oxford Public Library

Meet Rocky, the New Britain Rock Cats Mascot at our All Ages Story time on Friday, July 25th at 1PM and get a free ticket to the August 6th Rock Cats game! For kids ages 4-12.

Oxford Public Library will host a series of educational programs called
Science Snoopers. Special guest Jean Mai will host two more sessions for children who are 7 years
old or younger: “Creepy Crawlies” on Wednesday, July 30 at 1 PM, and “Insect Hide & Seek” on Wednesday, August 13 at 1 PM. During each of these free programs, children will listen to a story, participate in a hands-on educational activity, and make a craft.

Meet Storm, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers mascot on Tuesday, August 12th at a special 1pm storytime.

This summer's program highlights! Click here to see craft days, storytimes, etc.

Hawaiian Luau Day! Click LUAU to see all the pictures.

See what the teens did at our T-shirt craft!

See our Dr. Bugman attendees getting up close and

personal with bugs and lizards!

Lola Ladybug, Buddy Beetle, and Sammy Spider are racing to catch the Reading Bug! Help your favorite bug win the race! For each book

that you read, fill out a book tag and bring it to the library. Book tags help your bug move along its path. At the End of Summer Reading

Party on August 14, the reading representatives of the winning bug will each receive a prize.

Your book tags can help you earn other prizes too. Here’s how:

Summer Reading Program Rules

1) Choose one bug that you would like to represent for the entire summer. Write down this bug on the registration sheet.

2) For each book that you read, fill out a book tag. If you run out of tags, you can get more at the library. (You can also write the title

and author on the attached reading log for your own records.)

3) Bring the completed tags AND your bug jar to the library.

4) The librarian will stamp your bug jar for each tag that you hand in.

5) Use the stamps to get prizes. Prizes will be worth varying amounts of stamps.

6) Your book tags will be attached to the path of your favorite bug in order to help that bug move toward the Reading Bug. If your bug

wins the race, you will receive a prize!

Lola Ladybug Buddy Beetle Sammy Spider The Reading Bug

Have fun reading!

For information on the new teen driving laws starting August 1, 2008,

click this link: http://www.ct.gov/teendriving/lib/teendriving/handoutteen_lawssupplementfinal.pdf

The Friends Patio Project has begun- click on the pictures to see the beginning excavation work donated by

Paul Silkoff of Oxford Landscaping.

Click on these thumbnails below to view the dumping of the gravel and sand base for the cement.

The base materials are donated by Mark Osckowski of Earthworks, Inc.

Please check out our Overdrive Downloadable Audiobook Service-

Click here to get started:

http://bibliomation.lib.overdrive.com

Adult Book Discussion

Join us on July 31st, 2008 at 6:30PM

"The Rest of Her Life" by Laura Moriarty.

In The Rest of Her Life, Laura Moriarty delivers a luminous, compassionate, and provocative look at how mothers and daughters with the best intentions can be blind to the harm they do to one another.

Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular high school senior Kara. Their relationship is already strained for reasons Leigh does not fully understand when, in a moment of carelessness, Kara makes a mistake that ends in tragedy -- the effects of which not only divide Leigh's family, but polarize the entire community. We see the story from Leigh's perspective, as she grapples with the hard reality of what her daughter has done and the devastating consequences her actions have on the family of another teenage girl in town, all while struggling to protect Kara in the face of rising public outcry.

Like the best works of Jane Hamilton, Jodi Picoult, and Alice Sebold, Laura Moriarty's The Rest of Her Life is a novel of complex moral dilemma, filled with nuanced characters and a page-turning plot that makes readers ask themselves, "What would I do?"

Coming up next:

"Brief Encounters with Che Guevara" by Ben Fountain on August 21st

The well-meaning protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara are caught—to both disastrous and hilarious effect—in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. Ben Fountain's prize-winning debut speaks to the intimate connection between the foreign, the familiar, and the inescapably human.

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