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Bowman Library

(540) 869-9000
871 Tasker Road
P. O. Box 1300
Stephens City, VA 22655
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Mon-Thu: 10:00am-6:00pm
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Clarke County

(540) 955-5144
101 Chalmers Court, Suite C
Berryville, VA 22611
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Handley Library

(540) 662-9041
100 West Piccadilly St.
P. O. Box 58
Winchester, VA 22604
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Winter Reading Recap

Community Winter Reading Challenge for Kids and Teens Sees Positive Results The program ran in January and featured a mix of virtual programs and reading incentives designed to connect literacy to entertainment.  Reading Program Results 2,718 Books Read by Kids and Teens 1,712 Badges Earned by Completing ...
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3-Part Virtual Series: Exploring the Library

We have a special 3-part series designed to educate the public on different ways to use library services in March  titled Exploring the Library.  These virtual sessions will be offered through Zoom with registration required and are ideal for new, prospective, and current users of all library system locations – Bo...
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Browse What's New

Browse our virtual shelf from over 15 different genres to find your next great read!  These are some of the latest released, hottest authors, current events, and relevant stories all curated in one spot.  You can receive these reading recommendations through email too by signing up here.  Our virtual shelves ...
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Introducing the Graphic Novel Book Club!

Are you familiar with our adult graphic novel collection? Graphic novels are not just for children or teens. Whether you enjoy fiction, nonfiction, biographies or memoirs, these novels are a format that encompasses all genres and has something for everyone. It is one reason why I enjoy them, since the combination of text an...
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    Relic

    When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter Kay and granddaughter Sam rush to their family's decaying country home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence. After Edna returns just as mysteriously as she disappeared, Kay's concern that her mother seems unwilling or unable to say where she clashes with Sam's unabashed enthusiasm to have her grandma back.

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    antebellum

    Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.

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    Force of Nature

    While trying to evacuate residents from an apartment complex during an intense hurricane, including a grizzled ex-cop and his daughter, a young police officer is thrust into further danger as a gang of thieves attempt to pull off a mysterious heist in the building.

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    Hard Kill

    When a billionaire tech CEO hires a team of mercenaries to protect a lethal piece of technology, the security expert and his team must race against the clock to protect the fate of the human race.

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    The Secret: Dare to Dream

    Miranda Wells is a hard-working young widow struggling to raise three children on her own. A powerful storm brings a devastating challenge and a mysterious man, Bray Johnson, into her life. In just a few short days, Bray's presence re-ignites the family's spirit, but he also carries a secret, and it's a secret that could change everything.

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    Wanda

    Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape, the film takes up with a distant and soft-spoken woman, who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, and now finds herself alone, drifting between dingy bars and motels, where she falls prey to a series of callous men, one being a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme.

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    Tremors: Shrieker Island

    When a group of wealthy trophy hunters genetically modify Graboid eggs to create the ultimate hunting experience, it isn't long before their prey escapes the confines of their small island and begins terrorizing the inhabitants of a nearby island research facility. The head of the research facility and her second-in-command Jimmy locate the one man who is an expert in killing Graboids: the one and only, and now reluctant, Burt Gummer.

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    Ava

    A deadly assassin is forced to fight for her own survival when a job goes terribly wrong.

     

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    Becky

    Spunky and rebellious, Becky is brought to a weekend getaway at a lake house by her father Jeff in an effort to try to reconnect. The trip immediately takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts on the run, led by the merciless Dominick, suddenly invade the lake house.

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    Quiz

    When a simplistic, "question and answer" quiz show, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?", goes on the air in the UK. the nation is gripped. As the show's ratings grow, so does Diana Ingram's desire to be in the hotseat with the chance of winning the biggest cash prize in history. When her husband Charles, an eccentric army man, makes it onto the show, he causes a major scandal after being caught cheating his way to winning 1 million.

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    The New Mutants

    In this terrifying, action-fueled film based on the Marvel comic series, five young people who demonstrate special powers are brought to a secret institution to undergo treatments they are told will cure them of the dangers of their powers. Invited by Dr. Cecilia Reyes to share their stories about when their powers first manifested, the five 1patients2 come to understand that they are in a class of people called mutants, who have historically been marginalized and feared.

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    Peninsula

    Jung-seok, a soldier who previously escaped the diseased wasteland, relives the horror when assigned to a covert operation with two simple objectives: retrieve and survive. When his team unexpectedly stumbles upon survivors, their lives will depend on whether the best, or worst, of human nature prevails in the direst of circumstances.

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    Brain Games: Season 7

    From a castle in England to the New Jersey shore, host Jason Silva and renowned guest experts engage volunteers in experiments, games and exercises that reveal fascinating truths about the workings of the human brain. This season explores topics like the brain's amazing, if sometimes inconvenient, selective memory function, and whether or not people are literally born to be bad.

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Staff Picks

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    No Time Like the Future

    Michael J. Fox

    The actor shares personal stories and observations about illness and health, aging, the strength of family and friends, and how perceptions about time affect the consideration of mortality.

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    The Adventures of Isabel

    Candas Jane Dorsey

    A mystery series featuring a queer, nameless amateur detective who is rescued from her creditors when a long-time friend hires her to investigate the death of her granddaughter. And what seems to be just another grotty street killing is the surface manifestation of a grandiose set of criminal schemes.

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    The Lost Shtetl

    Max Gross

    "What if there was a town that Hitler missed? For over fifty years the tiny Jewish shtetl of Kreskol has existed virtually untouched and unchanged. Spared of the Holocaust and Cold War, Kreskol has enjoyed an isolated peace. But when a marriage dispute spirals out of control, Kreskol is suddenly rediscovered and brought into the 21st Century. Pesha is in a loveless, arranged marriage and summons the courage to escape Kreskol on foot. But when her husband goes after her, panicked town leaders (protecting secrets of their own) send a woefully unprepared young man out to bring them home.

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    The Mexican Home Kitchen

    Mely Martinez

    With over 75 recipes, The Mexican Home Kitchen compiles the traditional home-style dishes enjoyed every day in Mexican households--with a great influence from the states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Veracruz, Puebla, Estado de México, Tabasco, and Yucatán--including breakfasts, stews, soups, pastas, rice dishes, and moles, along with dishes like enchiladas, picadillo, and milanesa, and rounded out with delicious salsas, drinks, and desserts. For Mely Martinez, Mexican cooking has always been about family, community, and tradition.

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    Sometimes I Lie

    Alice Feeney

    “Boldly plotted, tightly knotted—a provocative true-or-false thriller that deepens and darkens to its ink-black finale. Marvelous.” —AJ Finn, author of The Woman in the Window My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a coma. 2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. 3. Sometimes I lie. Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it.

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    Evil Geniuses

    Kurt Andersen

    "Americans have disabled the government's ability to solve even basic problems, making us vulnerable to the most dangerous demagogue ever to pretend to the White House. Kurt Andersen shows how the masterminds of the economic right rode an unprecedented wave of nostalgia by dressing up their harsh new rich-get-richer system in patriotic old-time drag, making it their mission to take over the government for their purposes alone and convincing the country that the mid-century consensus about the function of the American government was all wrong.

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    The Last Wife

    Karen Hamilton

    From the internationally bestselling author of The Perfect Girlfriend. Two women. A dying wish. And a web of lies that will bring their world crashing down. Two women. A dying wish. And a web of lies that will bring their world crashing down. Nina and Marie were best friends--until Nina was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Before she died, Nina asked Marie to fulfill her final wishes. But her mistake was in thinking Marie was someone she could trust. What Nina didn't know was that Marie always wanted her beautiful life, and that Marie has an agenda of her own.

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    The Dead Are Arising

    Les Payne, Tamara Payne

    Beginning in 1990 on a quest that would consume him for the rest of his life, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Les Payne started interviewing all living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, Nation of Islam figures, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. His goal was ambitious: to create a portrait of Malcolm X that would separate fact from fiction.

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    Dead Astronauts

    Jeff VanderMeer

    A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways. At stake: the fate of the future, the fate of Earth—all the Earths. A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that may not be its own.

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    The Stories of Eva Luna

    Isabel Allende

    For the first time in trade paperback, this collection, narrated by one of Allende's most memorable characters, magnificently illustrates the universal themes and evocative ideas that have made the author a leading voice in contemporary fiction.

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Celebrate Chinese New Year--The Year of the Ox

All Day 2/11 - 2/26
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Celebrate Chinese New Year--The Year of the Ox

All Day 2/11 - 2/26
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Room: BL Children's Room
Age Group: Children, Ages 0-5, Ages 6-11, Teens (12+), Families
Program Type: Story Sharing, Virtual Programs, Arts & Crafts, Music & Movement, Storytimes
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February 11-26 Celebrate the Lunar New Year while discovering more about this spring time event. This year it is represented by the Ox, a Chinese zodiac animal. Visit the Bowman Library branch to be photographed in front of the 2021 Chinese New...
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Feb 25 2021 Thu

Storybook Yoga on Facebook Live

2:00pm - 2:30pm
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Feb 25 2021 Thu

Storybook Yoga on Facebook Live

2:00pm - 2:30pm
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Age Group: Children, Ages 0-5, Ages 6-11, Families
Program Type: Story Sharing, Virtual Programs, Music & Movement
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Experience yoga for the entire family while we move, stretch, and read together. January: "Wonderful Winter" February: "Love Is..." March: "Kindness Counts" April: "Earth Day"     ...
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Feb 26 2021 Fri

Storytime and Craft on Zoom

9:00am - 9:30am
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Feb 26 2021 Fri

Storytime and Craft on Zoom

9:00am - 9:30am
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Library Branch: Virtual Events
Age Group: Children, Ages 0-5, Families
Program Type: Story Sharing, Virtual Programs, Arts & Crafts, Storytimes
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Enjoy an early literacy program for the entire family who will learn through stories, rhymes, songs and more. Join us over Zoom for interactive fun each storytime week. *Registration required.     ...
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Mar 1 2021 Mon

Ready to Read this Week

11:00am - 11:15am
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Mar 1 2021 Mon

Ready to Read this Week

11:00am - 11:15am
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Age Group: Children, Families
Program Type: Reading Program, Virtual Programs, Music & Movement
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Read. Learn. Grow.  Tune in every Monday morning for weekly thematic book suggestions, finger plays, and songs to share together with your child throughout the week. Premiered live on Facebook.com/HandleyRegional and the HRLS Presch...
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Mar 1 2021 Mon

Middle Grade Book Spotlight

12:00pm - 12:15pm
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Mar 1 2021 Mon

Middle Grade Book Spotlight

12:00pm - 12:15pm
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Library Branch: Virtual Events
Age Group: Children, Ages 6-11, Families
Program Type: Story Sharing, Virtual Programs
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Middle Grade Book Spotlight:  Looking for a new and exciting book to read?  Join us every Monday afternoon as books geared toward upper elementary and middle schoolers are presented and shared; each week is centered around a different theme...
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Mar 1 2021 Mon

Teen Book Spotlight

1:00pm - 1:15pm
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Mar 1 2021 Mon

Teen Book Spotlight

1:00pm - 1:15pm
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Age Group: Teens (12+), Families
Program Type: Story Sharing, Virtual Programs
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Want to read a "good" book and have no idea where to start? Join us every Monday afternoon as a variety of books for teens  are presented and suggested! Every week is a different theme with a new selection of books; so be sure to check in and...
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Mar 2 2021 Tue

Kid Crafternoons on Facebook Live

2:00pm - 2:30pm
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Mar 2 2021 Tue

Kid Crafternoons on Facebook Live

2:00pm - 2:30pm
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Age Group: Children, Ages 6-11, Families
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It's time to get crafty! Pick up a Grab-and-Go Kit at the Handley branch before the program so you can have the supplies as we do this craft together on Facebook Live! January: Paper Cardinal Ornaments February: Swedish Heart Baskets ...
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Mar 3 2021 Wed

Storytime and Puppets Online

11:00am - 11:30am
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Mar 3 2021 Wed

Storytime and Puppets Online

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Program Type: Story Sharing, Virtual Programs, Storytimes
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Join Ms. Donna on Facebook as we premier on the Handley Regional Library System Facebook page. Tune in for a read-aloud and special puppet guests or catch the program anytime after the event on our YouTube Playlist.  ...
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Mar 4 2021 Thu

Database Spotlight

12:00pm - 12:15pm
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Mar 4 2021 Thu

Database Spotlight

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Do you want support when it comes to Homework Help? Are you looking to build your research skills? Let us share the wonders of our Digital Library with you and your family! Learn about some of our online databases that you can access for free with yo...
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