Happenings in December

Adult Department - Main floor

Christman Open House Reception
Sponsored by Friends of the Library

Come join us for refreshments all day

When: Tuesday, December 8th

with Christmas Carols @ 10:30am

by the ENMU Ruidoso Chamber Choir

Children's Department

P.S. story time 10:30-11:15am
December 3rd - Christmas Classic Movies
December 10th - Christmas stories & Christmas centerpiece craft
December 17th - 10:30-Noon Christmas with Charlie Brown, brunch will be served.

No field trips during the month of December

CONTEST update!!!!

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I received a few emails in regards to this problem so please make sure you are following the Ruidoso Public Library blog first in order to enter any contest or leave your comment on any post. If you have any further questions please email me at

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The next chapter begins

As a Twilight fan all I can say is FINALLY!! This has been the longest wait of my life of your life too I’m sure! "New Moon" hits theaters opening night Friday, November 20th, I’m sure most movie theaters will be having a midnight show.

Our Teens were involved in a “Book and movie” program. The rules were – to showed up for one and participate in the weekly chapter discussions, this program took place every Monday from 4pm-5pm. Now that the program has come to an end and our wait is over, our lucky participants get a private showing of the movie!!!

For more teen happenings be sure to check out our website

http://www.youseemore.com/Ruidosopl/contentpages.asp?loc=6

A sweet and warm reward

Our awesome Teen Librarian would like to reward all teens that have been crazy busy reading all of our new books that keep on coming in monthly.

How sweet is that!

Laura is hosting a FREE Coffee House for Teens only on

Tuesday, November 24th, from 4:00-5:30PM

Here at our Library.

There will be coffee, frappuccino's, hot chocolate and spiced cider.

Bring your friends!!!

There is no greater way to kick off the thanksgiving holiday than to grab a warm drink and a great book! Laura is doing a great job making teens fall in love with reading all over again.

Welcome, Steven Havill

Our lovely town and library welcomes back popular New Mexico Mystery writer.

Steven Havill

He will be signing and talking about his two new books: Race for the Dying a new historical medical adventure set in the Puget Sound area of 1981, and

Red, Green or Murder, the newest Posadas mystery.

At your Local Public Library from 3:30pm-4:30pm

107 Kansas City Road

Ruidoso, NM 88345

(575) 258-3704

Special after hours program

A special thanks to Sharon Stewart our Program Coordinator for putting yet another wonderful program together.

Thanksgiving Closing

For the Thanksgiving Holiday, the Public Library will be closed Thursday - Saturday, November 26-28.

The Library will resume normal hours on Monday, November 30.

Ruidoso Public Library hours

Monday-Thursday: 9AM - 6PM

Friday: 9AM - 4PM

Saturday: 10AM - 2PM

In order to be accepted by the “in crowd” at her new high school, Jessie accepts a dare to spend one night in a local cemetery collecting rubbings from ten gravestones. Once inside the gate of the dark and frightening burial ground, Jessie meets Paul, a handsome boy who works as a caretaker at the cemetery. Paul explains to Jessie about Tombstone Tea: a fund-raising performance in which actors impersonate the people buried in the cemetery. The actors are supposedly rehearsing on this particular evening, but Jessi quickly discovers that they aren’t actors at all but the ghosts of men and women buried in the cemetery. When one woman decides to adopt Jessie to replace her lost daughter, our heroine fears she may never escape the cemetery.


Win a copy of "Tombstone Tea" by: Joanne Dohme.

How to Enter:
You must follow the RPL Blog.
Give a review of the last book you read, if you would recommend it and why.
Also, you must provide an email address.
Anyone welcome to enter

This contest ends Tuesday, December 1st at 11:59PM
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A good thing always comes back. I'm sure you as a child read this amazing book and now it's your kids favorite bedtime story. This book came back as soon as the movie hit the big screen. Daily, we have children and their parents asking for this book. We had to turn them down because the childrend's Department was using it for their big story time project that turned out to be an everyone welcome program. Characters were brough to life as different boys dressed like Max. The boys ate snaks shaped like leaves and played in real leaves. It was a fun turnout that didn’t just bring the book back but brought kids together.

Field Trips to the Library

Theme: "Literary Characters, Literally"

<--- Junie B. Jones and Amelia Bedelia will come to life as the librarians do a skit from the popular Barbara Park and Peggy Parish book. The skits will be followed by students using their new library cards to check out a book of their choice.

So be sure to check out our blog for daily news and stay updated with all of our library fun. Just remember these field trips are for school kids only. These field trips have been reserved ahead of time.

Tony Hillerman's week

November 1-8 is Tony Hillerman's week, to celebrate the life and work of this amazing local Southwest writer, we put together a display with his popular novels.

We are thrilled to have his latest book - Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn. I am sure his faithful fans are eager to get their hands on this book.

Anne Hillerman-Don Strel are on the road for the next two months talking about Tony Hillerman's Landscape book. They visited the University of New Mexico on November 4, and this visit was a benefit for the UNM Hillerman-McGarrity scholarship in Creative Writing.

If you missed the previous event, they will be present on November 7, at 6pm at Inn Rio Rancho, 1466 Rio Rancho Drive, Rio Rancho.

While it's no secret that tomorrow is Halloween, some of us like to celebrate it a day early.

TODAY: Trick or Treat in Midtown, Ruidoso: from 3 pm til 5 pm. Dress in your scariest costume (we sure did) and have a good time trick or treating in Midtown!

Happy Halloween to all

P.S. Story Time

is from 10:30-11:15am every Thursday

November 5th: Wild and Fancy Costume Party. Wear a costume.

November 12th: Fall & Thanksgiving stories followed by turkey note holder craft

November 19th: Fairy Story & fairy pictures. Iteractive day.

November 26th: The Library will be CLOSED

Ruidoso Public Library

107 Kansas City Road

258-3704

LEARN MORE ABOUT

SOLAR ENERGY

PRESENTATION

with Q & A PERIOD by

WILL POTE OF SOLAR SYSTEMS

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 @ PM

IN THE ARCHIVE ROOM

RUIDOSO PUBLIC LIBRARY

107 Kansas City Road 258-3704