#ShelfLife - October 7, 2016

This week, we're thinking of all those in the path of Hurricane Matthew and feeling grateful that we'll be able to sit and enjoy a good book this weekend.

Halloween is coming soon and the staff at our Post Road Library is in the spirit! Check out their spooky book displays and take home a scary story.

We also must be thinking about sitting around a warm fire now that our Georgia mornings are getting cooler: we've got two works of fiction focused on fire. And, for all you football fans, we've got a book about two unknown coaches revolutionized American football at every level, from high school to the NFL.

Visit our online catalog at www.forsythpl.org and be among the first to place a request for the materials featured in #ShelfLife this week. When you pick up your book, we hope you'll join the conversation by posting a picture of your own #ShelfLife on Instagram.

The Post Road Library staff is in the Halloween spirit! Stop by and choose a spooky story from one of their awesome displays! #shelfie #shelflife #halloween #spooky #librariesofinstagram

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Biography fans and book clubs will be scrambling to read THE HUNTRESS by Alice Arlen and Michael J. Arlen this fall. Follow Alicia Patterson, maverick newspaperwoman, equestrian, aviatrix and intrepid adventurer, through the first half of the 20th century, from her troublemaking days as the middle child of complicated parents to her successes as publisher of the Pulitzer Prize-winning NEWSDAY. #biography #ShelfLife #bookclub

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In the tradition of Michael Lewis’s Moneyball, award-winning historian S.C. Gwynne tells the incredible story of how two unknown coaches revolutionized American football at every level, from high school to the NFL. #ShelfLife #forsythreads #nonfiction #football

A photo posted by Forsyth County Public Library (@forsythpubliclibrary) on Oct 4, 2016 at 6:10am PDT

ASHES OF FIERY WEATHER by Kathleen Donohoe is a debut novel about the passionate loves and tragic losses of six generations of women in a family of firefighters, spanning from famine-era Ireland to Brooklyn a decade after 9/11. #ShelfLife #firefighters #librariesofinstagram

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Forced to reveal her powers of spontaneous combustion in order to save a friend, Henrietta, the first female supernatural in centuries, is invited to train as one of Her Majesty's secretive royal sorcerers in fulfillment of a prophecy that she comes to discover is part of a powerful deception. Be among the first to read A SHADOW BRIGHT AND BURNING by Jessica Cluess. #teenreads #ShelfLife #librariesofinstagram #ashadowbrightandburning #jessicacluess

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Waking up to discover that she has an uncharacteristically optimistic new outlook, Rose embraces things and people she once avoided in CHANGE PLACES WITH ME by Lois Metzger. But when she throws a party, she finds that the depressed person she used to be is still there, just beneath the surface. #teenreads #ShelfLife #LoisMetzger #yabooks #fridayreads

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