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SOMETHING NEW
The Library is now selling moderately-priced gifts, greeting cards, and stationery to help raise operating funds. Come, see, and buy - you’ll like them and you'll help your Library, too
I&E PROGRAM
Don’t forget to reserve May 3, 1971, 8 p.m., for the spring Information and Entertainment program at the Library. Your neighbor, Lt. Gen. Daniel Noce, will be the speaker. Through the generosity of the General, your Library is acquiring an important set of the official records of the War of the Rebellion. Only a few libraries in the country have these records, which were authorized by Congress and distributed on a very limited basis. The volumes' will be on display at the Library the evening of May 3.
NEW BOOKS
Time and Again, by Jack Finney - Einstein’s theory of time was that we are like people in a boat drifting along a winding river. We see the present, but the past and the future are hidden around the curves. Still, they are there. How would it be if one could step out of the boat and walk back around the bend to the Past? That is what Si Morley does in Time and Again. Chosen, after exhaustive screening, by a top-secret government agency, he is transported back to the New York of the 1880’s - presumably only to test the theory and to act as an intelligent observer. Armed with his sketchbook and camera, he wanders over by the reservoir at the corner of 42nd and 5th, walks the length of the Ladies’ Mile - hears the sleighs with their jingling bells in Central Park - and meets Julia, a very lovely lady. But there are others less lovely - blackmailers, politicians, corrupt policemen - and a horrendous fire in which he and Julia are caught. Then comes the moment when Si realizes that the agency is not content to have him remain simply an observer More is wanted of him... Time and Again is a novel that will remain long in the reader’s memory - a
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