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Hurry to get your Gala tickets, as the annual event put on by the Harford County Public Library Foundation is almost sold out!

“Based on a true story from the author’s family history, Jarrettsville begins in 1869, just after Martha Jane Cairnes has shot and killed her fiancé…�

‘The story is set in Northern Maryland, six miles below the Mason-Dixon line, where brothers literally fought on opposing sides, and former slave-owners live next door to abolitionists and freed men.’

Meet Cornelia Nixon, author of Jarrettsville at the Jarrettsville Branch on Monday, November 2 at 6:00 pm for an exciting discussion and book signing.

For more information and to register for the program, call the Jarrettsville Branch at 410-692-7887!

Just a quick reminder to pick up your Gala tickets soon, before the annual event sells out!
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The Maryland Insurance Administration will sponsor an outreach table at Abingdon Branch on Monday, October 19 from 10:00 am – 6:30 pm and at Bel Air Branch on Monday, October 26 from 10:00 am – 6:30 pm. A representative from MIA will be available to answer your questions and provide publications on topics ranging from personal automobile insurance to long term care insurance purchasing strategies.

The MIA is a state agency that regulates the insurance industry in Maryland. They do not sell insurance or recommend any insurer or agent. They are sponsoring these outreach tables at local libraries and government office buildings throughout the state. These two branch locations will be the only available outreach opportunities in Harford County.

Visit the library's booth at the Graw Days Festival in Havre de Grace this Saturday from 10-2 and make a hat!

For more information about the festival, visit the Havre de Grace Main Street website.

Just wanted to highlight an exciting program happening tomorrow evening at the Bel Air Branch:

Immerse Yourself in India – Authors H. Ronken Lynton and Rolf P. Lynton will be doing a book signing at Bel Air on Thursday, October 8 from 6:30 – 7:30 PM. Veiled Destinies: Learning to Live in India is an account of the couple’s life in India beginning in the 1950s. Ms. Lynton’s memoir includes stories and insights from a fearful Midwesterner who learned to love the culture and the people. Between Past and Future a Field Guide for Fathers Overseas is by Mr. Lynton and tells how to manage a career and raise children in a foreign country.

Please call the Bel Air Branch at 410-638-3151 for more information.

As part of the One Maryland One Book celebration this month, performer-presenter Gwendolyn Briley-Strand will talk about Harriet Ross Tubman at Havre de Grace Branch on Thursday, October 8 at 6:30 pm. Known as the “Moses of Her People�, Harriet Tubman led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad. Learn more about this Maryland native from Briley-Strand, who will discuss the life of this remarkable woman.

For more information and to register, call the Havre de Grace Branch at 410-939-6700.

Help us munch our way to a new reading record on Thursday, October 8th when The Very Hungry Caterpillar will be read every hour on the half hour to celebrate Read for the Record Day at the Aberdeen, Abingdon, and Bel Air Branches of Harford County Public Library.

The goal is to have one million children read or listen to the same book on the same day to draw attention to the early education crisis affecting millions of at-risk young children here in the U.S. and across the globe.

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