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The Friends Again Bookstore store hours are Tuesday - Saturday, 11:00am-5:00pm. Stop in and shop our inventory of gently used books. The bookstore is sponsored by The Friends of the Burch Library.
Friends of the Lucius E. and Elsie C. Burch, Jr. Library New Friends members are always welcome. This group is a nonprofit group whose purpose is to provide support to the Library through volunteerism, fundraising activities and sponsorship of programs and services. A Friend's membership offers you the opportunity to share thoughts, donate your time or lend your talent. The Friends meet the first Wednesday of each month at 1pm in the Halle Room located in the Library. If you would like to join the Friends, you can pick up an application from the Library Circulation Desk. The annual membership fee is $10.00. The Collierville Burch Library Friends Book Club meets the second Monday of the month starting at 2:00pm in the Halle Room. New Room for Magazines The Collierville Rotary Club has graciously donated funds to refurbish one of the library's rooms, the Quiet Room, into a Magazine Reading Room. Slanted shelving has been installed enabling easier access to the variety of publications the Library has on hand. Up High in the Trees by Kiara Brinkman Brinkman's debut is an astonishing first-person narrative that reveals a family struggling to regain its footing after the sudden death of its matriarch. The tragedy blooms slowly through the eyes of a precocious narrator, nine year old Sebby Lane. An unusual and sensitive child, Sebby knows more of what is swirling around him than the adults in his life are willing to admit. Challenged by an autistic-like condition, he is able to render -- in the simplest of terms -- the complexities of emotion that stymie the adults around him. As his father retreats into self-imposed exile at the family's summerhouse and his older siblings break away from the family, Sebby is left alone to fathom his grief and navigate his way back to the world of the whole. Up High in the Trees is not a novel that proceeds with a linear progression, but this is one of its strengths. Rather, it is like the journey of a fallen leaf that becomes caught in the current of a powerful river: tossed and turned by troubled waters, sometimes becalmed in a rare eddy of solitude, but always in danger of submersion. Like a floating leaf, Sebby's natural buoyancy is a flare of hope for an end to his journey of grief, and a new beginning. (Fall 2007 Selection) A copy of this title has been donated by Barnes and Noble, Avenue Carriage Crossing, to the Collierville Burch Library. Patron Holds for Materials You will be notified when the book becomes available. Patrons may have up to 2 ongoing holds at any one time. How to place holds on materials:
The Governor's Books from Birth partners with Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Foundation
The Governor's Books from Birth Foundation pledged to partner with Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Foundation to help make her effective pre-K literacy program available to all Tennessee children regardless of family income. Shelby County Books from Birth is an organization comprised of community organizations and coorporations to bring Imagination Libraries to Shelby County. Shelby County is a participating county in the Governor's Book's from Birth Foundation Imagination Library program. To register your child, you can call 901-545-2323 or click here to register online. 501 Poplar View Parkway, Collierville, TN 38017 © 2006
The Town of Collierville The
Town of Collierville does not discriminate on the basis of race,
color, national origin, age, sex, or disability in its hiring and
employment practices, or in admission to, access to, or operation
of its programs, services, and activities pursuant to Title VI of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 200d) and the Americans
with Disabilities Act of 1990, Pub. L 101-336.
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