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Purchasing a courtyard paver is a great way to honor family and friends, commemorate memories and events, or to publicize your organization or business. Your purchase of a courtyard paver also contributes to PPLD's Tri-Building project, providing 21st Century Library service through innovative library spaces and technology for everyone in our community.

Commemorative pavers are now available at Fountain Library!

• Click here to purchase East Library paver!
• Click here to purchase Fountain Library paver!
• Click here to purchase Library 21c paver!

Congratulations to the winners of the Teen Fiction Writing Contest! All the winners stories will be published in an anthology—details on the anthology to come!

Results:

Middle School

• 1^st place: "Usual" by Anika Nelsestuen
• 2^nd place: "My Home" by Emma Rose Bufkin
• 3^rd place: "Shaded Sprouts" by Selena Mendez
• Honorable mention: "Journey to the Top" by Maggie Frohnhoefer
• Honorable mention: "Up To You" by Ally Hall

High School

• 1^st place: “Wings” by Maggie Hart
• 2^nd place: "And the Heavens Split" by Sariah Smith
• 3^rd place: "Strength in the Shadows" by Emma DeHerrera
• Honorable mention: "To Renuvial" by Jacqueline Dunn
• Honorable mention: "The Unexpected" by Mariah Mayhugh

Terry Pratchett, the immensely popular British fantasy novelist whose more than 70 books include the series known as Discworld, died on Thursday at his home near Salisbury, England. He was 66. Beloved by many readers, he will most certainly be missed.

Click here for a list of titles by Terry Pratchett
available at Pikes Peak Library District.

"It is hard for me to believe that there will never, ever be another book from the Disc. For years, I have waited with excitement for the newest installment from Sir Terry's universe. Each new book was better than the last: funny, insightful, and built in an immensely rich world populated with people and places that were real and widely loved. I wanted to visit Ankh Morpork. I wanted to enroll in Unseen University. I wanted to drink scumble with Nanny Ogg. I would have killed to serve in Sam Vimes' Guard. Everyone has some time in their lives when they have a brush with the famous. My proudest such moment is the time I actually had dinner with Sir Terry. He was a lover of libraries, and donated his time to the Boston Public Library for the cost of a Thai Dinner, which I was privileged to share with him. I will never forget it, and I will never forget the happy hours his work brought me. I will miss his voice immensely.

(BTW: I asked Sir Terry during dinner about his favorite character. He was writing Wintersmith at the time, and said that he was currently fascinated by Tiffany Aching. He did say, however, that he most aspired to be Sam Vimes. I told him I knew it. Because I do, too)."

-Carolyn Coulter - PPLD IT Officer