I would like everyone to take a brief moment and contemplate the life of a squirrel. You always see them scurrying about, scrambling for food, chasing up one tree and racing down another. Each one is desperately engaged in the frantic business of living. Then, BAM! Out of nowhere a car flies by and the squirrel lies dead on the road. In honor of National Library Week (April 18-24) let’s all learn a lesson from the squirrel. Quit scurrying about. Quit scrambling and chasing and racing through life. Take a moment. Take a deep breath. TAKE TIME TO READ. If you are a resident of Rock County, you can get a free library card. Many of your friends and neighbors already have one and they get the latest bestsellers, check out CDs, magazines, videos, and recorded books. They can surf the Internet, type a resume, send an e-mail. You can too, when you get a library card at the Rock County Community Library. Special Notice: In honor of Library Week there will be an Open House at the Hub Library located in Tuff Village on Sunday, April 18. It runs from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Garden Community Room, and snacks will be served. The Hub Library collection includes general fiction, books on cassette, large print books, and children’s books. If you don’t have a library card you can apply for one at Tuff Village. The Hub Library is open to the public from 9 to 11 a.m. the first and third Saturday of the month and from 6 to 7:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of the month. Stop in and see what they have. New on the fiction shelf at the Rock County Library is "The Art of Mending" by Elizabeth Berg. It begins with the sudden revelation of astonishing secrets, secrets that have shaped the personalities and fates of three siblings, and now threaten to tear them apart. Laura Bartone anticipates her annual family reunion in Minnesota with a mixture of excitement and wariness. Yet this year’s gathering will prove to be much more trying than either she or her siblings imagined. As soon as she arrives, Laura realizes that something is not right with her sister. Forever wrapped up in events of long ago, Caroline is the family’s restless black sheep. When Caroline confronts Laura and their brother, Steve, with devastating allegations about their mother, the three have a difficult time reconciling their varying experiences in the same house. But a sudden misfortune will lead them all to face the past, their own culpability, and their common need for love and forgiveness. Also new on the shelf is "Glorious Appearing" (#12 in the Left Behind Series) by Tim LaHaye. Thousands of years of human history stained by strife, death, and sin come to an end when the King of Glory returns to earth. The satisfying conclusion of the seven years of Tribulation covered by the Left Behind series portrays the return of Jesus Christ to earth in both glory and judgment. At the height of the battle between the forces of evil gathered at Armageddon and the remaining Christian believers at Petra and Jerusalem, nothing seems to be able to stop the Antichrist, Nicolae Carpathia. But God has another plan.