I saw this headline recently: “Mesa, Arizona, woman saves $65K at her local library.” How did this happen? Has her library opened a bank? No! Let’s check out this statement. How many times do you buy a book and read it only once? Some people even purchase books and never read them.

A post by Randy Crawford has him admitting to reading about 5% of books he bought: “For some reason, I have a great passion for shopping for and buying books but not reading them. It must be a shiny-object-attracting-the-crow kind of thing. Or maybe I just want to live surrounded by a whirlwind of ideas, which remain tantalizing worlds of possibility.”

In a Sept. 16, 2015, National Post survey, only 60% of books purchased are ever opened. You can save that money by borrowing books from your local library. Would you like to read the latest bestsellers? We have them here. Would you like to read a great nonfiction book? If we don’t have it here, we can have it delivered here for you within a few days. Your library is in touch electronically with 12 local libraries, as well as the 470 libraries in Pennsylvania. Just think how many resources that amounts to - around 7.8 million items.

How much can you save? Can you beat the Arizona woman?

SEPTEMBER BOOKS

Fiction: “Tom Clancy Weapons Grade,” Don Bentley; “Clive Cussler’s Condor’s Fury,” Graham Brown; “Nineteen Steps,” Millie Bobby Brown; “The Running Grave,” Robert Galbraith; “Cursed at Dawn,” Heather Graham; “Blessing of the Lost Girls,” J.A. Jance; “Happiness Falls,” Angie Kim; “The Heirloom,” Beverly Lewis; “Code Red: A Mitch Rapp Novel,” Kyle Mills; “12 Months to Live,” James Patterson and Mike Lupica; “23-and-a-half Lies,” James Patterson; “The Traitor Among Us,” Anne Perry; “Payback in Death,” J.D. Robb; “Judgment Prey,” John Sandford; “The Breakaway,” Jennifer Weiner

Nonfiction: “In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took on the U.S. Army,” Charles Barber; “Build the Life You Want: the Art and Science of Getting Happier,” Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey; “When the Game Was War: The NBA’s Greatest Season,” Rich Cohen; “Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune,” Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe; “Elon Musk,” Walter Isaacson; “Web Design in Easy Steps,” Sean McManus; “Killing the Witches,” Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard; “To Infinity & Beyond: a Journey of Cosmic Discovery,” Neil deGrasse Tyson; “Thicker Than Water: A Memoir,” Kerry Washington

Juvenile: “Cat on the Run in Cat of Death,” Aaron Blabley; “The Wild Robot Protects,” Peter Brown; “Zeus: Water Rescue,” W. Bruce Cameron; “Uncle Fred is a Knucklehead!” Dan Gutman; “Slime Doesn’t Pay!” R.L. Stine

Young adult: “Five Nights at Freddy’s Fazbear Frights: Graphic Novel Volume 3,” Scott Cawthon; “Her Radiant Curse,” Elizabeth Lim; “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods,” Rick Riordan

Children’s picture books: “Blue’s Clues & You: 5-Minute Stories,” Random House; “Bluey: Sleepytime,” Joe Brumm; “Pete the Cat Checks Out the Library,” James Dean; “Buster Gets Back on Track,” Dale Earnhardt Jr.; “The Secret Society of Aunts and Uncles,” Jake Gyllenhaal and Greta Caruso; “Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Lost Christmas,” Alastair Heim; “Construction Site: Taking Flight!” Sherri Duskey Rinker; “How to Catch Santa Claus,” Alice Walstead