Start your summer right and Find Your Voice with the summer reading program at the Library. The Summer Reading Program is for everyone! We have programs for every reader, from babies to kids to teens and adults. Slips can be turned in anytime during the summer starting June 1 and the final deadline is Monday, July 31. Pick up a program brochure, reading logs, and calendar to plan your summer fun!
Library Events
Game Night is Thursday, May 25 at 6:30 p.m. Join us for a fun night of Cribbage, Scrabble, or try something new. It’s a great time to get out and socialize with a little friendly competition!
Please note the Library is closed Monday, May 29 in observance of Memorial Day.
Join us Tuesday mornings at 10:30 for Storytime! We’ll share songs, books, and games with friends and caregivers. Each month youth services librarian Lily selects a new theme and each week the details they share are expanded. May is all about food! Growing food, buying food, cooking food and sharing food.
This summer Lily will expand to a Family Storytime the second Saturday of the month at 10:30 a.m. This will be an all-ages Storytime, and we’ll continue to share songs, books, and games together. Join us on Saturdays, June 10, July 8, and August 12 for Family Storytime.
Find Your Voice through music. What does music mean to you? Join us in the meeting room to listen to performers, talk about music and how it affects your life. Music Cafe with CARTHA on Monday, June 5 at 9:30 a.m., Friday, July 14 at 1:00 p.m., and Tuesday, August 22 at 6:30 p.m.
It’s the Summer Event of the Year… An all-ages FOAM PARTY! Imagine a geyser of pure foam fun to chill, dance, and go wild! On Monday, June 5 from 2-4:00 p.m. we invite everyone to join us on the Library lawn for a foam party. Wear clothing (or swimsuits) that can get wet and dirty, bring a towel too.
Library Access
Regular Library hours are Monday-Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Friday-Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Closed Sundays.
The Library will be closed on Monday, May 29 in observance of Memorial Day.
Don’t forget, the digital library is always available! Find an eBook, eAudiobook, magazines and more with Bridges, or with the Libby app on your favorite smart device. You can even stream classic films, discover new favorites, and more with Kanopy on your favorite smart device.
Everyone is welcome at the Library and our programs. Please contact us with access needs.
What’s New?
Find Your Voice through a great book! These are just a few of the new fiction titles to arrive at the Library this month.
In The Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune. In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They’re a family, hidden and safe. The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labeled “HAP,” he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio–a past spent hunting humans. When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio’s former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vic’s assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming. Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached?
Inspired by Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio, and like Swiss Family Robinson meets Wall-E, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful stand-alone fantasy adventure from the beloved author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.
Queen Charlotte by Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhimes. “We are one crown. His weight is mine, and mine is his…” In 1761, on a sunny day in September, a King and Queen met for the very first time. They were married within hours. Born a German Princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was beautiful, headstrong, and fiercely intelligent… not precisely the attributes the British Court had been seeking in a spouse for the young King George III. But her fire and independence were exactly what she needed because George had secrets… secrets with the potential to shake the very foundations of the monarchy. Thrust into her new role as a royal, Charlotte must learn to navigate the intricate politics of the court… all the while guarding her heart, because she is falling in love with the King, even as he pushes her away. Above all she must learn to rule, and to understand that she has been given the power to remake society. She must fight—for herself, for her husband, and for all her new subjects who look to her for guidance and grace. For she will never be just Charlotte again. She must instead fulfill her destiny… as Queen.
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph. It’s 1746 and Georgian London is not a safe place for a young Black man. Charles Ignatius Sancho must dodge slave catchers and worse, and his main ally—a kindly duke who taught him to write—is dying. Sancho is desperate and utterly alone. So how does the same Charles Ignatius Sancho meet the king, write and play highly acclaimed music, become the first Black person to vote in Britain, and lead the fight to end slavery? Through every moment of this rich, exuberant tale, Sancho forges ahead to see how much he can achieve in one short life: “I had little right to live, born on a slave ship where my parents both died. But I survived, and indeed, you might say I did more.”