As we turn our calendars to July the summer reading program continues with fun for all-ages! Don’t forget — Monday, July 31st is the final deadline to turn in your reading slips. Join us as we Find Our Voices with summer adventures at the Library.
Library Events
Fun For All Night is Saturday, July 8 at the Library! We’re playing yard games with our friends from the Recreation Department, on the Library lawn at 7:30 p.m. and then we’ll enjoy the outdoor movie, Coco [Rated PG], with popcorn at 8:30 p.m. on the patio. This is a great evening out for all-ages, and even better that it’s free and local. Join us!
Our next Family Storytime will be Saturday, July 8th at 10:30 a.m. Saturday morning Storytime is a great chance for the whole family to enjoy songs, books, and games together. Weekly Storytime continues, Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. We look forward to seeing you!
Teens (incoming 6th-12th graders) can enjoy Teen Tuesdays at 2:00 p.m. with special activities each week, just for teens! Teen Tuesdays will run through July 25, no program on July 4.
Kids Connect (incoming 1st-5th graders) is each Thursday at 2:00 p.m. Weekly kids activities that encourage kids to find their artistic voice, their scientific voice, their playful voice. Kids Connect will run through July 27, no program on July 6.
Save the date! Join us Friday, July 14 for Music Cafe with CARTHA at 1:00 p.m. and Karaoke Night from 5-6:30 p.m. Whether you want to share musical talents or sit back and enjoy the company, these programs are open to all-ages and we look forward to sharing music with you!
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 is closed on Tuesday, July 4 in observance of Independence Day. No youth or teen programs on Tuesday, July 4 or Thursday, July 6.
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 with one of these new titles on the fiction shelves! From thrillers, to historical fiction, to romance… there’s always something new hitting the shelves.
Be Mine by Richard Ford. Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway. Now in the twilight of life, a man who has occupied many colorful lives—sportswriter, father, husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agent—Bascombe finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all: caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter odyssey to Mount Rushmore, Frank, in typical Bascombe fashion, faces down the mortality that is assured each of us, and in doing so confronts what happiness might signify at the end of days. In this memorable novel, Richard Ford puts on displays the prose, wit, and intelligence that make him one of our most acclaimed living writers. Be Mine is a profound, funny, poignant love letter to our beleaguered world.
The Only One Left by Riley Sager. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred. It’s now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer—I want to tell you everything. As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there’s more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor’s departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth—and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.
The Spectacular by Fiona Davis. New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her high school sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected they’d have together: a quiet house in the suburbs, Marion staying home to raise their future children. But instead, Marion finds herself feeling trapped. So when she comes across an opportunity to audition for the famous Radio City Rockettes—the glamorous precision-dancing troupe—she jumps at the chance to exchange her predictable future for the dazzling life of a performer. Meanwhile, the city is reeling from a string of bombings orchestrated by a person the press has nicknamed the “Big Apple Bomber,” who has been terrorizing the citizens of New York for sixteen years by planting bombs in popular, crowded spaces. With the public in an uproar over the lack of any real leads after a yearslong manhunt, the police turn in desperation to Peter Griggs, a young doctor at a local mental hospital who espouses a radical new technique: psychological profiling. As both Marion and Peter find themselves unexpectedly pulled in to the police search for the bomber, Marion realizes that as much as she’s been training herself to blend in—performing in perfect unison with all the other identical Rockettes—if she hopes to catch the bomber, she’ll need to stand out and take a terrifying risk. In doing so, she may be forced to sacrifice everything she’s worked for, as well as the people she loves the most.