The Teen Advisory Board (TAB) is gearing up to start planning fun activities at the Library! If you (or someone you know) are in grades 6 through 12 and love the Library — this could be a good fit. We’ll begin meeting monthly on the third Tuesday of the month at 6:00 p.m. with our first meeting Tuesday, September 19. TAB members help plan teen activities, suggest new books for the teen and young adult collections, and enjoy snacks! If this sounds interesting to you, complete an application today. Applications are available on our website under the Services menu, and in the Library.
Library Events
Join us at the Library for the perfect Saturday on August 12! We’ll start the day with all-ages Storytime at 10:30 a.m. followed by a visit with the Cold Blooded Redhead and reptile friends at Noon. And then we’ll end our evening with Fun For All Night! Yard games start at 7 p.m. with the outdoor movie, Abominable, at 8:00 p.m.
Join us Tuesday mornings at 10:30 for Storytime! We’ll share songs, books, and games with friends and caregivers. This month our stories are all about opposites! While working to make Storytime a program accessible to all, we will continue to enjoy Family Storytime on the second Saturday of each month at 10:30 a.m., and quarterly Intergenerational Storytime at Solon Retirement Village. Keep an eye on our calendar and this weekly update as we share those dates. Sharing stories, songs, and joyful play is for everyone!
When you can’t make it in person or just need a break — you can enjoy Digital Storytime anytime on your favorite device! Visit our website or find us on YouTube to enjoy.
What role does music play in your life? Does it bring you joy? Inspire creativity? Join us for Music Cafe with CARTHA Tuesday, August 22 at 6:30 p.m. to share how music impacts your life, listen to performers, and enjoy the evening! All ages are invited to enjoy Music Cafe.
Participants of all ages are welcome to join us for a Community Spelling Bee Tuesday, August 29 at 6:30 p.m. While it is geared towards adults and young adults, everyone is welcome. Rules will be similar to the Scripps National Spelling Bee but will not be a qualifier for the regional or national spelling bee.
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.
Please note the Library will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Friday, August 25.
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?
Take a dive into these iconic lives with one of our new biographies.
The Art Thief: a true story of love, crime, and a dangerous obsession by Michael Finkel. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stephane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years-in museums and cathedrals all over Europe-Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwieser’s strange and fascinating world. Unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them to his heart’s content. Possessed of a remarkable athleticism and an innate ability to assess practically any security system, Breitwieser managed to pull off a breathtaking number of audacious thefts. Yet these strange talents bred a growing disregard for risk and an addict’s need to score, leading Breitwieser to ignore his girlfriend’s pleas to stop-until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down.
First to the Front: the untold story of Dickey Chapelle, trailblazing female war correspondent by Lorissa Rinehart. From the beginning of World War II through the early days of Vietnam, groundbreaking female photojournalist and war correspondent Dickey Chapelle chased dangerous assignments her male colleagues wouldn’t touch, pioneering a radical style of reporting that focused on the humanity of the oppressed. She documented conditions across Eastern Europe in the wake of the second world war. She marched down the Ho Chi Minh Trail with the South Vietnamese Army and across the Sierra Maestra Mountains with Castro. She was the first reporter accredited with the Algerian Revolutionary Army, and survived torture in a communist Hungarian prison. She dove out of planes, faked her own kidnapping, and endured the mockery of male associates, before ultimately dying on assignment in Vietnam with the Marines in 1965, the first American woman killed in combat. Chapelle overcame discrimination and abuse, both on the battlefield and at home, with much of her work ultimately buried from the public eye-until now. In First to the Front, Lorissa Rinehart uncovers the incredible life and unparalleled achievements of this true pioneer, and the mark she would make on history.
The Girls Who Fought Crime: the untold true story of the country’s first female investigator and her crime fighting squad by Mari K. Eder. From corsets to crime fighting, Mae Foley challenged the patriarchal status quo by not only juggling family life, but also by forming the first female auxiliary police force in the City That Never Sleeps. After the 19th Amendment passed in 1920, Foley galvanized 2,000 women to join her “Masher Squad’’ and eventually became one of the first sworn officers with the NYPD. The “Masher Squad’’ brought down robbers and rapists, investigated the notorious 3X serial murders, and provided witness protection during the trails of the deadliest mafia bosses in the city. Foley stared down the barrel of the gun-from facing the patriarchy head on, but also quite literally-and always came out on top.
Jackie: Public, Private, Secret by J. Randy Taraborrelli. Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and lovers over a thirty-year period-as well as previously unreleased material from the JFK Library-Kennedy historian J. Randy Taraborrelli paints an unforgettable new portrait of a woman whose flaws and contradictions only serve to make her even more iconic. “I have three lives,” Jackie told a former lover, “public, private and secret.” In this revealing biography, readers will become intimately familiar with all three. New insights from the book include: Jackie’s cold feet before her wedding to Jack Kennedy and her secret plan to avoid moving into the White House with him. Jackie’s plan to meet with the woman with whom her husband, Aristotle Onassis, was again having an affair, Maria Callas…and why, in the end, she decided against it. The truth about the nude photos of Jackie which scandalized her in the 1970s…and which family member had betrayed her by selling them. Her unusual relationship with Maurice Templesman, which was never what outsiders believed it to be. The never-before-reported, last-ditch efforts to save Jackie’s life with experimental cancer treatments, and the doctor who wouldn’t risk jail time in order to treat her. Twenty-nine years after her death and sixty years after the assassination of President Kennedy, Jackie delivers the last word on one of the most famous women in the world.