The Library display case has been host to some amazing collections over the years, don’t miss seeing local photographer Bob Lancaster’s pieces of art on display now! Lancaster features local spots you may recognize, as well as many National Parks in his photography. We’re thrilled to be able to share his work and can’t wait to see how you’ll be inspired.
Do you have a collection you would like to display at the library? We would love to showcase your special collections or a themed display for a month. Please contact Library Director Liz King at [email protected] or call the library to schedule a month to showcase your talents and creativity.
It’s the fourth Friday of the month and that means it’s time for our staff in-service. Please note the Library will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Friday, August 25. Library staff are able to use this time each month for collaboration, training, and continuing education opportunities.
Library Events
Join us each Tuesday morning at 10:30 for Storytime! We are also excited to continue sharing a monthly Saturday Storytime, the second Saturday of the month at 10:30 a.m. We’ll share songs, books, and games with friends and caregivers. When you can’t make it to the Library, you can continue enjoying Digital Storytime on our website and YouTube channel.
Participants of all ages are welcome to join us for a Community Spelling Bee on 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. Registration is required — call the Library, stop by, or register on our website.
Dust off your Scrabble skills, prepare for a tough game of Cribbage or try something new! Game Night is Thursday, August 31 at 6:30 p.m. This monthly evening is a great opportunity to enjoy stretching your brain with games and to squeeze in some socializing. Join us!
Early-out Thursdays at the Library are all about the kids! BAM POW activities begin at 1:45 for 1st through 8th graders, walk over to the Library after school to Build and Make, Play or Watch with us!
CATS activities will be the second and fourth Thursdays, with our first programs on Thursday, Sept. 14 and Thursday, Sept. 28, and begin at 4:45 p.m. These teen programs are for 6th-12th graders. We also will host a weekly Your Space program for Teens on Tuesdays, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. beginning on Tuesday, September 5.
Save the date for Fun For All Night at the Library! Saturday, September 9 will be the final outdoor event of the season. Our friends at the Recreation Dept. will have fun games set up at 6:30 p.m., enjoy some outdoor playtime with stomp rockets, sidewalk chalk, giant Jenga, and more! We’ll then show the movie Ferdinand [PG] at 7:30 p.m. on our giant inflatable movie screen with state-of-the-art projector and sound system. Bring a lawn chair, enjoy some fresh popcorn and the movie.
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. on Friday, August 25.
The Library will be closed on Monday, September 4 in observance of Labor Day. Have a great holiday weekend!
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?
Try something new from the fiction shelves! We are always adding new titles in romance, literary fiction, westerns, and science fiction. Here is a sample of some of our latest additions.
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe’s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. As these characters’ stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community–heaven and earth–that sustain us.
None of This is True by Lisa Jewell. Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life. Josie’s life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can’t quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realize that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix’s life–and into her home. But, as quickly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Only then does Alix discover that Josie has left a terrible and terrifying legacy in her wake.
The Tenderfoot by Robert Vaughan. When Turquoise Ranch hand Curly Stevens went into Flagstaff to meet a new employee arriving on the train, his first impression of Rob Barringer is of how big and strong the tenderfoot is. Rob’s eagerness to learn and his willingness to take on the most difficult jobs wins everyone over, including ranch foreman Jake Dunford, and Melanie Duford, his beautiful daughter. Rob is well-educated, and his demeanor and intelligence catches the attention of Melanie, causing him difficulty with ranch manager Lee Garrison, who believes he has an exclusive right to Melanie. Garrison makes life difficult for the ranch hands, and Rob in particular. When Jake Dunford makes a public accusation that the ranch manager is stealing from the ranch, Garrison reacts by firing everyone, but it is Garrison who is in for a big surprise.