Discover your next great read with NoveList! Whether you’re trying to find a title in a certain subject, searching for books by a favorite author, or trying a new genre, NoveList can help you. It’s like having your own personal librarian making recommendations! When you’re ready to give it a try, visit our website and click on “Online Resources” to get started. Or ask a librarian during your next visit.
Celebrate National Library Card Sign-Up Month with us by signing up for a Library card, renewing your current card, and with a visit to the Library. “Having fun isn’t hard, when you’ve got a Library card!” — Marc Brown.
As a special way to celebrate we have a drawing for all patrons who sign up for a library card, renew their card, or use their card during the month of September. One lucky winner will receive a S’mores Gift Set.
Library Events
Your Space is just for teens! Tuesdays after school the Library’s meeting room is just for 6th-12th graders to hang out, play games, challenge friends to a competition on the Nintendo Switch, and of course eat snacks. Tuesdays after school until 4:30 p.m.
Save the date for Baby Time in October! Spend time with your little one building pre-reading skills while making new parent and caregiver friends at Baby Time. Tuesdays, October 3through October 31 at 9:15 a.m. we’ll share nursery rhymes, sing songs, read books, and enjoy free play with age-appropriate toys. Attend one or more classes: we’d love to see you anytime! Baby Time is ideal for 0-24 months and their caregivers, older siblings welcome.
Join us Tuesday mornings at 10:30 for Storytime! We’ll share songs, books, and games with friends and caregivers. Weekly Storytime is ideal for 2–5-year-olds and their caregivers, siblings welcome.
KNIT-LIT isn’t just for knitters, friends! Join us for this fiber-arts themed book club Wednesday, October 4 at 6:30 p.m. We enjoy different fiction and non-fiction books, with a new title each month, and discussion while working on different projects, sharing tips and tricks and socializing. We’d love to have you join us!
When you’re ready to try a new game or work on your Scrabble skills, join us for Game Night! We have regular groups playing Scrabble and Cribbage each month, and we share new games too. Game Night is Thursday, September 28 at 6:30 p.m.
Library Access
Regular Library hours are Monday-Thursday from 9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. and Friday-Saturday from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Closed Sundays.
Please note the library will be open 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Friday, September 22 to allow time for our monthly staff in-service.
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 these new fiction titles on the new shelf or add them to your list!
The Breakaway by Jennifer Weiner. Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she’s lived since college still looks like she’s just moved in. But she’s got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club in Philadelphia. She’s at peace with her plus-size body—at least, most of the time—and she’s on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood summer sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss camp that her perpetually dieting mother forced her to attend. Fifteen years after her final summer at Camp Golden Hills, when Abby reconnects with a half-his-size Mark, it feels like the happy ending she’s always wanted.
Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney. Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth. Edith may have been tricked into a nursing home, but at eighty-years-young, she’s planning her escape. Patience works there, cleaning messes and bonding with Edith, a kindred spirit. But Patience is lying to Edith about almost everything. Edith’s own daughter, Clio, won’t speak to her. And someone new is about to knock on Clio’s door…and their intentions aren’t good. With every reason to distrust each other, the women must solve a mystery with three suspects, two murders, and one victim. If they do, they might just find out what happened to the baby who disappeared, the mother who lost her, and the connections that bind them.
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim. “We didn’t call the police right away.” Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing. Mia, the irreverent, hyper analytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything—which is why she isn’t initially concerned when her father and younger brother Eugene don’t return from a walk in a nearby park. They must have lost their phone. Or stopped for an errand somewhere. But by the time Mia’s brother runs through the front door bloody and alone, it becomes clear that the father in this tight-knit family is missing and the only witness is Eugene, who has the rare genetic condition Angelman syndrome and cannot speak.
The Hike by Lucy Clarke. Burned-out by both her marriage and work, Liz is desperate for an escape. More than that, she craves an adventure, a total reset. So, when she plans a vacation with her three best friends, she persuades them to spend four nights camping in the stunning mountains of Norway. Following a trail that climbs through lush valleys, towering peaks, and past jewel-blue lakes, Liz is sure that the hike is just what they need. But as they stride farther from civilization, it becomes clear that the women are not the only ones looking to lose themselves in the mountains. The wilderness hides secrets darker than they could ever have imagined, and if they’re not careful . . . not all of them will return.