Library staff are continuously renewing skills and expertise, learning new information, and collaborating with others to provide the best service to our patrons and community as a whole. Please note the Library will be closed Friday, October 27 for our annual all-day staff in-service. We will reopen with regular hours Saturday, October 28 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Library Events
Time is running out — decorate your pumpkin and bring it in by Wednesday, October 25 at Noon to enter the Great Pumpkin Decorating Contest! Just remember: no carving, pumpkins must be no larger than 8 inches in diameter. Get creative and have fun!
Try out those new pizza recipes — or share a favorite! Cookbook Club is Saturday, October 21 at 11:00 a.m. and all about pizza. Bring your dish to share and chat about it with other foodies.
Tease your brain with Trivia Night Friday, October 27 at 6:30 p.m. Register your team (max of six players) and join us for a night of fun trivia at the Library. This general knowledge trivia consists of four rounds –and you can visit the Library ahead of time to check out up to five books for resources during play!
November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and we’re joining the fun. Whether you’ve been an aspiring novelist for ages or just tempted to give it a shot, save the dates and join us for NaNoWriMo! Each Monday evening in November we’re hosting generative writing workshops with other writers. Robert Peck and Taney Kurth, rhetoric and English University professors and writing center instructors, will lead these workshops and provide support for anyone wanting to write this month! Our first session on Monday, November 6 at 6:30 p.m. and will be focused on Your Story Begins: Zooming in Early Sets You Apart.
BAM POW fun continues on Thursday early-outs from 1:45-2:45 p.m. for 1st through 8th graders. We’ll enjoy Halloween BINGO Thursday, Oct. 19 and Silly, Spooky Science Thursday, Oct. 26.
CATS programs are for our Creative, Amazing Teens of Solon on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays from 4:45-5:45 p.m. 6th-12th graders will get creative and make Haunted “Gingerbread” Houses Thursday, October 26. While we’re in the Halloween spirit, we have a CATS: After Hours Halloween Party Tuesday, October 31 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. Teens are invited to wear a costume, join the spooky games and crafts for an evening of fun. No registration required, drop by to join us!
Library Access
Regular Library hours are Monday-Thursday 9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. and Friday-Saturday 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Closed Sundays.
Please note the Library will be closed Friday, October 27 for staff in-service.
On Tuesday, October 31 the Library will be open 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. to allow everyone to get home safely for trick or treating fun!
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?
These hot new releases are available at the Library! Don’t see it on the shelf? Just ask a staff member, we’re happy to help you place a hold and get new books in your hands.
The Armor of Light by Ken Follett. The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother’s husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects his wealth no matter the cost, all the while war cries are heard from France, as Napoleon sets forth a violent master plan to become emperor of the world. As institutions are challenged and toppled in unprecedented fashion, ripples of change ricochet through our characters’ lives as they are left to reckon with the future and a world they must rebuild from the ashes of war.
Murder at the Elms by Alyssa Maxwell. As the nineteenth century comes to a close, the illustrious Vanderbilt family dominates Newport, Rhode Island, high society. But when murder arrives, reporter Emma Cross learns that sometimes the actions of the cream of society can curdle one’s blood in the latest installment of this bestselling cozy historical mystery series . . .
Available in Large Print.
The Oceans and the Stars by Mark Helprin. A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined always to do what’s right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the President of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line’s only prototype–– Athena, Patrol Coastal 15––with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral.
Rather than resign, Rensselaer takes the new assignment in stride, and while supervising Athena ’s fitting out in New Orleans, encounters a brilliant lawyer, Katy Farrar, with whom he falls in last-chance love. Soon thereafter, he is deployed on a mission that subjects his integrity, morality, and skill to the ultimate test, and ensures that Athena will live forever in the annals of the Navy. As in the Odyssey, Katy is the force that keeps him alive and the beacon that lights the way home through seven battles, mutiny, and court martial.
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow. Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland–and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it’s best to let the uncanny house and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling go to rot. Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. Too quickly, though, Starling House starts to feel dangerously like something she’s never had: a home. As sinister forces converge on Starling House, Opal and Arthur are going to have to make a dire choice to dig up the buried secrets of the past and confront their own fears, or let Eden be taken over by literal nightmares. If Opal wants a home, she’ll have to fight for it.