Another wonderful summer reading program has come to a close. We’ve enjoyed many story times, learned all about the night sky, made bat houses, painted, read with a K9, played yard games, LEGOs, coloring challenges, and even pet sharks. You earned thousands of small prizes through your reading and attending programs! Our summer reading program wouldn’t be possible without all of our amazing community sponsors. And of course, it couldn’t happen without all of you, thank you for joining us!
Library Events
As we look into August, please note we will not have Storytime on Tuesday, August 6. Instead, join us Saturday, August 10 at 10:30 a.m. for our monthly Saturday Storytime. Regular weekly Storytime will continue Tuesday, August 13 at 10:30 a.m.
Our fiber art themed book club, KNIT-LIT, meets Wednesday, August 7 at 6:30 p.m. to discuss The Knit Vibe by Vicki Howard and work on projects. New to fiber arts? Join us! This friendly group is ready to chat about materials, methods, and fun books.
This month we’re reading and discussing The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan, at Solon Book Club Tuesday, August 20 at 6:30 p.m. This historical fiction novel follows young Emil and Madeline Martel in March 1944 as Stalin’s forces push into Ukraine, they must make a terrible decision: Do they wait for the Soviet bear’s intrusion and risk being sent to Siberia? Or do they reluctantly follow the wolves — murderous Nazi officers who have pledged to protect “pure-blood” Germans? We have copies available for check out at the Library – pick one up and join us!
Save the date! Tuesday, August 27 at 6:30 p.m. we’ll have John Weeg, a Johnson County Master Gardener, teaching us all about Hügelkultur. Hügelkultur (pronounced hyoo-gul-kulture) is a German word that means mound culture or hill culture. A hügelkultur is a sloped and raised planting bed filled with topsoil, wood, and organic materials. German and European people have practiced it as a gardening method for hundreds of years. Come learn all about this gardening method with 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.
Thursday, August 1, the Library will be open 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. with Dinosaurs at Dusk taking place at 5:30 p.m. outdoors.
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 long awaited new releases from some of our favorite authors are finally here! Come browse the new shelves or place them on hold for pick up.
The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness. Continuing the All Souls Series, Harkness brings us back to Diana and Matthew, as they now receive a formal demand from the Congregation: They must test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Rebecca. Concerned with their safety and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family’s future and answers a message from a great-aunt she never knew existed, Gwyneth Proctor, whose invitation simply reads: It’s time you came home, Diana.
Breaking the Dark by Lisa Jewell. Meet Jessica Jones: Retired superhero, private investigator, loner. She tried her best to be a shiny spandex crimefighter, but that life only led to unspeakable trauma. Now she avoids that world altogether and works on surviving day-to-day in Hell’s Kitchen, New York. The morning a distraught mother comes into her office, Jessica would prefer to nurse her hangover and try to forget last night’s poor choices. But something about Amber Randall’s story strikes a chord with her. Amber is adamant that something happened to her teenage twins while they were visiting their father in the UK. The twins don’t act like themselves, and they now have flawless skin, have lost their distinctive tics and habits, and keep talking about a girl named Belle. Amber insists her children have been replaced by something horrible, something “perfect.”
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn. Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boarding house in the heart of the nation’s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss, whose facade of perfect wife and mother covers gaping inner wounds; policeman’s daughter Nora, who finds herself entangled with a shadowy gangster; frustrated baseball star Beatrice, whose career has come to an end along with the women’s baseball league of WWII; and poisonous, gung-ho Arlene, who has thrown herself into McCarthy’s Red Scare. Grace’s weekly attic-room dinner parties and window-brewed sun tea become a healing balm on all their lives, but she hides a terrible secret of her own. When a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the Briar Club women must decide once and for all: who is the true enemy in their midst?