We’re celebrating our wonderful Friends of the Library group this National Friends of the Library Week! Our Friends group supports the Library with funding for summer reading prizes, special events, winter library challenge, and landscaping. The Friends also organize many fundraising events like the spring book sale, holiday puzzle sale, Halloween costume sale, Grant Wood prints and note cards, and city-wide garage sales. You can Friend your Library too! Join the Friends of the Library and see how you can help grow our Library, whether that means volunteering at one of their fundraisers, providing support throughout the year, or when called upon, it all adds up to a great team of Friends. Please join us in shouting a special thanks to all of our Friends group for their continued support!
On this Freedom to Read day of action (10/19/24) we stand with readers across the United States in support of the freedom to read. The Solon Public Library is committed to supporting your right to read, listen to, or view what you choose. The Library is a place for everyone from babies, school-aged kids, to older adults. We serve a diverse community, and all of our collections should reflect that. We want everyone who walks into the Library to know that they belong here. We want everyone to be able to find themselves represented in our library resources and digital collections.
As Sandy Irwin, Royal Oak Public Library Director, so aptly stated, “What a joy it is to open a book and read about someone similar to you – it helps you feel more recognized in this world. It is also a joy to read about someone who is different from you so that you can see the world through their eyes. Everyone does deserve a place on the shelf, and we are proud that, as your library, we can provide those diverse and enriching experiences.”
Library Events
LEGO Night is for all-ages! We’ll have fun prompts, STEM challenges, and of course many, many LEGOs to build with. Bring your family or just bring some friends, who says adults can’t play with LEGOs? Join us in the community meeting room for LEGO Night Monday, October 21 at 6:00 p.m.
Enjoy a game or two of Scrabble, Cribbage, or try something new at Game Night Thursday, October 24 at 6:30 p.m. Game Night takes place monthly and is a great way to enjoy some friendly competition for adults and young adults.
Test your brain power with Trivia at the Library! On Friday, November 1, we’ll have TWO options for Trivia. Join us at 2:30 p.m. for afternoon trivia, or at 6:30 p.m. for Trivia Night. It’s the same great Trivia – you decide what time works best! Things to know: Teams (max of six players) will compete in four rounds of general trivia. You can visit the Library early to check-out up to five books to use as reference during play. Play begins promptly, so don’t be late!
Pick up a copy of our monthly calendar, or view it on our website, for all the details on upcoming programs. We look forward to seeing you soon!
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.
We will be closed Friday, October 25 for our annual staff safety training.
On Thursday, October 31, we will be open 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. to allow staff and community members time to safely travel home before trick-or-treating begins.
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 We’re Reading
We’re never without a great book, and we love to tell you all about them! Here are a few we’ve been enjoying and hope you do too.
Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune. We’ve been delighted to return to Marysas Island with this highly anticipated sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea. Arthur Parnassus lives a good life, built on the ashes of a bad one. He’s the headmaster of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six magical and so-called dangerous children who live there. Arthur works hard and loves with his whole heart so none of the children ever feel the neglect and pain that he once felt as an orphan on that very same island so long ago. And he is not alone: joining him is the love of his life, Linus Baker, a former caseworker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth; Zoe Chapelwhite, the island’s sprite; and her girlfriend, Mayor Helen Webb. Together, they will do anything to protect the children.
But when Arthur is summoned to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself at the helm of a fight for the future that his family, and all magical people, deserve. And when a new magical child hopes to join them on their island home―one who finds power in calling himself monster, a name Arthur worked so hard to protect his children from — Arthur knows they’re at a breaking point: their family will either grow stronger than ever or fall apart.
Alias Emma by Ava Glass. (Book 1 of 3) Nothing about Emma Makepeace is real. Not even her name. A newly minted secret agent, Emma’s barely graduated from basic training when she gets the call for her first major assignment. Eager to serve her country and prove her worth, she dives in headfirst.
Emma must covertly travel across one of the world’s most watched cities to bring the reluctant—and handsome—son of Russian dissidents into protective custody, so long as the assassins from the Motherland don’t f ind him first. With London’s famous Ring of Steel hacked by the Russian government, the two must cross the city without being seen by the hundreds of thousands of CCTV cameras that document every inch of the city’s streets, alleys, and gutters.
Buses, subways, cars, and trains are out of the question. Traveling on foot, and operating without phones or bank cards that could reveal their location or identity, they have twelve hours to make it to safety. This will take all of Emma’s skills of disguise and subterfuge. But when Emma’s handler goes dark, there’s no one left to trust. And just one wrong move will get them both killed.