Enjoy hands-on DIY fun with our monthly DIY Night for adults and young adults (16+) with our new adult services librarian, Mykle! Tuesday, April 8, at 6:30 p.m.
Mykle will lead the group in creative painting of a birdhouse. It’s perfect for spring decor, feathered friends, or a gift for a birdwatcher friend. Registration is required, visit our website calendar and click on the event to complete the registration form or call the Library for assistance.
Library Events
You won’t want to miss this “Laugh & Learn” session with Doris Montag and her History of Ordinary Things curated collection Thursday, April 3, at 10:30 a.m. Did you know the can came years before the opener? Safely preserving food by canning was introduced in 1807.
And there is more… Doris Montag, a local storyteller and humorist, returns with the history of the Can, and its sidekick, the Opener. Assembled by her father, the entire evolution of the opener is documented from primitive cast iron gadgets to the electric opener (and knife sharpener) and all in between. It is an ordinary thing often taken for granted, and potentially nearing the end of its lifecycle. This collection will be displayed in the library for the month of April.
Spring Baby Time is here with a new twist, join us at the Solon Community Center on Mondays through April 28, at 9:15 a.m. for this six-week session of songs, rhymes, and fun for little ones 0-36 months and caregivers. Siblings welcome! Stick around after Baby Time to enjoy free entry to Tot Time from 10:00 a.m.-Noon.
The final Fun For All Night of the season is coming up Saturday, April 12, with a blockbuster hit the whole family will enjoy, Moana 2! Join us at the Solon Community Center for gym games at 6:00 p.m. and the movie at 7:00 p.m. with popcorn from our friends at Theisen’s of Coralville. This program is provided in partnership with the Solon Recreation Department and free for all ages to enjoy.
Kitchen connoisseurs and hopefuls gather for Cookbook Club to share recipes, tips and tricks. Saturday, April 19, at 11:00 a.m. the group will cook and share favorite sheet pan meals. Check out a cookbook for inspiration or prepare a favorite and join us! Cookbook Club is for adults but the whole family is welcome to attend, no registration required.
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 always refer to our website calendar or call to check hours as winter weather may impact our ability to be safely open.
The Library will be open Friday, March 28, 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. to allow time for our regular monthly staff in-service after closing.
Everyone is welcome at the Library and our programs. Please contact us with access needs.
What’s new?
Our new fiction shelves are burst- ing with a wide variety of options for every reader.
Pick up something new to enjoy!
The Dressmakers of London by Julia Kelly.
Isabelle Shelton has always found comfort in the predictable world of her mother’s dressmaking shop, Mrs. Shelton’s Fashions, while her sister Sylvia turned her back on the family years ago to marry a wealthy doctor whom Izzie detests. When their mother dies unexpectedly, the sisters are stunned to find they’ve jointly inherited the family business. Izzie is determined to buy Sylvia out, but when she’s conscripted into the WAAF, she’s forced to seek Sylvia’s help to keep the shop open. Realizing this could be her one chance at reconciliation with her sister, Sylvia is determined to save Mrs. Shel- ton’s Fashions from closure—and financial ruin.
Through letters, the sisters begin to confront old wounds, new loves, and the weight of family legacy in order to forge new beginnings in this lyrically moving novel perfect for fans of Genevieve Graham and Lucinda Riley.
The Heart of Winter by Jonathan Evison.
Abe Winter and Ruth Warneke were never meant to be together—at least if you ask Ruth. Yet their catastrophic blind date in college evolved into a seventy-year marriage and a life on a farm on Bainbridge Island with their hens and beloved Labrador, Megs.
Through the years, the Winters have fallen in and out of lockstep, and from their haunting losses and guarded secrets, a dependable partnership has been forged.
But when Ruth’s loose tooth turns out to be something much more malicious, the beautiful, reliable life they’ve created together comes to a crisis. As Ruth struggles with her crumbling independence, Abe must learn how to take care of her while their three living children question his ability to look after his wife. And once again, the couple has to reconfigure how to be there for each other.
Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips. Pulitzer Prize Winner.
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and nameless haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freed- men and runaways.
Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn’t spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital’s entrance by a war veteran who has forced himself into their world. There, far from family, a beloved neighbor, and the mountain home they knew, they try to reclaim their lives.
The omnipresent vagaries of war and race rise to the surface as we learn their story: their flight to the highest mountain ridges of western Virginia; the disappearance of ConaLee’s father, who left for the War and never returned. Meanwhile, in the asylum, they begin to find a new path. ConaLee pretends to be her mother’s maid; Eliza responds slowly to treatment. They get swept up in the life of the facility—the mysterious man they call the Night Watch; the orphan child called Weed; the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen; the remarkable doctor at the head of the institution.