We’re celebrating Star Wars Day Saturday, May 3, at 2:00 p.m. we’ll watch Return of the Jedi [PG] and make Star Wars themed crafts. Star Wars Day is for all-ages to enjoy, no registration required. Costumes are welcome!
Library Events
Mental Health Awareness Month is observed in May, and we’re working with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and Compeer Johnson County to help break the stigma. Tuesday, May 6, at 6:30 p.m. we’ll hear NAMI’s In Our Own Voice presentation. This presentation provides a personal perspective of mental health conditions, as leaders with lived experience talk openly about what it’s like to have a mental health condition.
It’s time to get your Solon Area Garage Sale registered with the Friends of the Library. The annual sale is hosted by the Friends Friday, June 6, and Saturday, June 7. You can find the registration details and form on our website, www.solon.lib.ia.us, and click on the “Solon Area Garage Sale” button.
Saturday Storytime is May 10, at 10:30 a.m. at the Library! We’ll enjoy books, songs, and games together. While our stories and songs are geared toward 2-5 year olds, Saturday Storytime is for all ages on the 2nd Saturday of the month.
Try your skills at Macrame this month at DIY Night Tuesday, May 13, at 6:30 p.m. Participants will learn a few basic knots and create a macrame key chain. This is a great way to learn or refresh your skills before tackling a bigger challenge. DIY Night is for adults and young adults (16+), registration is required.
Join us Thursday, May 15, at 9:30 a.m. for an “Ask a Librarian” session of Tech Talk. Bring your device(s) and your questions, our friendly staff will be ready to help!
Learn valuable skills in the kitchen from Martha Stewart’s Cooking School and step up your meal planning with Cookbook Club. Saturday, May 17, at 11:00 a.m. we’ll come together to share meals and chat about our success (and failures) in the kitchen. Pick up a copy of the cookbook to get started.
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 weather may impact our ability to be safely open.
We are open Friday, May 23, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. to allow time for our monthly staff in-service.
We are closed on Monday, May 26th in observance of Memorial Day.
Everyone is welcome at the Library and our programs. Please contact us with access needs.
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Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave by Elle Cosimano. Finlay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet…but at least there’s not a body in her backyard. Finlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime, Vero, have not always gotten along with Finlay’s elderly neighbor, Mrs. Haggerty, the community busybody and president of the neighborhood watch. But when a dead body is discovered in her backyard, Mrs. Haggerty needs their help. At first a suspect, Mrs. Haggerty is cleared by the police, but her house remains an active crime scene. She has nowhere to go…except Finlay’s house, right across the street. Finlay and Vero have no interest in getting involved in another murder case-or sacrificing either of their bedrooms. After all, they’ve dealt with enough murders over the last four months to last a lifetime and they both would much rather share their beds with someone else. When the focus of the investigation widens to include Finlay’s ex-husband, Steven, though, Finlay and Vero are left with little choice but to get closer to Mrs. Haggerty and uncover her secrets…before the police start digging up theirs. But who will solve the mystery first?
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry. Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry. Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years-or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century.
Heartwood by Amity Gaige. In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping. At the heart of the investigation is Beverly, the determined Maine State Game Warden tasked with finding Valerie, who leads the search on the ground. Meanwhile, Lena, a seventy-six-year-old birdwatcher in a Connecticut retirement community, becomes an unexpected armchair detective. Roving between these compelling narratives, a puzzle emerges, intensifying the frantic search, as Valerie’s disappearance may not be accidental.
Nobody’s Fool by Harlen Coben. Sami Kierce, a young college grad backpacking in Spain with friends, wakes up one morning, covered in blood. There’s a knife in his hand. Beside him, the body of his girlfriend. Anna. Dead. He doesn’t know what happened. His screams drown out his thoughts — and then he runs. Twenty-two years later, Kierce, now a private investigator, is a new father who’s working off his debts by doing low level surveillance jobs and teaching wannabe sleuths at a night school in New York City. One evening, he recognizes a familiar face at the back of the classroom. Anna. It’s unmistakably her. As soon as Kierce makes eye contact with her, she bolts. For Kierce there is no choice. He knows he must find this woman and solve the impossible mystery that has haunted his every waking moment since that terrible day.