The start of back to school season is upon us and we’re gearing up for after school fun at the Library to begin in September. BAM POW, our Thursday early-out program, begins on Thursday, September 11. This program is intended for 1st-8th grade students and runs from 1:45-2:45 p.m. while school is in session, the calendar is available on our website which highlights the cancellations during school breaks and holidays. Our weekly teen program, Switch and Social, begins Tuesday, September 9. This is a great opportunity for 6th-12th grade students to enjoy snacks, games on the Switch and time with friends from 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Library Programs
Storytime will take a short break Tuesday, August 26, and Tuesday, September 2. Join us Tuesday, September 9, at 10:30 a.m. for songs, books, and games! Weekly Storytime is intended for preschool age children and their caregivers, siblings always welcome.
Snuggle up with Willa the therapy dog! Kids in grades 1–8 can enjoy one-on-one reading time with Willa, a lovable French Bulldog who adores books, belly rubs, and library visits. Reading with a therapy dog can boost confidence and make reading fun. Register for your timeslot online, in person, or by phone.
Library Access
Regular Library hours are Monday-Thursday, 9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. and Friday-Saturday, from 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.
Friday, August 22, the Library will be open 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
In observance of Labor Day, the Library will be closed Monday, September 1.
Everyone is welcome at the Library and our programs. Please contact us with access needs.
What’s New?
Discover your next great read on the new shelf! These are a few of the latest titles to arrive at the Library.
Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson. In seven days Jet Mason will be dead. Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. I’ll do it later, she always says. She has time. Until Halloween night, when Jet is violently attacked by an unseen intruder. She suffers a catastrophic head injury. The doctor is certain that within a week, the injury will trigger a deadly aneurysm. Jet has never thought of herself as having enemies. But now she looks at everyone in a new light: her family, her former best friend turned sister-in-law, her ex-boyfriend. She has at most seven days, and as her condition deteriorates she has only her childhood friend Billy for help. But nevertheless, she’s absolutely determined to finally finish something: Jet is going to solve her own murder.
Salt Bones by Jennifer Givhan. At the edge of the Salton Sea, in the blistering borderlands, something is out hunting. . .
Malamar Veracruz has never left the dust-choked town of El Valle. Here, Mal has done her best to build a good life. She’s raised two children, worked hard, and tried to forget the painful, unexplained disappearance of her sister, Elena. When another local girl goes missing, Mal plunges into a fresh yet familiar nightmare. As a desperate Mal hunts for answers, her search becomes increasingly tangled with inscrutable visions of a horse-headed woman, a local legend who Mal feels compelled to follow. Mal’s perspective is joined by the voices of her two daughters, all three of whom must work to uncover the truth about the missing girls in their community before it’s too late.
Combining elements of Latina and Indigenous culture, family drama, mystery, horror, and magical realism in a spellbinding mix, Salt Bones lays bare the realities of environmental catastrophe, family secrets, and the unrelenting bond between mothers and daughters.
The Satisfaction Cafe by Kathy Wang. Joan’s life is a series of unexpected events: she never thought she would live in California, nor did she expect her first marriage to implode–especially as quickly and spectacularly as it did. She definitely did not expect to fall in love with an older, wealthy American man and become his fourth wife and mother to his youngest children.
Joan and her children grow older, and one day she makes a drastic change: she opens the Satisfaction Café, a place where customers can find connection through conversation. With humor and grace, Joan creates a space for meaningful relationships and constructs a lasting legacy.
Tell it to Me Singing by Tita Ramirez. Mónica Campo is pregnant with her first child when, moments before being wheeled into emergency heart surgery, her mother confesses a long-held secret: Mónica’s father is not the man who raised her. But when her mother wakes up and begins having delusional episodes, Mónica doesn’t know what to believe–whether the confession was real or just a channeling of the telenovela her mother watches nightly.
In her despair, Mónica wants to speak with only one person: her ex-boyfriend of five years, Manny. She can’t help but worry, though, what this says about her relationship with her fiancé and father of her unborn child.
Mónica’s search for the truth leads her to a new understanding of the past–the early ’80s, when her parents arrived from Cuba on the famous Mariel boatlift, and the tumultuous ’70s, a decade after Castro’s takeover, when some people were still secretly fighting his regime–people like her mother and the man she claims is Mónica’s real father.