Things are getting spooky! The Friends of the Library will host their annual Halloween Costume & Decor Sale Saturday, October 4, from 8:00 a.m. to Noon in the community meeting room. All items available for a free-will donation to support the Friends mission. Donations of gently used costumes accepted throughout the year, bring them to the library during regular hours and pass them on to the next little ghoul!
Library Programs
Stretch and strengthen your body with Chair Yoga at the Library. Certified instructor, Julie Ellen, leads this adult class on Mondays from 12:30-1:30 p.m. and Wednesdays from 10 to 11:00 a.m. Join us for Coffee & Conversations on Wednesdays at 9 a.m. to socialize, and stick around for Chair Yoga.
Whether you consider yourself a regular techie or are frustrated with the latest changes, join us at Tech Talk Thursday, September 18, from 9:30-10:30 a.m. as we answer your questions and provide hands-on help with your device.
Our weekly Thursday early-out program, BAM POW, is on a roll now! Thursday afternoons from 1:45-2:45 p.m. (while school is in session) we have activities for 1st-8th graders in the community meeting room. Visit our website calendar or pick-up a schedule to see what’s happening each week!
Aspiring teen authors are invited for a Fiction Writer’s Workshop Thursday, September 25, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. With a mix of freewriting, prompts, and group feedback, we’ll dive into the world of fiction writing. Teen programs are intended for 6th-12th graders.
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’re open Friday, Sept. 26, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Everyone is welcome at the Library and our programs. Please contact us with access needs.
What’s New?
Feed your curiosity with nonfiction books. These are a few of the latest to arrive at the Library.
Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. To trace the history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a history of unaffordability and shortage. After years of refusing to build sufficient housing, America has a national housing crisis. After years of limiting immigration, we don’t have enough workers. Despite decades of being warned about the consequences of climate change, we haven’t built anything close to the clean-energy infrastructure we need. Ambitious public projects are finished late and over budget–if they are ever finished at all. The crisis that’s clicking into focus now has been building for decades–because we haven’t been building enough.
Abundance explains that our problems today are not the results of yesteryear’s villains. Rather, one generation’s solutions have become the next generation’s problems. Rules and regulations designed to solve the problems of the 1970s often prevent urban-density and green-energy projects that would help solve the problems of the 2020s. Laws meant to ensure that government considers the consequences of its actions have made it too difficult for government to act consequentially. In the last few decades, our capacity to see problems has sharpened while our ability to solve them has diminished.
Hotshot: A Life on Fire by River Selby. The fierce debut memoir of a female firefighter, Hotshot navigates the personal and environmental dangers of wildland firefighting.
From 2000 to 2010, River Selby was a wildland firefighter whose given name was Anastasia. This is a memoir of that time in their life–of Ana, the struggles she encountered, and the constraints of what it means to be female-bodied in a male-dominated industry. An illuminating debut from a fierce new voice, Hotshot is a timely reckoning with both the personal and environmental dangers of wildland firefighting.
By the time they were nineteen, Selby had been homeless, addicted to drugs, and sexually assaulted more than once. In a last-ditch effort to find direction, they applied to be a wildland firefighter. Two years later, they joined an elite class of specially trained wildland firefighters known as hotshots. Over the course of five fire seasons, Selby delves into the world of the people–almost entirely men–who risk their lives to fight and sometimes prevent wildfires. Simultaneously hyper visible and invisible, Selby navigated an odd mix of camaraderie and rampant sexism on the job and, when they challenged it, a violent closing of ranks that excluded them from the work they’d come to love.
Drawing on years of firsthand experience on the frontlines of fire and years of research, Selby examines how the collision of fire suppression policy, colonization, and climate change has led to fire seasons of unprecedented duration and severity. A work of rare intimacy, Hotshot provides new insight into fire, the people who fight it, and the diversity of ecosystems dependent on this elemental force.
You’re Telling My Kids They Can’t Read This Book? By Andrew Laties. Passionately fighting book-banning and censorship: how & why. In this timely broadside against censorship, Laties weaves together stories from his fifty years as a bookseller, activist, and parent, while sharing tales from authors, librarians, publishers, journalists, and customers. Discussing events as recent as the May 2025 firing of the Librarian of Congress and the June 2025 Supreme Court LGBTQ+ storybook decision, this conversational book reveals patterns in the history of book challenges, while teaching resistance tactics. An essential read for parents, librarians, educators, and everyone committed to intellectual freedom.