The Friends of the Library will host the annual Solon Area Garage Sales, Friday, June 5, and Saturday, June 6. You can find the official map & list of sales from the Friends of the Library available at the Library and on our website.
Library Programs
It’s official, the Summer Reading Program at Solon Public Library is underway for Summer 2026!
Start your week at the Library with our regularly scheduled Chair Yoga, every Monday at 12:30 p.m. Starting Tuesday, June 9, and every Tuesday morning after, families with children are welcome to come to one of our Storytimes at the Library, either at 9:30 a.m. or at 10:30 a.m. Both of these events will be exactly the same, but we encourage families to attend the second Storytime event, if the first event fills up.
Still considering signing up for June and July events at the Library? Register on our website calendar to sign up early or join the waitlist for upcoming events! Registration for Library events in July will be available as early as June 20!
Don’t forget! Friday, June 12, special guests from Do Art Productions will host a Comic Book Workshop at 9 a.m. for Kids and Teens (incoming 3rd through 12th graders). On Saturday, June 13, meet reptiles and arachnids with local legend, the Cold Blooded Redhead at 10:30 a.m. Registration is required for these programs. Collect your Secret Codes to enter to win Summer Reading Program prizes!
Library Access
Regular Library hours are Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-7 p.m., and Friday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 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.
The Library will be open 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, June 26.
Everyone is welcome at the Library and our programs. Please contact us with access needs.
What’s New?
Need a fresh book for your sunny summer days? Here are just a few popular new additions to our Adult Fiction collection!
The Midnight Train by Matt Haig. When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop? No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there. The chance to re-live the moments that meant most. To see what kind of person you really were. For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life. On his honeymoon in Venice. Before he gave it all away. He wishes he could go back and live differently. But to do so risks everything. A magical, time-travelling love story, from the world of The Midnight Library.
The Final Target by Nora Roberts. He showed up at Arden Bowie’s debut author appearance with a copy of her novel and an eager smile. He showered her with compliments and got her autograph. Then he came to her next event. And the one after that. Dustin was just an aspiring writer who wanted advice, Arden reassured herself. But after giving in to one of his incessant invitations and chatting with him over coffee, she discovered that ignoring her inner alarm bell had been a terrible mistake… An introvert at heart, Arden had long craved solitude-but now, after a harrowing assault, she finds herself hiding behind locked doors and startling at every sound. And her relief at his imprisonment is tempered by anxiety when Dustin’s wealthy mother helps to get him a paltry five-year sentence at a psychiatric facility. Arden decides to write a new story for herself, moving to a tiny Oregon town and befriending Gideon, an ex-LAPD detective. But while she learns to thrive, Dustin remains his delusional, twisted self, as fixated as ever and now seething with anger. He still believes Arden’s purpose on earth is to serve and please him. And his job is to protect her. But who will protect her from him?
Dolly All The Time by Annabel Monaghan. Dolly Brick has never met a problem she couldn’t solve. Not when her mom left when she was twelve, and not at thirty-nine when she moves with her son back to Whitfield, Rhode Island, for the summer to keep her dad and brother from losing the family home. So when she comes across Stewart Whitfield–annoyingly handsome scion of the Whitfield family–with a flat tire and at the wrong end of a very public, very humiliating breakup, it’s in her nature to help. But Stewart’s proposed arrangement ends up being more than either of them bargained for, because as public dinners and high-society benefits turn into sunset boat rides and kisses that hit her bloodstream like a ghost pepper, Dolly starts to feel something more than helpful. She’s never relied on anyone besides herself–can she really start now?
Did You Know?
Plans for the new building continued to grow. Architects were interviewed, and the firm of Brown, Healey, Stone and Sauer was selected. While building plans were finalized, Friends of the Solon Library continued to help fundraise for the new library. The Friends of the Solon Library requested permission from the National Gallery in Washington to reproduce prints of Grant Wood’s “New Road,” a painting of rural Solon, to sell and fundraise for the new library. In December of 1998, 2,500 prints were ordered, along with 5,000 notecards. Framed prints and notecards were sold and the proceeds contributed to the new building fund. The Grant Wood prints and notecards are still available for purchase.