Everyone is invited to take part in the summer reading program “Tails and Tales.” Children of all ages may participate. To register come to the library with a parent/guardian and adopt a stuffed animal to read to this summer. Earn gift certificates from local businesses for books read and also enter to win grand prizes at the conclusion of the program. Books read may be logged using the ReadSQUARED app or paper and pencil.

Story Time in the Park is held every Tuesday at 10 A.M. Children must be accompanied by a parent/caregiver and bring a blanket to sit on. Each week children will be given a take and make craft kit to complete at home.

Elementary students are invited to come to Sidewalk STEAM activities every other Wednesday at 1 P.M. outside the library. The next STEAM program will be July 30.

Teens and adults are not forgotten! For each book you read your name will be placed in a drawing to win a $50 gift card at the end of summer reading. Contact the library each time you complete a book or use the ReadSQUARED app.

The library board of trustees will meet June 30, 4:15 P.M. for their monthly meeting. At this meeting we will have an online training about the Montana State Library.

The library has a new Wi-Fi password. Come in to the library and ask at the front desk.

“A books is a gift you can open again and again.” ~Garrison Keillor

Give yourself a gift today by checking out a new book from the library. “The Push” is by Ashley Audrain. This psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family will “challenge everything you think you know about motherhood, about what we owe our children, and about what it feels like when women are not believed.”

Patti Callahan is the author of “Surviving Savannah.” Savannah history professor Everly Winthrop is the curator of a new museum collection of artifacts collected from the steamship Pulaski which sank in 1838. Now 180 years later Everly’s research leads her to the astonishing history of a family of eleven who were on the Pulaski.

Viet Thanh Nguyen has written “The Committed,” a sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Sympathizer.” The Sympathizer arrives in Paris in the 1980s with his blood brother Bon. The pair try to overcome their pasts and ensure their futures by engaging in capitalism through dealing drugs.

Two new autobiographies include “Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story” by U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono and “Every Day is a Gift” by Tammy Duckworth, U.S. Senator and Iraq War veteran.

“A Million Reasons Why” is a new novel by Jessica Strawser. Two strangers are linked by a mail-in DNA test. For one it’s an answered prayer and for the other it will dismantle everything she knows to be true.

Two great summer reads are “On Ocean Boulevard” by Mary Alice Monroe and “The Path to Sunshine Cove” by RaeAnne Thayne.

Don’t forget to take the internet with you as you are out and about this summer! Check out mobile hotspots and connect wherever there is cell service. Contact the library for more information.