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Students learned about the layers of the rainforest by constructing their own at the Harlem Public Library on Wednesday, June 30 during their summer reading program. Lizzy Baker, Ozzy Baker, not pictured Shayl Carrywater
Beat the heat at the library! Come into our cool space and relax by reading a newspaper or magazine, looking over the new selection of books and DVDS, using our free Wi-Fi, or trying your hand at the coloring table.
Summer reading is quickly winding down. Are you keeping track of the books you read? Children can earn gift certificates from local business as well as chances to win the grand prizes at the conclusion of the program. Teens and adults may enter their names each time they finish a book to win a $50 gift card. Everyone has until August 6 to let the library know how many books you have read. Story Time in the Park will meet on Tuesdays at 10 A.M. through July 20. Sidewalk STEAM meets today at 1 P.M. at the library for elementary students. They will meet one more time on July 21.
The Book Challenge for July is to read a book that features an animal. Let the library know if you have completed the June Book Challenge and your name will be entered to win a gift certificate from a local business.
As you travel this summer take the internet with you! Check out a mobile hotspot from the library to connect with the internet anywhere you have cell service!
Hotspots can be checked out for fourteen days to registered users eighteen years and over and in good standing for at least one month. We also have iPads and a laptop available for check out.
Three new selections great for "lawn chair" summer reading are "Family Reunion" by Nancy Thayer, "That Summer" by Jennifer Weiner, and "The Clover Girls" by Viola Shipman.
"The Widow Queen" by Elzbieta Cherezinska introduces readers to Swietoslawa who along with her two sisters represent to their father chances to build alliances through marriage, thus enlarging his empire. But Swietoslawa refuses to be a pawn in her father's schemes and seeks her own throne with no husband at her side.
What happens when Meddelin Chan accidentally kills her blind date? Her mother calls on her meddlesome aunties to get rid of the body. But the family wedding business faces catastrophe when the body is inadvertently shipped in a cake cooler to a billionaire wedding the Chans are catering. Don't miss this fun read: "Dial A for Aunties" by Jesse Q. Sutanto.
"The Seed Keeper" is by Diane Wilson. Rosalie Iron Wing returns to the home she was taken from as a child after two decades watching her deceased white husband's family farm threatened by drought and a predatory chemical company. In her grief she confronts the past and learns to embrace the future.
Stephen Hunt is the author of "Basil's War." Basil St. Florian, a spy in the British Army, crosses enemy lines in Nazi-occupied France in search of a sacred manuscript that may hold the key to a code that could prevent the deaths of millions and possibly end the war.
Two true crime selections include "The Babysitter: My Summer with a Serial Killer" by Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan and "The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer" by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker.
Come to the front desk to obtain the new Wi-Fi password. Remember to take a look at the selection of used books on sale in the reading room.
