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Summer Reading is right around corner! This year’s theme is “All Together Now.” The kick off event will be a Summer Reading Block Party on Wednesday, May 24 from 5:00 – 7:00 P.M. at the library. During this event children may register for summer reading. There will be fun activities for everyone including Bliss Ice Cream, sidewalk decorating, face painting, meeting local firefighters and visiting the firetrucks, and sno-cones!
Information about the weekly summer reading programs will be in next week’s paper.
After School Squad will meet today at 3:30 for the last time this school year. After School Squad will start up again in the fall. Lego Club meets tomorrow, May 11 at 3:30 and then takes a break until June 1.
Children are invited to check out the fun coloring activity table in the children’s section.
The Book Challenge for May is to read a book with two or more people on the cover. I am happy to report there were 45 biographies checked out during April’s Book Challenge!
New titles for your reading enjoyment include “Exiles” by Jane Harper. At a spring festival a baby is left alone in her stroller when her mother vanishes into the crowd. One year later her absence still casts a long shadow as family members gather to welcome a new addition to the family. Federal investigator Aaron Falk joins the celebration but begins to suspect the tight-knit group is hiding long-held secrets.
Kat Rosenfield is the author of “You Must Remember This.” On Christmas Eve, eighty-five-year-old Miriam Caravasios steps onto the ice that surrounds her seaside estate. When she was a young woman she would steal out on winter nights to meet her lover. Her mind, clouded by dementia, knows the way but not the year. Miriam doesn’t hear the snap of thin ice until it’s too late. Was it an accident? Suicide? Or worse.
Two new nonfiction selections are “New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story” by Winifred Gallagher and “First Nations Version,” an Indigenous Translation of the New Testament.
A new Molly Murphy mystery by Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles is “All That Is Hidden.” “Count Down” is a thriller by James Patterson and Brendan DuBois. Danielle Steel’s latest novel is “Worthy Opponents.”
Mobile hotspots are available for check out. Contact the library to be put on the waiting list.
The library will be closed Monday, May 29 in observance of Memorial Day. The library board meeting will be Wednesday, May 31, 4:30 P.M.
