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 November Storytimes

Screenshot, save, and mark your calendars! No storytimes the week of November 24th -28th. We hope to see you this month for storytime! 

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December Family Literacy Night

Kids, join us for a scavenger hunt, storytime, drinks, and a chili supper!

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Library Game Day

Join us for Library Game Day, an event thats fun for all ages.  Everyone is welcome to come play some board games and with every game you play you enter a drawing to take that game home!

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Check out the rules for our upcoming Craft Swap!

Those who want to shop early can drop off the art/craft supplies they no longer need during Nov. 24-Dec. 3rd to get an EARLY BIRD TICKET. Those who don't have items to donate can still shop (it's all free!) at 5:00 PM on Friday, December 5th. For rules and guidelines, please view the "Events" tab on the library's website.

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Announcing Our New Campaign: Your Library, Your Story

We’re excited to launch Your Library, Your Story. A community driven campaign celebrating the unique ways our library impacts our community. Click here for more information. 

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Scan the QR code to register for a Practice ACT, brought to us by Beacon Tutoring Co.!

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Join us in the Round Room every Thursday at 5:00pm for Zumba!

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Join us every Monday for a FREE yoga session, starting at 5pm in the Round Room! We hope to see you there!

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Knitting Club

Grab your lunch and join us for knitting in the Genealogy Area at noon on Thursdays!

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360 Library Tour Now Live!

EAST students from the International Students Magnet provided us with an exceptional 360 live tour of our library. The tour features 360 photos and captions of our library. 

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For No Mortal Creature Keshe Chow view item
Witchlight Susan Dennard view item
Balancing ACTBalancing ACT Paula Chase view item
The Same Backward as Forward Jennifer Lynn Barnes view item
The House Saphir Marissa Meyer view item
We Fell Apart E. Lockhart view item
The Sleepless Jen Williams view item
Every Spiral of Fate Tahereh Mafi view item
And the River Drags Her Down Jihyun Yun view item
The Scammer Tiffany D Jackson view item
Hazelthorn CG Drews view item
Fake Skating Lynn Painter view item

November 2025 Book Recommendations - YA

Sweet & Salty!: King Arthur Baking Company's Cookbook for Young Bakers King Arthur Baking Company view item
Ms. Pennypickle's Puzzle Quest Chris Grabenstein view item
Dragonborn Struan Murray view item
War Games Alan Gratz view item
Dinky the Tinysaur Maggie Edkins Willis view item
Maya the Ember Dragon Maddy Mara view item
Ms. Rachel and Bean and the Bedtime Routine Ms. Rachel, Mr. Aron, & Monique Dong view item
I Survived the Dust Bowl, 1935 Lauren Tarshis view item
The Bakery Dragon and the Fairy Cake Devin Elle Kurtz view item
Partypooper Jeff Kinney view item
The Last Kids on Earth and the Destructor's Lair Max Brallier & Douglas Holgate view item
The Humble Pie Jory John & Pete Oswald view item

November 2025 Book Recommendations - Children's

We Did Ok, Kid Anthony Hopkins view item
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts Margaret Atwood view item
Otherwise Engaged Susan Mallery view item
Simply More Cynthia Erivo view item
An Academic Affair Jodi McAlister view item
The Forget-Me-Not Library Heather Webber view item
Cursed Daughters Oyinkan Braithwaite view item
The Everlasting Alix E. Harrow view item
Boom Town Nic Stone view item
King Sorrow Joe Hill view item
The Black Wolf Louise Penny view item
Wreck Catherine Newman view item

November 2025 Book Recommendations - Adult

A Steeping of Blood Hafsah Faizal view item
Season of Fear Emily Cooper view item
Lemons and Lies Alexis Castellanos view item
Rules for Fake Girlfriends Raegan Revord view item
How Far I'll Go Keala Kendall view item
When We Were Monsters Jennifer Niven view item
Keep Your Friends Close Cynthia Murphy view item
Sisters in the Wind Angeline Boulley view item
Thorn Season Kiera Azar view item
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man: Old School/New School Christos Gage, Eric Gapstur, & Leonardo Romero view item
My Fair Monster Adrienne Rivera view item
Dream by the Shadows Logan Karlie view item

September 2025 Book Recommendations - YA

Aggie and the Ghost Matthew Forsythe view item
Schooled Jamie Sumner view item
The Pumpkin Princess and the Buried Castle Steven Banbury view item
An Anthology of Remarkable Bugs Jess French view item
Ilustra: Daybreaker: Book 1 Tori Tadiar view item
An Anthology of Fossils Dean Lomax view item
Get Ready for School! Ms. Rachel & Random House view item
Pete the Cat's Cool New Ride James Dean & Kimberly Dean view item
Pocket Bear Katherine Applegate view item
The Pigeon Won't Count to 10! Mo Willems view item
Big Nate: No Harm Done Lincoln Peirce view item
Tuck Me In! Nathan W. Pyle view item

September 2025 Book Recommendations - Children's

The Secret Book Society Madeline Martin view item
Life, and Death, and Giants Ron Rindo view item
History Matters David McCullough, Dorie McCullough Lawson, & Michael Hill view item
We the People Jill Lepore view item
All the Way to the River Elizabeth Gilbert view item
The Book of Lost Hours Hayley Gelfuso view item
Katabasis R. F. Kuang view item
Buckeye Patrick Ryan view item
To the Moon and Back Eliana Ramage view item
Play Nice Rachel Harrison view item
Murder on the Marlow Belle Robert Thorogood view item
Amity Nathan Harris view item

September 2025 Book Recommendations - Adult

One-Punch Man, Vol. 31 ONE view item
One Piece, Vol. 109 Eiichiro Oda view item
Costumes for Time Travelers A.R. Capetta view item
Daybreak, Vol. 1 Moosoop view item
Clementine: Book Three Tillie Walden view item
Family Force V: Book One Matt Braly and Ainsworth Lin view item
Bound by Stars E.L. Starlings view item
The Good Vampire's Guide to Blood & Boyfriends Jamie D’Amato view item
The Executioners Three Susan Dennard view item
Woven from Clay Jenny Birch view item
Girls of Dark Divine E.V. Woods view item
A Beautiful and Terrible Murder Claire Andrews view item

August 2025 Book Recommendations - YA

A Place for Us James Ransome view item
Forts Katie Vanit and Kenard Pak view item
I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011 Lauren Tarshis and Scott Dawson view item
Bluey: Bad Mood Penguin Young Readers Licences view item
Fish Don't Go to School Deb Pilutti view item
Tiny T. Rex and the First-Day Oopsies Jonathan Stutzman and Jay Fleck view item
A Hero's Guide to Summer Vacation Pablo Cartaya view item
Encounter at Owl Rock Rucker Moses view item
The Incorruptibles Lauren Magaziner view item
The Tower at the End of Time Amy Sparkes view item
Tyger SF Said and Dave McKean view item
The Boy, the Mountain, and the Serpent Who Ate the Moon Caris Avendano Cruz view item

August 2025 Book Recommendations - Children's

Tonight in Jungleland Peter Ames Carlin view item
Disney Adults AJ Wolfe view item
Under the Stars Beatriz Williams view item
She Didn't See It Coming Shari Lapena view item
Songs for Other People's Weddings David Levithan view item
Too Old for This Samantha Downing view item
People Like Us Jason Mott view item
The Magician of Tiger Castle Louis Sachar view item
My Other Heart Emma Nanami Strenner view item
Automatic Noodle Annalee Newitz view item
The Locked Ward Sarah Pekkanen view item
The Enchanted Greenhouse Sarah Beth Durst view item

August 2025 Book Recommendations - Adult

I, Rock Katie Slivensky & Steph Stilwell view item
Snoop Grodon Korman view item
Another Paul Tremblay view item
Toes, Teeth, and Tentacles Steve Jenkins & Robin Page view item
The Day the Books Disappeared Joanna Ho, Caroline Kusin Pritchard, & Dan Santat view item
I Got You Derrick Barnes & Shamar Knight-Justice view item
Evelyn Witch Gets a Pet Beth Ferry & Charles Santoso view item
Ablaze Jessica Lawson & Sarah Gonzales view item
Millie Fleur Saves the Night Christy Mandin view item
Norman and the Smell of Adventure Ryan T. Higgins view item
The League of Littles Casey Lyall & Sara Faber view item
National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of African Animals Catherine D. Hughes view item

July 2025 Book Recommendations - Children's

The Nightblood Prince Molly X. Chang view item
Spider-Society: Enter...the Spider-Versers Alex Segura, Steve Godleski, Ruairi Coleman, Salvador Larroca, & Pete Woods view item
Den of Liars Jessica S. Olson view item
Tenderly, I Am Devoured Lyndall Clipstone view item
Fateless Julie Kagawa view item
Masks: A Graphic Novel Margaret Rae, Brian Nathanson, & Beck Kubrick view item
A Mastery of Monsters Liselle Sambury view item
Immortal Consequences I.V. Marie view item
The Raven Boys: The Graphic Novel Maggie Stiefvater, Stephanie Williams, & Sas Milledge view item
We Won't All Survive Kate Alice Marshall view item
The Last Tiger Julia Riew & Brad Riew view item
A Theory of Dreaming Ava Reid view item

July 2025 Book Recommendations - YA

The Jailhouse Lawyer James Patterson & Nancy Allen view item
The CIA Book Club Charlie English view item
Dinner with King Tut Sam Kean view item
Finding Grace Loretta Rothschild view item
Culpability Bruce Holsinger view item
Spectacular Things Beck Dorey-Stein view item
The Satisfaction Café Kathy Wang view item
You Belong Here Megan Mirdanda view item
Party of Liars Kelsey Cox view item
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping Sangu Mandanna view item
The Compound Aisling Rawle view item
The Woman in Suite 11 Ruth Ware view item

July 2025 Book Recommendations - Adult

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Amelia, If Only Becky Albertalli view item
The Ground That Devours Us Kalla Harris view item
Lady or the Tiger Heather M. Herrman view item
If We Survive This Racquel Marie view item
We Can Never Leave H.E. Edgmon view item
My Hero Academia, Vol. 41 Kohei Horikoshi view item
A Forgery of Fate Elizabeth Lim view item
Never Thought I'd End Up Here Ann Liang view item
Heir of Storms Lauryn Hamilton Murray view item
Best of All Worlds Kenneth Oppel view item
Among Ghosts Racehl Hartman view item
Lovesick Falls Julia Drake view item

June 2025 Book Recommendations - YA

Wish in a Tree Lynda Mullaly Hunt & Nancy Carpenter view item
Pete the Cat's Mars Mission James Dean & Kimberly Dean view item
Becoming Boba Joanna Ho & Amber Ren view item
Karen's Ghost DK Yingst & Ann M. Martin view item
Chef's Secret Kelly Yang view item
When You Go To Dragon School Chelsea M. Campbell & Charlene Chua view item
This Book Is Dangerous! Ben Clanton view item
First Day Around the World Ibi Zoboi & Juanita Londoño view item
The Day the Crayons Made Friends Drew Daywalt & Oliver Jeffers view item
We Are American, Too Kristen Mei Chase & Jieting Chen view item
Angel Draws A Dinosaur Pavonis Giron view item
The Wild Robot on the Island Peter Brown view item

June 2025 Book Recommendations - Children's

Murderland Caroline Fraser view item
The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück Lynne Olson view item
Don't Let Him In Lisa Jewell view item
El Dorado Drive Megan Abbott view item
Sounds Like Love Ashley Poston view item
King of Ashes S.A. Cosby view item
With a Vengeance Riley Sager view item
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil V.E. Schwab view item
Atmosphere Taylor Jenkins Reid view item
The Phoenix Pencil Company Allison King view item
The Listeners Maggie Stiefvater view item
The Ghostwriter Julie Clark view item

June 2025 Book Recommendations - Adult

Cranky, Crabby Crow Corey R. Tabor view item
One Crazy Summer: The Graphic Novel Rita Williams-Garcia and Sharee Miller view item
Take a Breath, Big Red Monster! Ed Emberley view item
Pokémon Life Size DK view item
National Geographic Kids Almanac 2026 National Geographic Kids view item
Entirely Emmie Terri Libenson view item
Bear Feels Sad Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman view item
Everything's Wrong! Jory John and Erin Kraan view item
Cousins!: A Big Family Story Laura Lavoie and Luisa Leal view item
The Queen Bees of Tybee County Kyle Casey Chu view item
Little Bird Laila Kelly Yang and Xindi Yan view item
Return to Sender Vera Brosgol view item

May 2025 Book Recommendations - Children's

The Graveyard Club: Fresh Blood R.L. Stine and Carola Borelli view item
Wake the Wild Creatures Nova Ren Suma view item
Lovely Dark and Deep Elisa A. Bonnin view item
Parable of the Talents Octavia E. Butler view item
Ours to Tell: Reclaiming Indigenous Stories Eldon Yellowhorn and Kathy Lowinger view item
The Whisperwood Legacy Jo Schulte view item
When We Go Missing April Henry view item
Out of Air Rachel Reiss view item
The Glittering Edge Alyssa Villaire view item
Graphic Novel Builder Edward Ross and Aysha Tengiz view item
Up in Smoke Nick Brooks view item
The Survivor Wants to Die at the End Adam Silvera view item

May 2025 Book Recommendations - YA

Steve Martin Writes the Written Word Steve Martin view item
Baking Across America B. Dylan Hollis view item
The Original Daughter Jemimah Wel view item
The Love Haters Katherine Center view item
Can't Get Enough Kennedy Ryan view item
The Man Made of Smoke Alex North view item
Marble Hall Murders Anthony Horowitz view item
I Will Blossom Anyway Disha Bose view item
The Names Florence Knapp view item
The Missing Half Ashley Flowerrs view item
Julie Chan Is Dead Liann Zhang view item
My Friends Fredrick Backman view item

May 2025 Book Recommendations - Adults

On Again, Awkward Again Erin Entrada Kelly view item
The Floating World Axie Oh view item
Wish Upon a K-Star Kat Cho view item
My Cat Is Such a Weirdo Vol. 6 Tamako Tamagoyama view item
Boys with Sharp Teeth Jenni Howell view item
Love in 280 Characters or Less Ravynn K. Stringfield view item
All the Stars Align Gretchen Schreiber view item
Where Shadows Meet Patrice Caldwell view item
Holy Terrors Margaret Owen view item
The Notorious Virtues Alwyn Hamilton view item
Watch Me Tahereh Mafi view item
Fearless Lauren Roberts view item

April 2025 Book Recommendations - YA

Odder Katherine Applegate view item
Band Nerd Sarah Clawson Willis view item
Warm and Fuzzy Scott Rothman view item
The Great Dinosaur Sleepover Linda Bailey view item
Don't Trust Fish Neil Sharpson view item
Ancient Egypt DK view item
Ollie in Between Jess Callans view item
The Littlest Drop Sascha Alper view item
A Day at the Beach Gary D. Schmidt, Ron Koertge view item
Karen's Prize Shauna J. Grant, Ann M. Martin view item
YAY! Jessica Kulekjian view item
The Cartoonists Club Raina Telgemeier view item

April 2025 Book Recommendations - Children's

The Cat Who Saved the Library Sosuke Natsukawa view item
Secrets of Adulthood Gretchen Rubin view item
No More Tears Gardiner Harris view item
The Next Day Melinda French Gates view item
The Staircase in the Woods Chuck Wendig view item
Great Big Beautiful Life Emily Henry view item
The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits Jennifer Weiner view item
The Maid's Secret Nita Prose view item
Audition Katie Kitamura view item
Flirting Lessons Jasmine Guillory view item
The Float Test Lynn Steger Strong view item
Say You'll Remember Me Abby Jimenez view item

April 2025 Book Recommendations - Adult

When We Ride Rex Ogle view item
Lovely Dark and Deep Elisa Bonnin view item
Sunrise on the Reaping Suzanne Collins view item
Camila Núñez's Year of Disasters Perez Miriam Zoila view item
The House No One Sees Adina King view item
How to Survive a Slasher Justine Pucella Winans view item
Maya in Multicolor Swati Teerdhala view item
What Wakes the Bells Elle Tesche view item
She Waits for You Beyond the Dark Kristen Simmons view item
I Am Made of Death Kelly Andrew view item
Our Infinite Fates Laura Stevens view item
All the Hidden Monsters Amie Jordan view item

March 2025 Book Recommendations - YA

Wind Watchers Micha Archer view item
The Strongest Heart Saadia Faruqi view item
The Gorgon's Fury Brandon Mull view item
Will the Pigeon Graduate? Mo Willems view item
Resist Alan Gratz view item
One Wrong Step Jennifer A. Nelson view item
The Baby Who Stayed Awake Forever Sandra Salsbury view item
Home Matt de la Pena view item
Big Nate: Attack of the Cheez Funk Breath Lincoln Peirce view item
Cat Nap Steve Antony view item
Bird Bath Steve Antony view item
Lawrence & Sophia: Big Doreen Cronin view item

March 2025 Book Recommendations - Children's

Care and Feeding Laurie Woolever view item
Propaganda Girls Lisa Rogak view item
Cook Once, Eat Twice Nadiya Hussain view item
The Paris Express Emma Donoghue view item
Story of My Life Lucy Score view item
33 Place Brugmann Alice Austen view item
Count My Lies Sophie Stava view item
Broken Country Clare Leslie Hall view item
The Antidote Karen Russell view item
Kills Well with Others Deanna Raybourn view item
The River Has Roots Amal El-Mohtar view item
Wild Dark Shore Charlotte McConaghy view item

March 2025 Book Recommendations - Adults

Daughter of Daring Mallory O'meara view item
Memorial Days Geraldine Brooks view item
Black in Blues Imani Perry view item
Fearless and Free Josephine Baker view item
Listen to Your Sister Neena Viel view item
Good Dirt Charmaine Wilkerson view item
Junie Erin Crosby Eckstine view item
Harlem Rhapsody Victoria Christopher Murray view item
The Stolen Queen Fiona Davis view item
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls Grady Hendrix view item
Death of the Author Nnedi Okorafor view item
Onyx Storm Rebecca Yarros view item

February 2025 Book Recommendations - Adult

All Better Now Neal Shusterman view item
Dreamover Dani Diaz view item
Capitana Cassandra James view item
The Beasts We Bury D.L. Taylor view item
(S)Kin Ibi Zoboi view item
Better Than Revenge Kasie West view item
The Rival Emma Lord view item
The Queen's Spade Sarah Raughley view item
Dating and Dragons Kristy Boyce view item
Breath of the Dragon: Breathmarked Fonda Lee view item
King: A Life Jonathan Eig view item
After Life Gayle Forman view item

February 2025 Book Recommendations - YA

Operation Sisterhood: Stealing the Show! Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich view item
Lucy Lancaster Has a Secret Willow Coven view item
Space for Everyone Seina Wedlick view item
Greatness Regis Bethencourt view item
Sharing the Dream Shelia Moses view item
How Sweet the Sound Kwame Alexander view item
And She Was Loved Andrea Davis Pinkney view item
A Pocket Full of Rocks Kristin Mahoney view item
Cinderella and the Beast Kim Bussing view item
What Fell from the Sky Adrianna Cuevas view item
The Song of Orphan's Garden Nicole M. Hewitt view item
Chickenpox Remy Lai view item

February 2025 Book Recommendations - Children's

Christmas in Bethel Richard Paul Evans view item
House of Cross James Patterson view item
The City and Its Uncertain Walls Haruki Murakami view item
The Wood at Midwinter Susanna Clarke view item
The December Market Raeanne Thayne view item
Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop Otto Penzler view item
The Christmas Tree Farm Laurie Gilmore view item
How My Neighbor Stole Christmas Meghan Quinn view item
Raised by a Serial Killer April Balascio view item
Cher: Part One: The Memoir Cher view item
Sift: The Elements of Great Baking Nicola Lamb view item
Handmade Holiday Alyssa Ploof view item

December 2024 Book Recommendations - Adult

A Cozy Winter Day Eliza Wheeler view item
Santa's First Christmas Mac Barnett, Sydney Smith view item
Christmas at Hogwarts J. K. Rowling, Ziyi Gao view item
Busy Betty and the Perfect Christmas Present Reese Witherspoon, Xindi Yan view item
Elmore the Christmas Moose Dev Petty, Mike Boldt view item
Tamales for Christmas Stephen Briseño, Sonia Sánchez view item
A Stickler Christmas Lane Smith view item
A Dragon for Hanukkah Sarah Mlynowski, Ariel Landy view item
Eight Sweet Nights, a Festival of Lights Charlotte Offsay, Menahem Halberstadt view item
Let's Celebrate Korean New Year! Michelle W. Park, Hyewon Yum view item
Ruffles and the Cold, Cold Snow David Melling view item

December 2024 Book Recommendations - Children's

Make My Wish Come True Rachael Lippincott, Alyson Derrick view item
The Party Natasha Preston view item
Dust Alison Stine view item
The Whispering Night Susan Dennard view item
Chasing Eternity Alyson Noël view item
I'm Here James J. Crist, Jomike Tejido view item
Michael Vey 10: The Colony Richard Paul Evans view item
Darkly Marisha Pessl view item
Dead Below Deck Jan Gangsei view item
Castle Swimmer, Volume 1 Wendy Martin view item
Girlmode Magdalene Visaggio, Paulina Ganucheau view item
Thief of the Heights Son M., Robin Yao view item

December 2024 Book Recommendations - YA

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