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  • Community & Craftivism: New exhibit beginning Thursday, June 12

    This summer, the library is celebrating the art of making with Community & Craftivism, an exhibit showcasing how art can become an opportunity to build community and advocate for change, one stitch at a time. 

    From June 12 to July 23, this exhibit will display community-driven quilts, art projects created through craftivism and more, all curated by the library in partnership with artist and activist Shannon Downey. An opening event celebration will also take place on the library’s first floor on June 12 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. 

    The centerpiece of the exhibit is the unveiling of the library's Pride Community

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  • Stream music now using hoopla

    Never be without something to read, watch or listen to! Use your library card to access the library's hoopla database and conveniently stream or download something to read, watch or listen to anywhere, anytime.

    In addition to thousands of books and movies, hoopla provides access to music of all sorts. You can easily listen to the latest releases from musicians such as Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, Lady Gaga, Morgan Wallen, Chappell Roan and more. Unlike other hoopla formats, music titles are added to hoopla on their release day so library cardholders don't have to wait to listen to the next best

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  • Online Learning at Your Library

    I Can Learn About My Family’s History  
    Learning about and doing genealogy can be a rewarding experience, especially if you have good tools to help along the way. The library offers one of the premier regional genealogy collections and many online resources, including: 

    Ancestry Library Edition (Available in-library only)
    Search thousands of collections, census documents, voter lists, immigration documents, vital records, military records and more. 

    ArkivDigital (Available in-library only)
    Swedish genealogy source containing historical documents, church records, court records and estate inventories. 

    HeritageHub
    Obituaries and death notices from U.S. and international sources, including the Chicago Tribune (1860-1984). 

    HeritageQuest
    Census records

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NEW TO THE LIBRARY

Consider yourself kissed
Stanley, Jessica,
"A grown-up love story told through ten years in the life of one woman as she finds a perfect partner, builds a longed-for family and career, and works desperately to be all things to all people without losing herself. When she first meets divorced dad Adam, Coralie is new to London and feeling adrift. But Adam is sexy, witty, generous, and devoted, and the existence of his charming four-year-old daughter only adds to Coralie's thrill as the couple falls in love. Gradually, alongside Adam, Coralie builds the life she's longed for, including two babies, a wonderful stepchild, a continuing career, and a warm, safe home. Ten years on, however, something important is missing. Or maybe, having gained everything she dreamed of, Coralie has lost something else she once had: herself. "Mother, writer, worker, sister, friend, citizen, daughter, wife. If she could be one, perhaps she could manage. Trying to be all, she found she was none." When she hits her breaking point, the results will surprise them all. Set against an eventful decade in the UK that included the soap opera of five Prime Ministers plus Brexit and Covid, Consider Yourself Kissed puts the subjects of love and family on a grand stage, showing how the intimate dramas in our homes inescapably compete for energy and attention with the shared public dramas of our times. Effortlessly balancing humor with heart, sweetness with bite, and the public with the personal, Jessica Stanley offers an honest, entertaining portrayal of the sacrifices women make for their families, and demonstrates the true, grown-up meaning of "happily ever after.""--
Deadpool. 2, The death of Wade Wilson
Ziglar, Cody,
The impossible has happened! Wade Wilson has fallen, and now his daughter Ellie has taken up the mantle of Deadpool. Taskmaster continues her mercenary training, but what Ellie really wants in vengeance. And to get that, she'll need the help of her symbiote dog-"sister," Princess! They're going to kick butt and take names -- but if they can't track down an old friend of Deadpool's, Ellie's career just might end before it ever begins! And how will the regenerating teen degenerate cope with coming face-to-(massive) face with M.O.D.O.K, the Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing? And does dead really mean dead when it comes to the Merc With a Mouth?!
The Persian Pickle Club
Dallas, Sandra
A ladies' quilting club in Kansas is invaded by a new member with ambitions. She is Rita, a big city girl who wants to be a journalist. When a member's husband is murdered and Rita begins probing, the group must band together to keep safe the club's secrets
The memory collectors
Meserve, Dete,
"What would you do if you could spend an hour in your past? Four strangers in the beach town of Ventura, California are about to find out. Elizabeth aches for one more precious hour with her son who died in a senseless accident. Andy is desperate to find his first love who vanished after a whirlwind romance. Logan craves the rush of surfing and mountain climbing, yearning to reclaim the freedom he lost after a misstep landed him in a wheelchair. Brooke is looking for an hour of relief from the guilt of an unforgivable mistake. Enter Aeon Expeditions, the groundbreaking time travel invention of Mark Saunders--which allows some lucky clients the chance to spend an hour in their past. Even though Aeon's technology ensures time travel can't alter the future, all four clients, including Mark's ex-wife Elizabeth, yearn to revisit the hour that changed their lives forever. But when their 'hour' extends beyond sixty minutes, they find themselves stranded in the past. As their paths intertwine unexpectedly, they unearth shocking secrets hidden in the shadows of their shared history: All their lives were shattered the same night on a secluded highway by the beach. As they delve into the hidden truths of that pivotal hour, a startling revelation emerges. They were not alone. Someone else was present, harboring deadly intentions"--
Maine characters
Orenstein, Hannah,
"From beloved author Hannah Orenstein, this love letter to lake life is "the Parent Trap for adults," the story of two half-sisters who meet for the first time at their father's cabin in Maine after his unexpected death"--
The blue team
Young, Peter (Peter B.),
"Unsung and humiliated, Thomas begins his freshman year of college on the bench. Determined to prove everyone wrong, he's obsessed with becoming the next Larry Bird. When Thomas falls in love with Jenae, the beautiful and altruistic volleyball player, a whole new world opens up to him. She introduces him to Ray, a middle aged alcoholic struggling to stay sober and off the streets. Thomas tries to help, giving him purpose beyond basketball. But Thomas still dreams of greatness. When he punches a dirty opponent, he jeopardizes his career and his relationship with Jenae. Ray returns to the bottle and it feels like Thomas' life is spiraling out of control. About to lose everything, Thomas has to figure out who he is competing against and why"--Page 4 of cover
Sleep
Jones, Honor,
"From a dazzling new talent, the story of a newly divorced young mother forced to reckon with the secrets of her own childhood when she brings her daughters back to the opulent house where she was raised. Every parent exists inside of two families simultaneously - the one she was born into, and the one she has made. Ten-year-old Margaret hides beneath a blackberry bush in her family's verdant backyard while her brother hunts for her in a game of flashlight tag. Hers is a childhood of sunlit swimming pools and Saturday morning pancakes and a devoted best friend, but her family life requires careful maintenance. Her mother can be as brittle and exacting as she is loving, and her father and brother assume familiar, if uncomfortable, models of masculinity. Then late one summer, everything changes. After a series of confusing transgressions, the simple pleasures of suburban life, and of girlhood, slip away. Twenty-five years later, Margaret hides under her bed, waiting for her young daughters to find her in a game of hide and seek. She's newly divorced and navigating her life as a co-parent, while discovering the pleasures of a new lover. But some part of her is still under the blackberry bush, punched out of time. Called upon to be a mother to her daughters, and a daughter to her mother, she must reckon with the echoes and refractions between the past and the present, what it means to make a child feel safe, and how much of our lives are our own, alone. Warm and generous, unflinchingly human, and ultimately joyful and empowering, SLEEP is about the cycles of motherhood and childhood, the cost of secrets and the burden of love, and what's on the other side of silence: the world, rich in possibility"--
Our last wild days
Bailey, Anna, 1995-
"The Labasques aren't like other families. Living in a shack out in the swamps, they made do by hunting down alligators and other animals. To the good people of Jacknife, Louisiana, they are troublemakers and outcasts, the kind of people you wouldn't want in your community. So when Cutter Labasque is found face down in the muddy swamp, no one seems to care, not even her two brothers. The only person who questions the official verdict of suicide is Cutter's childhood friend Loyal May, who has just returned home to care for her mother. When she left town at eighteen years old, she betrayed Cutter. Now with a ragtag group from the local paper where she works, Loyal goes in search of answers, uncovering a web of deceit and corruption that implicates those in town. It may be too late to apologize to Cutter, but Loyal has restitution in mind"--
The shop down the lane
Gould, Leslie, 1962-
"Gift shop manager Lois Yoder detests the new Mennonite owner, Moses Lantz. As a distraction, she joins a birdwatchers' circle as "Jane," but unknown to her, Moses, joins too under the name "Menno." As Jane and Menno bond through letters, Lois and Moses grow more hostile. Will pride hinder their chance at love?"--
A letter of Mary
King, Laurie R
An archaeologist on a dig in 1920s Palestine discovers a letter purporting to come from a woman who was an apostle of Christ. When the archaeologist is murdered on her return to England, sleuth Mary Russell decides to find out why
The 5th horseman
Patterson, James, 1947-
Healthy patients are dying of unknown causes in a San Francisco hospital and the Women's Murder Club decides to investigate the hospital's personnel. They discover a hospital administrator determined to shield the hospitals reputation
Storybook ending
Macdonald, Moira,
"A charming story about romance, friendship, and a love of books, in which two women - a lonely remote worker and a widowed single mom - and a handsome local bookstore clerk find themselves in an unusual love triangle when an anonymous note left in a book finds the wrong recipient"--
Dream on, Ramona Riley
Blake, Ashley Herring,
"Once upon a time, Ramona Riley was a student at a prestigious art school, with dreams of landing in Hollywood as a costume designer to the stars. But after her father's car accident, she had to quit everything and return to her small New Hampshire town, Clover Lake, to help take care of her younger sister. Twelve years later, Ramona is still working at the town's café, all but given up on her dream. But when a big-budget romantic comedy comes to Clover Lake to film, she wonders if this could be her chance. There's only one problem--Dylan Monroe, her first kiss and Hollywood's favorite wild child--is the star. Dylan Monroe has always lived an unconventional life, having famous rock icons for parents. But she wants to prove that she's not some chaotic, talentless nepo baby, that she has actual skills, that she's just a normal person. To do that, Dylan takes on a project at a charming lake town--she even works at the town's café (very quaint), shadowing a local waitress there (very cute), and asks her to take Dylan around to do Normal People Things. But Dylan soon realizes it's not just some small-town waitress she's getting to know--Ramona Riley is someone she's met before, someone who remembers her even more vividly. Before long, however, reality hits them, and both women have to decide if the spark between them can fan the flames of their individual dreams, or if it will extinguish their light"--
Metallic realms
Michel, Lincoln,
Michael Lincoln, a debt-ridden, socially awkward loner, devotes himself to publishing The Star Rot Chronicles--a brilliant but unpublished sci-fi saga written by his eccentric friend Taras K. Castle and their writing group, the Orb 4. As he dives into their intergalactic tales and unravels the group's tangled personal histories, Michael's obsession blurs fiction and reality, revealing the deeper truths behind the group's collapse and his own desperate need for purpose
Eat the ones you love
Griffin, Sarah Maria,
"A twisted, tangled story about workplace love-affairs, and plants with a taste for human flesh. During a grocery run to her local shopping center, Shell Pine sees a 'HELP NEEDED' sign in a flower shop window. She's just left her fiancé, lost her job, and moved home to her parents' house. She has to make a change and bring some good into her life, so she goes inside and takes a chance. Shell realizes right away that flowers are just the good thing she's been looking for, as is Neve, the beautiful florist who wrote the sign asking for help. The thing is, Neve needs help more than Shell could possibly imagine. An orchid growing out of sight in the heart of the mall is watching them closely. His name is Baby, and the beautiful florist belongs to him. He's young, he's hungry, and he'll do just about anything to make sure he can keep growing big and strong. Nothing he eats - nobody he eats - can satisfy him, except the thing he most desires. Neve. He adores her and wants to consume her, and will stop at nothing to eat the one he loves. This is a story about possession, and monstrosity, and working retail. It is about hunger and desire, and other terrible things that grow."--

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11
Jun

Baby Time
- /Lindsey Room

11
Jun

Resource Hour: SCORE Business Mentoring
- /First Floor

11
Jun

Play Time
- /Kids' World

11
Jun

Swedish Genealogy Appointments: 10 a.m.
- /Zoom Event

11
Jun

Baby Time
- /Lindsey Room

11
Jun

Storytime in the Park
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