@ Your Library
Tomorrow our fall hours start. We will be open tomorrow, Saturday, September 7th from 10 am – 3pm. Our hours are Monday – Wednesday 10 am – 8 pm, Thursday – Friday 10 am – 6pm, Saturday 10 am – 3 pm and closed on Sunday. We definitely hope the library will be part of your regular routine.
Visit the library on Wednesday afternoons for Elementary Fun from 3:00 – 4:30. Kids can enjoy a snack and a variety of fun activities to encourage learning through play. Families are also welcome to pick up a monthly STEAM bag with a different activity each month that can be done together to learn and explore our amazing world.
Sara Donati is well known for her pioneer life fiction and she continues exploring the wild west in The Sweet Blue Distance. A young midwife journeys from New York City to Santa Fe, New Mexico territory in 1857 at the invitation of a doctor already practicing out there. The country is wild and vast and her employer isn’t all she was led to believe, but she is determined to make a new life for herself.
Shakespeare: the man who pays the rent by Judi Dench is a delightful look at the more than thirty roles that Judi has played in her seven-decade career of Shakespearean characters. The book is laid out as conversations with actor and director Brendan O’Hea and shares information about her rehearsal process and so much more including backstage shenanigans. This is one of those books that you can dip in and out of, reading a chapter that interests you, or start at the beginning and read to the end.
If you would like to understand more about US and China relations then The Struggle for Taiwan: a history of American, China and the Island caught between by Sulmaan Wasif Khan is a great new book that lays out one point of the conflict.
John Rosengren, Staci Lola Drouillard and Pete Kero spoke at the library in June. We had the three books that each of them focused on in their presentations, but both John Rosengren and Staci Lola Drouillard have written titles that we had not picked up. We have added some of their additional titles including A Clean Heart focuses on addiction and the struggle to get and stay clean. A moving title with a lot of heart by John Rosengren. Two baseball stories by John Rosengren include The Fight of Their Lives: how Juan Marichal and John Roseboro turned baseball’s ugliest brawl into a story of forgiveness and redemption and The Greatest Summer in Baseball History: how the ’73 season changed us forever. We added Walking the Old Road: a people’s history of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe and A Family Tree by Staci Lola Drouillard. I am really looking forward to reading about Chippewa City, Anishinaabe community that vanished in the last 75 years. A Family Tree is a beautiful picture book about a beloved family tree that has to be moved.