The library building is open to the public on Monday through Thursday, 9:00 am – 7:00 pm, and Friday and Saturday from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm. If you are homebound, we are happy to make non-contact home deliveries. Call 270-237-3861 and let us know your favorite authors.

On Saturday, August 27, at 10:00 am, a photography workshop is open to patrons of all ages. Space is limited, so pre-registration is required for this free program. Call 270-237-3861 to register today.

Have you downloaded the Hoopla app yet? Hoopla allows library patrons to stream digital movies, music, audiobooks, comics, and T.V. shows for free with your Allen County Public Library card. Download the Hoopla app, find our library, and sign up. Patrons may check out ten items per month from Hoopla with your library card.

New books for children include: If I had a Kangaroo by Gabby Dawnay and Alex Barrow, A Unicorn on a Unicycle by Lynda Graham-Barber, Stanley the Dog: The First Day of School by Bobby Bones, Our Favorite Day of the Year by A.E. Ali Noodle and the No Bones Day by Jonathan Graziano, My Name is A Story by Ashanti, Grow! How We Get Food from Our Garden by Karl Beckstrand, Geology for Kids by Meghan Vestal, American Sign Language for Kids: 101 Easy Signs for Nonverbal Communication by Rochell Barlow, Creepy Crayon! by Aaron Reynolds, and Giant Island by Jane Yolen.

New books on the adult fiction shelf include: The Finalist by David Bell, Small Acts of Defiance by Michelle Wright, Girl Forgotten by Karin Slaughter, The Other Guest by Helen Cooper, The Housekeeper by Joy Fielding, Overkill by Sandra Brown, The Challenge by Danielle Steel, All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers, The Red Ledger Reborn by Meredith Wild, Building a Future by Amy Clipston, The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley, Iced by Felix Francis, A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir, Smolder by Helen Hardt, The 6:20 Man by David Baldacci, Riverbend Reunion by Carolyn Brown, Quarter to Midnight by Karen Rose, Black Dog by Stuart Woods, All in Good Time by Linda Byler, Reckoning by Catherine Coulter, The Apple Creek Announcement bt Wanda E. Brunstetter, Second Chance Spring by JoAnn Ross, The Lost Kings by Tyrell Johnson, The Half-Life of Valery K. by Natasha Pulley, The Lost Kings by Tyrell Johnson, and They Drown Our Daughters by Katrina Monroe.

New books on the adult non-fiction shelf include: Why Didn’t You Tell Me? A Memoir by Carmen Rita Wong, The World’s Worst Assistant by Sona Movsesian With Foreward by Conan O’Brien, Thank You For Your Servitude by Mark Leibovich, What Happened to You: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D., and Oprah Winfrey, The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and The State of American Politics After 2020 by Jonathan Lemire, Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy by Henry Kissinger, The Art of Teaching Children by Phillip Done, and An Immense World by Ed Yong.

To get a free library card, call 270-237-3861 or stop by the library with a photo I.D. and a recently postmarked piece of mail. Then you’ll be able to check out or download library materials. Also, if there’s a particular book, movie, or music artist you would like added to the collection, please let us know. We’ll do our best to fulfill your requests.

The library building is open to the public on Monday through Thursday, 9:00 am – 7:00 pm, and Friday and Saturday from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm.

School-age children are invited to Lego My Library on Saturday, August 20, at 11:00 am. Miss Abby will have a fun build challenge ready for builders.

Teens are invited to join our teen book club. This month we’re reading Forest of Souls by Lori M. Lee. Copies of the book are at the circulation desk. The teen book club will meet on Thursday, August 25, at 5:00 pm.

On Saturday, August 27, at 10:00 am, a photography workshop is open to patrons of all ages. Space is limited, so pre-registration is required for this free program. Call 270-237-3861 to register today.

New books for children include: Ballet Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins, Nana Loves You More by Jimmy Fallon, How Old is Mr. Tortoise? by Dev Petty, My First Tackle Box by B. master Caster, Juneteenth by Lisa Crayton, A Handful of Quiet by Thich Nhat Hanh, Isabel and Her Colores Go to School by Alexander Alessandri, Free at Last by Sojourner Kincaid Rolle, Star & Stripe Grand Opening! By M.J. Offen, I Wanted to Be a Vase by Julio Torres, Shells by Janet Lawler, Periodic Table: The Definitive Visual Catalog of the Building Blocks of the Universe by DK Publishing, Chairs on Strike by Jennifer Jones, The Man Who Saved Books by Lun Plourde, and Ravenous Things by Derrick Chow,

New books on the adult fiction shelf include: A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow, A Bride’s Guide to Marriage and Murder by Diane Freeman, The German Wife by Kelly Rimmer, The Last Dress from Paris by Jade Beer, Out of Her Depth by Lizzy Barber, Ashton Hall by Lauren Belfer, The Gate Keeper by James Byrne, Can’t Look Away by Carola Lovering, December ’41 by William Martin, Fake It Till You Bake It by Jamie Wesley,  Mr. Wrong Number by Lynn Painter, The Setup by Lizzy Dent, Little Nothings by Julie Mayhew, Aurora by David Koepp, An Island Wedding by Jenny Colgan, The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian, Hurrican Girl by Marcy Dermansky, Little Sister by Gytha Lodge, West Side Love Story by Priscilla Oliveras, Sold on Love by Kathleen Fuller, Aura of Night by Heather Graham, The Bourne Sacrifice by Brian Freeman, and The Hidden One by Linda Castillo.

New large-print adult fiction books include: Suspects by Danielle Steel, The It Girl by Ruth Ware, Look Closer by David Ellis, Turn to Me by Becky Wade, Beyond the Desert Sands by Tracie Peterson, Written on the Wind by Elizabeth Camden, When the Day Comes by Gabrielle Meyer, Relative Justice by Robert Whitlow, and  Unfailing Love by Janette Oke and Laurel Oke Logan.

New books on the adult non-fiction shelf: Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Guide by Britt Hawthorne with Natasha Yglesias, 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea by Jonathan Franklin, The Complete Family Guide to Dementia by Thomas F. Harrison, and Brent P. Forester, MD, Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s Misguided Wars edited by Andrew Bacevich and Daniel A Sjursen, Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional by Isaac Fitzgerald, Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation by Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin, and Storey’s Guide to Raising Beef Cattle: Fourth Edition by Heather Smith Thomas.

To get a free library card, call 270-237-3861 or stop by the library with a photo I.D. and a recently postmarked piece of mail. Then you’ll be able to check out or download library materials. Also, if there’s a particular book, movie, or music artist you would like added to the collection, please let us know. We’ll do our best to fulfill your requests.

The library building is open to the public on Monday through Thursday, 9:00 am – 7:00 pm, and Friday and Saturday from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm.

School-age children are invited to Lego My Library on Saturday, August 20, at 11:00 am. Miss Abby will have a fun build challenge ready for our builders.

Teens are invited to join our teen book club. This month we’re reading Forest of Souls by Lori M. Lee. Copies of the book are at the circulation desk. The teen book club will meet on Thursday, August 25, at 5:00 pm.

On Saturday, August 27, at 10:00 am, a photography workshop is open to patrons of all ages. Space is limited, so pre-registration is required for this free program. Call 270-237-3861 to register today.

New books for children include: Poppy’s House by Karla Courtney, Begin One Way: A Children’s Book of Road Signs by Loana Stoian, The Star That Always Stays by Anna Rose Johnson, I’m Going to Kindergarten! by Andrea Posner-Sanchez, Pete the Cat’s Not So Groovy Day by Kimberly & James Dean, Who Was Alexander the Great? by Kathryn Waterfield and Robin Waterfield, Where is the Parthenon? by Robert Edwards, Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Perfection by Matthew Swanson & Robbie Behr, Magic Tree House Fact Tracker: Ancient Greece and the Olympics by Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie Pope Boyce, Turkey Goes to School by Wendi Silvano, The Cat Encyclopedia by DK Publishing, Two Dogs by Ian Falconer, The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook by Dinah Bucholz, Fossils for Kids by Ashley Hall, and Endless Ever After by Laurel Snyder and Dan Santat.

New books for young adults include: Tha Paladin Prophecy: Rogue: Book III by Mark Frost, Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, The Enchanter Heir by Cinda Williams Chima, The Damned by Renée Ahdieh, A Year to the Day by Robin Benway, Love and Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch, and Sabriel: 25^th Anniversary Classic Edition by Garth Nix.

New books on the adult fiction shelf include: Grace Under Fire by Julie Garwood, Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter by Lizzie Pook, Local Gone Missing by Fiona Barton, These Impossible Things by Salma El-Wardany, The Messy Lives of Book People by Phaedra Patrick, Ordinary Monsters by J.M. Miro, Island Time by Georgia Clark, Meant to be Mine by Hannah Orenstein, One of the Girls by Lucy Clarke, Hatchet Island by Paul Doiron, The Teacher of Warsaw by Mario Escobar, It All Comes Down to This by Therese Anne Fowler, The Wife Before by Shanora Williams, As Seen on TV by Meredith Schorr, The Blue Diamond by Leonard Goldberg, Byway to Danger by Sandra Merville Hart, Her Dying Day by Mindy Carlson, and Remember Love by Mary Balogh.

New books on the adult non-fiction shelf include: The Chief Witness: Escape from China’s Modern-Day Concentration Camps by Sayragul Sauytbay and Alexandra Cavelius, Edible Plants: A Photographic Survey of the Wild Edible Botanicals of North America by Jimmy W. Fike, Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder by Charles Graeber, and Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings by Chrysta Bilton.

To get a free library card, call 270-237-3861 or stop by the library with a photo I.D. and a recently postmarked piece of mail. Then you’ll be able to check out or download library materials. Also, if there’s a particular book, movie, or music artist you would like added to the collection, please let us know. We’ll do our best to fulfill your requests.

The library building is open to the public on Monday through Thursday, 9:00 am – 7:00 pm, and Friday and Saturday from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm.

It’s been a fantastic summer, thanks to the parents, grandparents, and caregivers who registered their children in our summer reading program. Seeing our library active with kids in the library is wonderful. So, please, keep coming weekly. We hope you’ll make visiting the library a part of your weekly routine.

School-age children are invited to Lego My Library on Saturday, August 20 at 11:00 am. Miss Abby will have a fun build challenge ready for our builders.

New books for children include: Francis in the Country by Liz Gaton Scanlon, The Adventures of Robo-Kid by Diane deGroat, Let’s Learn About the Forest by Katelyn Van Kooten, The Wills and the Won’ts by Angela Woolfe, Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree House: The Graphic Novel: Mummies in the Morning adapted by Jenny Laird, What is the Supreme Court? by Jill Abramson, The Queen of Kindergarten by Derrick Barnes, The Pout-Pout Fish and the Worry-Worry Whale by Deborah Diesen, Ben Yokohama and the Cookie of Doom by Matthew Swanson & Robbi Behr, and A Prayer for our Country by Senate Chaplain Barry Black.

New books on the adult fiction shelf include: The Sweet Remnants of Summer: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel by Alexander McCall Smith, The Big Dark Sky by Dean Koontz, Red Warning by Matthew Quirk, Switchboard Soldiers by Jennifer Chiaverini, The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand, Out of the Clear Blue Sky by Kristan Higgins, Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith by Adam Christopher, The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager, The Lifestyle by Taylor Hahn, Thank You, Next by Andi J. Christopher, How to Fake It In Hollywood by Ava Wilder, A Thousand Miles by Bridget Morrissey, Snowstorm in August by Marshall Karp, What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad, A Botanist’s Guide to Parties and Poisons by Kate Khavari, Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Shattered by James Patterson and James O. Born, Blue Skies by Robyn Carr, and People of Cahokia: Lightning Shell by W. Michael & Kathleen O’Neal Gear.

New books for young adults include: Gideon Green in Black and White by Katie Henry, Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed, Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas, Infinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon, The Maze Runner by James Dashner, Five Nights at Freddy’s: Tales from the Pizzaplex #1 Lally’s Game by Scott Cawthon, The Paladin Prophecy by Mark Frost, Murder for the Modern Girl by Kendall Kulper, and Piper Perish by Kayla Cagan. e

New large-print books include: Life Without Children by Roddy Doyle, Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace, The Dark Queens by Shelley Puhak, The Trials of Harry S. Truman by Jeffrey Frank, Nightwork by Nora Roberts, Meant to Be by Emily Griffin, and It All Comes Down to This by Therese Anne Fowler

 To get a free library card, call 270-237-3861 or stop by the library with a photo I.D. and a recently postmarked piece of mail. Then you’ll be able to check out or download library materials. Also, if there’s a particular book, movie, or music artist you would like added to the collection, please let us know. We’ll do our best to fulfill your requests.