Allen County Public Library News – July 26, 2023
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.
Thank you to everyone who participated in our summer reading programs. Kids who turned in reading logs earned $5.00 gift cards to Sonic and Dairy Queen and a gift certificate from Pizza Hut for a person pan pizzas. A big thank you to Pizza Hut for donating the gift certificates. By rewarding the kids with prizes for reading, we hope we’ve helped them avoid the summer slide in reading skills. Thank you to all the parents and caregivers who continued bringing children to the Library all summer. We hope you’ll continue to make visiting the Library a part of your weekly routine.
The Library hosts three book clubs. One for teens and three for adults. Books on the Square meets on the third Tuesday of each month at 1:00 pm. There’s a Mystery at the Library meets on the third Tuesday of each month at 5:00 pm, and the Cook Book Club meets quarterly. Stop by the circulation desk to pick up the book for the book club that interests you.
New books for children this week include: Pirate & Penguin by Mike Allegra, An Asian American A to Z: A Children’s Guide to OurHistory by Cathy Linh Che & Kyle Lucia Wu, Dear Street by Lindsay Zier-Vogel, Rock ‘N’ Roll by Daniel Grogan, Black Lagoon Adventures: The Magic Show from the Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler, The Remarkable Rescue of Milkweed Meadow by Elaine Dimopoulos, I Remember My Breath: Mindful Breathing for All My Feelings by Lynn Rummel, We Can Sign! by Tara Adams, and Whose Tracks in the Snow? by Alexandra Milton.
New books for young adults include: My Life with the Walter Boys by Ali Novak, Rice or Die by Gail-Agnes Musikavanhu, Boundless: Twenty Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities edited by Ismée Williams and Rebecca Bálcarcel, Someone You Loved byRobin Constantine, A Starlet’s Secret to A Sensational Afterlife by Kendall Kulper, Turning Japanese by Marinaomi, and Frontera by Julio Anta and Jacoby Salcedo.
New books on the adult fiction shelf include: Letters of Trust by Wanda E. Brunstetter, Adrift by Lisa Brideau, Only the Dead by Jack Carr, The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren, The Missus by E.L. James, The Long Way Back by Nicole Baart, Famous in a Small Town by Viola Shipman, The Café at Beach End by RaeAnne Thayne, A Fatal Affair by A.R. Torre, Just a Regular Boy by Catherine Ryan Hyde, Night Will Find You by Julia Heaberlin What the Neighbors Saw by Melissa Adelman, The Siberian Job by Josh Haven, The 9th Man by Steve Berry with Grant Blackwood, You Were Always Mine by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza, The Libyan Diversion by Joel C. Rosenberg, The House on Prytania by Karen White, and Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott.
New books on the adult non-fiction shelf include: Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything by Michio Kaku, The Shift: A Guide to Dating, Self Worth & Becoming the Main Character of Your Life by TIN, How to Stay Married by Harrison Scott Key, Serenity in the Storm by Kayleigh McEnany, The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of Worl War I by Lindsey Fitzharris, and Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page.
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, please let us know if there’s a particular book, movie, or music artist you would like added to the collection. We’ll do our best to fulfill your requests.