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 Summer Reading. Three-hundred and forty-eight (348) children turned in reading logs and logged 130,421 minutes of reading this summer. Kids earned a $5.00 gift card to Sonic and a $5.00 gift card to Dairy Queen. That’s $3,480 spent on gift cards, of which $1500 was rewarded to the library via a grant from Save the Children. By rewarding the kids with prizes for reading, we hope we’ve helped them avoid the summer slide.
We’d like to give a big THANK YOU! shout-out to Pizza Hut, which donated a personal pan pizza coupon to the kids who turned in reading logs.
Thank you to all the parents and caregivers who brought children to the library all summer. We hope you’ll continue to make the library a part of your weekly routine.
Join us on the porch for First Friday on August 4 from 6:00– 8:00 pm. We are partnering with the Regional Collaborative – Governor’s Office of Early Childhood to distribute school supplies for children entering kindergarten. Need More Acres will also join us to pass out fresh food kits and backpacks. Stop by early, as supplies are limited. Thank you to Southern Kentucky’s United Way for donating learning kits for kindergarteners.
New books for children include: Remind Me by Linda Shute, Dump Truck Duel by Jodie Parachini, Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish, Crane Jane! by Andrea Zimmerman, Hooray for Trucks! by Susan Hughes, Conjure Island by Eden Royce, Sunny Makes a Splash by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm, Swing It, Sunny by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm, Little Tractor is Brave by Natalie Quintart, Tractor by Sally Sutton, Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars by Steven Rinella, Dragon Masters: Song of the Poison Dragon by Tracey West, American Sign Language for Kids by Rochelle Barlow, Phonics from A to Z by Wiley Blevins, The Duckling Gets a Cookie by Mo Willems, Even Little Kids Get Diabetes by Connie White Pirner, and Frog and Toad All Year by Arnold Lobel.
New books for young adults include: You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron, Starlings by Amanda Linsmeier, I’m Not Here to Make Friends by Andrew Yang, The Faint of Heart by Kerilynn Wilson, A Song of Salvation by Alechia Dow, Belle Morte by Bella Higgin, The Luis Ortega Survival Club by Sonora Reyes, Lying in the Deep by Diana Urban, The Last One To Fall by Gabriella Lepore, A Crooked Mark by Linda Kao, This Town is on Fire by Pamela N. Harris, and Revelations by Bella Higgin.
New books on the adult fiction shelf include: The Collector by Daniel Silva, After Death by Dean Koontz, The Hollows by Jess Montgomery, Be Mine by Richard Ford, The Ferryman by Justin Cronin, She Started It by Sian Gilbert, The Island of Lost Girls by Alex Marwood, The Late Mrs. Willoughby by Claudia Gray, The Only One Left by Riley Sager, Love Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood, Welcome to Beach Town by Susan Wiggs, My Magnolia Summer by Victoria Benton Frank, Heat 2 by Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner, Unfortunately, Yours by Tessa Bailey, Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, The Stills by Jess Montgomery, Gryphon in Light by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon, Prom Mom by Laura Lippman, Secrets in the Dark by Heather Graham, and Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Defiance by Brian Freeman
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.