The library building is open to the public on Monday through Thursday, from 9:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.
Tinker Time in our Maker Space is open every Friday at 2:00 pm. Register online for help with your projects, or stop by to explore the space and ask questions. Equipment includes a Poster Printer, Embroider Machine, Cricut Vinyl Cutter, and more. Sign up today.
It’s been a fun adventure this summer with Summer Reading programs for kids, teens, and adults. We had 369 kids turn in reading logs. Thank you to all the parents, guardians, and caretakers who brought children to the library this summer. Thank you to the Friends of the Library for donating money so we could buy summer reading prizes.
Our annual Friends of the Library book sale will take place in September. If you have gently used books you’d like to donate, please drop them by the library. We can’t have a book sale without books. We appreciate the community support.
New books for children include: The Digger and the Dark by Joseph Kuefler, Little Helper, Big Imagination by Emily Morrow, Sour Apple by Linda Liu, Time to Make Art by Jeff Mack, You Can Be a Good Friend (No Matter What!) by Taraji P. Henson, Even Better than Sprinkles by Linda Skeers & Heather Fox, Millie Fleur’s Poison Garden by Christy Mandin, Yes! No? Maybe So… by National Geographic Kids, The First Week of School by Drew Beckmeyer, Transportation by DK Publishing, Alphabet by Heart by Jeanne & Mark K. Shriver, A Mobs of Minecraft Treasury by Christy Webster, History of Hawai’i by DK Publishing, Bluey: Grannies and Other Stories by Penguin Young Readers Licenses, The House Before Falling Into the Sea by An Suk Wang, Duck for President by Doreen Cronin and Besty Lewin, and We Love Our Teacher by Mike Berenstain.
New books on the adult fiction shelf include: Red Sky Mourning by Jack Carr, The Dixon Rule by Elle Kennedy, King of Sloth by Ana Huang, Familiaris by David Wroblewski, The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton, Love Unwritten by Lauren Asher, The Postcard by Anne Berets, Middletide by Sarah Crouch, Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See, Devil Is Fine by John Vercher, Humor Me by Cat Shook, A is for Amish by Shelley Shepard Gray, We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer, The Honeybourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson, Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse, A Happer Life by Kristy Woodson Harvey, Mistakes We Never Made by Hanah Brown, A Northern Light in Provence by Elizabeth Birkelund, Pitch Dark by Paul Doiron, A Daughter of Fair Verona by Christina Dodd, and All the Summers in Between by Brooke Lea Foster.
New books on the adult non-fiction shelf include: The End of Everything: How Wars Descend Into Annihilation by Victor Davis Hanson, Gathering Boards: Season Cheese and Charcuterie Spreads by Sarah Zimmerman Tuthill, Just Add Water: My Swimming Life by Katie Ledecky, The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government by Brody Mullins and Luke Mullins, The Full-Body Fat Fix by Stephen Perrine, I Curse You with Joy by Tiffany Haddish, and Chasing Hope: A Reporter’s Life by Nicholas D. Kristof.
To get a free library card, call 270-237-3861 or stop by the library with a photo I.D. and recently postmarked 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.