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.
The annual Friends of the Library Book Sale is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, September 16 and 17. The doors open at 9:00 am and close at 4:00 pm. Books are $1.00 per bag. Stop by early and fill up your bookshelf with great reads at a great price.
Toddlers are invited to Toddler Time on Wednesdays at 10:00 am. Parents may choose from three Pre-K Story Hours for their preschool-age child. We’ll offer the same program on Tuesday and Thursday at 10:00 am and on Wednesdays at 1:00 pm. Call 270-237-3861 to reserve your child’s place. We will read the same book in each program. On Tuesday at 1:00 pm, Home-School children ages 5-12 are invited to enrichment programs.
On Thursday, September 15 at 5:00 pm, Teens are invited to CD Maze.
New books for children include: Hope is an Arrow by Cory McCarthy, Diving Deep: Using Machines to Explore the Ocean by Michelle Cusolito, Happy Halloween, Little Engine! by Matt Mitter and Jannie Ho, Here We Are: Book of Opposites by Oliver Jeffers, The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s First Fall by Eric Carle, Camp Famous by Jennifer Blecher, Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree House: The Graphic Novel: Dinosaurs Before Dark. Adapted by Jenny Laird, Surely Surely Marisol Rainey by Erin Entrada Kelly, Warriors: Graphic Novel: Winds of Change by Erin Hunter, Surviving the Wild: Sunny the Shark by Remy Lai, Star Wars: Bounty Hunters by Target Valance, My Life Begins by Patricia MacLachlan.
New graphic novels for young adults include: Robin & Batman by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen, Pennyworth by Scott Bryan Wilson and Juan Gedeon, Lost Lad London by Shima Shinya, and Silk: Age of the Witch by Kim Miyazawa Herring.
New books for young adults include: Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert, The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Cloaked by Mike Richardson and Jordi Armengol, What Souls Are Made Of by Tasha Suri, Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert, The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow & Liz Lawson and The Rumor Jame by Dhonielle Clayton & Sona Charaipotra.
New books on the adult fiction shelf include: Dead Sea Conspiracy by Jerry B. Jenkins, The Brighter The Light by Mary Ellen Taylor, Dirt Creek by Hayley Scrivenor, Miss Aldridge Regrets by Louise Hare, Armored by Mark Greaney, Treasure an Heiress by Roseanna M. White, The Last Paladin by P.T. Deutermann, Yesterday’s Gone by Cindy Woodsmall & Erin Woodsmall, The Swell by Allie Reynolds, The Crimson Thread by Kate Forsyth, The Last to Vanish by Megan Miranda, The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford, The It Girl by Ruth Ware, The One You Want by Jennifer Ryan, The Book Eaters by Sunny Dean, The Book Eaters by George Dawes Green.
New adult large-print books include: Killer Words by V.M. Burns, One for the Hooks: A Crochet Mystery by Betty Hechtman, Strawberried Alive by Jenn McKinlay, Much Ado about Nauticaling by Gabby Allan, Imperfect Promise by Susanna Lane, The Smiling Country by Elmer Kelton, and Lost Trails by Louis L’Amoure, Elmer Kelton, et.al.
The library offers over 500 free on-online classes. Check out our website www.allencountylibrary.com, click on the “Free Online Classes button, and create an account with your library card number.
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.