This Week In The Library - September 6, 2022

From: Thomas County Public Library System
September 7, 2022

Tech One-on-Ones
Mon & Tues, By Appointment

Schedule an appointment for individual computer or technology help with our Reference Department. Appointments must be made 48 hours in advance, no walk-ins accepted. Tech sessions will be private and last for one (1) hour.  Call the library or click HERE to learn more.

Fall For Art Exhibit
July 18 - Sept 16

Open every day of the week, the Pines & Palms Artist Association members exhibit is on display now in the Henry Flipper meeting room.  Stop by and view some amazing artwork by some talented southern artists.  Pieces available for purchase through Pines & Pines.

Friends of the Library Book Sale
Every Tuesday, 10-5pm

Check out the FOL's used book store, open every Tuesday.
All proceeds go toward programming and materials at all our branches.  Books, DVDs, puzzles, children & young adult books, music and more!

Join Our Team

We Are Hiring

For the Kids:

Story Time: Toddlers + Tykes
Thursdays, 10:30am

Join our children's department staff for an hour of read-aloud storybooks, songs and rhymes designed to enhance your child's literacy skills.  A great space to meet + mingle with other caregivers + children in the community.  Intended for ages 2-4.

LEGO Club
Thursdays, 4:00pm

Calling all kid LEGO masters and first-timers! Our LEGO group meets every week to create and build whatever they can imagine. A great place to meet + mingle with other kids interested in 3D creation. We also offer larger LEGO bricks for those who may find the smaller bricks tasty. Intended for ages 4-11.

At the Branches:

Pavo Library:
-Story Time | Thursday, Sept 8, Drop-In Activity
Join us anytime during open hours for a few read-aloud stories and a fun art + craft project.

Coolidge Library:
-Bingo | Tuesday, Sept 6 @ 2:30pm

-Arts + Crafts | Sept 6-8, Drop-in Activity
Create a handmade greeting card for an elder in honor of Grandparents Day.

Ochlocknee Library:
-Adult Arts + Crafts | Tuesday, Sept 6 @ 2:30pm
Create a mixed media work of art.  Supplies provided at no charge.

Boston Library:
-Quiddler Club | Every Tuesday @ 2:00pm
Join the Boston Quiddler Club.  The group meets every Tuesday at 2:00pm for an afternoon of socializing, laughter and a few rounds of the word-card game which challenges players to make words out of an ever increasing hand of letters.  Speak with Suzanne M. at the Boston branch for more details.

RECOMMENDED READS:

Novels about assistants trapped in jobs they're too good for

The Other Black Girl, by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Editorial assistant Nella Rogers is the only Black woman at Wagner Books, a publisher whose last African American hit came out 35 years ago, so when Hazel-May McCall joins the team, Nella’s thrilled. Finally, a chance to have “a ‘work wife’ who really understood her,” not to mention someone to share the emotional workload at the company’s awkward diversity town halls. But when Hazel encourages her to be frank with their boss about a problematic book going to press, with disastrous results, and then moves ahead of her in the pecking order, Nella knows the other Black girl is not the work wife she hoped for. Throw in a mysterious note telling her to LEAVE WAGNER NOW, and Nella finds herself at the center of a sinister plot that reaches back decades. A former editorial assistant at Knopf, Harris spins a wild thriller that’s also a convincing takedown of the publishing industry.

Free Food for Millionaires, by Min Jin Lee
“In a way, it’s tragic when you can do something you don’t like,” says one of the characters of Min Jin Lee’s debut novel Free Food for Millionaires, and it makes a decent thesis for the book. Queens-born Casey Han is a Princeton grad with expensive tastes. When she passes up Columbia Law School to become an entry-level sales assistant at an investment brokerage (a “bullcrap job” in the eyes of her new boss), she disappoints her Korean immigrant parents almost as much as she does by living in sin with her white boyfriend. Thrown out of the family home, she’s got to make her own way through the excess of 1990s Manhattan—and moonlighting in the accessories department of a luxury department store doesn’t help, as she brings home more hats than she sells. But she’s poised to rise to the top of either world, if she can just commit to one path. With the same keen eye for emotion that she brings to her National Book Award–nominated epic Pachinko, Lee charts the wants and pangs of a woman on the verge.

The Assistants, by Camille Perri
When the CEO of media conglomerate Titan Corporation hollers for his staff, his 30-year-old assistant Tina Fontana knows he needs her—and not his deputy, senior editor, or executive producer—by his tone. “It was a more intimate sound because with me Robert’s needs were always more personal.” But what good is being the first to know about an upset stomach or a marital spat, or being “essential to the success of this castle of a man,” if your own life is stalled? After six years of expensing her boss’s lavish lifestyle—$19K for a first-class plane ticket, or roughly two trips to Tiffany—while her own student loan balance won’t budge, a chance accounting error presents Tina with a unique opportunity to erase that debt. When Emily in Accounting catches on, a conspiracy is born. Perri’s debut is a gleeful page-turner for anyone who’s ever wondered what might happen if the assistants were put in charge.

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