Read & Win Prizes?!
Our annual Summer Reading Challenge begins TODAY!! We challenge every age to read outside of their ordinary for the chance to win some stellar prizes. Not only that, but we are hosting free events, activities and more for every age. Click HERE to learn more!
Beginner Flow Yoga
Wed, May 25, 9:45am
An intro yoga class that moves slowly through a simple vinyasa sequence while focusing on alignment and breath while working on strength, balance and flexibility.
Great for beginners to yoga. Sign-up for the free class HERE.
Friends of the Library Book Sale
Tues, May 24, 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!
For the Teens:
LEGOCraft
Mon, May 23, 4:00pm
LEGOs aren’t just for kids. There is some pretty phenomenal, 3D-art you can create with those colorful bricks. Why not try your hand? Into architecture? LEGOs are a great way to start your practice! Ever seen LEGO World? Enough said. Intended for ages 12-17. Learn more HERE.
For the Kids:
Books, Prizes and Entertainment... Oh My!
Our all age Summer Reading Challenge sign-up starts TODAY. Find out what it's all about and register for this fun + free activity HERE.
RECOMMENDED READS:
Books to help you complete our adult reading challenge.
House of Sticks, by Ly Tran
-By a BIPOC Author + A Bildungsroman
House of Sticks is a book that will assault and warm your heart at the same time—a classic immigrant tale, told from the perspective of a Vietnamese child who settled with her family in New York City in the early ‘90s with little to no knowledge about life in America. But even without the resources that many take for granted, Tran’s family was able to eke out a living, first by setting up a kind of family-run sweatshop in their cramped apartment and eventually by buying a nail salon. As a sort of follow up to the devastating expose on nail salon workers published by the New York Times in 2015, House of Sticks can at times read like a more three-dimensional portrait of the life of one of these aestheticians. (Tran worked alongside her mother and father in the salon.) But it is also much more: a coming of age story, A New York hustle, a battle with a father who not only maintains an ironclad sense of filial duty, but also, fueled by his paranoia, exercises irrational control over things like vision correction.
Agatha of Little Neon, by Claire Luchette
-About or Involving Mental Illness/Health + A Bildungsroman
In Claire Luchette’s remarkable debut, Agatha, a nun, is transplanted, along with her pious sisters, to a halfway house in the “tuckered-out town” of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, where they are entrusted with the wellbeing of a lonesome cast of characters who want little to do with them. What follows is a coming-of-age story of sorts in which Agatha, attracted to the order for its promise of belonging, begins to learn that true comfort lies in greater knowledge of oneself. Written in a bracing, acerbic, and darkly comic tenor, the book is a surprisingly buoyant and fast-paced read, a modern and sly spin on the meaning of devotion.
Q, by Luther Blissett
-Classic Novel + Written in the 1990s
On the face of it, Q is a standard-issue historical thriller, best read at a frenzied pace on a Mediterranean sunlounger. The novel follows an unnamed protagonist who traverses Renaissance Europe during the Reformation, flitting from peasant rebellion to civic uprising to millenarian cult alike and stirring up violent opposition to the Catholic church wherever he goes. A career radical, he carries out a decades-long duel of wits that spans Germany, the Low Countries and Italy with a Catholic agent known only as “Q”, as historical characters such as Martin Luther and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V rise and fall around them. But Q is also so much more than that. Using Blissett as a pseudonym, a leftist artistic collective of five Italian men collaborated on Q and their radical politics can be detected every time the novel’s protagonist robs a duplicitous banker or rich merchant or plants a musket ball between the eyes of a papal soldier. Q’s antihero is an Anabaptist – an extreme sect for whom even private property was unacceptable – and his story can be read as an anti-capitalist allegory, or enjoyed for what it is: a gripping spy story.
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