Tifton-Tift County Public Library Newsletter: April 17 - 22, 2023

From: Tifton - Tift County Public Library
April 19, 2023

National Library Month

April is National Library Month, and to celebrate we have lots of fun things happening!

We would love to hear how the library has impacted your life to add to our celebration! Visit https://www.cprl.org/wearehere/ to share your story online and to read featured stories!

Other cool news:

  • When you visit your local library, your name will be entered into a raffle! Every Monday we will announce our weekly raffle winner!
  • May 1st we will have a grand prize winner! Just for coming in!
  • Make sure to check out all of the fun library programs that your branch has to offer!

PINES User Survey

The annual PINES user survey is open! Please take a moment to fill out this quick, 2 minute survey and share your experience! The survey will be open through Saturday, April 15th.

Knit a Bit

Whether you’ve been knitting for decades or days, join knitter extraordinaire, Kim Spencer, at the Tifton-Tift County Public Library and get your yarn on! Don’t know how to knit? That’s ok — we’ll be happy to teach you. Knit A Bit meets again on Monday, April 17th at 5 PM.

Please note that youth knitters are welcome but must be at least 12 years old.

Musical Munchkins

Get ready to rock & roll! Explore different musical sounds, learn the rhythm and get movin’ and groovin’ with other Musical Munchkins on Tuesday, April 18th at 10 AM!

Roblox

Do you like to play Roblox? So do we! Join us Tuesday, April 18th from 5–6 PM and we can all play together!

Event Calendar

Children's

Musical Munchkins – Tuesday, April 18th @ 10 AM. Explore different musical sounds, learn the rhythm and get movin’ and groovin’.

Reading Rascals – Thursdays @ 10 AM. Songs, stories, and a simple craft for kids ages 0–5.

Teen

Roblox – Tuesday, April 18th @ 5 PM. Do you like to play Roblox? So do we!

Manga Club – Thursday, April 20th @ 5 PM. Read some manga, have some snacks, and nerd out.

Adult

Knit a Bit – Monday April 17th @ 5 PM. Get your yarn on!

Adult Craft: Soapmaking – Tuesday, April 18th @ 5 PM. We’re making carnival bag fish soap. Registration required.

Sewing Friends-y – Wednesday, April 19th @ 4 PM. A project based sewing group for all sewing enthusiasts.

Murder & Mimosas

We love true crime, and you love true crime, so let’s get together and obsess! Join us for Murder & Mimosas as we dive into solved, unsolved, and unexplained murder cases. We meet on the last Saturday of the month — our next meeting is Saturday, April 29th. You must be 21 or older to attend, and an ID will be required at check-in.

Adult Craft: Carnival Bag Fish Soap

April’s adult craft will be Carnival Bag Fish Soap on Tuesday, April 18th. Register for the program by stopping by the front desk or calling (229) 386-7148.

Sewing Friends-y

Sewing Friends-y is a project based sewing group for all sewing enthusiasts, from people who have never stitched before to those with years of sewing experience. We meet on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month from 4:00–5:45 PM to work on projects, both individually and as a group, to learn, and to enjoy the company of other stitchers — the next meeting is Wednesday, April 19th. Sewing machines and supplies are available, but if you have your own portable machine, bring it! We have plenty of plugs and power!

Manga Club

Read some manga, have some snacks, and nerd out with people that eat, sleep, manga, and repeat! Weebs, otakus, and casual readers welcome! The Manga Club’s next meeting is Thursday, April 20th at 5 PM.

Financial Literacy Initiative

Tifton’s Financial Literacy Initiative “strives to better equip a population to make good decisions on credit and better position assets and resources that are effective and productive, resulting in significant personal, household-level, small business and community-wide impact.” The Initiative will be holding events throughout the year.

The next event will be Building Savings, presented by First Commerce Credit Union, on Tuesday, April 18th 5:30–7:00 PM at the Leroy Rogers Senior Center in Tifton. The library will be there to provide a storytime for kids, too! Register online or at Tifton City Hall.

If you have questions, call (229) 391-3868 or email ttift@tifton.net.

Nacho Normal Book Club

We don’t have boring book clubs at the library, as we have the Nacho Normal Book Club! The Nacho Normal Book Club will meet in the library board room on Tuesday, April 25th 5–6 PM to discuss The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin and enjoy some delicious goodies from Taqueria Hermanos Chavez.

Book Highlights

Adult Fiction

Sam is seven years old and living in Beverly, Massachusetts. She adores her father, though he isn’t around much. Her mother struggles to make ends meet, and never fails to remind Sam that if she studies hard and acts responsibly, adulthood will be easier—more secure and comfortable. But comfort and security are of little interest to Sam. She doesn’t fit in at school, where the other girls have the right shade of blue jeans and don’t question the rules. She doesn’t care about jeans or rules. All she wants is to climb. Hanging from the highest limbs of the tallest trees, scaling the side of a building, Sam feels free.

As a teenager, Sam begins to doubt herself. She yearns to be noticed, even as she wants to disappear. When her climbing coach takes an interest in her, his attention is more complicated than she anticipated. She resents her father’s erratic behavior, but she grieves after he’s gone. And she resists her mother’s attempts to plan for her future, even as that future draws closer.

The simplicity of this tender, emotionally honest novel is what makes it so powerful. Sam will break your heart, but will also leave you full of hope.

Adult Nonfiction

In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch — shearing, spinning, dyeing wool — and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft. Orenstein spins a yarn that will appeal to everyone.

The COVID pandemic propelled many people to change their lives in ways large and small. Some adopted puppies. Others stress-baked. Peggy Orenstein, a lifelong knitter, went just a little further. To keep herself engaged and cope with a series of seismic shifts in family life, she set out to make a garment from the ground up: learning to shear sheep, spin and dye yarn, then knitting herself a sweater.

Orenstein hoped the project would help her process not just wool but her grief over the recent death of her mother and the decline of her dad, the impending departure of her college-bound daughter, and other thorny issues of aging as a woman in a culture that by turns ignores and disdains them. What she didn’t expect was a journey into some of the major issues of our time: climate anxiety, racial justice, women’s rights, the impact of technology, sustainability, and, ultimately, the meaning of home.

Children's

Bored and hot on a lazy summer day, three young children watch as birds, bees, and butterflies zoom past them, over their fence, and into their neighbor’s mysterious yard. But why are there no birds or bugs in their yard? Why does the neighbor’s yard glow with fireflies at night, while their yard is dark? Well, the kids are determined to find out…and maybe make some changes to bring a little nature to their backyard.

Young Adult

Ro Devereux can predict your future. Or, at least, the app she built for her senior project can.

Working with her neighbor, a retired behavioral scientist, Ro created an app called MASH, designed around the classic game Mansion Apartment Shack House, that can predict a person’s future with 93% accuracy. The app will even match users with their soulmates. Though it was only supposed to be a class project, MASH quickly takes off and gains the attention of tech investors.

Ro’s dream is to work in Silicon Valley, and she’ll do anything to prove to her new backing company — and the world — that the app works. So it’s a huge shock when the app says her soulmate is Miller, her childhood best friend with whom she had a friendship-destroying fight three years ago.

Now thrust into a fake dating scenario, Ro and Miller must address the years of pain between them if either of them will have any chance of achieving their dreams. And as the app takes on a life of its own, Ro sees that it’s affecting people in ways she never expected — and if she can’t regain control, it might take her and everything she believes in down with it.

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