Pancakes and Pajamas + Movie Special
It’s a Pajama Party! Join us and our BFF’s next door at the Syd for a great night of pancakes, pajamas, and an outdoor movie on the evening of Thursday, December 15th! Food and light concessions are free, but space is limited so please plan to arrive well before the start of the movie. For those wishing for a drive-in experience, a working FM radio will be necessary.
The pancakes will be served up at 6 PM (in the library) and the movie showtime is 7 PM (behind the library). We can’t wait to spread Christmas Cheer with everyone here!
Bouncing Bees
Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, and more for babies and their caregivers. Bond with your little ones, make new friends, and establish the foundations of a future love of reading! Buzz by on Tuesday, December 13th at 10 AM for this 20–30 minute program.
Ornament Making
Join us at 5 PM on Tuesday each week in December as we make two different ornaments you can hang on your own tree or gift to someone else.
Adult Craft: Snowman Ornament
There’s always room on the tree for another ornament! Our second adult craft for December is a snowman ornament. Join us on Tuesday, December 13th at 5 PM. Registration is required and space is limited.
All-Day Gift Wrapping Event
The holidays are approaching fast and the Winter Reading Challenge is in full swing! Bring your completed game boards on Saturday, December 17th to pick your prizes from our prize room and let us help you wrap them! Gift wrapping goodies will be provided at this all-day wrapping event.
Winter Reading
Welcome to November and the launch of our brand new, free, Winter Reading Challenge! This chill-tastic board game challenge is designed for all ages, and is perfect for families to do together! As the holidays approach, spend your cool evenings reading and playing on your game board! As you complete your reading goals, you earn an entry into the prize room! The prize room is stocked with goodies! We encourage families to use the room to let their children “shop” for the holidays for their families, and we will help them wrap it up! Don’t celebrate? They can still use the items for their own prizes! They get treats, you get another tool to help your children/?spouse/?teen/?self/?family unit to READ! Slide on in and pick up your game board!
Sign up for the Winter Wonderland Reading Challenge online, but be sure to come by the building to pick up your game board and dice.
Event Calendar
Family
Ornament Making – Tuesdays in December @ 5 PM. Make two different ornaments you can hang on your own tree or gift to someone else. Ages 18 and under.
Pancakes and Pajamas – Thursday, December 15th @ 6 PM. A free pancake dinner that would make Buddy the elf jump up and down for joy.
Drive-In Movie – Thursday, December 15th @ 7 PM behind the library. A drive-in showing of a holiday movie. Free hot cocoa & popcorn!
Wrapping Stations – Saturday, December 17th 10 AM – 3 PM. Bring your kids by and let us help them wrap gifts.
Children's
Bouncing Bees – Tuesday, December 13th @ 10 AM. Stories, songs, rhymes, and more for babies and their caregivers.
Reading Rascals – Thursdays @ 10 AM. Songs, stories, and a simple craft for kids ages 0–5.
Adult
Adult Craft: Snowman Ornament – Tuesday, December 13th @ 5 PM. Give your holiday decor that personal touch. Registration required.
Beginner Computer Class – Fridays 10–11 AM in the boardroom. Get answers to your questions about technology.
Bookclub Pick for December
The library’s Boozy Bookclub has its holiday read picked out and copies behind the desk: Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding. If you want to join the bookclub, just visit us, register for the bookclub meeting on December 20th at Donatello’s, and check out the book.
Book Highlights
Adult Fiction
Special Agent Garrett Kohl has just taken down a dangerous and deadly cartel boss when he finds trouble brewing back on his family’s homestead. A powerful energy consortium, Talon Corporation, has started an aggressive mining operation that threatens to destroy Garrett’s land, his family’s way of life, and everything they hold dear. To achieve its goals, Talon is flouting the law, bribing public officials, and meeting anyone who challenges it with physical violence. When the Kohls themselves are attacked by Talon guards, Garrett goes on the offensive, embarking on an investigation that he hopes will rid the Texas High Plains of the intruders once and for all.
Garrett soon discovers that the company has origins in the dark hinterlands of countries across the globe. Using coercion and assassination levied by men from former Russian special operations forces, Talon is working on a highly secretive scheme to commandeer precious U.S. resources. The *** for tat exchange between Talon and the Kohls erupts into a full-scale war when Russian spy, Alexi Orlov, kidnaps Garrett’s friend and ally, CIA operative Kim Manning. While Talon may be accustomed to getting its way in many places around the world, they have yet to encounter this rare breed of warrior down in Texas — a man who will fight to the death to protect those that he loves.
Adult Nonfiction
The events of that day are now tragically familiar: on May 25, 2020, George Floyd became the latest Black person to die at the hands of the police, murdered outside of a Minneapolis convenience store by white officer Derek Chauvin. The video recording of his death set off the largest protest movement in the history of the United States, awakening millions to the pervasiveness of racial injustice. But long before his face was painted onto countless murals and his name became synonymous with civil rights, Floyd was a father, partner, athlete, and friend who constantly strove for a better life.
His Name Is George Floyd tells the story of a beloved figure from Houston’s housing projects as he faced the stifling systemic pressures that come with being a Black man in America. Placing his narrative within the context of the country’s enduring legacy of institutional racism, this deeply reported account examines Floyd’s family roots in slavery and sharecropping, the segregation of his schools, the overpolicing of his community amid a wave of mass incarceration, and the callous disregard toward his struggle with addiction — putting today’s inequality into uniquely human terms. Drawing upon hundreds of interviews with Floyd’s closest friends and family, his elementary school teachers and varsity coaches, civil rights icons, and those in the highest seats of political power, Washington Post reporters Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa offer a poignant and moving exploration of George Floyd’s America, revealing how a man who simply wanted to breathe ended up touching the world.
Children's
A new spin on the classic song “Hush, Little Baby,” this truck-themed lullaby follows a mother and child as they discover different vehicles, from a bulldozer to a front-end loader. Kim Norman’s gentle rhyming text, paired with Toshiki Nakamura’s imaginative illustrations, makes this picture book a great option for bedtime read-alouds.
Young Adult
Best friends Rora and Claudia have never felt more like their lives are spiraling out of control. And when they meet Major and Amir — two boys from one of the secret cities of the spheres, ruled by the magic of the astrological signs — they discover they’re not alone. There is a disruption in the harmony between the spheres, and its chaos is spreading.
To find the source of the disharmony, Rora and Claudia will embark on a whirlwind journey of secrets, romance, and powerful truths — about themselves, each other, and two long-ago explorers named Dante and Beatrice, who were among the first to chart this course toward the stars.
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