Reading Rascals
Get riled up about reading at our weekly storytime! Rascals ages 0–5 and their caregivers will enjoy stories, songs, and crafts with new friends!
Computer Classes
Look no further than your library for a comfortable environment to learn about computers in! Our computer classes are focused on what the people attending them want to learn — we answer the questions put to us during the class. From the very basics (“How do I turn this on?”) to more complex topics (“How do I get a picture from my phone to the computer”), we’ll help you tame the wild electronic beast. We’re not limited to computers, either; we’ll gladly cover smartphones and tablets. We have Windows 11 laptops available during the class, or you can bring your own device to learn on.
The long-running Beginner’s Computer Class is every Friday from 10–11 AM, no registration required. Seniors may be interested in the computer class run in collaboration with the Leroy Rogers Senior Center, which is at the Senior Center on Tuesdays from 10:15–11:15 AM — call Tasha at the Senior Center at (229) 391-3956 to register.
Event Calendar
Children's
Reading Rascals – Thursdays @ 10 AM. Songs, stories, and a simple craft for kids ages 0–5.
Adult
Beginner Computer Class – Fridays 10–11 AM in the boardroom. Get answers to your questions about technology.
Closed for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
The library will be closed on Monday, January 16th in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Book Highlights
Adult Fiction
An idyllic wellness retreat has opened on an island off the English coast, promising rest and relaxation — but the island itself, known locally as Reaper’s Rock, has a dark past. Once the playground of a serial killer, it’s rumored to be cursed.
A young woman is found dead below the yoga pavilion in what seems to be a tragic fall. But Detective Elin Warner soon learns the victim wasn’t a guest — she wasn’t meant to be on the island at all.
The longer Elin stays, the more secrets she uncovers. And when someone else drowns in a diving incident, Elin begins to suspect that there’s nothing accidental about these deaths. But why would someone target the guests at this luxury resort? Elin must find the killer — before the island’s history starts to repeat itself.
Adult Nonfiction
Love them or hate them, guns are woven deeply into the American soul. Names like Colt, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and Remington are legendary. Yet few people are aware of the roles these men played at a crucial time in United States history, from westward expansion in the 1840s, through the Civil War, and into the dawn of the Gilded Age. Through personal drive and fueled by bloodshed, they helped propel the young country into the forefront of the world’s industrial powers.
Their creations helped save a nation divided, while planting seeds that would divide the country again a century later. Their inventions embodied an intoxicating thread of American individualism ? part fiction, part reality ? that remains the foundation of modern gun culture. They promoted guns not only for the soldier, but for the Everyman, and also made themselves wealthy beyond their most fevered dreams.
Gun Barons captures how their bold inventiveness dwelled in the psyche of an entire people, not just in the minds of men who made firearm fortunes. Whether we revere these larger-than-life men or vilify them, they helped forge the American character.
Children's
When he decides to tag along with his brother Rodrick’s band, Löded Diper, Greg doesn’t realize what he’s getting into. But he soon learns that late nights, unpaid gigs, fighting between band members, and money troubles are all part of the rock ’n’ roll lifestyle.
Can Greg help Löded Diper become the legends they think they are? Or will too much time with Rodrick’s band be a diper överlöde?
Young Adult
Enola Holmes is the much younger sister of her more famous brothers, Sherlock and Mycroft. But she has all the wits, skills, and sleuthing inclinations of them both. At fifteen, she's an independent young woman--after all, her name spelled backwards reads 'alone'--and living on her own in London. When a young professional woman, Miss Letitia Glover, shows up on Sherlock's doorstep, desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister, it is Enola who steps up. It seems her sister, the former Felicity Glover, married the Earl of Dunhench and per a curt note from the Earl, has died. But Letitia Glover is convinced this isn't the truth, that she'd know — she'd feel — if her twin had died. The Earl's note is suspiciously vague and the death certificate is even more dubious, signed it seems by a John H. Watson, M.D. (who denies any knowledge of such). The only way forward is for Enola to go undercover — or so Enola decides at the vehement objection of her brother. And she soon finds out that this is not the first of the Earl's wives to die suddenly and vaguely — and that the secret to the fate of the missing Felicity is tied to a mysterious black barouche that arrived at the Earl's home in the middle of the night. To uncover the secrets held tightly within the Earl's hall, Enola is going to require help — from Sherlock, from the twin sister of the missing woman, and from an old friend, the young Viscount Tewkesbury, Marquess of Basilwether!
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