Construction Nearby
Due to construction nearby, access to the library’s book drop is currently unavailable. We recommend using the book drop at the Coastal Plain Regional Library System’s Headquarters Branch at 2014 Chesnutt Avenue for after-hours dropoff.
Don’t worry, the library building is open as usual!
Trick or Treat
Calling all our little ghouls and goblins! As part of the Downtown Tifton Trick or Treat event, the library will be giving out candy, goodies and books on Monday, October 31st from 5–7 PM! We will be located out front of our building. The first 200 families will get a Halloween activity book based on The Witches by Roald Dahl.
Winter Reading
Game On! Make your way from start to finish with our new CHILL-TASTIC reading challenge board game! Kids can win amazing gifts from our prize room for their loved ones (or for themselves)! Adults will get an entry into a prize drawing at the end of the challenge. The Winter Wonderland Reading Challenge will run from November 1st to January 4th.
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.
New Books
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Craft Night
Feeling crafty? Join us on Tuesday, November 1st at 5 PM to make some large faux acorns to accent your fall decor. Registration is required for this program.
Celebrate Creativity
The library will be in the middle of the Tifton Council for the Arts Celebrate Creativity arts festival on Saturday, November 5th, and we mean that literally: the festival will surround our building on all sides! The library building will be open for the duration of the festival, and we’ll also be part of the children’s circus with arts and crafts. The event is free, so come check it out!
Paranormal Evidence Reveal
Plan to spend the day and night in downtown Tifton on Saturday, November 12th! Following the Fall Festival, join the team from Cross the Line Paranormal at 6 PM, as they present their findings from our paranormal investigation! This 45–60 minute presentation will feature an introduction to the team, explanation of the tools they used, experiences from both the team and some of our staff, and video/audio evidence of the paranormal in our building. You will have a chance to ask questions at the end of the presentation. Set your reminders! You won’t want to miss it!
Sew You Think You Can Pants?
Want to be able to mend your own clothes? Would you like to experience the joy and pride of making new garments and items for your home? Is your old family sewing machine guilting you out for not using it? Then join the library’s semi-monthly sewing program! There are a couple of changes for November! Firstly, the program is moving to 4 PM to give it the time it needs to shine. Secondly, there will be a bonus meeting on Wednesday, November 30th! Registering ahead of time is recommended, as a limited number of sewing machines will be available. Have your own machine? We have outlets! Join us!
November Bookclub Books are Here
The destination Boozy Bookclub has a perfect book lined up for next month, and we’ve got copies ready at the circulation desk! In the spirit of meeting at Donatello’s, the next read is nonfiction and set in Jazz Age Chicago: The Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry. It’s about the real life murders that inspired the musical (and later movie) “Chicago!”
Cats on Mats
Who wants candy corn when you can have a kitten? Cats on Mats (the last session for this year) will be held on Friday, October 28th at 7:30 PM! You bring the haunted home, we bring the fuzzy ghoul! Don’t miss it!
STEAM Team
Say goodbye to boring lectures and hello to a new way of learning! Join us as we explore concepts in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math through interactive experiments and games on November 2nd at 4 PM.
For kids ages 6–11.
Event Calendar
All Ages
Halloween Trick or Treat – Monday, October 31st 5–7 PM. We’ll be handing out candy, goodies, and books in front of the library.
Children's
STEAM Team – Wednesday, November 2nd @ 4 PM. Explore Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math through interactive experiments and games. Ages 6–11.
Reading Rascals – Thursdays @ 10 AM. Songs, stories, and a simple craft for kids ages 0–5.
Teen (ages 11–18)
TAB Meeting - Tuesday, November 1st @ 4 PM. Help shape our teen program!
Anime/Manga Club – Tuesday, November 1st @ 5:30 PM. We will be watching Mob Psycho and making Onigiri.
Gaming – Thursday @ 4 PM. Good luck and have fun!
Scratch Coding Club – Thursdays @ 5:30 PM. Coding and fun with Scratch. Ages 10+.
Adult
Adult Craft – Tuesday, November 1st @ 5 PM. This month’s craft: large faux acorns. Registration required.
Sew You Think You Can Pants – Wednesday, November 2nd @ 4 PM. Needle help with sewing? We’ve got you covered. Registration recommended.
Beginner Computer Class – Fridays 10–11 AM in the boardroom. Get answers to your questions about technology.
Downtown Fall Festival
The Tifton Merchants Association will be hosting a Fall Fest on the second Saturday in November (that’s the 12th) 10–5, and the library will be there with tents and games!
Closed for Veterans Day
The library will be closed Friday, November 11th and Saturday, November 12th in observance of Veterans Day. This does not affect the paranormal evidence reveal Saturday evening nor our participation in the Second Saturday Fall Fest downtown.
TAB Meeting
Join the Teen Advisory group (TAB) and help plan teen programs you want to attend, help with book orders, and so much more! The next meeting is Tuesday, November 1st at 4 PM.
Scratch Coding Club
The Scratch Coding Club has moved its meeting time to slightly later in the day at 5:30 PM on Thursdays. Otherwise, it remains the same great place for kids and teens ages 10 and up to do fun things with Scratch, the friendly game and animation programming environment. Bring a flash drive if you have one!
Anime/Manga Club
This Tuesday, November 1st at 5:30 PM we will be watching Mob Psycho and making Onigiri (Japanese Rice Balls).
Teen Gaming
The teen gaming hour has swapped times with the Scratch Coding Club, and will be Thursdays at 4 PM during November. Come hang out and have fun.
We’re Hiring
We are looking for two more library assistants! These wonderfully dynamic, positive and energetic people should be well organized, and enjoy working with children. Our youth department is extremely active both inside our building, and out! Does this post sound like you? If so, please fill out an application and send it to our branch manager, Karen Thompson, at kthompson@cprl.org. We can’t wait to meet you!
Book Highlights
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Adult Fiction
July 1985. It’s a normal, sweltering New Jersey summer for soon-to-be seventh grader Bee Kocsis. Her thoughts center only on sunny days spent at Deer Chase Lake, on evenings chasing fireflies around her cul-de-sac with the neighborhood kids, and on Max, the boy who just moved in across the street. There’s also the burgeoning worry that she’ll never be as special as her younger sister, Audrina, who seems to effortlessly dazzle wherever she goes.
But when Max’s little sister, Sally, goes missing at the lake, Bee’s long-held illusion of stability is shattered in an instant. As the families in her close-knit community turn inward, suspicious and protective, things in Bee’s own home become increasingly strained, most of all with Audrina, when a shameful secret surfaces. With everything changed, Bee and Audrina’s already-fraught sisterhood is pushed to the limit as they grow up — and apart — in the wake of an innocence lost too soon.
Adult Nonfiction
We think we know all the Cold War’s greatest spy stories. The tales of America’s greatest traitors have been told over and over. However, the biggest story of them all remains untold — until now. Rumors have long swirled of another mole in American intelligence, one perhaps more damaging than all the others combined. Perhaps the greatest traitor in American history, perhaps a Russian ruse to tear the CIA apart, or perhaps nothing more than a bogeyman, he is often referred to as the Fourth Man.
Blowing the lid off the biggest spy story in decades, Robert Baer tells the full, gripping story for the first time. After the arrest of KGB spy Aldrich Ames, the CIA launched another investigation to make sure there wasn’t another double agent in its ranks. Led by three of the CIA’s best spy hunters, women who devoted their lives to counterintelligence, its existence was known only to a few. They began methodically investigating their own bosses and colleagues, turning up loose threads, suspicious activity, and shocking intelligence from the CIA’s best Russian asset. In the end, they came to a startling conclusion that, whether true or not, would shake American intelligence to its core, setting the stage for a cat-and-mouse game with enormous geopolitical stakes. Spies and moles may seem like bygone cold war history, but with Russia again a misunderstood belligerent power, the skeletons America would rather keep hidden are emerging, and as Robert Baer shows in this thrilling masterwork of investigative reporting, they matter as much now as ever.
Children's
Dig Doug, Puddles, and Cheddar are ready for a big day at puppy school. Today they have an extra big project — using their construction trucks to dig a swimming pool! Dig Doug is so happy because Dig Doug loves to dig. But when he digs a bit too deep, his puppy friends must figure out a plan to save him.
Young Adult
After the death of her mom (screw cancer), seventeen-year-old Cecelia Ellis goes to live with her estranged grandmother, a celebrated author whose Victorian mansion is as creepy as the murder mysteries she writes. On the surface, life is utterly ordinary in the California coastal town…until the homecoming queen is murdered. And she’s not Seaview’s first pretty dead queen.
With a copycat killer on the loose, Cecelia throws herself into the investigation, determined to crack the case like the heroines in her grandmother’s books. But the more Cecelia digs into the town’s secrets, the more she worries that her own mystery might not have a storybook ending.
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