Library Foundation Fundraiser
Just a few tickets are still available for “A Night of Jazz,” a fundraiser for the Tifton-Tift County Public Library Foundation featuring the Kelly/Scott Jazz Sextet, led by award-winning jazz artists.
The event begins at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, at the Syd Blackmarr Arts Center on Love Avenue and features music from “classic swing to New Orleans,” heavy hors d’oeuvres, wine, and dancing.
Reservations must be made by Monday to ensure a seat at a table. Space is limited but a few individual seats and table sponsorships are available. To reserve your spot, call 229-392-3366 or email penny_mcd@yahoo.com.
This is the annual fundraiser for the Library Foundation, which changed the format this year, moving the event from the conference center to the more intimate atmosphere of “The Syd.”
The Kelly/Scott Jazz Sextet is led by award-winning jazz artists vocalist Lisa Kelly and trumpeter JB Scott, and includes Bill Prince on sax, Jeff Phillips on piano, Rick Ravelo on bass, and Clyde Connor on drums.
Correction
The Boozy Bookclub’s first meeting will be on Tuesday, September 20th rather than the 29th! We apologize for the confusion.
Boozy Bookclub
All summer we enjoyed the “Almost Boozy Bookclub’’ with great beachy reads and fun mocktails to enjoy with them! This fall, in partnership with Savor The Flavor and Donatello’s, we are excited to announce a destination “Boozy Bookclub!” Participants will meet at Savor The Flavor to enjoy a glass of wine/cocktail or non-alcoholic beverage to go with their book! We are kicking off this special series on Tuesday, September 20th at 5 PM, with the book Bullet Train by author Kotaro Isaka! “A dark, satirical thriller by the bestselling Japanese author, following the perilous train ride of five highly motivated assassins—soon to be a major film from Sony starring Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon, and Benito A Martínez Ocasio, and more!” – Amazon Books
Registration is required, so please call the library at 229-386-7148 to get on the list today! Beverages are provided for the first 10 participants.
Early Closing on Thursday
The library will be closing at 4 PM on Thursday, September 22nd for the annual Tifton-Tift County Public Library Foundation fundraiser.
Lego Club
Who doesn’t love Legos? Kids age 3 and up can express that love at our weekly Lego Club, which meets Mondays at 4 PM. You can hone your skills, work to the weekly theme, or just have fun!
We have the Legos, you bring the creativity!
Library Card Sign-Up Month
We are celebrating Library Card Sign-Up Month with our wonderful community partners! This month, flash your library card at participating businesses and get a discount, a treat, or a freebie! Not only does your library card get you free perks like wifi, printing and fax services, access to the latest hot sellers, private meeting spaces, access to historical documents, streaming services via Hoopla, classes, and programs, but this month it gets you treats and perks with area partners who know that a strong community helps us all. What are you waiting for? Come see us for your card and then, get shopping!
A huge thank you to our partners: Cole’s Cakery, Donatello’s, Gray Ghost Comics, and Acres & Oak Kitchen.
Scroll down below the double-column section of the newsletter for details!
Let’s Play
This is a drop-in program on Tuesday, September 20th from 10 AM to noon where kids ages 0–5 (and their caregivers, of course) can explore different sensory stations, hone fine and gross motor skills through interactive play, and make new friends in a fun environment. You can come and go as you please, but caregivers must stay with their little ones.
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 September 21st at 4 PM.
For kids ages 6–11.
Libraries Change Lives Giveaway
We are celebrating Library Card Sign Up Month with our friends at the Georgia Public Library Service. Take part in their Libraries Change Lives Giveaway to get a refrigerator magnet (and help keep reading cool) or win a free t-shirt! Details are available on the giveaway’s website.
Reading Rascals
Our weekly storytime series is back in action and with a brand new name! Calling all rascals aged 0–5 with their caregivers to join us for songs, stories, and a simple craft.
Gaming
Teens can release some stress with videogames Tuesday, September 20th from 4–5 PM.
La Fiesta del Pueblo
The library will be at La Fiesta del Pueblo on Saturday, September 24th! We hope to see you there.
Tissue Paper Painting
Teens: Jazz up your room with this easy DIY tissue paper painting on Tuesday, September 20th from 5:30–6:30 PM.
Cats on Mats
The purrfect yoga program is back on Friday, September 23rd at 7:30 PM in the library’s multipurpose room. This special program is designed to help the Tifton Animal Shelter find homes for some of its many kittens. Participants are invited to bring a yoga mat and join us for a free night of yoga with kittens! The kittens will adapt to their environment and hopefully let their little personalities shine, so that you fall in love with them and give them a loving new home.
Yoga is free and so are the kitten cuddles!
Event Calendar
Children's
Let’s Play – Tuesday, September 20th 10 AM–noon. Sensory stations and interactive play in a fun environment. Ages 0–5 and their caregivers.
STEAM Team – Wednesday, September 21st @ 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)
Gaming – Tuesday, September 20th 4–5 PM. Good luck and have fun!
Tissue Paper Painting – Tuesday, September 20th 5:30–6:30 PM. Jazz up your room with this easy DIY tissue paper painting.
Adult
Boozy Bookclub – Tuesday, September 20th @ 5 PM at Savor the Flavor. Book discussion and beverages! This month: Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka. Registration required.
Sew You Think You Can Pants – Wednesday, September 21st @ 5 PM. Needle help with sewing? We’ve got you covered. Registration recommended.
Beginner Computer Class – Fridays 10–11 AM in the board room. Get answers to your questions about technology.
Cats on Mats – Friday, September 23rd @ 7:30 PM. Yoga alongside cuddly (and adoptable) kittens.
Book Highlights
Click the books' pictures to open them in the catalog.
Adult Fiction
What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke remains a mystery, but the women who descended from Eleanor Dare have long known that the truth lies in what she left behind: a message carved onto a large stone and the contents of her treasured commonplace book. Brought from England on Eleanor’s fateful voyage to the New World, her book was passed down through the fifteen generations of daughters who followed as they came of age. Thirteen-year-old Alice had been next in line to receive it, but her mother’s tragic death fractured the unbroken legacy and the Dare Stone and the shadowy history recorded in the book faded into memory. Or so Alice hoped.
In the waning days of World War II, Alice is a young widow and a mother herself when she is unexpectedly presented with her birthright: the deed to Evertell, her abandoned family home and the history she thought forgotten. Determined to sell the property and step into a future free of the past, Alice returns to Savannah with her own thirteen-year-old daughter, Penn, in tow. But when Penn’s curiosity over the lineage she never knew begins to unveil secrets from beneath every stone and bone and shell of the old house and Eleanor’s book is finally found, Alice is forced to reckon with the sacrifices made for love and the realities of their true inheritance as daughters of Eleanor Dare.
Adult Nonfiction
At age four, Molly Shannon’s world was shattered when she lost her mother, baby sister, and cousin in a car accident with her father at the wheel. Held together by her tender and complicated relationship with her grieving father, Molly was raised in a permissive household where her gift for improvising and role-playing blossomed alongside the fearlessness that would lead her to become a celebrated actress.
From there, Molly ventured into the wider world of New York and Los Angeles show business, where she created her own opportunities and developed her daring and empathetic comedy. Filled with behind-the-scenes stories involving everyone from Whitney Houston to Adam Sandler to Monica Lewinsky, many told for the first time here, Hello, Molly! spans Molly’s time on Saturday Night Live—where she starred alongside Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, Cheri Oteri, Tracy Morgan, and Jimmy Fallon, among many others. At the same time, it explores with humor and candor her struggle to come to terms with the legacy of her father, a man who both fostered her gifts and drive and was left with the impossible task of raising his kids alone after the loss of her mother.
Witty, winning, and told with tremendous energy and heart, Hello, Molly!, written with Sean Wilsey, sheds new and revelatory light on the life and work of one of our most talented and free-spirited performers.
Children's
It’s a busy day for the Beginning Baby animal friends, and they could use some help! In You’re a Helper, baby can push the embedded slides to help Paisley the octopus water plants, Layla the llama find a crayon, Mia the monkey put away toys, and other characters with their activities around the house. It all ends with a hug for Mateo the red panda, who needs one after getting an ouchie.
Young Adult
At last, the breathtaking, action-packed finale of the Trials of Apollo series is here!
Will the Greek god Apollo, cast down to earth in the pathetic moral form of a teenager named Lester Papadopoulos, finally regain his place on Mount Olympus?
Lester’s demigod friends at Camp Jupiter just helped him survive attacks from bloodthirsty ghouls, an evil Roman king and his army of the undead, and the lethal emperors Caligula and Commodus. Now the former god and his demigod master Meg must follow a prophecy uncovered by Ella the harpy. Lester’s final challenge will be at the Tower of Nero, back in New York.
Will Meg have a last showdown with her father?
Will this helpless form of Apollo have to face his arch nemesis, Python?
Who will be on hand at Camp Half-Blood to assist?
These questions and more will be answered in this book that all demigods are eagerly awaiting.
