JUNE/JULY 2024 CALENDAR
Cribbage Tuesdays and Fridays 10:00 a.m. – noon. Come when you can, stay as long as you are able.
Toddler Time Thursdays @ 10:00 a.m. This program is for our toddlers and little siblings. Grandparents are encouraged to join the fun.
Drop Everything and Read Fridays from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Bring a pillow, check out a book, and find a quiet place in the library to spend an hour just reading! Shhhhhhhh!
Summer Library Program begins on Monday, July 1st with The Guthrie County ISU Extension bringing a “sweet” program called “Hello Honeybees” @ 3:00 p.m. Kids get ready for honey taste testing! BZZZZZ
Book Club will meet Monday, July 1st @4:30 p.m. Theme: Discuss a book you are reading.
Kwik Star Walk-In Interviews in library meeting room, Tuesday, July 2nd 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
New Scavenger Hunt will be available Wednesday, July 3rd.
LIBRARY CLOSED in observance of Independence Day, July 4th – 6th.
Summer Library Program: Read, Renew, Repeat. Healthy Kids Activities such as Storytime-Craft – Movement Activities Monday, July 8th at 3:00 p.m.
NEW BOOKS
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson. As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past. The first book in this Young Adult series, Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.
Blood Sisters by Vanessa Lillie. A visceral and compelling mystery about a Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who is summoned to rural Oklahoma to investigate the disappearance of two women…one of them her sister. As an archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Syd Walker spends her days in Rhode Island trying to protect the land’s indigenous past, even as she’s escaping her own. To save her sister, she must expose a darkness in the town that no one wants to face–not even Syd.
Boymom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity by Ruth Whippman.An illuminating deep dive into the complexities of raising boys within the confines of harmful cultural norms-and how mothers can challenge those social pressures to support their sons and guide them to become connected, emotionally nuanced humans.
The Man from Waco by William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone. Meet John Bannack. Jailed for a crime he didn’t commit. Busted out of a Texas State Prison. Running for freedom and gunning for justice. They call him . . .THE MAN FROM WACO.
One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware. One Perfect Couple is Agatha Christie meets Lord of the Flies meets…dating reality TV? As tensions run high and fresh water runs low, Lyla finds that this game show is all too real–and the stakes are life or death.
Summer’s Lease by John D. Nesbitt. Lawrence Orme, who has left his work as a professor, comes to the countryside of Wyoming, only to find the body of a young man. He attends a meeting in town in which one of his neighbors is running for public office. Before long, this neighbor is found dead. Lawrence finds out that the unoffending neighbor was looking into the death of the young man, as part of his sense of obligation as a candidate for public office.