Can you find the cure to the zombie plague before it’s too late? You have 45 minutes to solve the puzzles and figure out the clues to break out of our escape room!
Registration required. Space is limited.
Sign up on your own or as a team of up to 8 people. Call or stop by the library to reserve your time slot. Hourly time slots are available from 2-7 pm. We ask that you arrive 15 minutes before your scheduled time.
This free program is for adults and youth in grades 6-12.
What is an escape room?
An escape room is a live action adventure game where you work as a team to find clues and solve puzzles to escape (or find an object, etc.) within a certain time. *You will not be physically locked into the room.*
Will there be zombies in the room?
Some escape rooms have a “trapped in a room with a zombie” experience where a “zombie” is tied up in the room and gets closer to the players as time goes on. As fun as it would be to offer that type of program, this escape room will not have any “zombies” in the room.
What can I expect?
We will go over the rules with you and your team before you enter the escape room. You can also decide if you want an easier or more challenging game experience (based on the number of hints you receive: easy–unlimited hints without penalty, medium–3 hints and every additional hint reduces the time you have left, challenging–no hints). Once you enter the room, a timer will start and you have 45 minutes to solve all the puzzles to find the zombie cure.
Some tips for success:
Communicate with your team
Share what you find
Bring all your clues together. If you find something, bring it to your clue table instead of leaving it for someone else to find again.
If you get stuck on a puzzle, get a teammate to help or move on and come back to it later.
Don’t have several people working on the same puzzle–spread out and search for other clues.
Don’t wait till the end to ask for hints.
Find more great tips here
June 1st through August 4th, 2018
Sign up to participate in our Adult Summer Library Challenge online at http://holmeslibrary.readsquared.com or from the main page of the library website.
Earn points for each day that you read and for completing activities or writing reviews. Points can be redeemed for tickets in our prize raffle.
Whether you read 20 minutes or 2 hours, it counts (though we certainly hope you read more)!
You can read books, e-books, audio books and magazines. Books can be fiction and nonfiction for adults, graphic novels, teen fiction and nonfiction, middle grade fiction and juvenile fiction (chapter books). Items read do not have to be checked out from the library.
Prizes include gift cards and gift baskets. The prize drawing will take place in August.
Join us for this FREE informational program. Kimberli Hiller will demonstrate how to make your own homemade fruit wine. Registration required. This program is for adults.
Are you an expert on all things Harry Potter? Even if you are just a casual fan, come test your knowledge at our trivia night!
Sign up on your own or in teams of up to 6 people (individuals and smaller groups may be combined into a team if space requires). Prizes will be awarded to each member of the winning team ($5 gift cards to Jitters). Free pizza, snacks and hot cocoa provided.
This program is for adults and teens only. Registration is required and space is limited.
Join us for this free movie. We do require registration so we know how many people to expect. Food will not be provided for this program but feel free to bring your own snacks, bottled soda or water. Open to adults and teens only. Call the library at 330-674-5972 to sign up.
Tuesday February 27th @ 6 p.m., Central Library
We will be reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations of readers with its unforgettable cast of characters, carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertaining view of the world and its absurdities. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighborhood, the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down. Pride encounters prejudice, upward-mobility confronts social disdain, and quick-wittedness challenges sagacity, as misconceptions and hasty judgements lead to heartache and scandal, but eventually to true understanding, self-knowledge, and love. In this supremely satisfying story, Jane Austen balances comedy with seriousness, and witty observation with profound insight. If Elizabeth Bennet returns again and again to her letter from Mr Darcy, readers of the novel are drawn even more irresistibly to its captivating wisdom.
A limited number of copies are available at the Help Desk for checkout.
Tuesday February 27th @ 1 p.m., Central Library
We will be discussing The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart—he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season’s first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone—but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.
This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.
A limited number of copies are available at the Help Desk for checkout.
Tuesday January 30th @ 6 p.m., Central Library
We will be reading The Siege Winter by Ariana Franklin and Samantha Norman
A powerful historical novel by the late Ariana Franklin and her daughter Samantha Norman, The Siege Winter is a tour de force mystery and murder, adventure and intrigue, a battle for a crown, told by two courageous young women whose fates are intertwined in twelfth century England’s devastating civil war.
1141. England is engulfed in war as King Stephen and his cousin, the Empress Matilda, vie for the crown. In this dangerous world, not even Emma, an eleven-year-old peasant, is safe. A depraved monk obsessed with redheads kidnaps the ginger-haired girl from her village and leaves her for dead. When an archer for hire named Gwyl finds her, she has no memory of her previous life. Unable to abandon her, Gwyl takes the girl with him, dressing her as a boy, giving her a new name—Penda—and teaching her to use a bow. But Gwyn knows that the man who hurt Penda roams free, and that a scrap of evidence she possesses could be very valuable.
Gwyl and Penda make their way to Kenilworth, a small but strategically important fortress that belongs to fifteen-year-old Maud. Newly wedded to a boorish and much older husband after her father’s death, the fierce and determined young chatelaine tempts fate and Stephen’s murderous wrath when she gives shelter to the empress.
Aided by a garrison of mercenaries, including Gwyl and his odd red-headed apprentice, Maud will stave off Stephen’s siege for a long, brutal winter that will bring a host of visitors to Kenilworth—kings, soldiers . . . and a sinister monk with deadly business to finish.
A limited number of copies are available at the Help Desk for checkout.
Tuesday January 30th @ 1 p.m., Central Library
We will be discussing To Capture What We Cannot Keep by Beatrice Colin.
Set against the construction of the Eiffel Tower, this novel charts the relationship between a young Scottish widow and a French engineer who, despite constraints of class and wealth, fall in love.
In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Émile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris, France – a moment of pure possibility. But back on firm ground, their vastly different social strata become clear. Cait is a widow who because of her precarious financial situation is forced to chaperone two wealthy Scottish charges. Émile is expected to take on the bourgeois stability of his family’s business and choose a suitable wife. As the Eiffel Tower rises, a marvel of steel and air and light, the subject of extreme controversy and a symbol of the future, Cait and Émile must decide what their love is worth.
Seamlessly weaving historical detail and vivid invention, Beatrice Colin evokes the revolutionary time in which Cait and Émile live – one of corsets and secret trysts, duels and Bohemian independence, strict tradition and Impressionist experimentation. To Capture What We Cannot Keep, stylish, provocative, and shimmering, raises probing questions about a woman’s place in that world, the overarching reach of class distinctions, and the sacrifices love requires of us all.
A limited number of copies are available at the Help Desk for checkout.