You don’t want to miss this! Free pizza will be served. Please bring your own bottled water or bottled soda. This program is for adults and registration is required.
Call the library at 330-674-5972 to sign up or find out more.
You don’t want to miss this! Free pizza will be served. Please bring your own bottled water or bottled soda. This program is for adults and registration is required.
Call the library at 330-674-5972 to sign up or find out more.
The deadline to enter a diorama in our contest is Saturday April 8th.
Not artistically inclined? Come in and vote for “Peeple’s Choice” during the week of April 10th-15th. Dioramas will be on display at the library through April 22nd.
Call the library for more details at 330-674-5972.
Tuesday March 28th @ 6 p.m., Jitters Coffeehouse
We will be reading The Tumbling Turner Sisters by Juliette Fay.
For fans of Orphan Train and Water for Elephants, a compelling historical novel from “one of the best authors of women’s fiction” (Library Journal). Set against the turbulent backdrop of American Vaudeville, four sisters embark on an unexpected adventure—and a last-ditch effort to save their family.
It’s 1919, and the Turners are barely scraping by. When their father loses his job, their irrepressible mother decides that vaudeville is their best chance to make the rent—and create a more exciting life for herself in the process.
Traveling by train from town to town, teenagers Gert, Winnie, and Kit, and recent widow Nell soon find a new kind of freedom in the company of performers who are as diverse as their acts. There is a seamier side to the business, however, and the young women face dangers and turns of fate they never could have anticipated. Heartwarming and surprising, The Tumbling Turner Sisters is ultimately a story of awakening—to unexpected possibilities, to love and heartbreak, and to the dawn of a new American era.
Interested in joining our evening book group? Please call Christina at 330-674-5972 x208.
Tuesday March 28th @ 1 p.m., Central Library
We will be reading A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen
When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he had no idea just how much his life was about to change. James was living hand to mouth on the streets of London and the last thing he needed was a pet.
Yet James couldn’t resist helping the strikingly intelligent tom cat, whom he quickly christened Bob. He slowly nursed Bob back to health and then sent the cat on his way, imagining he would never see him again. But Bob had other ideas.
Soon the two were inseparable and their diverse, comic and occasionally dangerous adventures would transform both their lives, slowly healing the scars of each other’s troubled pasts.
A Street Cat Named Bob is a moving and uplifting story that will touch the heart of anyone who reads it.
A limited number of copies is available at the Help Desk for checkout. New members welcome!
The Holmes County District Public Library invites you to a celebration of St. Patrick’s Day at Jitters Coffeehouse where Jason Fawks and his family will once again delight us with Irish music. Jason, who builds some of his own instruments, will be playing the harp, pipes, dulcimer, pennywhistle, classical guitar and more. You don’t want to miss this fun and festive concert!
No registration or tickets required.
Tuesday February 28th @ 1 p.m., Central Library
We will be reading Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons.
In Gibbons’s classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world of a Hardy or Bronte novel and proceeds to organize everyone out of their romantic tragedies into the pleasures of normal life. Flora Poste, orphaned at 19, chooses to live with relatives at Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex, where cows are named Feckless, Aimless, Pointless, and Graceless, and the proprietors, the dour Starkadder family, are tyrannized by Flora’s mysterious aunt, who controls the household from a locked room. Once there she discovers they exist in a state of chaos and feels it is up to her to bring order. Flora’s confident and clever management of an alarming cast of eccentrics is only half the pleasure of this novel. The other half is Gibbons’s wicked sendup of romantic cliches, from the mad woman in the attic to the druidical peasants with their West Country accents and mystical herbs. The deliriously entertaining Cold Comfort Farm is “very probably the funniest book ever written” (The Sunday Times, London), a hilarious parody of D. H. Lawrence’s and Thomas Hardy’s earthy, melodramatic novels.
A limited number of copies is available for checkout at the Help Desk. New members welcome!
Tuesday February 28th @ 6 p.m., Jitters Coffeehouse
We will be reading A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.
He can’t leave his hotel. You won’t want to.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility—a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.
Interested in joining our evening book group? Please contact Christina at 330-674-5972 x208
This winter, read books that were made into movies or watch movies/TV movies/TV shows* based on books and you could win a prize. This program is open to those 18 and up.
You must read at least one book to participate. TV shows count for the challenge if you watch the entire season.
Pick up a Page to Screen brochure at the Help Desk at Central Library or East Branch.
The challenge ends on March 6th but you have until March 11th to turn in your brochures to the Help Desk.
Monday January 30, 2017 from 5:30-7:30 p.m., Central Library
Stop by anytime between 5:30-7:30 for an evening of coloring and relaxation. We provide the coloring pages and art supplies though you are welcome to bring your own. Registration is required. This free program is for adults.
This program will be cancelled if there is inclement weather.
January 28, 2017 @ 1 p.m., Central Library
We will be showing The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. This free program is for adults and registration is required.
In case of inclement weather, the program will be cancelled.
The Girl on the Train is based on Paula Hawkins’ bestselling thriller that shocked the world. Rachel (Emily Blunt), devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day. Everything changes when she sees something shocking happen there, and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds. This movie is rated R
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