Southside Branch Newsletter
Fall in Love with Your Library
Check out what we have going on this season.
 

 
 
 
 
 

New Teen Programs
Youth Talk Too!
This program offers a safe space to share, learn, and build strength together. Join this supportive group to talk openly about mental health, challenges, and growth. Program presented by the Forsyth County Department of Public Health. 
Boys ages 13 -18 welcome. 
 
 
Teen Power Hour
 Teen Power Hour is a three-part life skills series to help navigate the teen years with confidence, clarity, and resilience. Join us to get support, ask questions, and learn something new each month. 

 
 
Dollars and Decisions
Take control of your financial future and learn how to budget, save, be smart with your spending, and prepare for adulthood one dollar at a time. October's topic will is: Building Your Credit History.
New Adult Programs
Birding for Millennials
A professional bird guide from the Forsyth Audubon Society will host a 40-minute workshop on birding basics, ethics, anecdotes and digital resources used by both birding beginners and field experts. Sign up below!
https://forsythcounty.librarycalendar.com/event/birding-millenials-28990
Yoga Classes
We have yoga classes every Tuesday from 10-11am. Classes alternate each week between Chair Yoga and Yoga for Beginners. Sign up through our online calendar or give the branch a call! 
 
ESL Conversation Club
Improve your conversation skills with a certified English as a Second Language teacher and other intermediate English speakers in a relaxed, informal setting.
Outdoor Book Club!
Book Walk
It's autumn! The perfect time for snuggle up with a good book, grab a warm coffee at the farmers market or go for a walk through the park....how about all three! This book club meets at the Cobblestone Farmers Market the first Saturday of the month and goes for a leisurely walk through Washington Park while discussing this month's spooky book. Click on the link to learn more or to see what book we are reading this month!
 
 
October 4
 
November 1
 
My lovely wife by Samantha Downing
I'm thinking of ending things by Iain Reid
Ongoing Children's Programs
Kids Crafts
We have weekly crafts for kids of all ages. Come celebrate this fall season with Ms. Haley by making ghostly hands, harvest sun catchers, pixel art, perler beads and so much more!
Creepy Critters of the Creek
Meet the creepy critters that call our local creeks home! Get up close with live aquatic insects —like wriggling larvae and crawling beetles —and learn how these tiny creatures help us understand water quality. You’ll also create your own gooey black "oil spill" slime and see how pollution can haunt our waterways in this spooky, hands-on Halloween experience. 
Preschool Storytime
Tuesdays at 11am!
Children will grow into successful readers through stories, songs, and activities. Recommended for children ages 3-5 and their caregivers. 
Spooky Book Looks
The bewitching
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

"Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multi-generational gothic horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic"
The staircase in the woods
by Chuck Wendig

Twenty years after a childhood friend vanished on a mysterious staircase in the woods, a group of former high school friends reunites to uncover the truth, facing the dark secrets and horrors that await beyond the staircase.
The starving saints : a novel
by Caitlin Starling

A medieval horror novel follows three women in a besieged castle that descends ravenously into madness under the spell of mysterious, godlike visitors.
They bloom at night
by Trang Thanh Tran

When a red algae bloom takes over Mercy, Louisiana, after a devastating hurricane, mutated wildlife lurks in the water, and when Mercy's predatory leader demands Noon and her mom catch a creature that has been drowning residents, Noon must confront the past. Simultaneous eBook.
Hungerstone
by Kat Dunn

Lenore and husband Henry travel to the British moorlands for a hunting party where an accident brings into their lives the mysterious Carmilla, who is weak during the day but vibrant at night, and Lenore must choose between her husband's affection and cravings that Carmilla has awakened.
This skin was once mine and other disturbances
by Eric LaRocca

The Bram Stoker Award-nominated and Splatterpunk Award-winning author presents four brand-new horror stories, including This Skin Was Once Mine, in which Jillian Finch, after her father dies under mysterious consequences, discovers it's only natural to hurt the ones you love as a dark secret threatens to undo everything she has ever known.
Forsyth County Public Library
660 W. Fifth St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101
336-703-2665

forsythlibrary.org