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⚔️ New! Codex Clash
Launching this August during Pokémon Club, Codex Clash is our brand-new year-round reading adventure! Complete monthly reading challenges, participate in themed crafts and activities, and level up your reading all year long. More details will be announced soon!
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🐾 National Dog Month at the Library August is National Dog Month, and we're celebrating with a month full of canine-themed fun! Patrons can read five books to earn an adorable plush reading buddy, complete a dog-themed scavenger hunt, create tug toys to donate to the Humane Society, collect exclusive library dog stickers, and enjoy dog-inspired crafts and activities throughout the month. Programming begins August 16th! |
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📼 Totally Awesome 90s Fun!
Help us celebrate the Carson City Library's 60th Anniversary with a month of nostalgic programs inspired by the 1990s! Create your own POGs, build a DIY Skip-It, revisit Blow Pens, and enjoy family-friendly activities celebrating one of the decade's most memorable toys and crafts. |
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🚀 Saturday STEAM
Saturdays | 10:30–11:30 AM Join us every Saturday for hands-on STEAM adventures that spark creativity, curiosity, and problem-solving! Each week features a new activity exploring science, technology, engineering, art, or math through fun, interactive projects. August Schedule: - ⛵ August 1 – Boat Building
- 🧱 August 8 – LEGO Magical Creatures
- 🎉 August 15 – Summer Reading Wrap-Up Party (No Saturday STEAM)
- 🎮 August 22 – DIY POGs
- 🌀 August 29 – DIY Skip-Its
All materials are provided. No registration required—just bring your imagination! Designed for children ages 6–11. Siblings are welcome to attend. No registration required. |
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🌟 Only Two Weeks Left of Summer Reading!
There's still time to join the Wander Beyond Words Summer Reading Challenge! Read, log your minutes, complete your challenge, and earn prizes before Summer Reading comes to a close on Saturday, August 15.
Be sure to turn in your reading before the program ends, then celebrate an incredible summer with us at our Summer Reading Wrap-Up Party on Saturday, August 15, from 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Enjoy games, crafts, activities, prize drawings, and one last adventure as we wrap up another unforgettable Summer Reading season.
Whether you've been reading all summer or are making a final push to complete your challenge, we can't wait to celebrate with you! |
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📚 Off the Shelf Book Club
Discussion Dates: Thursday, August 20th & Tuesday, August 25th | 5:30 PM
Join us this month as we discuss Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Halbeck. Synopsis: When newlyweds Wren and Lewis learn that Lewis has a rare condition causing him to gradually transform into a shark, they must navigate love, grief, change, and the uncertainty of the future. Blending magical realism with heartfelt emotion, Emily Habeck's debut explores what it means to love someone through life's inevitable transformations. |
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Tech Busters: One On One Tech Help Wednesdays | 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Carson City Library Need help with your smartphone, tablet, laptop, or other tech questions? Stop by Techbusters! Our knowledgeable staff offers one-on-one assistance with setting up devices, troubleshooting problems, and learning new digital skills. Walk-ins are welcome—no appointment needed. Whether you’re just getting started or need help mastering your technology, we’re here to help! |
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Minden Board Game Group
Sundays | 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Carson City Library | Patton Community Room Join the Minden Board Game Group every Sunday afternoon in the Carson City Library’s Phyllis & Phil Patton Community Room! Bring your favorite games from home or choose from a wide selection of board games available on the Digi shelves. Whether you’re a seasoned strategist or a casual player, there’s something for everyone. All ages are welcome—families, teens, and adults alike. Drop in, meet new friends, and enjoy an afternoon of fun, friendly competition, and community connection. No registration required. |
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Lego ClubWednesdays | 4:00 PM
Kennedy Children's Corner | Carson City Library Get creative and build something amazing at Lego Club! Join us every Wednesday at 4 PM in the Kennedy Children's Corner. This program is designed for elementary school-aged children who love to imagine, design, and build with Legos. No registration is required—just drop in and start building! We provide the bricks, you bring the creativity. |
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Library Storytimes
Join us each week for stories, songs, movement, and early literacy fun! We offer storytimes for every stage, from babies to big kids, plus a monthly Spanish-language family storytime. Storytime Schedule: - 🍼 Baby Bookworms: Tuesdays • 10:30 AM (Babies & Toddlers)
- 🐻 Bedtime Bears: Wednesdays • 6:30 PM (Families)
- 🦋 Big Kid Butterflies: Thursdays • 10:30 AM (Older Children)
- 🍼 Hora de Cuentos (Spanish): First Wednesday of each month • 11:30 AM (Families)
No registration is required—just drop in and join the fun! |
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Dungeons & Dragons Campaign
Thursdays | 4:00–7:00 PM Embark on an epic adventure with our weekly Dungeons & Dragons campaign! Whether you're a seasoned adventurer or rolling your first character, you'll join a party of fellow heroes to explore fantastical worlds, solve mysteries, battle monsters, and create unforgettable stories together. All supplies are provided—just bring your imagination and get ready to roll for initiative. Registration is required, and space is limited. |
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Wednesday Makerspace Workshops Looking for a creative midweek spark? Join us for Makerspace Workshops, happening every Wednesday from 5:00–6:00 PM in the Library Makerspace. Each week offers hands-on learning with different tools and technologies—perfect for beginners and curious creators alike. Weekly lineup: - 1st Wednesday: Sewing & Embroidery
- 2nd Wednesday: Rotating
- 3rd Wednesday: 3D Printing
- 4th Wednesday: Rotating projects like heat press, Boss laser, soldering, and more
Whether you want to learn a new skill, explore our makerspace equipment, or create something unique, there’s a new project waiting for you each week. Come experiment, learn, and make with us! 📍 Carson City Library Makerspace
🕔 Wednesdays | 5:00–6:00 PM |
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Textile Arts Club (formerly Crochet Corner) Thursdays | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM 2nd Floor | Executive Conference Room | Carson City Library Whether you’re brand new to crochet or have years of experience, Crochet Corner is the perfect place to stitch, learn, and create together! We’ll cover the basics for beginners and offer a welcoming space for all skill levels to practice and share tips. All materials are provided. Ages 14 and up are welcome. No registration required—just bring your creativity and join us for a relaxing evening of crafting! |
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Pokemon Club Is Back Every Last Friday of the Month | 4:00 PM – 5:30 PMPatton Community Room | Carson City Library Calling all Pokémon Trainers! Join us on the last Friday of each month to trade cards, battle, talk strategy, and connect with other Pokémon fans. Whether you’re brand new to the game or a seasoned Trainer, Pokémon Club is a welcoming space to build your skills, grow your collection, and have fun. Bring your cards (if you have them) and get ready to play! |
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ABCmouse
Give your child a head start with ABCmouse, an award-winning early learning program available free with your Carson City Library card. Designed for children ages 2–8, ABCmouse offers thousands of engaging activities that build skills in reading, math, science, art, music, and more.
With interactive lessons, educational games, books, puzzles, songs, and videos, children can learn at their own pace while having fun. Whether you're reinforcing classroom learning or introducing new concepts at home, ABCmouse makes early education exciting and accessible.
Visit the library or access ABCmouse through our website to start exploring today! |
A Thousand Ships
by Natalie Haynes
NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the YearGorgeous.... With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War.--Madeline Miller, author of CirceShortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, a gorgeous retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of the many women involved in its causes and consequences--for fans of Madeline Miller.This is the women's war, just as much as it is the men's. They have waited long enough for their turn . . .This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all . . .In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. Troy has fallen.From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to the Amazon princess who fought Achilles on their behalf, to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus, to the three goddesses whose feud started it all, these are the stories of the women whose lives, loves, and rivalries were forever altered by this long and tragic war. A woman's epic, powerfully imbued with new life, A Thousand Ships puts the women, girls and goddesses at the center of the Western world's great tale ever told.
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I, Medusa
by Ayana Gray
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A captivating villain origin story (People Book of the Week) reimagining one of the most iconic monsters in Greek mythology as a provocative and powerful young heroine This hardcover edition features a premium dust jacket with foil and a gorgeous custom-stamped case Ayana Gray brings her fresh, dynamic storytelling to one of the most monstered, maligned, and misunderstood women of Greek myth, imagining all the girls that Medusa was and could have been.--Jennifer Saint, bestselling author of Ariadne AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Meddy has spent her whole life as a footnote in someone else's story. Out of place next to her beautiful, immortal sisters and her parents--both gods, albeit minor ones--she dreams of leaving her family's island for a life of adventure. So when she catches the eye of the goddess Athena, who invites her to train as an esteemed priestess in her temple, Meddy leaps at the chance to see the world beyond her home. In the colorful market streets of Athens and the clandestine chambers of the temple, Meddy flourishes in her role as Athena's favored acolyte, getting her first tastes of purpose and power. But when she is noticed by another Olympian, Poseidon, the course of Meddy's promising future is suddenly and irrevocably altered. When her locs are transformed into snakes as punishment for a crime she did not commit, Medusa must embrace a new identity--not as a victim, but as a vigilante--and with it, the chance to write her own story as mortal, martyr, and myth. Exploding with rage, heartbreak, and love, I, Medusa portrays a young woman caught in the crosscurrents between her heart's deepest desires and the cruel, careless games the Olympian gods play.
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The Women of Troy
by Pat Barker
Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war--including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean; it does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins to unravel. Old feuds resurface and new suspicions and rivalries begin to fester. Largely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles's slave, now belonging to his companion Alcimus, quietly takes in these developments. She forges alliances when she can, with Priam's aged wife the defiant Hecuba and with the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge--
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The Song of Achilles Deluxe Edition
by Madeline Miller
A thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War from the bestselling author of Circe.This deluxe edition features: Elegant sprayed and stenciled edgesSparkling gold foilEndpapers featuring a map of Homer's GreeceA guide to Greek gods, mortals, and heroesEssays by Madeline Miller and discussion questionsA tale of gods and goddesses, kings and queens, immortal fame and the human heart.Achilles, the best of all the Greeks, son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful--irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, they forge an inseparable bond, despite risking the gods' wrath.They are trained by the centaur Chiron in the arts of war and medicine, but when words comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, all the heroes of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. Little do they know that the cruel Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice.
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Daughters of Sparta
by Claire Heywood
For millennia, men have told the legend of the woman whose face launched a thousand ships-but now it's time to hear her side of the story. Daughters of Sparta is a tale of secrets, love, and tragedy from the women behind mythology's most devastating war, the infamous Helen and her sister Klytemnestra--
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Atalanta
by Jennifer Saint
From the beloved, bestselling author of Elektra and Ariadne, a reimagining of the myth of Atalanta, a fierce huntress raised by bears and the only woman in the world's most famous band of heroes, the Argonauts Princess, Warrior, Lover, Hero When Princess Atalanta is born, a daughter rather than the son her parents hoped for, she is left on a mountainside to die. But even then, she is a survivor. Raised by a mother bear under the protective eye of the goddess Artemis, Atalanta grows up wild and free, with just one condition: if she marries, Artemis warns, it will be her undoing. Although she loves her beautiful forest home, Atalanta yearns for adventure. When Artemis offers her the chance to fight in her name alongside the Argonauts, the fiercest band of warriors the world has ever seen, Atalanta seizes it. The Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece is filled with impossible challenges, but Atalanta proves herself equal to the men she fights alongside. As she is swept into a passionate affair, in defiance of Artemis's warning, she begins to question the goddess's true intentions. Can Atalanta carve out her own legendary place in a world of men, while staying true to her heart? Full of joy, passion, and adventure, Atalanta is the story of a woman who refuses to be contained. Jennifer Saint places Atalanta in the pantheon of the greatest heroes in Greek mythology, where she belongs.
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Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History
by Sarah B. Pomeroy
Revised and updated throughout, the fourth edition of Ancient Greece presents the political, social, cultural, and economic history and civilization of ancient Greece in all its complexity and variety. Written by six leading authorities on the classical world, this captivating study covers the entire period from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic Era. FEATURES * Uniquely in-depth coverage of social and cultural topics including women and family life, material culture, religion, law, homosexuality, slavery, athletics, and life in the countryside * Excerpts from ancient documents, selective recommendations for further reading, and a timeline and general introduction that provide a bird's-eye view of Greek history * Two sets of color plates that provide ample evidence from material culture * Key terms (boldfaced at their first appearance) and an extensive glossary
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The Mythology Book
by DK
Learn about compelling worlds and characters depicted in myths and legends in The Mythology Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Mythology in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Mythology Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in. This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Mythology, with: - More than 80 classics retold and explained in mythology- Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts- A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout- Easy to follow text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understanding The Mythology Book lets you delve into each myth, discover the meanings behind them, and understand their significance to different cultures worldwide - aimed at adults with an interest in the subject and wanting to gain more of an overview. Here you'll find global coverage of world myths, profiling everything from the well-known tales of the Greeks, Norsemen, and Egyptians to the legends of the Caribbean, the Americas, Oceania, and East Asia.Your Mythological Questions, Simply Explained Learn about myths in this essential guide, from early creation beliefs to classical hero narratives and the recurring theme of the afterlife. Delve into each myth and discover the meanings behind these stories, getting to the heart of their significance to different cultures worldwide. If you thought it was difficult to learn about the many classic stories, The Mythology Book presents key information in an easy to follow layout. Discover Zeus, god of the sky and ruler of the Olympian gods, Loki, the cunning trickster with a knack for causing havoc, Thor with his mighty hammer, and Hades, ruler of the underworld - and much more.The Big Ideas Series With millions of copies sold worldwide, The Mythology Book is part of the award-winning Big Ideas series from DK. The series uses striking graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand.
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Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
by Natalie Haynes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFunny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on --Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's TaleThe national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take on the remarkable women at the heart of classical stories Greek mythology from Helen of Troy to Pandora and the Amazons to Medea.In the world of ancient Greece, the tellers of myths--historically men--have routinely sidelined the female characters. When they do take a larger role, women are often portrayed as monstrous, vengeful or just plain evil--like Pandora, the woman of eternal scorn and damnation whose curiosity is tasked with causing all the world's suffering and wickedness when she opened that forbidden box. But, as Natalie Haynes reveals, in ancient Greek myths there was no box. It was a jar . . . which is far more likely to tip over.In Pandora's Jar, the broadcaster, writer, stand-up comedian, and passionate classicist turns the tables on classical mythology, putting the women of the Greek myths on an equal footing with the men. With wit, humor, and savvy, Haynes revolutionizes our understanding of epic poems, stories, and plays in this engaging feminist retelling, resurrecting them from a woman's perspective and tracing the origins of their mythic female characters. She looks at women such as Jocasta, Oedipus' mother-turned-lover-and-wife (turned Freudian sticking point), at once the cleverest person in the story and yet often unnoticed. She considers Helen of Troy, whose marriage to Paris caused the Trojan war--a somewhat uneven response to her decision to leave her husband for another man. She demonstrates how the vilified Medea was like an ancient Beyonce--getting her revenge on the man who hurt and betrayed her, if by extreme measures. And she turns her eye to Medusa, the original monstered woman, whose stare turned men to stone, but who wasn't always a monster, and had her hair turned to snakes as punishment for being raped.Pandora's Jar brings nuance and care to the millennia-old myths and legends and asks the question: Why are we so quick to villainize these women of Greek myth in the first place--and so eager to accept the stories we've been told?Mythology Retold: Discover why Pandora didn't have a box but a jar (far more likely to tip over), and how that simple mistranslation changed our view of the world's first woman.Feminist History: Explore how the stories of powerful figures were reshaped by the men who told them, turning characters like the monstrous Medusa into victims punished for being assaulted.Unique Angles on Classic Tales: See the women of myth in a new light, from the vilified Medea--reimagined as an ancient Beyonc getting revenge--to Helen of Troy, whose choice of husband resulted in a somewhat uneven response.Accessible Classical Studies: Join a passionate classicist and comedian as she reveals the cleverness of Jocasta, the nuance of Clytemnestra, and the truth behind the formidable women we thought we knew.
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The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
by Daisy Dunn
Around four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand years later, Sappho wrote great poems of longing and desire. For classicist Daisy Dunn, these women -- whether they were simply sitting at their looms at home or participating in the highest echelons of power -- were up to something much more interesting than other histories would lead us to believe. Together, these women helped to make antiquity as we know it.--Publisher's description.
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