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Are you ready for a spectacular September? September is Library Card Sign Up Month! If you or a member of your family has not gotten their Library Card stop by the Library and sign up today! And if you are already a Library user help us spread the word! If you are new here, welcome to The Cat's Meow, where we keep you up to date on all things Library-related. As we do every month, we also highlight a local pet on the cover of each newsletter. This month we are highlighting Dashiell, named after Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories If you have a pet to share with us please reach out and submit your pet's photo here. If you are looking to learn more about Children's events at the Library, please sign up for our Children's newsletter, The Kitten's Mew to keep up to date on our Children's programs, Storytimes and other events. |
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Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read and spotlighting current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. For 40 years, the annual event has brought together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those ideas that some consider unorthodox or unpopular. Check out the Top 5 Challenged items this year and reasons cited for censoring. |
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Gender queer: A Memoir by Maia KobabeIn 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Then e created Gender Queer. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gayfan fiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: It is a useful and touching guide on gender identity--what it means and how to think about it--for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere. Reasons: Banned, challenged, and restricted for LGBTQIA+ content, and because it was considered to have sexually explicit images. |
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Lawn boy: a novel by Jonathan EvisonFaced by a life of menial prospects in the years after high school, Mike Muñoz, a young Mexican-American, attempts over and over to change his life for the better and achieve the American dream, only to be stymied by social-class distinctions and cultural discrimination. By the author of The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving. Reasons: Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content and because it was considered to be sexually explicit. |
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All boys aren't blue: a memoir-manifesto by George M. JohnsonA first book by the prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist shares personal essays that chronicle his childhood, adolescence and college years as a Black queer youth, exploring subjects ranging from gender identity and toxic masculinity to structural marginalization and Black joy. Reasons: Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content, profanity, and because it was considered to be sexually explicit. |
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Out of darkness by Ashley Hope PérezLoosely based on a school explosion that took place in New London, Texas, in 1937, this is the story of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black, and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people. Reasons: Banned, challenged, and restricted for depictions of abuse and because it was considered to be sexually explicit. |
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The hate u give by Angie ThomasAfter witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died. Reasons: Banned and challenged for profanity, violence, and because it was thought to promote an anti-police message and indoctrination of a social agenda. |
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This months special guest is Ciera, our summer intern here at the library! Ciera is a voracious reading and soon to be librarian! We were so lucky to get her as our Summer 2022 Intern! If you've been following us on social media, you've seen Ceira pop up a couple times, and she did a social media take over for us for a couple days! Tune in on September 6th to hear us discuss The Swimmers by Julie Otskuka, a new fiction book that took us by surprise with the way it affected us! Want to join in on the conversation? Learn more about The Page turner here. |
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Introduction to Chinese Calligraphy Thursday, September 8, 4:30 PM Come learn the beautiful art of Chinese Calligraphy!Registration is required. |
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Author Talk: Dr. Michele Borba Thursday, September 8, 11 AM Online Join us in conversation with bestselling author and expert in child development, Dr. Michele Borba, as she discusses her book, Thrivers: Surprising Reasons Why Some Kids Struggle and Others Shine. Registration is required. |
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Celebrate The Mid-Autumn Festival! Saturday, September 10, 3 PM Join our friends from Polydott for a celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival! |
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Wildlife Photography Tuesday, September 13, 5 PM 2022 Join wildlife photographer, Joan Sparks on a photographic journey to see long legged waders that have ancestors in the fossil record dating back 50 million years Registration is required. |
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Author Talk: Simon Winchester Tuesday, September 20, 11 AM 2022 Join us for a conversation with prolific British-American writer, journalist, and consummate adventurer Simon Winchester. Registration is required. |
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Poetry Exchange Sunday, September 18, 3 PM 2022 Each month, we invite a featured poet to read, and then hold an open mic for everyone to share!
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Create your own Art Journal Tuesday, September 20, 5 PM Come create your own art journal, one which focuses on visual and artistic entries instead words. Registration is required. |
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Author Talk: Hernan Diaz Tuesday, September 27, 1:00 PM Join us for an afternoon with Pulitzer Prize finalist and PEN/Faulkner Award winner Hernan Diaz, author of In the Distance and Trust. Diaz holds a Ph.D. from NYU and edits, the Spanish-language journal Revista Hispánica Moderna, at Columbia University. Registration is required. |
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 The youth services team at the library is excited to offer more resources to youth of all ages this month. To read the latest Newsletter, click here. |
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ESL Conversation Club Tuesdays, 11 AM Join us in person at ESL club! Practice your English conversation skills with new friends at the Library every Tuesday! |
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 Drop-In Tech Tutoring Tuesdays, 3 PMDo you have questions about your laptop, smartphone or any electronic device? Join us with no appointment on Tuesdays starting at 3PM in the second floor's Tech Lab. |
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 Monday Morning Book Club Monday, September 12, 11 AM Los Gatos Library Join in on the morning book club discussion! We will be talking about Tess of the D'Urbervills by Thomas Hardy. |
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El Cafecito: Spanish Book Club Jueves, Septiembre 8, 5 PM Library Conference Room OR Zoom ¡Bienvenidos a El Cafecito! El nuevo club de lectura virtual donde se discutirá un libro del mundo hispanohablante cada mes. Ven a la biblioteca para recoger una copia del libro del mes. Leer Más! |
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 Tuesday Evening Book Club Tuesday, September 20, 5 PM In Person and on Zoom Join in on the discussion! This month we will be discussing The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon Looking to keep up to date with the latest info on Tuesday Evening Book Club? |
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 Mystery Lovers Book Club Wednesday, October 7, 5 PM Zoom Enjoy a good mystery? Us too! Come join Librarian Breanna and others as we discuss Murder Past Due by Miranda James. |
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Town of Los Gatos Arts and Culture Commission (ACC) is inviting community input on public art in Los Gatos. Your responses will help the ACC make future decisions on the direction of public art (art experienced in public places) in our Town. |
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 The Anomaly, a novel by Hervé Le Tellier, has been a huge best seller in France, winning the prestigious Goncourt Prize in 2020, and has now been translated to English. It is itself a literary anomaly, combining as it does satire with philosophical and metaphysical ruminations in a plot more typical of science fiction or thrillers. We meet various eccentric passengers of Air France flight 006 from Paris to New York and learn of their backgrounds on terra firma before we find out that their plane got caught in a violent storm en route to New York. They land safely. However, it seems flight 006 had landed three months earlier! Somehow the plane and its passengers have been duplicated. The passengers are detained and proceed to meet their doppelgängers. Their actions and reactions are varied and often surprising, leading to reflections about fate, reality, and human nature. Predictably, readers are left to wonder how they themselves would react were they to meet their clones: would it be a pleasant or an awful experience? would they get along? would they help or harm each other? This story and the questions it poses will continue to intrigue readers well after they've finished the book. But this novel is not recommended for soothing airplane reading! - Review by Sylvia Rucker
Looking to pick up a good book? Stop by the Friends Bookstore anytime from Wednesday to Sunday from 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM located at 110 E Main E, Los Gatos, CA 95030  |
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