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A Salsa Cook-Off, Movies, Robots, & Pretzels! |
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Baby & Toddler Storytimes: New Location! Baby Storytime: Wednesdays at 1PM (For ages 6-18 months) Toddler Storytime: Wednesdays at 10:30AM (For ages 2-3)
Our Baby and Toddler Storytimes are now being held in the Children's Section of the Library! Come by on Wednesdays for a fun time with your baby and/or toddlers. |
Learn Coding Logic! September 24 at 4PM For grades 3-9 Learn more about coding logic with our KUBO robots. Can you make a robot dance? |
Unplugged Arcade
Fridays from 1-5PM
For tweens & teens Tweens and Teens! Hang in the Doña Benicia room Friday afternoons playing games without a screen...or ride a bike to charge your phone! We'll have: * FOOSBALL
* AIR HOCKEY
* PING PONG
* A STATIONARY BIKE FOR PHONE CHARGING
* BOARD GAMES AND/OR PUZZLES |
The Hunger Games: A Tribute Marathon [The Hunger Games] September 18 at 6PM For teens. The second movie in our Hunger Games movie marathon is the OG: The Hunger Games. Come for the reality show we hope never happens, stay for the free popcorn and snacks! Grab a seat early. |
Landscape Trees: Selecting, Planting, and Maintaining Your Landscape Trees. How to Help Create, Enhance, and Maintain Our Urban Forest for the Next Fifty Years September 6 at 1PM
For Adults. Join Melissa Sandoval of UC Master Gardeners as we explore introducing landscape trees to your outdoor space! |
September 14 at 2PM
For Adults. Join us for a concert at the Library's fireplace by the Contra Costa Jazz Band, featuring Deborah Del Mastro and Doug Brown on vocals. |
Salsa Cook-OffRegistration to compete due September 13. Actual Cook-Off date: September 20 at 1PM
For Adults. Contestants register here: bit.ly/BPLsalsa Join us at the Benicia Public Library to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a Salsa Cook-Off! Make your own salsa and share it for a fun afternoon of food and community. Our friends at Chico's Taqueria will judge your salsas, and they are providing chips. Prizes will be given for Best Overall, Hottest, and Sweetest salsas. In addition, you'll be able to vote on your favorite for a People's Choice award!
If you want to come just to taste and vote for People's Choice, fantastic, just show up! If you want to be a contestant in the Salsa Cook-Off, please fill out the form on the link above. Entries accepted until September 13 (9PM), or we have 20 salsa makers.
Questions? Email Geoff: gjacobs@ci.benicia.ca.us |
Preserving OktoberfestSeptember 30 at 6:30PM
For Adults. The Master Food Preservers of Solano/Yolo Counties will present demonstrations and tastings of European foods appearing during the time of Octoberfest. Learn how to make sauerkraut, fancy mustards, and pretzels to accompany your sausage and beer this autumn.
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Beautiful Nights: A Novel
by Nina George
On a summer trip to the Brittany coast, a restless biologist and her son's passionate girlfriend confront a shared secret and their own desires, setting off life-changing transformations, in the new novel by the author of The Little Paris Bookshop.
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Coded Justice: A Thriller
by Stacey Abrams
Former Supreme Court clerk Avery Keene investigates a powerful AI company after a mysterious death, uncovering corporate corruption and high-stakes technological dangers that could have far-reaching consequences, in the third book of the series following Rogue Justice.
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The English Masterpiece: A Novel
by Katherine Reay
Set in the art world of 1970s London, The English Masterpiece is a fast-paced read to the end, full of glamour and secrets, tensions and lies, as one young woman races against the clock to uncover the truth about a Picasso masterpiece. Perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Ariel Lawhon.
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How to Sell a Romance
by Alexa Martin
Kindergarten teacher Emerson joins a too-good-to-be-true beauty company to make ends meet, but ultimately teams up with Lucas, whose ex was ruined by the same scheme, to expose its shady secrets and grapple with their increasingly unprofessional chemistry.
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Mean Moms: A Novel
by Emma Rosenblum
In a satire of upper-crust moms, when a new mom at private school Atherton Seminary, beautiful Sofia, integrates herself into the clique of wealthy moms Frost, Nell, and Morgan, inexplicably bad things start to happen to the women, and they wonder if someone is out to get them.
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Murder on Sex Island
by Jo Firestone
When a cast member goes missing from the hit reality show Sex Island, producers hire detective Luella van Horn to go undercover as a contestant and solve the case. What the producers don't know is that the enigmatic Luella van Horn is actually a woman named Marie Jones, a divorced ex-social worker from Staten Island attempting to lead a double life as a private eye...Unable to resist the opportunity to be a part of her favorite trashy TV show...Marie-as-Luella takes the case. But the more she learns about Sex Island's dark underbelly, the harder it gets to make it out alive.
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Our Last Resort: A Novel
by Clémence Michallon
Having grown apart after an unspeakable tragedy, Frida and Gabriel try to start fresh at the Ara Hotel in Escalante, Utah, and it feels like paradise—until the dead body of the young wife of a powerful, much older husband is discovered and suspicion falls on Gabriel.
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The Rabbit Club: A Novel
by Christopher J. Yates
A first-year literature student's life begins to unravel in the shadow of a dangerous secret society at Oxford University.
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That Last Carolina Summer: A Novel
by Karen White
Years after fleeing to the West Coast, Phoebe Manigault returns to the South Carolina Lowcountry to help her sister care for their mother, confronting childhood tensions, unsettling visions, and a deepening bond with a grieving family nearby.
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Under the Stars: A Novel
by Beatriz Williams
Providence Dare vanishes during a steamship disaster near Winthrop Island in 1846, leaving behind a trail of mystery that resurfaces two centuries later when chef Audrey Fisher and her actress mother Meredith uncover hidden paintings and long-buried family secrets that link past and present across generations.
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Writing Mr. Wrong
by Kelley Armstrong
Debut author Gemma Stanton knows romance readers love a bad boy-and she has the perfect prototype for her novel: Mason Moretti. High school hockey god-turned-pro player, Mason was Gemma's first crush, but she couldn't forget the sting of his very public rejection. So, she cast him as a hot-headed Highlander in her spicy new historical romance. She never expected readers would find out on live TV-when a morning show host invites Mason for a surprise on-air reunion...
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