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Bedazzle a Book April 4 from 2-4PM For ages 11 through Adult. In the Doña Benicia Room. Bring your favorite book, we'll supply the jewels, and let your book BE-DAZZLED! |
Learn to Crochet April 27 from 4-6PM For grades 4 through Adult. In the Doña Benicia Room. Ready to get HOOKED? Come to the Library for an introduction to crocheting! Our supplies are limited, so bring hooks if you have them. |
Blackout Poetry
April 2 from 6-7PM
For Teens. In the Doña Benicia Room. Express yourself through redacted poetry. This is a safe space for teens. |
Teen Movie Night: High School Rewind (Easy A) April 16 at 6PM For Teens. In the Doña Benicia Room. Funding for this event is provided by the Friends of the Benicia Library.
Relive the best (and most awkward) parts of teen life with movies full of friendship, drama, and high school nostalgia, snacks on us! For April, we're showing Easy A. |
Sound Bath April 7 from 11AM to 12PM
For Adults. In the Doña Benicia Room. Funding for this event is provided by the Friends of the Benicia Library.
Reconnect with your inner strength and find grounded healing with a relaxing sound bath, hosted by Tina Ojeda-Willis of Reiki Warrior Healing. A limited number of yoga mats are available for use. |
Pollinator Gardening: How to Bring Life to Your Garden April 8 from 6:30-7:30PM For Adults. In the Doña Benicia Room. Bring your garden to life with pollinators! Join local enthusiast Margaret Flaherty for an engaging program on creating thriving pollinator gardens that support bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, moths, and other essential beneficial insects. |
Planned Giving EssentialsApril 22 from 5:30-7PM
For Adults. In the Doña Benicia Room. This event is designed to help community members understand the process and benefits of planning their financial future, with a special focus on supporting local non-profit organizations.
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Black Poetry CelebrationApril 29 from 6 to 8:30PM
For Adults. In the Doña Benicia Room and Zoom. Join Benicia Black Lives Matter for a vibrant celebration of Black poetry honoring the voices, stories, and cultural impact of Black writers and spoken word artists.
For more information and the Zoom link, please click the image above.
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Apple: The First 50 Years
by David Pogue
This book lavishly illustrates the first 50 years of Apple's history through stunning, full-color photographs. Instant New York Times Bestseller In time for Apple's 50th anniversary, CBS Sunday Morning correspondent David Pogue tells the iconic company's entire life story: how it was born, nearly died, was born again under Steve Jobs, and became, under CEO Tim Cook, the most valuable company in the world.
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How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself
by Jenny Lawson
Warm, insightful, and witty, the first book of advice from New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson--aka the Bloggess Jenny Lawson is full of contradictions. She's a celebrated author but battles self-doubt, paralysis, and anxiety. She's an award-winning humorist but struggles with treatment-resistant depression. The questions people most often ask her are, How do you do it? How do you keep going even when it feels impossible? How do you keep creating? This book is her answer.
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Beyond Belief: The Science-Backed Way to Stop Limiting Yourself and Achieve Breakthrough Results
by Nir Eyal
An Instant New York Times Bestseller What if the real obstacle isn't your effort, your discipline, or your circumstances, but what you believe is possible? Behind every endeavor are beliefs that shape outcomes. Most people never question those beliefs, even when they hold them back. Beyond Belief by bestselling author Nir Eyal (Indistractable, Hooked) reveals one counterintuitive truth: these beliefs aren't facts.
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Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution
by Jonathan Turley
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, law professor, legal analyst, and bestselling author of The Indispensable Right Jonathan Turley explores how the unique origins of American democracy set it apart from other revolutions, whether it can survive and thrive in the 21st century, and how the unfinished story of the revolution will play out in a rapidly changing world. This is a book about revolutions.
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Simply Genetics: Facts Made Fast
by DK
The clearest, simplest guide to genetics ever published Combining bold graphics with easy-to-understand text, this is the perfect introduction to the blueprint of life for those who are short on time but hungry for knowledge.
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Anatomy of Yoga for Posture and Health
by Nicky Jenkins
Anatomy of Yoga for Posture and Health offers an in-depth look inside the body during yoga practice, helping you understand how each pose impacts muscles, joints, and the spine. With detailed anatomical illustrations and expert guidance, this book focuses on techniques to improve posture, strengthen the spine, and promote overall health through yoga.
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The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love
by Alice Hoffman
Fourteen beloved authors celebrate the life-changing bond with their canine companions in this heartwarming essay collection edited by New York Times bestselling author and lifelong dog lover Alice Hoffman. Anyone who has ever been fortunate enough to share their life with a dog knows the experience is both profound and transformative. Here, in this charming collection of essays, fourteen celebrated authors share unforgettable tales of the dogs who left their pawprints on their hearts.
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The Diaspora Spice Co. Cookbook: Seasonal Home Cooking from South Asia's Best Spice Farms
by Sana Javeri Kadri
One of Eater's Best Spring 2026 CookbooksFrom Diaspora Spice Co., the progressive spice company rooted in flavor and equity, comes a cookbook celebrating beautiful, simple, and seasonal cooking with 85 recipes adapted from India and Sri Lanka's best family spice farms.Diaspora Spice Co. sources the most flavorful, fresh spices in the world from 150 regenerative farms across South Asia--from elders, indigenous communities, young changemakers, and brilliant multi-generational farming families across India and Sri Lanka who are leading the way in sustainable and climate change-resistant agriculture.
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Obsessed with the Best: 100+ Methodically Perfected Recipes Based on 20+ Head-To-Head Tests
by Ella Quittner
A charmingly obsessive, thoroughly tested exploration of the best ways to cook and bake your favorite foods. Some might think the best roast chicken means most efficient without sacrificing juicy meat, while others might think best is the one that you won't be able to stop thinking about for years, no matter how long it takes in a sous vide bag. When writer Ella Quittner (creator of Food52's Absolute Best Tests) is cooking or baking something, she cannot rest until she's tested every method she can to arrive at the best result.
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Survivor: Forged by Fire
by Jeff Probst
This official oversized photo book celebrating fifty seasons of Survivor features gorgeous never-before-seen photography, diary excerpts, and select commentary by Emmy Award-winning host Jeff Probst. What's it like to be on Survivor? It's a question millions of people have wondered since Survivor debuted on CBS in the summer of 2000 and forever changed television. What's it like to face off in the grueling physical challenges? To endure the unforgiving elements of dense jungles and remote islands? To form alliances with and conspire against fellow players? To anxiously sit at tribal council and hear host Jeff Probst render the verdict on whether your torch will remain lit or be extinguished? Survivor: Forged by Fire answers these questions and more, replicating what it feels like to play the game.
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The Distance of a Shout: Selected Poems
by Michael Ondaatje
The poetry of Michael Ondaatje begins in memory: distant landscapes, myths from childhood, fleeting interactions with loved ones, and characters from history itself. In poems that are spare as often as they are fable-like-as tender as they are heart-wrenching-the poet navigates the past, looks toward the future, and unearths inevitable truths about the world.
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New and Selected Poems, Volume One
by Mary Oliver
This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet's first eight books. Mary Oliver's perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike.
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My Gardening Life
by Mary Berry
More than a memoir. A lifetime of gardening inspiration. Well-known and celebrated as a cookery writer and presenter, in My Gardening Life Mary Berry shares her second great love: gardening. From a passion that was sparked in her childhood as she helped her father in their vegetable patch, gardening has become a source of great joy to Mary.
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Starry and Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World
by Julia Cooke
She hid on a Red Cross boat to reach Omaha Beach on D-Day. She walked the abandoned streets of Hong Kong to take food to her daughter's father, a prisoner of war. She fought off the advances of overzealous Yugoslavian diplomats, found overlooked details of world history in a dentist's kitchen in Sarajevo. She traveled alone to Mexico. She traveled alone to Congo. She traveled alone to the American South. She married Hemingway. She married a Chinese poet-playboy-publisher, then married a British war hero. She fell in love with H. G. Wells. She gave birth and raised a child on her own. She landed on the front page of the newspaper. She wrote for the great magazines of her time--Vogue, The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar. She wrote a play. She wrote a memoir. She wrote a genre-breaking travel narrative. She wrote bestsellers. She wrote and wrote and wrote. She changed the very way we think about writing and the way journalists craft stories--which sources are viable, which details are important--and the way women move and work in the world. She was Martha Gellhorn. She was Emily Mickey Hahn. She was Rebecca West.
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Devout: Losing My Faith to Find Myself
by David Archuleta
A raw and powerful coming-out story from the beloved American Idol finalist traces David Archuleta's journey from closeted Mormon teen to global pop star to openly queer man, revealing the hidden pressures of fame, the weight of religious expectations, and the courage it takes to live authentically.
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