October 2023
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Ghosts, Goblins, and Good Reads
 
Unleash the magic of reading with these fun ideas:
  • Literary-Themed Costumes: 📚👹 Dress up as your favorite book character and bring literature to life this Halloween.
  • Scary Storytelling: 👻✨ Gather around and share chilling tales with friends and family.
  • Book-Inspired Jack-O'-Lanterns: 📖🎃 Create pumpkin masterpieces inspired by your favorite book covers or characters to showcase your love for reading.
  • Ghostly Reading Nook: 👻📚 Set up a cozy reading nook with ghostly decorations for a Halloween-inspired reading experience.
Library Events
Check out the full schedule of events on our website.
(Click here for the printable .pdf)
 
Fall Book Sale
All of October
Reference Area
 
A month-long event! Hardcover books & DVDs are $1.00. Paperback books & video cassettes are 50¢. Please note: Sales end 30 minutes prior to closing.
Pop-Up Library @First Friday PJ Party
 
Friday, October 6th
6:00pm-9:00pm
Market on Madison
 
Wear your favorite jammies, bring a lawn chair, and enjoy an evening of music with Gary Strickland Music.  Make your own s’mores & cuddle up with stories from our Pop-Up Library.
Pop-Up Library @Movie on the Lawn
 
Saturday, October 21st
4:00pm - 9:00pm
Fairview Park Hospital
 
 Join us on this FREE evening of family fun with activity booths and trick-or-treating.  The Princess and the Frog will begin at dusk. Costumes are encouraged! Advance registration is required.
Register at fairviewparkhospital.com/calendar



Online Resource Highlight
AtoZ Food America
 
All you need is your library card to access the largest food database of its kind.
 
Focused solely on diverse American cuisine, AtoZ Food America contains
more than 2,000 state, regional, and ethnic recipes, along with historical
and reference articles about food culture and ingredients.
 
Click Here to start cooking today!
 
Frightfully Good Reads
Snowmen at Halloween
by Caralyn Buehner

Building snowmen after an early Halloween snowfall, a few kids depart to go trick-or-treating, leaving their creations to enjoy a Halloween festival of candy, apple-bobbing and costume contests. By the best-selling creators of Snowmen at Christmas. 
Dino-Halloween
by Lisa Wheeler

The dinosaurs enjoy a variety of Halloween activities, including visiting a haunted house, carving pumpkins, and trick-or-treating.
The Ghost at the Fire Station
by Dori Hillestad Butler

Having tracked down his grandparents and dog, Kaz diligently searches for his parents and brother while helping Claire solve a mystery involving a ghost at the fire station. 
The Halloween Hoax
by Carolyn Keene

On Halloween, Nancy and the Clue Crew visit the television studio of their favorite show and wonder if the studio is haunted because of all of the scary noises and creepy shadows.
House of Salt and Sorrows
by Erin A. Craig

When her beautiful sisters are cursed to dance at glittering balls night after night before they start dying in tragic accidents, Annaleigh questions her involvement with a mysterious stranger and wonders if she will be next.
The Bone Houses
by Emily Lloyd-Jones

When risen corpses called 'bone houses' threaten Ryn's village because of a decades-old curse, she teams up with a mapmaker named Ellis to solve the mystery of the curse and destroy the bone houses forever.
All Hallows
by Christopher Golden

On Halloween night in 1984 Coventry, Massachusetts, four children in vintage costumes with faded, eerie makeup blend in with the neighborhood kids trick-or-treating, begging to be hidden and kept safe from The Cunning Man. 
Halloween Cupcake Murder
by Carlene O'Connor

Three Halloween novellas that take place in Ireland, the North Pole and Salem, Massachusetts, include the stories of a cryptic, ominous Gaelic message on a cupcake and a bitter rivalry between the elves of Christmastown that results in tragedy.
Behind the Horror: True Stories that Inspired Horror Movies
by Lee Mellor

Unearth the terrifying and true tales behind some of the scariest Horror movies to ever haunt our screens, including the Enfield poltergeist case that was retold in The Conjuring 2 and the serial killers who inspired Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. Behind the Horror dissects these and other bizarre tales to reveal haunting real-life stories of abduction, disappearance, murder, and exorcism
Felt-o-ween: 40 Scary-Cute Projects to Celebrate Halloween
by Kathy Sheldon

Presents easy instructions for more than three dozen felt crafts for the Halloween season.
 
"Books break the shackle of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic…" 
- Carl Sagan
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