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June 2022
WHAT'S NEW
 
Summer Explorers is Underway!
 
 
Grab your magnifying glass! This year's youth summer reading program encourages exploration through reading, writing, creating and investigating. Join head sleuth Mister Owliver and his owlie detectives to help solve a mysterious message. Track your progress and gather clues by completing suggested summer explorer activities like reading outside, attending a library program, and visiting community destinations. 
 
 
Start summer on the right track.
Register for the summer reading program online or stop by the library. After registering, pick up one free book to keep!
 
 
Learn and have fun at library programs!
  • Sing and dance with The Jolly Pops on Saturday, June 4 at 2:00 PM. 
  • Wednesdays in June and July bring special events - Critter Storytime, Snake Discovery, Dazzling Dave Yo-Yo Master, Hooperina, and more!
  • Register to attend art classes or drop in to create in our Art Cart space.
Sign Up for Summer Explorers
Teen Summer Explorers
 
 
Teens, create your own summer of exploration. Kick off your summer with a free book to keep. Register at stillwaterbayportlibrary.beanstack.org or via the free Beanstack app. Earn virtual badges as you track your Puzzler, Adventurer, Creator and Bookworm activities.
 
Check out our series of virtual talks with best-selling authors, including:
  • Thursday, June 16, 3 PM: R.L. Stine (Goosebumps)
  • Thursday, June 23, 3 PM: Ben Philippe (The Field Guide to the North American Teenager)
  • Thursday, June 30, 3 PM: Traci Chee (The Reader Trilogy, We Are Not Free, and a Thousand Steps Into Night).
Registration is required to receive links to the events. Registered attendees will be entered to win a free book by the author.
 
Stop by the teen library for Teen Make & Take each Friday in June from 3-4 PM. Try a fun activity each week, designed especially for teens.
 
Adult Summer Reading

 
Explore worlds of marvel and mystery during our adult summer reading program. Discover new genres and uncover your next favorite author. Check out staff book suggestions, intriguing programs, and monthly take & make projects.
 
Participate in our summer reading challenge and win prizes! All you need to do is read or listen to any book. Submit your book titles online or at the library. Entries are drawn weekly for a gift card from a local business, including Valley Bookseller, Rose Floral, Forge and Foundry, River Market Co-op, Candyland, Herman Electric Bikes, Lift Bridge, Wahoo Adventures, and Sara's Tipsy Pies.
 
Read & Win: Submit Book Entries
 
Adult Summer Reading Lists
 
 
Our Marvels and Mysteries summer reading theme continues with these fiction and nonfiction picks. Open a book list and click on a book cover to learn more about the title or place a hold.
 
New Mysteries

Look for these new mysteries
coming to the library!
 
Real Life Mysteries

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction - put these real-life mysteries on your reading list.
 
Mysteries in the Wild

Heading into the hinterlands this summer?
Take along one of these wilderness mysteries.
Marvels & Mysteries of Nature

Dive into the marvels of the natural world
with these nonfiction picks.
Make Summer Reading Easy
 

 
Check out a READ bag! Borrow a hand-picked bag of books containing three titles selected by our librarians. Each bag is tagged with a theme, including love stories, memoirs, classics, nonfiction, and, of course, mysteries.
 
 
 
UPCOMING PROGRAMS

 
The Jolly Pops
Saturday, June 4| 2:00 PM
Tech Help
One-hour individual sessions
Summer Wednesdays
Wednesdays in June & July | 10:30 AM
Genealogy Help
One-hour individual sessions
 
Comedy Magic Show
Saturday, June 11 | 10:30 AM
Nature Walk with DNR 
Thursday, June 16 | 9:30 AM
Author Talk: R.L. Stine
Thursday, June 16 | 3:00 PM (online)
Romance Book Club
Tuesday, June 21 | 6:00 PM (online)
Mystery Writing
Tuesday, June 21 | 1:00 PM
Library at Farmer's Market
Saturday, June 25 | 8:00 AM
Petite Concert
Tuesday, June 28 | 10:30 AM
Posies in Acrylic
Thursday, July 7 | 5:30 PM
Art for Kids: Abstract Portraits
Tuesday, June 28 | 2:00 PM
Using Ancestry
Saturday, July 9 | 10:15 AM
View All Events
 
IN THE GALLERY
 
Artists Holle Brian & Fred Brian


 
View a unique father-daughter exhibit featuring paintings by artist Holle Brian, as well as works by her late father, Fred Brian. The exhibit begins in June and runs through July. It is viewable during library hours. Meet Holle at an opening reception in the gallery on Tuesday, June 14 from 6:00-7:30 PM.
 
Holle Brian explains this special exhibit, "When I was asked to show some of my paintings at the Stillwater Public Library, I thought it would be a unique opportunity to have a joint exhibit with my father Fred Brian's work and my own. Every family has a wealth of great stories . . . I feel like there can be no better use of one's time than to learn all about this beautiful Earth, and share the stories of our families."
 
 
 
Connect With Us
 
 
Stillwater Public Library
224 Third St N | Stillwater, Minnesota 55082 | 651-275-4338
https://stillwaterlibrary.org/ | splinfo@ci.stillwater.mn.us
 
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