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Please come to the last book sale in our current library building! The March 2026 book sale dates and times are as follows: Thursday, March 12, 10:00am - 8:30pm Friday, March 13, 10:00am - 4:30pm Saturday, March 14, 10:00am - 4:30pm Sunday, March 15, 12:00 - 3:30pm This is a great volunteer opportunity! Many slots for set-up, sale shifts, and tear down are open. If you are willing to lend a helping hand, please head over to Sign-up Genius here. We are accepting donations of used books and DVDs in good condition until Wednesday, March 11. We cannot accept text books, encyclopedias, magazines or VHS tapes. Donations can be dropped off at the Circulation Desk during normal library hours. |
Wednesdays, 10:00-11:30am |
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Participation Guidelines: - This reading challenge is for ages 2-12 years old.
- Grab a Reading is Cool program card from the front desk at LTPL between February 16 and March 27. Read five books to get your card stamped by a LTPL staff member and receive a free ticket to The Cat in the Hat stage show at The Fox Theatre!
- Turn in your stamped card to LTPL to receive the code for a ticket, which will be valid for the Saturday, March 28 show at 11am, 2pm, or 5pm.
- One free child ticket is available with each paid adult ticket. Caregivers must purchase their own tickets.
- PLEASE READ ALL DETAILS ON THE READING IS COOL PROGRAM CARD BEFORE PARTICIPATING!!
- This opportunity is courtesy of the Reading is Cool program.
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Sunday, March 8, 1:00-3:00pm |
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- Presented by Ed Joubran.
- Vermicompost (worm compost) is a rich, organic soil amendment created by earthworms consuming organic waste, like food scraps and paper.
- Worm compost improves soil structure and water retention, making it excellent for both gardens and houseplants. It also recycles waste, reduces landfill input, and produces a high-quality soil amendment.
- Learn the art of vermicomposting, the minimal equipment required, what types of worms are used, and how to care for them.
- Register HERE.
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**Meeting at Terasita Mexican Grill |
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Do you love reading, books and libraries? Help out our Friends' group!
What you can do:
- Volunteer to organize all of the donations that are dropped off to the library.
- Assist in setting up the book sales.
- Volunteer to run the book sales.
- Help recruit new Friends to the group.
- Share ideas for special events to fund raise and support the library!
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Sisters of the Jungle: The Trailblazing Women Who Shaped the Study of Wild Primates
by Keriann McGoogan
Sisters of the Jungle explores the history of primatology, a rare scientific discipline led primarily by women, from pioneers like Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey to author Keriann McGoogan's own adventurous field studies. Since the 1970s, the science of primatology has been dominated by women--a unique reversal, as men usually outnumber women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. Today, one of those women is primatologist Keriann McGoogan, who has traveled to the far corners of the earth in search of wild primates. In Sisters of the Jungle, McGoogan combines stories about her own studies of howler monkeys (the loudest living primate) and lemurs (the most endangered group of animals on the planet) with those of the women who paved the way: intrepid scientists like Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas, and Alison Jolly who broke boundaries, made astonishing discoveries and ultimately shaped the trajectory of an entire branch of science.
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The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Mutiny, Love, and Adventure at the Bottom of the World
by Tilar J. Mazzeo
Summer, 1856. Nineteen-year-old Mary Ann Patten and her husband Joshua were young and ambitious. Both from New England seafaring families, they had already completed their first clipper-ship voyage around the world with Joshua as captain. If they could win a race to San Francisco that year, their dream of building a farm and a family might be within reach. It would mean freedom. And the price of that freedom was one last dangerous transit--into the most treacherous waters in the world. As their ship, Neptune's Car, left New York Harbor and sailed down the jagged coast of South America, Joshua fell deathly ill and was confined to his bunk, delirious. ... With no obvious option for a new captain and heartbroken about her husband, Mary Ann stepped into the breach and convinced the crew to support her, just as they slammed into a gale that would last 18 days. Set against the backdrop of the California Gold Rush and taking us to the brink of Antarctica, The Sea Captain's Wife finally gives Mary Ann Patten--the first woman to command a merchant vessel as captain -- her due. Mazzeo draws on new archival research from nineteenth-century women's maritime journals and on her own expedition to the Southern Ocean and Antarctica in search of Mary Ann's route. Thrilling, harrowing, and heroic, The Sea Captain's Wife is the story of one woman who, for love, would do what was necessary to survive.
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Woman, Life, Freedom
by Marjane Satrapi
On September 13, 2022, a young Iranian student, Mahsa Amini, was arrested by the morality police in Tehran. Her only crime was that she wasn't properly wearing the headscarf required for women by the Islamic Republic. At the police station, she was beaten so badly she had to be taken to the hospital, where she fell into a deep coma. She died three days later. A wave of protests soon spread through the whole country, and crowds adopted the slogan Woman, Life, Freedom-words that have been chanted around the world during solidarity rallies. In order to tell the story of this major revolution happening in her homeland, Marjane Satrapi has gathered together an array of journalists, activists, academics, artists, and writers from around the world to create this powerful collection of full-color, graphic-novel-style essays and perspectives that bear witness. Woman, Life, Freedom demonstrates that this is not an unexpected movement, but a major uprising in a long history of women who have wanted to affirm their rights. It will continue.
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