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Paws for Reading
Wednesday, March 25, timeslots from 5:30-7:00pm - Readers in grades K-5 are invited to sign up for a 15-minute "Paws for Reading" session with one of our local certified therapy dogs.
- Dogs are excellent listeners and never interrupt! The goal is to provide a non-judgmental atmosphere in which kids can read without correction or interruption and learn not just to read, but to love reading as well.
- A handful of books will be available, but feel free to bring one from home.
- Each child will have one-on-one reading time.
- Register for a timeslot here:
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- You wake up inside a sealed underground research bunker. You see a locked metal door. A message on the wall reads: “Only those who understand Minecraft’s secrets may leave.” Unlock the door by solving Redstone’s mysteries, or be trapped forever!
- Puzzle solvers are invited to do your best to solve puzzles to thwart our Minecraft Redstone Lockdown Challenge as a team of up to six.
- Open to 4th-8th graders on their own, as well as families working together.
- There will be two sets of puzzles, one in Room A, and a different set in Room B. Make sure to have your whole group register for the same room (A or B) at the same time slot.
- If you would like to do both sets of puzzles, you may register for different rooms during different time slots.
- Register online HERE.
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Wednesday, March 18, 10:00-11:30am |
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Lego FunMonday, March 23, 2:00 or 5:30pm |
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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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Monday, March 16, 6:30pm-8:30pm |
Monday, March 30, 6:30-8:30pm |
**This will be a hybrid event. Come to watch in-person with Cathy, or register to receive a Zoom link to watch from home** |
Friday, March 27, 2:00-3:30pm |
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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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A Sociopath's Guide to a Successful Marriage
by Mk Oliver
Meet Lalla Rook. Lalla has a lot on her plate: She needs to guarantee her husband makes partner, secure her dream house in Hampstead, and get her daughter into a prestigious prep school. And on the afternoon she stabs a stranger seven times after he breaks into her living room, she has a four-year-old's birthday party to host. With an unambitious partner, two demanding children, and a barely adequate large house in a nice (if not quite fashionable) part of town, Lalla's life isn't quite perfect yet. And she can't pretend she hasn't missed the adrenaline rush that comes with transgressing. Besides, as a wife and mother, she's already an expert multi-tasker. So, disposing of a body, framing a friend, and being the world's best mother can easily be managed alongside the usual domestic minutiae. It's just that her husband Stephen seems distracted, her daughter's drowning of the class hamster is affecting her academic future, and then there is the unexpected intruder. Who is this man and what does he want from her? Because Lalla has a past she'd rather keep hidden--and the sudden appearance of the police means that avoiding them will be yet another task to cross off her to-do list. Funny, calculating, hypercompetent, and ambitious, Lalla is your next favorite antiheroine. Just don't mention it to her mother-in-law.
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The Glowing Hours
by Leila Siddiqui
A mind-bending, revisionist gothic horror story about the fabled summer Mary Shelley began work on Frankenstein, as told by her Indian housemaid, Mehrunissa Mehr Begum. Strange how one can find they are an interruption in another person's story . . . Summer 1816: London is a hostile place for the newly disembarked Mehrunissa Begum, who's come to deliver her brother's letter of inheritance before returning to her comfortable life in Lucknow, India. Only, she can't find her brother anywhere and has no money for the return trip. With nowhere else to go, Mehr finds refuge in a boardinghouse for Indian maids. If she can't find her brother, she reasons, she will get a job and start saving. Mehr is soon hired at the English estate of Mary and Percy Shelley, young artists of burgeoning fame who are on the run from secrets of their own. Mary is brooding and quiet, but takes a curious liking to her new maid, asking her to accompany the Shelleys and her stepsister, Claire--as well as the eccentric Lord Byron and his physician, John Polidori--to Lake Geneva for the summer. Almost immediately, Mehr notices strange, ghostly events at the villa. The walls breathe, portraits shift, and phantoms appear like unbidden guests who refuse to leave. The weather is fierce and foreboding, showing no signs of softening its relentless pall. And as Mary Shelley begins work on what will become her earth-shattering literary phenomenon, Mehr finds herself trapped in the villa as the rest of its inhabitants descend into madness.
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No One's Coming: The Rogue Heroes Our Government Turns to When There's Nowhere Else to Turn
by Kevin Hazzard
A real-life thriller about the most daring rescue in air-medical history. JULY 2014. Two American medical volunteers who joined the fight against the deadliest Ebola outbreak in world history have gotten infected. The virus kills in just over a week and they're trapped in a hot zone with the clock ticking. If there's going to be a rescue it has to happen now. The very notion of getting the patients out is a radical and dangerous idea. Bringing them home might cause an outbreak of Ebola here in the US. No one's certain if it can or should be done or if they'll even survive the flight. In fact, the only thing anyone can agree on is that there's just one group of people resourceful enough (or crazy enough) to pull this off. Thousands of miles away and deep in the north Georgia mountains, a phone rings at Phoenix Air. It's the US government calling with another impossible mission. Kevin Hazzard chronicles the ten frantic days that followed that phone call, dropping readers into the center of a first-of-its-kind international rescue. Phoenix Air, an eccentric band of engineers, pilots, and doctors with a reputation for doing things nobody else could, would become a lifeline to the world. Terrifying, fascinating, and inspiring, No One's Coming is a story of selfless heroes on both sides of the Atlantic who overcome the apathy and resistance of their own governments and communities, risking their lives to save others--once again proving that ordinary people are capable of overcoming the most extraordinary of problems.
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