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There is still time to join the Summer Reading Challenge if you haven't already! Once you sign-up you can back-log any minutes you spent reading since June 1 so you can gain points towards the reading champion goal of 1,000 points! More ways to earn points are to attend library events, complete fun Challenge Missions (like reading out loud to a pet or exploring one of our online resources) or play games on the READsquared app! All ages can participate. Starting July 1 you can now claim your Summer Reading Prizes! - Claim prizes by logging in to READsquared, finding the prize store, browsing the prizes, and "buying" a prize of your choosing for 250 points!
- Prizes ordered by Wednesday evening will be available for pick up inside the library that Friday morning. Each patron may claim up to 8 prizes during the summer.
The last day to log minutes will be on Friday, August 15. |
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**If the registration list is full, please add yourself to the waitlist, as we often have kits not picked up promptly that we can offer to the waitlist.** |
11am-12pm [FULL] , 1-2pm, or 3-4pm |
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Sitting Pretty : The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
by Rebekah Taussig
Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt right; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and fulfilling. Writing about the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn't fit, Rebekah reflects on everything from the complications of kindness and charity, living both independently and dependently, experiencing intimacy, and how the pervasiveness of ableism in our everyday media directly translates to everyday life.
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I'll Look So Hot In A Coffin : And Other Thoughts I Used to Have About My Body
by Carla Sosenko
Carla Sosenko was born with Klippel-Trenaunay Syndrome, a rare vascular disorder that resulted in legs of different sizes, a mass of flesh on her back, a hunched posture, and other idiosyncrasies big and small. She spent years trying to hide under layers of clothing, and then experimented with the opposite: wearing tiny dresses and short shorts, daring people to stare so she could make them regret it. No matter what she did, she was worried that she didn't measure up. In this candid and funny memoir, Carla shares what existing in an unconventional body has meant for her self-image, mental health, relationships, and ambitions. Carla explores the ways in which she's felt alone and without community: not disabled but different; the recipient of pretty privilege, but also fatphobia; too much, but still never enough. We follow along as she learns to claim her body-and mind and spirit and life-for exactly what they are: her own. A clarion call for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider or believed they should take up less space, I'll Look So Hot In a Coffin offers hope, recognition, and a new way to see ourselves-by celebrating what sets us apart.
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The Boys of Riverside : A Deaf Football Team and A Quest For Glory
by Thomas Fuller
Revealing a portrait of high school athletics, and deafness in America, this extraordinary true story of an all-deaf high school football team's triumphant climb from underdog to undefeated looks back at their 2021 and 2022 season during which they chased history. Illustrations.
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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 annual book sales 3 or 4x a year
- 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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