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Welcome 2026 at Your Library |
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January is here, come enjoy the new year with us! Keep an eye on our Facebook page and the Guymon app to stay on top of any pop-up events this month. The library will be closed on January 17th & 19
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Come hang out! We have programs for all ages. |
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Kid's Programs in January |
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Ages 0-3
Storytime every Tuesday @ 10am Tues 6 - Glitter Jars Tues 13 - Snowy Tree Finger Painting Tues 20 - Abominable Snowman Fork Painting Tues 27 - Build a Snowman |
Ages 4-54:30-5:15 pm Tues 6 - Calming Jars Tues 13 - Shrinky Dinks Tues 20 - Healthy kids, Healthy Lifestyles Tues 27 - Bubble Art |
Ages 6-9
4:30-5:15 pm
Wed 7 - Calming Jars Healthy Kids, Healthy Lifestyles Wed 28 - Bubble Art |
Ages 10-12 4:30-5:15 pm Thurs 8 - Calming Jars Thurs 15 - Shrinky Dinks Thurs 22 - Healthy Kids, Healthy Lifestyles Thurs 29 - Bubble Art |
Various Ages Wed 14 -4:30 -5:30 Cloverbuds AGES 5-8 |
Young Adult Programs in January |
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Adult Programs in January |
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Tales of Brave and Brilliant Girls from the Greek Myths
by Rosie Dickins
Tales of Brave and Brilliant Girls from the Greek Myths celebrates heroines from Circe to Psyche, from Athena to Artemis, re-telling their stories to inspire and empower a new generation of readers. Watch as Penelope cunningly outwits her suitors and discover how Artemis defeats two giants. See Circe perform powerful magic and follow Demeter on her brave search for her missing daughter. Beautifully illustrated with lively retellings which bring these much-loved myths to life --
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World Kitchen - Celebrations
by Abigail Wheatley
The follow-up to World Kitchen - winner of a School Library Journal starred review! Following on from World Kitchen, this second cookbook in the series concentrates on recipes for celebrations and festivals. Whether it's for Eid or Passover, for a national day, a birthday or just a big family get-together, all the recipes are simple, heart-felt and delicious, and have been sent in by real families from around the world. The families, and the simple, step-by-step instructions, are illustrated in a bold, graphic-novel style by Chaaya Prabhat. From Nigerian fried rice for Christmas to U.S. sugar cookies for Halloween, each recipe brings authentic international flavors, traditions and stories to your table. Also featuring fascinating facts about regional festive traditions, cooking equipment and ingredients. All the recipes are vegetarian, and instructions are also included to make them vegan, nut-free, dairy-free, egg-free and gluten-free - or any combination of these. Praise for World Kitchen Celebrations: Younger tweens will be immersed in annual global celebrations and relish this cookbook's vibrant graphic novel feel. - School Library Journal, 2025 Praise for World Kitchen: A visually delightful take on global food... - School Library Journal Starred Review, 2024 Celebrations featured include: St David's Day (Wales); Halloween (USA); birthday (Italy); Passover (Jewish diaspora); Twelfth Night (France); family time (Sudan); Girls' Day (Japan); Barbados Day (Barbados); Christmas Eve (Germany); Day of the Dead (Mexico); Palm Sunday (Spain); Lunar New Year (South Korea); ANZAC Day (New Zealand); pool party (Brazil); Rice Festival (Indonesia); Shrovetide (Finland); Thanksgiving (Canada); Ramadan (Bangladesh); wedding (Guyana); party (Nigeria); New Year (Bulgaria)
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Big Book of Facts
by Alex Frith
Feed your child's curiosity with this enthralling fact book, guaranteed to keep them entertained for hours. - A must-have for any curious mind, this book is packed with fascinating facts, and will take you on a thrilling journey through the world of science, history, geography and so much more. - Read from cover to cover, or dip in and out at random, to find out about the human body, animals, the environment and technology, and discover mind-expanding facts on every page. - Brilliant, bold design makes complex and wide-ranging information easy to understand and absorb. - Includes Usborne Quicklinks - a hand-picked selection of links to child-friendly websites that help bring the book to life!
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Fortune Cookies for Everyone! (Smithsonian): The Surprising Story of the Tasty Treat We Love to Eat
by Mia Wenjen
Grandma Miyako hosts her grandchildren for a takeout meal. Of course, at the end of the meal, she hands out the fortune cookies and begins to share the story of this popular treat with the attentive children as they munch on them. She claims she knew the true inventor of the fortune cookie, but the history is not so clear. Using fortunes as headings, each section of the book delivers an episode in the unusual history of the fortune cookie and lays out the great debate about where and when they were first made. California was certainly the location, but in which city was the original baker located? This picture book looks inside these crunchy, biscuity treats to reveal the cultural origins and locations of the creators. Along the way, we discover some surprising history regarding this delicious edible delight, including a rivalry between bakers that remains somewhat unresolved today. Fortune Cookies for All is a compelling mystery containing US history--the good, the bad, and the ugly--in a single bite. But most of all, it celebrates immigrants and their pursuit of the American dream.--
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Teen Guide to Planning for Your Future
by Naomi Rockler
Preparing for adult life can feel overwhelming, but it can also be exciting to get ready for a future full of possibilities. Learning about life after graduation--whether that means college, a vocational or technical school, work, or something else--can help young people feel prepared. So can learning about adult responsibilities like managing money, living with roommates, and maintaining a living space.
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Wheel of Wrath
by A. A. Vora
When the barriers separating the upper and lower realms are destroyed, four teens must choose sides in the war that ensues and learn how the very makeup of the universe may be the key to ending the conflict--
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The Secret Astronomers
by Jessica Walker
In Green Bank, West Virginia, two teens--grieving, artistic Copernicus and Kepler, a small-town overachiever--become secret pen pals through a forgotten astronomy textbook and join forces to unravel a decades-old mystery tied to Copernicus's late mother.
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A Queen's Game
by Katharine McGee
In Victorian Europe, the lives of three princesses are about to change forever as they struggle to find love.
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Nightmare Obscura: A Dream Engineer's Guide Through the Sleeping Mind
by Michelle Carr
A leading sleep expert reveals the latest science behind the dreaming brain and why we have nightmares-offering key insights into how harnessing dreams can improve your sleep and health. To most, dreams are things that slip away when you reemerge into the waking world, their remnants jumbled up and only half recalled. At their best, they are populated by pleasant recollections and surreal experiences. But at their worst, they can be traumatizing and prevent us from receiving the necessary benefits of sleep. So why do we dream at all? What makes a person prone to nightmares? How do our bodies interface with our brains when we're not awake? And how can we harness our sleeping minds to improve our waking lives? In Nightmare Obscura, dream researcher Michelle Carr unlocks the science behind the sleeping body, exploring the relationship between dreams and mental health, with a deep dive into the neuroscience behind some of the most interesting aspects of dreaming: nightmares, lucid dreams, and the cutting-edge field of dream engineering-- Provided by publisher.
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What Debt Demands: Family, Betrayal, and Precarity in a Broken System
by Kristin Collier
A powerful memoir of a woman plunged into fraudulent debt that explores America's broken student loan system and illuminates the ways that debt shapes every aspect of our lives. At 22 years old, Kristin Collier was on the verge of college graduation, applying for a credit card to cover expenses before her teaching career began. But to her shock, she learned that she didn't qualify for even the lowest line of credit. In fact, she had a shocking amount of debt already: a handful of credit card debts and dozens of private student loans, which she'd known nothing about. In total, she owed over $200,000. How could this have happened? What Debt Demands is a nuanced and poignant meditation on indebtedness and its consequences. Kristin paints a vivid portrait of her own experience with personal debt, navigating the complex student lending system alongside her evolving relationship with the person who stole from her, a family member she loved and trusted. Weaving in interviews with student borrowers, historical analysis, cultural critique, and research into the higher education system, she reveals debt's profound impact on every aspect of our lives, our relationships, and our world. As Kristin explores how and why our nation arrived here and what it will take to heal her own financial and familial wounds, What Debt Demands illuminates the unjust world that already exists and points to a better one: a world where all students, regardless of race or wealth, can access free education. And one in which we are not bound to the state but to each other.
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Craftland: In Search of Lost Arts and Disappearing Trades
by James Fox
An impassioned and inspiring account of the extraordinary men and women still doing traditional artisanal work (The Sunday Times) in the face of massive technological industrialization--by renowned Cambridge art historian Dr. James Fox. Beautifully written and (charmingly illustrated) . . . His chronicle of the decline of the traditional trades is staggering.--The Wall Street Journal During an age of mass manufacturing, fast fashion, synthetic materials and the unsustainable practice of companies valuing quantity over quality, a return to tradition, connection, and simplicity is essential. Art historian and award-winning broadcaster Dr. James Fox explores the rapidly fading crafts and artisanal traditions of the world--such as coopering, basket-weaving, wheelwrighting, metalwork, and blacksmithing--that have shaped so much of our history through their alchemy of the hand-made human touch and generational wisdom. Fox explains the history of craftsmanship in Britain, taking readers across the lands and communities that originated there, teaching them about the practices, traditions, and people at their heart. From coopers to thatchers, basket makers to bellfounders and dry wall builders, Fox tours Britain, once the workshop of the world, in search of its lost and disappearing craft traditions and the artisans trying to keep them alive including, a rush weaver who has managed to rebuild a sustainable business with her baskets and other wares, a bell foundry that uses the same practices it used in the nineteenth century, and dry wallers, building walls one piece of stone at a time that could last two centuries. Part travelogue and part historical record, Craftland is a profoundly intimate meditation on our human cultural heritage, exploring what we lose as these traditions fade from view in the race of progress, and what we stand to gain if we bring them back.
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The Perfect Hosts
by Heather Gudenkauf
Madeline and Wes Drake have invited two hundred of their closest friends and family to their sprawling horse ranch for the most anticipated event of the year: a 'pistols and pearls' gender reveal party so sensational it is sure to make headlines. But the party descends into chaos when the celebratory explosive misfires, leaving one woman dead and a trail of secrets. As the aftershocks of the bloody party ripple across the small town, Agent Jamie Saldano is brought on the scene to investigate. Battling his own demons from the past, Saldano unearths a web of deceit spun around the Drakes. The appearance of some unexpected houseguests only deepens the mystery--]cProvided by publisher.
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Looking for more to do? See all programs on our online calendar. |
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