PLEASE NOTE: We will be closing on Thursdays at 5:00 p.m., NOT 8:00 p.m., until further notice due to short staffing. We are still open until 8:00 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. That being said, there is still an open library aide position here at the library—we are hiring! Call the library at 906-387-2125 for more information on how to apply.
The Public Library will close at noon this coming Monday, Oct. 16, for staff training, please mark your calendar. This oneday training will allow us to properly train our staff on new systems and procedures to more efficiently serve the public.
Tail Spinners Storytime takes place at the library on Mondays at 10:30 a.m.. Pre-school aged children and their caregivers are invited to attend to hear stories, sing songs and make a simple craft. This 30 minute activity is for ages 7 and under. We are excited to see you and your little one there! If you have questions, please don’t hesitate to call.
This month’s Alger Reads Book Club selection is The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green. Call or stop in to place your hold, and join us for discussion on Oct. 24th! Come by sometime to pick up the full list of this season’s upcoming book club selections so you can be in the know.
NEW BOOK: The Breakaway by Jennifer Weiner. Thirtythree- year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she’s lived since college still looks like she’s just moved in. But she’s got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club in Philadelphia. She’s at peace with her plus-size body—at least, most of the time—and she’s on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood summer sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss camp that her perpetually dieting mother forced her to attend. Fifteen years after her final summer at Camp Golden Hills, when Abby reconnects with a half-hissize Mark, it feels like the happy ending she’s always wanted.
Yet Abby can’t escape the feeling that something isn’t right…or the memories of one thrilling night she spent with a man named Sebastian two years previously. When Abby gets a last-minute invitation to lead a cycling trip from NYC to Niagara Falls, she’s happy to have time away from Mark, a chance to reflect and make up her mind.
Over two weeks and more than seven hundred miles, strangers become friends, hidden truths come to light, a teenage girl with a secret unites the riders in unexpected ways…and Abby is forced to reconsider everything she believes about herself, her mother, and the nature of love. (From the publisher)
