You and your little ones won’t want to miss out on our Summer Reading/ National Park Service collaboration this coming Wednesday, July 31 at 1:00 p.m. Join us for Adventures in the Marsh, where we will do the Marsh Walk offsite at Sand Point. This is a great event for the whole family! Hey Kids! Don’t forget to log your reading times and earn some great prizes! The final day to turn in your Summer Reading minutes is on Friday, August 2. Don’t miss the deadline!

Space is limited so you need to RSVP right away for the Smartphone Photography Workshop on August 14 at 6 p.m. Lansing Community College Professor of Photography Wayne R. Pope will lead the workshop and will provide all the tips and tricks needed to take great photos with your smartphone.

Join us on Saturday, August 3 at 10:30 a.m. for our next Skill Share program, where returning host Katie Schneider will teach us how to create a pollinator garden. This session, you will learn how to plan and plant a pollinator garden, and attendees get to take home a starter plant! We hope to see you there!

NEW BOOK: Crow Talk by Eileen Garvin. Frankie O’Neill and Anne Ryan would seem to have nothing in common. Frankie is a lonely ornithologist struggling to salvage her dissertation on the spotted owl following a rift with her advisor. Anne is an Irish musician far from home and family, raising her five-year-old son, Aiden, who refuses to speak. At Beauty Bay, a community of summer homes nestled on the shores of June Lake, in the remote foothills of Mount Adams, it’s off-season, with most houses shuttered in for the fall. But Frankie, adrift, returns to the rundown caretaker’s cottage that has been in the hardworking O’Neill family for generations—a beloved place and a constant reminder of the family she has lost. And Anne, in the wake of a tragedy that has disrupted her career and silenced her music, has fled to the neighboring house, a showy summer home owned by her husband’s wealthy family. When Frankie finds an injured baby crow in the forest, little does she realize that the charming bird will bring all three souls—Frankie, Anne, and Aiden—together on a journey toward hope, healing, and rediscovering joy. Crow Talk is an achingly beautiful story of love, grief, friendship, and the healing power of nature in the darkest of times. (Provided by publisher).