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SING, DANCE, FLY...Choose today to be HAPPY! series is celebrating the FULL MOON today!  

From We're a Club in the Woods by Bears and Lions!

FIRST CHAPTER FRIDAYS presents American historian Ibram X. Kendi's nonfiction book, How To Be An Antiracist. “The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it — and then dismantle it.” It’s hard to understand antiracism without understanding what it means to be racist. A timely read given the current state of affairs in the United States. 

Join us for NIGHTMARE BEFORE BEDTIME a Storytime series for Adults and Teens.  This installment is by M.R. James. Set in a field in the middle of nowhere, a warning from a shepherd, and an eerie folk tale that makes you afraid to look out of your bedroom window at night. Nighty night...

FIRST CHAPTER FRIDAYS presents Something to Say by Lisa Moore Ramée. Eleven-year-old Janae is a loner by choice. The only real company she has is her family – mom, brother and granddad. She doesn’t mind not having friends, but the new kid at her school, Aubrey refuses to get that message. Nothing’s going to stop him from being her friend, and Janae can’t help to be drawn to his bright and upbeat personality. 

POETRY OUT LOUD presents a poem by young poet, Erin Hanson. An untitled poem from thepoeticunderground.com. Enjoy.

This week FIRST CHAPTER FRIDAYS features a dramatic romance, Invincible by Amy Reed, about a teenage girl who survives a terminal cancer diagnosis, only to get trapped in the deadly spiral of addiction.

Join us for NIGHTMARE BEFORE BEDTIME, a Storytime series for Adults and Teens.  This is another installment from prolific writer Edgar Allen Poe. In this short story, a capricious narrator attempts to convince the reader of his sanity while simultaneously describing a murder that he committed. Nighty night...

FIRST CHAPTER FRIDAYS introduces Octavia Butler's science fiction novel that was published in 1995 and set in the 2020s, when society has collapsed due to climate change, growing wealth inequality, and corporate greed.  With the world descending into madness and anarchy, one young woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.

We are a harvest of survivors...

FIRST CHAPTER FRIDAYS returns with a semi-autobiographical novel about author Ruth Behar's childhood in the 1960s; a young Cuban-Jewish immigrant girl adjusting to her new life in New York City when her American dream is suddenly derailed. Just when she’s finally beginning to gain confidence in her mastery of English—and enjoying her reign as her neighborhood’s hopscotch queen—a horrific car accident leaves her in a body cast and confined her to her bed for a long recovery.

Join us for NIGHTMARE BEFORE BEDTIME a Storytime series for Adults and Teens.  This installment is by Edgar Allen Poe.  It tells the story of a man who is sentenced to death and is tortured by the Spanish Inquisition, using – among other things – a razor sharp pendulum that will cut him right in half! Nighty night...