Hello, neighbors!

Our annual Summer Reading Challenge has ended and we hope you all had a good time!  June was a powerhouse of energy and we are so glad that so many of you participated.  The month of July will offer less activities to allow our staff to spend some time in the sun with their families and recharge, but there is never a shortage of reading materials within our walls.

Programs for Adults
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Blood Drive
Tues, July 18, 11:30am - 5:00pm

Donate blood during our drive with  the One Blood blood bank.  Donors will receive a $20 e-gift card and swag bag for their donation.  Make an appointment using sponsor code 61687 or simply stop by that day.

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Beginner Yoga
Wednesdays, 9:45am

Interesting in starting a yoga practice?  Join us in our weekly Beginner Yoga Class where we focus on breathe and strength while working on balance and flexibility.  We flow through a simple vinyasa sequence that is accessible for those new to yoga.  Yoga supplies available to those without.

FOL Used Book Sale
Tuesdays, 10am-5pm

Our Friends the the Library used book store is open every Tuesday, from 10am to 5pm.  Here, you will find hardbacks, paperbacks, DVDs, magazines, puzzles and more.  All softly used and in good condition.  Nothing over $5.00.  All proceeds are used to help fund library programs and materials.

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Programs for Young Adults
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Video Game Open Play
Mon, July 17, 3:30pm

Join us in the YA Department for an afternoon of gaming. We have XBox, Nintendo Switch, and online games. Not to mention cards and board games for the analog-ers.  Intended for ages 12 – 17.

Open Art Hour
Tues, July 18, 4:00pm

We will be providing all the supplies for an open art session. Paint, pastels, collage, or sketch whatever you like with materials you do not have to pay for.  Intended for ages 12 – 17.

Ice Cream Social
Thurs, July 20, 3:30pm

Socialize with old friends and new. Make your own ice cream sandwich. Watch a movie.  Play a card game. Whatever.  Our YA Dept. will be just taking it easy with ice cream.

Ice cream supplied by a generous in-kind donation from Bluebell Ice Creamery. Intended for ages 12 – 17.

PROGRAMS AT OUR BRANCH LIBRARIES

Boston Library

Quiddler Club
Every Tuesday, 2:00pm

Join the weekly card game of Quiddler.  Intended for those 18 and older.  Speak with Susanne M. at the Boston branch for more information: (229) 498-5101

Coolidge Library

Free Banks Italian Ice
Mon, July 17, 4:00pm

Story Time
Wed, July 19, 2:30pm

Intended for ages 2 - 6 with their caregivers.

Pavo Library

Afternoon Movie for Children
Wed, July 19, 2:00pm

Stop in for an afternoon movie screening and some popcorn.  Today the library is playing the film: Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile. Rated PG; run time 1hr 47 min.  Intended for ages 2 – 12 with their caregivers.

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Book recommendations

Books with unreliable narrators.

(An unreliable narrator can be defined as any narrator who misleads readers, either deliberately or unwittingly.)

Herman Koch, The Dinner

It’s a summer’s evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of food and over the scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened.

Each couple has a 15-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act — an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families. As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children, and as civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple shows just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love.

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Tiffany D. Jackson, Allegedly

Mary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly. She didn’t say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: a white baby had died while under the care of a churchgoing black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it? There wasn’t a point to setting the record straight before, but now she’s got Ted — and their unborn child — to think about. When the state threatens to take her baby, Mary’s fate now lies in the hands of the one person she distrusts the most: her Momma. No one knows the real Momma. But does anyone know the real Mary?

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Anthony Grooms, The Vain Conversation

Inspired by true events, The Vain Conversation reflects on the 1946 lynching of two black couples in Georgia from the perspectives of three characters - Bertrand Johnson, one of the victims; Noland Jacks, a presumed perpetrator; and Lonnie Henson, a witness to the murders as a ten-year-old boy. Lonnie’s inexplicable feelings of culpability drive him in a search for meaning that takes him around the world, and ultimately back to Georgia, where he must confront Jacks and his own demons, with the hopes that doing so will free him from the grip of the past.

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Maurice Carlos Ruffin, We Cast a Shadow

How far would you go to protect your child?  Our narrator faces an impossible decision. Like any father, he just wants the best for his son Nigel, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is growing larger by the day. In this near-future society plagued by resurgent racism, segregation, and expanding private prisons, our narrator knows Nigel might not survive. Having watched the world take away his own father, he is determined to stop history from repeating itself.
          There is one potential solution: a new experimental medical procedure that promises to save lives by turning people white. But in order to afford Nigel's whiteness operation, our narrator must make partner as one of the few Black associates at his law firm, jumping through a series of increasingly surreal hoops--from diversity committees to plantation tours to equality activist groups--in an urgent quest to protect his son.

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