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Happy Independence Day! Celebrate responsibly. The library will be closed on Friday, July 4th. Maybe end the day with some quiet reading after the fireworks. However you celebrate, remember our freedoms include the freedom to read and learn what interests and delights us. Visit your local library regularly and see what we have to offer.
The next reading prompt is to read a book set in summer. Summer unlike spring is easy to find fun, light wonderful titles. Here are a few by popular authors often considered great beach reads. Summer of ’69 by Elin Hilderbrand or the new Summer Light on Nantucket by Nancy Thayer. Tess Gerritsen wrote The Summer Guests while Susan Mallery penned The Summer Book Club and Emily Giffin published The Summer Pact. The Summer Escape was written by Jill Shalvis and Jennifer Weiner wrote Big Summer. So grab a book and spend time at the beach reading and enjoying the sun.
If you prefer non-fiction there are several that focus on one year or more specifically one summer. Summer of 1876 by Chris Wimmer looks at the outlaws, lawmen and legends that have defined the American West. Bill Bryson looks at One Summer: America, 1927 in his characteristic way beginning with Charles Lindbergh landing in Le Bourget airfield near Paris and ending on September 30th when Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run. Which neatly leads to the last non-fiction title on the list, 100 Miles of Baseball: 50 games, 1 summer by Dale and Heidi Jacobs who in 2017 set out to see 50 baseball games within 100 miles of their home. They attend high school games, minor league, professional, university games and more, all to re-kindle their love of the game which brought them and their families together initially.
It was so easy to find marvelous books set in summer, that this is just a start. You are always welcome to find your own titles to read, but the library wants to encourage you to continue finding books that speak to you and encourage you to have empathy and peaceful moments in your life. And don’t forget kids’ books. There are some wonderful picture books about summer in the northland and plenty of chapter books remembering those idyllic long days of boredom and finding adventure just around the corner.
Tuesday, July 8th from 1 – 3 pm teens (ages 12 and up) are encouraged to come and learn some survival skills from a trained expert. Jesse Simensen will provide training on six different skills using books as a guide. Build a fish trap like Katniss from Hunger Games, the best rescue knot from Call of the Wild and more. All tools provided, just come and start to build your own survival kit. No registration needed.
Friends of the Library book sale on Monday, July 7th from 5 – 7 pm. Great books available by donation to support library programming. All ages are welcome to explore the book sale room and discover their next read.