Summer Reading Program 2022

Miami Public Library is offering a summer library program to the children of our community (June 6th – July 15th) to encourage reading for pleasure and to help retain their reading skills. This year’s theme is Oceans of Possibilities. To add to the fun and create a sense of challenge we will be offering incentives…

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Let’s Talk About It Oklahoma

What America Reads: Myth-Making in Popular Fiction Reading and discussion series for Fall 2021             The mass appeal of the fiction best-sellers listed below seems to come from the combination of mythic characters and realistic, historically identifiable settings.  These five novels, published between 1852 and 1971, are united not only by their reliance on a…

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Library Board Meeting Agenda – March 8th, 2021

03/08/2021 Library Board Meeting Agenda [PDF] NOTICE OF REGULAR MEETING AND AGENDA OF THE MIAMI PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD March 8, 2021 12:05 PM CONFERENCE ROOM AT MIAMI PUBLIC LIBRARY 200 North Main, Miami, Oklahoma Filed in the Office of the City Clerk and displayed in the main lobby of the Miami Civic Center and by…

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Miami Public Library Falls in Love With Country-wide Digital Book Club

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Miami Public Library Falls in Love With Country-wide Digital Book Club Library patrons can read and discuss heart-melting romance “Love Lettering” ebook or audiobook for free Miami, OK – February 10, 2021 – Miami Public Library joins nearly 16,000 public libraries and tens of thousands of readers across the United States in offering…

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New Holiday Titles for Kids!

Ruby’s Chinese New Year – Vickie Lee and Joey Chou In this picture book celebrating Chinese New Year, animals from the Chinese zodiac help a little girl deliver a gift to her grandmother. Ruby meets each of the twelve zodiac animals on her journey to get a special card to her grandmother. The Shortest Day…

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New Books 9/28/20

Maggie O’Farrel won this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction for her book about Shakespeare’s son, Ken Follett adds another tale that precedes the Pillars of the Earth, and former Miami native Vanessa Lillie provides another spine-tingling thriller which highlights only three of the great reads on this week’s cart. Apeirogon by Colum McCannBassam is Palestinian…

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New Books 9/21/20

Many of the books on this week’s cart are written by well-known authors or authors you should get to know. There are some suspense thrillers with or without vampires, some family books about choices taken or not taken, historical fiction and history that is true. Read more about each of them below. All the Devils…

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New Books 9/14/20

From a literary cabinet of curiosities about the natural world to the pulse-pounding thrills about two different women whose paths intersect as they try to escape their fates, this is a shelf of new books that you don’t want to miss! We are open for business, but we also still do curbside if you prefer.…

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Sequoyah Intermediate Masterlist 2021

1. Orange for the Sunsets by Tina Athaide Asha and her best friend, Yesofu, never cared about the differences between them: Indian. African. Girl. Boy. Short. Tall. But when Idi Amin announces that Indians have ninety days to leave the country, suddenly those differences are the only things that people in Entebbe can see—not the…

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Sequoyah High School Masterlist 2021

1. With The Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago’s life has been about making the tough decisions—doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little…

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