Posts by Callie C
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…
Read MoreNew 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…
Read MoreNew 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…
Read MoreNew 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…
Read MoreNew 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.…
Read MoreSequoyah 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…
Read MoreSequoyah 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…
Read MoreSequoyah Children’s Masterlist 2021
Lety Out Loud by Angela Cervantes Lety Muñoz’s first language is Spanish, and she likes to take her time putting her words together. She loves volunteering at the animal shelter because the dogs and cats there don’t care if she can’t always find the right words. When the shelter needs a volunteer to write animal…
Read MoreWhat’s the Deal? Library Updates
We have been reopened with limited hours since June 15, 2020. With all the pandemic concerns we have had to make changes to the way the library runs day-to-day. If you have been in, I’m sure you have noticed a few of them. So what has changed? We applied and received a CARES Act grant…
Read MoreThe Miami Public Library Adult Literacy Program NOW OFFERS THE NORTHSTAR DIGITAL LITERACY ASSESSMENT
The Northstar Digital Literacy Assessment, offered through the Miami Public Library, is aimed at helping adults acquire the skills they need in today’s workplace. “People without basic computer know-how are at a disadvantage when it comes to finding a job because employers expect basic computer skills for most jobs, including many entry-level positions,” said Sageser.…
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