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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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We’re getting the word out about FCC’s Emergency Broadband Benefit. Having a broadband connection is a must for households get access to jobs, healthcare services, virtual classrooms, and so much more. What is the Emergency Broadband Benefit? The Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) is a temporary FCC program to help families and households struggling to afford…
Read MoreLibrary 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…
Read MoreMiami 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 MoreFile for free and get help as you do your 2020 taxes
Get Tax Help File a free federal and state return if your income in 2020 was $72,000 or less. Do you have questions as you’re doing your return? Certified Tax Coaches Can Help Contact by Email:vita@midwestcityok.org Taking questions:Tuesday and Thursday 1:00 to 7:00 Get a response within 24 hours, working days. First: Validate Your Identity…
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…
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