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We recently completed our strategic plan document to guide the next three years.  This process started at the end of last year when we asked the community to complete a survey and then began holding focus groups.  We also created a Needs Assessment that included demographic information about the community, library statistics, our Edge benchmark…

Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Creek Nation and was named United States Poet Laureate this year.  Her latest book of poetry, An American Sunrise, is on this week’s shelf of new books.  Harjo resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma.     American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race…

Some authors are known for spinning a good yarn.  Tea Obrecht, author of The Tiger’s Wife, has spun a new one that comes highly recommended and is on this week’s shelf.   The Bitterroots by C. J. Box Former police officer Cassie Dewell is starting over with her own private investigation firm and an old friend…

Don’t miss the Friends of the Library book sale held on Sept. 7th during the Designs of Autumn Festifall event in the 66 Cultural District.  Tables of books for no more than $1 each plus special deals on bags of books!

This week’s shelf has three new Christian fiction books, the latest by Robert Crais, Rhys Bowen, the ever prolific James Patterson, et. al., and several new suspense and historical novels by some names you may recognize.   All the Water in the World by Karen Raney Sixteen-year-old Maddy, who has cancer, grapples with her first…

Suspense awaits you on this week’s shelf.  Secrets from the past can be very dangerous whether they come to light through a blackmailer who has hacked your computer or whether you find yourself in a team-building excercise involving an escape room from which there is no escape.   America’s Reluctant Prince: The Life of John…

This week’s shelf is packed with suspense in both fiction and nonfiction selections.  The impacts of war, of secrets, and family choices are all topics developed by authors both familiar and new.   City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert The best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love traces the experiences of a theater insider in 1940s…

Let’s Talk About It, Oklahoma (LTAIO) Let’s Talk About It, Oklahoma is a great way to connect with neighbors over books and ideas.  It is a reading and discussion series which consists of 4-5 sessions, each featuring a book from the chosen discussion theme. A humanities scholar opens each session telling about the author’s life,…

A fat shelf full of great reads, both fiction and nonfiction.  Stock up for your summer vacation!   The Big Kahuna by Janet Evanovich When unlikely partners FBI agent Kate O’Hare and con man Nicholas Fox investigate a missing Silicon Valley billionaire known as the Big Kahuna, they go undercover as a married couple in…