The Heart of America Library will be closed on Monday, July 4 for the Independence Day holiday.
Summer story hour continues Friday June 24, Friday July 8, Friday July 22, and Friday August 5 at 10:00 AM until 11:15 AM. It is for children ages 5 years and under (children 3 or under must be attended by an adult). For Summer Story hour, please call to let us know your child will be attending so we know how many to prepare for.
There are two sessions left for Elementary Summer Reading program on Friday June 24 and Friday July 8 from 2 – 3 PM. Students gather weekly to participate in activities related to the theme “Oceans of Possibilities” and keep track of summer reading to win prizes.
North Dakota State Park passes are available for checkout!
Provided by the North Dakota State Library and the North Dakota Parks and Recreation Department, each pass provides daily vehicle access to any state park. They may be checked out for one week at a time and are renewable, unless they have been reserved.
Learn about North Dakota’s transportation history from ND State Library’s Kit Keeper program, through June 25. It includes a panel telling about the history of transportation in North Dakota, and includes books on transportation history in the state and a few North Dakota travel books. Take a look for road trip ideas within our great state! The books on display are not available to check out, but most of the same titles are available in our North Dakota section for check out.
The next meeting of the Library Board of Trustees is on Monday, July 11 at 9:00 AM.
New in Large Print fiction is This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub. The description reads “What if you could take a vacation to your past? With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, beloved New York Times bestseller Emma Straub offers her own twist on traditional time travel tropes, and a different kind of love story. On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice’s life isn’t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn’t exactly the one she expected. She’s happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But her father is ailing, and it feels to her as if something is missing. When she wakes up the next morning she finds herself back in 1996, reliving her 16th birthday. But it isn’t just her adolescent body that shocks her, or seeing her high school crush, it’s her dad: the vital, charming, 40-something version of her father with whom she is reunited. Now armed with a new perspective on her own life and his, some past events take on new meaning. Is there anything that she would change if she could?”
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