 | | | New Service! Check Out a Nook!
| | Nooks come pre-loaded with great books including children, teen, nonfiction and fiction titles. Call 444-7821 for more information. New titles coming soon!
| | Adult Summer Reading Program!
| - Read or listen to any adult fiction or nonfiction book or e-book.
- Sign up for the program in the Fiction or Nonfiction Department.
- Register for great prizes every time you complete five books.
- Pick up your free Hoover Public Library book-bag after completing ten books.
Prizes, which include a Nook Simple Touch and gift cards to local businesses, are donated by the Friends of the Library. Find out more by calling 444-7820.
May 21 - July 31
| | Stump the Librarian!
| Test the knowledge of the librarians in the Nonfiction Department by asking a question from a popular trivia game for a chance to win two gift certificates donated by the Friends of the Library.
July 1 - July 31--Nonfiction Department
| | Learn to Use Your Nook
| Presented by Barnes & Noble. Learn how to use your Nook and Nook Color and learn how to download FREE ebooks from the library.
Nook Simple Touch Class 6:30 pm -7:30 pm
Nook Color Class 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Monday, July 2--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms
| | First Thursday Book Group: Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen
| Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen By Susan Gregg Gilmore
Catherine Grace Cline was six years old, and her sister Martha Ann was four, when their mother drowned. Their daddy is the preacher at the Baptist church in their small Georgia town. When their father is busy, Gloria Jean, a neighbor and old friend of their mother's watches the girls. Catherine Grace loves Gloria Jean because she's the only person who will talk about her mother. Catherine Grace and Martha Ann head down to the Dairy Queen every Saturday for a Dilly Bar. That's when Catherine Grace does her dreaming and planning. After she graduates from high school and turns eighteen, Catherine Grace heads to Atlanta with her savings. She finds a job and a place to live and things are going pretty well for her when she's called home because of a family emergency. She gets some shocking news when she gets home and finds out that she may have been looking for happiness in the wrong place all along.
Thursday, July 5 at 10:00 am --Theatre Level Meeting Rooms
| | Instrumentalists @ the Plaza: Guitarist Blaine Goodwin
| Guitarist Blaine Goodwin plays traditional Celtic & British folk songs.
Sunday, July 8 at 2:30 pm--Library Plaza
| | Second Thursday Book Group: Shanghai Girls
| | Shanghai Girls By Lisa See
In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree . . . until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from California to find Chinese brides. Then, they must make their way through war-torn Shanghai to America to meet their suitors. Author Lisa See will be Skyping in to take part in the discussion.
Thursday, July 12 at 10:00 am --Theatre Level Meeting Rooms
| | GeekFest
| Join us as we geek out the library with Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and more in an after-hours extravaganza for sci-fi/fantasy/gaming fans of all ages.
Friday, July 13, 8-10 pm
| | Kindle and the Library
| Learn about the Kindle e-reader and how to find and use library e-books. This class will discuss the available options for Kindle e-readers, as well as the basics of finding, checking out, and managing library e-books for the Kindle.
Topics include: finding and selecting e-books in the Kindle format; managing and transferring e-books to your Kindle; returning expired items and more!
You are encouraged to bring your Kindle and get help learning to use it with the library's collection. If you'll be needing assistance with your Kindle, be sure to bring a valid library card, your Amazon.com account login information and the USB cord that came with your Kindle.
NOTE: You do not need to own a Kindle in order to attend the class.
Class size is limited. Reservations required. Sign up at the Technology Hub or call 444-7747.
Saturday, July 14 at 2 pm--Technology Training Center
| | Playing @ the Plaza: Christophe Jackson
| Pianist Christophe Jackson and his band present New Orleans jazz with a modern twist.
Thursday, July 19 at 6:30 pm--Library Plaza
| | Free Friday Flix: Good Deeds
| A successful, wealthy businessman, Wesley Deeds has always done what's expected of him, whether it's assuming the helm of his father's company, tolerating his brother's misbehavior at the office or planning to marry his beautiful but restless fiancee, Natalie. But Wesley is jolted out of his predictable routine when he meets Lindsey, a down-on-her-luck single mother who works as a cleaning person in his office building.
FREE ADMISSION!
FREE REFRESHMENTS!
Friday, July 20 at 6:30 pm--Library Theatre
| | Conversations @ the Plaza: German, French and Spanish
| Practice your language skills. Beginners to the highly-fluent are welcome.
Thursday, July 26 at 6:30 pm--Library Plaza
| | Nonfiction Book Group: Galileo's Daughter
| Galileo's Daughter By Dava Sobel
Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has crafted a biography that dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishments of a mythic figure whose early-seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion-the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics-indeed of modern science altogether." It is also a stunning portrait of Galileo's daughter, a person hitherto lost to history, described by her father as "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and most tenderly attached to me."
Thursday, July 26 at 7:00 pm--Allen Board Room
| | "Escape into Reading" Authors Showcase
| | Listen to local and regional authors as they share their works and writing experiences. Book signings included. Visiting authors include Gin Phillips, Michael Morris, Keith Thomson, Austin Boyd, Brannon Hollingsworth and Todd Keith. For the schedule call 444-7820 or visit our website. FREE! Saturday, July 28 at 10:30am-3pm--Library Plaza
| | Monday at the Movies: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
| | Directed By Steven Spielberg
Archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis. Stars Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. Monday, July 30 at 2 pm and 6:30 pm--Library Theatre
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