It’s October and that means it’s officially spooky season. Time for haunted houses, jack-o-lanterns, costumes, and lots of candy. We’re celebrating the season with events for all ages that are spooky but not too scary. Which one is for you? Keep reading to find out.
Continue reading “Not Too-Spooky events for the season”Let’s face it. No matter how badly it’s falling apart, it’s almost impossible to throw away a book. Many of us have books we hang onto just because it seems so wrong to throw them out. Even the responsible move when you put an old book in the recycling bin is difficult. What do you do when a book is just too far gone?
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What can you find at the Friends of RML fall book sale this Friday and Saturday? The real question is, what can’t you find?! Our library Friends have two large sales each year and this sale is chock full of book-loving goodness. Keep reading for details.
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I’ve read about half of John Green’s fictional books and enjoyed each one. But each time I tried to read The Anthropocene Revealed, I returned it, unread, even though I knew I really wanted to read it. When Hiram College announced it as the title for their community read this fall, I finally applied some self-discipline and made myself begin reading. Now, I’m about halfway through and enjoying every minute.
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Does your family have an Uncle Buck? He’s that adventurous, standout relative from way, way back that everyone tells stories about at family reunions. But how would you discover his story beyond the family tales? Reed Memorial Library has free access to a host of genealogy and history research tools. More important, if Uncle Buck lived in our area, we have a local history collection that you can search. Where do you find it? Keep reading for details.
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The Museum Detective by Maha Khan Phillips
Where to find this book at Reed Memorial Library:
The Museum Detective hit the shelves earlier this year and we highly recommend this tale of mummies, missing girls, and a female museum-curator-turned-detective. The story is loosely based on a real-life antiquities scandal in Pakistan.
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Things are moving and shaking at the library. This week, it’s mostly adult-level fiction books. Yesterday, staff finished moving the new fiction books to the second floor, reuniting them with their older siblings. Finally, the fiction family is together! Very soon, the non-fiction family will be in one home, too. We’re not really moving materials around to reunite book families; we have a plan. Want to hear know what’s happening?
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Last Sunday’s Chicago Sun Times included a 2025 “Summer Reads” list that went viral because 10 of the 15 books on the list weren’t real. Turns out, the newspaper plopped in some syndicated content that was AI generated. The AI had actually invented book titles attached to popular authors and had even created a brief synopsis for each book (Yikes!). Well, we can promise that our 2025 summer reading list is full of real books, recommended by real people.
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Our Community Baby Shower is this Saturday and literally everyone is invited. In a few weeks, you’re also invited to our Fired Up For Safety extravaganza with firetrucks, firefighters, hands-on demonstrations, and Marshall from Paw Patrol. These events are a big deal and lots of work for us. So why do we organize them?
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A few months ago, we reminded you that with SearchOhio, you have free access to over 16 million books, audiobooks, movies, and music from public libraries across the state. If you’re using SearchOhio or its academic counterpart, OhioLINK, there’s good news and bad news.
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