TAB

What is TAB? TAB stands for Teen Advisory Board, and is a team of teenagers that help promote the library. TAB meets monthly on the first Wednesday of every month, at 3:30pm. What do you do on TAB? All sorts of things! Plan, promote, and run programs with Library staffC......More

What is TAB? TAB stands for Teen Advisory Board, and is a team of teenagers that help promote the library. TAB meets monthly on the first Wednesday of every month, at 3:30pm. What do you do on TAB? All sorts of things! Plan, promote, and run programs with Library staffContribute to Library social media (Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok)Promote the library to friends and classmatesSuggest books and other materials for the library to purchaseLearn about the Library and how it works!Volunteer OpportunitiesRedesign the Teen Area of the LibraryApply for TAB TAB Application.pdf Questions? Email our librarian, Abby, or call the library! (218-546-8005)

Tales Retold Book Club

We will be meeting on the first Tuesday of every month, to read and discuss original works and spin-offs or retellings based on them. Our May pick is Red Riding Hood Retellings. Our main book is For The Wolf by Hannah Whitten Summary: The first daughter is for the Thron......More

We will be meeting on the first Tuesday of every month, to read and discuss original works and spin-offs or retellings based on them. Our May pick is Red Riding Hood Retellings. Our main book is For The Wolf by Hannah Whitten Summary: The first daughter is for the Throne.The second daughter is for the Wolf. As the only Second Daughter born in centuries, Red has one purpose—to be sacrificed to the Wolf in the Wood in the hope he’ll return the world’s captured gods.Red is almost relieved to go. Plagued by a dangerous power she can’t control, at least she knows that in the Wilderwood, she can’t hurt those she loves. Again.But the legends lie. The Wolf is a man, not a monster. Her magic is a calling, not a curse. And if she doesn’t learn how to use it, the monsters the gods have become will swallow the Wilderwood—and her world—whole.   We Also Suggest: Girl in Red by Christina Henry The Wolf and The Woodsman by Ava Reid Red Wolf by Rachel Vincent

Preschool Story Hour

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Cribbage

Movie Night

We’ll pop the popcorn, you bring your blanket and any other snacks!The movie goers get to pick the movie for the upcoming month!

Jane Austen Book Club

The Jane Austen Book Club is taking the places of the J.R.R. Tolkien Book Club. We will be reading through all of Jane Austen’s works. For May we will be finishing Sense and Sensibility. Summary: Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in lov......More

The Jane Austen Book Club is taking the places of the J.R.R. Tolkien Book Club. We will be reading through all of Jane Austen’s works. For May we will be finishing Sense and Sensibility. Summary: Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor’s warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.

Friends Meeting

The JFHML Friends meet on the 2nd Friday of every month at 9:00. We discuss fundraising and program ideas, project and volunteer opportunities, and more! Join our meetings and get involved at the Library!

Cribbage Morning

Come join us for a cribbage morning at the Hallett Library. Bring a friend and play a few matches. All skill levels are welcome! Feel free to bring your own cribbage board, though we will have some on hand!

Anime and Manga Club

Anime & Manga Club All junior and senior high students welcome. We will be sharing sketches, having pizza, and watching an anime feature film.

Crafty Afternoons

Join us the second Wednesday of every month for Crafty Wednesdays. Our May craft theme is painting. All ages welcome. No registration required.

JFHML Book Club

Join the Library’s adult book club that meets the third Thursday of every month at 5:00! Extra copies of the book are available at the front desk! Our May selection is No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister Book Summary: One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives. New York......More

Join the Library’s adult book club that meets the third Thursday of every month at 5:00! Extra copies of the book are available at the front desk! Our May selection is No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister Book Summary: One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives. New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister’s No Two Persons is “a gloriously original celebration of fiction, and the ways it deepens our lives.” That was the beauty of books, wasn’t it? They took you places you didn’t know you needed to go… Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating event breaks her heart open, and she creates a stunning debut novel. Her words, in turn, find their way to readers, from a teenager hiding her homelessness, to a free diver pushing himself beyond endurance, an artist furious at the world around her, a bookseller in search of love, a widower rent by grief. Each one is drawn into Alice’s novel each one discovers something different that alters their perspective, and presents new pathways forward for their lives. Together, their stories reveal how books can affect us in the most beautiful and unexpected of ways—and how we are all more closely connected to one another than we might think.