THOMASVILLE LIBRARY:

For ages 18+:

Beginner Yoga Class

Every Wednesday, 9:45 a.m.

A free introductory yoga class that moves slowly through a simple flow sequence, focusing on alignment and breath while working on strength, balance and flexibility. Great for beginners. Yoga mats available. Registration is appreciated but not required.

Book to Art Book Club

Tues., Aug 8, 3:00 p.m.

This Book Club meets once a month to discuss a shared read and create an individual art piece based on themes from that month’s selected read. New members are always welcome. Speak with Samantha Hanchett at the Thomasville Library branch on how to join: Marketing@TCPLS.Org

Friends of the Library Used Book Sale

Every Tuesday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

For ages 0 — 11:

Story Time: Toddlers & Tykes

Thurs., Aug 10, 10:30 a.m.

Join us for an hour of read-aloud stories, rhymes and songs designed to encourage language and literacy development in your child. Story Time wraps up with a fun, simple art + craft activity. An excellent space to meet other caregivers and children in the community. Intended for ages 2-4 years with their caregivers.

LEGO Club

Thurs., Aug 10, 4:00 p.m.

Calling all child LEGO masters and first-timers! Our LEGO group meets every week to create and build whatever they can imagine. A great place to meet and mingle with other children interested in 3D creation. We also offer larger LEGO bricks for those who may find the smaller bricks tasty. Intended for ages 4-11 years with their caregivers.

At the branches:

Boston Library –

Story Time with Fun Size Farms

Tues., Aug 1, 2:00 p.m.

Join us for a read-aloud story and a visit from Fun Size Farms. Our guests will be bringing along a tiny four-legged friend: a baby goat! Intended for ages 2 – 7 with their caregivers.

Quiddler Club

Every Tuesday, 2:00 p.m.

Intended for ages 18+. Call the Boston Library to join: 229-498-5101.

Coolidge Library –

Bingo

Tues., Aug 8, 2:30 p.m.

Intended for ages 13 and older.

Meigs Library –

Pollination Activity

Wed., Aug 2, Drop-In Activity

Learn about the process of bee pollination through this tasty activity: cheese puff pollination. Intended for ages 2 – 11 with their caregivers.

Children’s Art & Crafts: Bird Feeders

Thurs., Aug 10, Drop-In Activity

Intended for ages 4 – 12 with their caregivers.

Pavo Library –

Banks Italian Ice Truck

Tues., Aug 1, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Stop by for a FREE italian ice treat. All ages welcome.

Story Time & Craft

Wed., Aug 9, Drop-In Activity

Stop in anytime during open hours (1:30 – 6:00 p.m.) for a read-aloud storybook and a fun paper-craft.

Today we will be reading the picture book, The Day the Crayons Quit, and folding a crayon out of origami.

Intended for ages 2 – 6 with their caregivers.

NEW RELEASES:

Tom Lake, by Ann Patchett

In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family’s orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart.

Prom Mom, by Laura Lipman

Amber Glass has spent her entire adult life putting as much distance as possible between her and her hometown of Baltimore, where she fears she will forever be known as “Prom Mom”–the girl who allegedly killed her baby on the night of the prom after her date, Joe Simpson, abandoned her to pursue the girl he really liked. But when circumstances bring Amber back to the city, she realizes she can have a second chance–as long as she stays away from Joe, now a successful commercial real estate developer, married to a plastic surgeon, Meredith, to whom he is devoted.The problem is, Amber can’t stay away from Joe. And Joe finds that it’s increasingly hard for him to ignore Amber, if only because she remembers the boy he was and the man he said he was going to be. Against the surreal backdrop of 2020 and early 2021, the two are slowly drawn to each other and eventually cross the line they’ve been trying not to cross.And then Joe asks Amber to help him do the unthinkable…

A QUOTE TO THINK ABOUT:

“Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.” ― Siddhartha Gautama

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