Ardmore Free Library

Fall/winter book club picks are in! ⁠
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Join the First Wednesday Book Club at the library. The group meets at 11:30 am.⁠
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October 7 - The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick
November 4 - Kindred by Octavia Butler
December 2 - Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
January 6 - Good People by Patmeena Sabit

Take on the role of mechanical engineer in STIIX-Ville. Design and build a custom catapult to help defend the city from an incoming threat. Your goal: create a machine that can launch a ping pong ball as far and as accurately as possible.

Registration required. Ages 8+

🗓️Saturday October 3
⏰️2:00pm
📍Ardmore Program Room

https://lmls.libcal.com/event/17568291

It's book recommendation time!

📘Estela, Undrowning by René Peña-Govea
Seventeen-year-old Estela grapples with racial tensions after placing second to a non-Latino student in a Latiné poetry contest, all while battling anxiety over her family's looming eviction.

📘Tangled Roots and Wild Dreams by Angela Velez
Ezzie Ramosis a champion secret keeper. Her brilliant-professor mami and nosy abuelita don't know about her daily ritual (wandering the art museum), her college applications (hopelessly blank), or her summer plans (avoiding the dreaded f-word, a.k.a. her future, at all costs). Ezzie's biggest secret? She's interning at Sprout, the urban garden she's stunned to discover her father founded weeks before his death. All she knows about Papi begins and ends with his dazzling scientific research legacy-but what if he dreamed of a different path too?

📘Carnival Fantastico by Angela Montova
A young woman poses as fortune-teller at a magical traveling carnival, where the handsome boy who once broke her heart resurfaces and warns her that carnival is more sinister than it appears.

Need a specific book for your book club? Want to know which items you have checked out or when they are due? We are glad to answer any questions!

Mark your calendars! Our Stories in the Stacks event is back! This year it will take place on Saturday November 7th, from 7-10pm at the Ardmore Library. For more details, please check lmls.org/sits

🗓️ November 7th
⏰️ 7-10 PM
📍 Ardmore Library

It's book recommendation time!

📕Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez

At twenty-six, Alicia Canales Forten feels smothered by her future. She's in a long-distance relationship, living at home with her mother's beliefs, saving up for her wedding to a future doctor. But after Alicia ventures out one night in the neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, she finds herself lured by the siren song of youth and possibility, and moves in. No one embodies this more than La Garza, a larger-than-life fashion designer whose epic house parties fuel neighborhood lore. La Garza's life, observed by Alicia from her apartment across the street, seems to hold the allure and fearlessness Alicia has never dared to imagine for herself. But when Alicia's wealthy banker cousin moves to the neighborhood, she finds herself increasingly drawn into both his and La Garza's precarious lives.

Reserve a copy at https://lmls.library.mclinc.org/search/card?id=2f5ca412-d270-54ff-811b-f7ea9d046c99&entityType=FormatGroup

📕P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance by Vanessa Diaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau

Offering a portrait of the past and future of Puerto Rican resistance through one of its loudest and proudest voices, P FKN R draws on interviews with musicians, politicians, and journalists as well as ethnographic research to set Bad Bunny and Puerto Rican resistance in a historical, political, and cultural context. Authors Vanessa Díaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau-creators of the Bad Bunny Syllabus-demonstrate Bad Bunny's place in a long tradition of infusing both joy and protest into music and honor the many evolving forms of daily resistance to oppression and colonialism that are part of Puerto Rican life.

Reserve a copy at https://lmls.library.mclinc.org/search/card?id=d4f50201-e82e-5929-96b0-2b07d3da4bd7&entityType=FormatGroup

'Ayurveda and Eating with the Seasons' is back for fall!

Learn about the ancient Indian form of wellness medicine, Ayurveda, & make simple, actionable changes to your diet to help feel more balanced for Fall. See a slide show presentation about Ayurveda and then get into groups to cook Fall-spiced red dal with kabocha squash, beet and carrot palya, apples and pears sauteed in ghee with cinnamon, and a warm, almond date milk shake.

Registration required.

🗓️Saturday September 26
⏰️1:30pm-3:30pm
📍Processing Center Meeting Room

https://lmls.libcal.com/event/17259915

Falling? For fall? Groundbreaking.

Buttons, feathers, googly eyes....oh my! Our playdough monsters from Sensory Time are looking good!

🍎It's starting to feel like fall in the children's room!