Parchment Community Library

~ Weekend Book Club ~
What are you reading
this weekend? 📖

Last night’s Story Sips: Digging for Clues spanned the classy to the sassy, the sweet to the truly unique. Thank you to those who braved the weather to join us!

In order, here are the “classifications” of the books we chatted about!

Classic (Locked Room)
Sherlock Holmes Remix
Cozy
Sassy
Private Investigator (there’s some overlap with the previous category!)
Police Procedural
Noir
Unique!

What’s YOUR favorite type?

We have our first official dinosaur adoption! 🦖📜✨

Congratulations to Adelaide, the first reader to complete a milestone in our Tween & Teen Summer Challenge and officially adopt "Steggie the Stegosaurus!" (Pictured here with our official staff dinosaur wrangler, Miss Saige!) 😉

Want to adopt your own prehistoric reading buddy? Join the fun! 🦕

If you are between the ages of 10-18, you can earn prizes, raffle tickets, and cool rewards for every 3 hours you spend reading or hanging out at library programs this summer. Plus, reaching 12 hours unlocks an invite to our end-of-summer finale celebration!

Stop by the library to grab a summer brochure, sign up, and start earning those prizes. We have reading challenges and events for ALL AGES!! 🥳

For more details, visit our website:

🌻 EVENTS: https://www.parchmentlibrary.org/calendar/
📚 READING PROGRAM: https://www.parchmentlibrary.org/summer-reading/

★ New Book at Noon: The Children by Melissa Albert ★ (Thriller)

🏅 Read With Jenna Book Club - June selection 🏅

“An extraordinary book. It’s a page-turner, full of mystery... The language is dusted with magic. The Children reminded me of Ray Bradbury at his best.” - Stephen King

Guinevere Sharpe has two childhoods.

In one, she and her brother, Ennis, live in the wooded shadow of their family's isolated Vermont farmhouse; in the other, the pages of their mother’s world-famous Ninth City books, where their magical adventures have made them household names. In reality, Guinevere's childhood isn't the enchanted idyll her mother’s readers imagine: she and Ennis are growing up near-feral, unwashed and underfed, escaping each day to the wild woods they’ve made their playland. As Edith Sharpe’s books explode into epic popularity, the threats of a rural childhood give way to the escalating perils of fame—until the night it all goes up in flames, leaving Edith’s series unfinished and her children the sole survivors.

Now an adult coasting on her mother's name, Guinevere is mid-promotion for a ghostwritten memoir when her estranged brother, an artist who has until now spurned his family's legacy, announces an upcoming installation titled, simply, Mother. As rumors swirl around a death connected to his last show, unsettling recollections from Guinevere’s childhood begin to surface. Her public facade starts to crack, forcing her to confront the questions she's spent the last twenty years running from: What really happened the night of the fire? And what dark history lies behind their mother’s fantasy world?

{Check back every weekday at noon to see a new featured book!}

{Click the hashtag to see previous selections)
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To place a hold on this (or any) title, stop by the library or give us a call at 343-7747 or log into your account at our website: https://parchmentlibrary.biblionix.com/catalog/

This SATURDAY at 10:30 am! Wondering how to get started in finding your family story? Members of the Kalamazoo Valley Genealogical Society will help you begin!

Open to adults, teens, tweens, and children ages 8+. Family members are encouraged to attend together!

Saturday, June 13 @ 10:30 - 11:30 am

FREE! Registration is requested.
You can register three different ways!:
1. in person at the library
2. by calling the library at (269) 343-7747
3. online: https://tinyurl.com/ae3at5sn

Parchment Community Library
401 South Riverview Drive
Parchment, MI 49004
(269) 343-7747

Good morning! We are OPEN and have power, free WiFi, and cozy spaces to read and relax and stay cool! Come see us!

Fox in the Forest is a cooperative game of taking tricks, so Miss Saige and Ms. Timmian put together a few tricks of their own: a fully interactive jewel “heist”!

Thank you for joining us! We’ll see you again soon!

Is your power out? We are OPEN and have power, free WiFi, and cozy spaces to read and relax and stay cool! Come on in! 📖

★ New Book at Noon: A Pair of Aces by Marie Benedict and Victoria Murray ★ (Historical Fiction)

🏅 Reese's Book Club - June selection 🏅

A gripping novel about two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law—a prosecutor and a madam—who team up to bring down notorious Mob boss Lucky Luciano in 1930s New York, from the bestselling authors of The Personal Librarian.

Eunice Carter, assistant district attorney for the City of New York and Manhattan’s first Black female prosecutor, has her sights set on the one and only Lucky Luciano, head of New York City’s five largest organized crime families. Other prosectors have tried to bring down Lucky, but they’ve all focused on the crime syndicate’s traditional businesses—bootlegging, gambling, loan sharking, and drug dealing—or tax evasion. No one has thought to approach the mob through its role in prostitution. Until Eunice. But she can’t get Luciano alone.

Polly Adler has worked long and hard to build up her high-class brothel business. Her client list is filled with well-known names, both the famous and the infamous, who all know her booze is top-notch, her music first-rate, her food exquisite, and her girls the best. But Lucky has gone too far, putting her girls in danger, and Polly finally sees the chance to end his reign once and for all.

Together, Eunice and Polly fashion a case utilizing a network of women. Bridging the enormous divide between them and risking their own lives, they assemble evidence bit by bit, under the nose of the man they’re trying to convict. It is this very alliance—of two women from vastly different worlds—that launches the most sensational trial New York City has ever seen.

{Check back every weekday at noon to see a new featured book!}

{Click the hashtag to see previous selections)
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To place a hold on this (or any) title, stop by the library or give us a call at 343-7747 or log into your account at our website: https://parchmentlibrary.biblionix.com/catalog/

TODAY, June 11th, at the library! We've got game night & snacks for tweens & teens, and books & mocktails for adults!

Ages 10-16: Game Night: Fox in the Forest @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Band together to navigate the trickiest forest path or work together with fellow adventurers. Snacks and opponents provided by the library!
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Ages 18 and up: Story Sips: Digging for Clues (Detective Tales) @ 6:30-7:30 pm
From hard-boiled noir to cozy tea shop mysteries, there’s a broad spectrum of professional and amateur sleuths on the shelf! 🔎 Discover a new favorite read while enjoying a themed mocktail and hors d’oeuvres! (We're meeting indoors tonight to beat the heat!)

See our events page for more details!
https://www.facebook.com/ParchmentCommunityLibrary/events