This year, Hanukkah will begin on the evening of December 10 and end on the evening of December the 18. We have lots of great Hanukkah books for kiddos at the library. Here are just a few that you might like to check out and share with your family: Hanukkah by Roger Priddy, A board [...]
Join us for a virtual trivia night featuring the TV show "Friends." We'll have a fast-paced trivia contest using Zoom and Kahoot with a $10 Amazon gift card for the winner. Kahoot is a quiz program that can be accessed online or through a free app - you'll just need a second screen [...]
A lot of people are staying home and utilizing more online services these days. One service that we offer is online learning through Niche Academy. Through Niche Academy, we offer a lot of tutorials to show you exactly how to use a lot of our Digital Services. One digital service that will come in handy [...]
More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War by Kenneth C. Davis (2018), 291 pages. During our current pandemic, I've heard things here and there about the last time the world saw a pandemic this devastating and widespread - in 1918 when the world was hit by [...]
I hope you're having a lovely Thanksgiving Day, no matter what form your holiday is taking this year. Here at the library, we're very thankful for our wonderful patrons and for books, of course. I asked our blog team to share one book they're thankful for this year and here's what they said: A Deadly [...]
Author Stephen Graham Jones has been in the horror game for a while, but he's finally getting his due for his 2020 release, The Only Good Indians. It's a spooky tale of supernatural revenge, regret, and blood, which runs for 310 pages (the perfect length for reading all weekend). Like the author, the main character [...]
This time of year usually means a lot of cooking; and with the days getting shorter, and lots more time staying home, you might be looking for more things to do as a family. You can do both with some of these cookbooks for kids that include easy recipes that are fun for the whole [...]
Here at The Floyd County Library, our Local Author Week 2020 (November 16-20) will soon be underway, so we wanted to introduce you to our amazing local authors! Here you can read a little bit about them, the books they've written, and where you might be able to purchase their books for yourself. Books available [...]
Elatsoe (Eh-lat-so-ay) is a new YA fantasy novel from Darcie Little Badger, an Indigenous author of the Lipan Apache Tribe. Set in an alternate United States (much like our own, but including ghosts, vampires, monsters, and magic), Elatsoe tells the story of Ellie, a teenage girl with the gift of awakening the ghosts of dead [...]
November is Native American Heritage Month and there's no better way to celebrate than by picking up a book by an Indigenous author this month. There have been many excellent books for all ages published this year and here are some to choose from. Picture Books Swift Fox All Along by Rebecca Thomas (Mi'kmaw), illustrated [...]
