NWRLS Library Locations
Headquarters:
Bay County Public Library
850-522-2100
Panama City Beach
850-233-5055
Parker
850-871-3092
Springfield
850-872-7510
Corinne Costin
Gibson Memorial Library
Port St. Joe
850-229-8879
Charles Whitehead
Public Library
Wewahitchka
850-639-2419
Harrell Memorial
Public Library
Bristol
850-643-2247
Jimmy Weaver
Memorial Library
Hosford
850-379-3300
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Featured Items
The Pursuit
by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
FBI agent Kate O'Hare and her con man partner, Nick Fox, face off against a dangerous ex-Serbian military officer.
Sweetbitter
by Stephanie Danler
A woman moves to New York and experiences a sensual awakening while working at a famous restaurant.
Vinegar Girl: The Taming of the Shrew Retold
by Anne Tyler
A retelling of "The Taming of the Shrew," set in modern-day Baltimore.
The Emperor's Revenge: An Oregon Files Adventure
by Clive Cussler
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon investigate a bank heist.
Dishonorable Intentions
by Stuart Woods
New York lawyer Stone Barrington and his latest girlfriend are pursued by her ex-husband, who has connections to the Russian mob.
Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate
by Gary J. Byrne
A critical account by a former Secret Service agent who worked in the Clinton White House.
The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
by Anu Partanen
A Finnish journalist and naturalized American citizen compares and contrasts life in the U.S. with life in the Nordic region to encourage Americans to draw on practices from the Nordic way of life to create a fairer, happier, more secure, and less stressful society.
Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon
by Larry Tye
An in-depth, vibrant, and measured biography about the most complex and controversial member of the Kennedy family.
The Curse of Tenth Grave
by Darynda Jones
Grim reaper Charley Davidson has to track down three gods who are here to kill her daughter.
The Daredevil Snared
by Stephanie Laurens
Hoping to prove himself by taking up his brothers' covert mission in Freetown, Captain Caleb Frobisher falls for captive governess Katherine Fortescue, who is being targeted by a sadistic mercenary.
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New Manager at the Panama City Beach Public Library
The Northwest Regional Library System is pleased to announce that Lisa Ferrara has been selected as the Branch Manager of the Panama City Beach Public Library.
 Lisa joins us from the Ocean County Library in New Jersey. She received her Master of Library and Information Science degree from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and has worked as a reference librarian, a children's librarian, and a teen librarian.
While at the Ocean County Library, Lisa took part in several teen program initiatives, including an annual Maker Faire event, Prom Dress Giveaways, and Teen Advisory Board Forums. While serving as a teen librarian, she worked closely with local schools to bring research and database instruction to students at the junior high and high school levels. In addition, Lisa served as the chairperson for a system-wide workgroup tasked with developing program opportunities for adults with disabilities.
Lisa was selected as a New Jersey Library Association Emerging Leader in 2014.
Welcome, Lisa!
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Book Clubs 
BCPL Book Club
Bay County Public Library
August 11 @ 10 a.m.
On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
Description: The story of an interracial family living in the university town of Wellington, Massachusetts, whose misadventures in the culture wars -- on both sides of the Atlantic -- serve to skewer everything from family life to political correctness to the combustible collision between the personal and the political.
The BCPL Book Club meets on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 10 a.m. For more information, please call 850-522-2107.
Beyond the Lens: Book and Film Series
Bay County Public Library
August 16 from 5:30 to 8 p.m.
Book: Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Film: Far from the Madding Crowd
Description: In Victorian England, independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, the soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy, and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community.
For more information, please call 850-522-2107.
Refreshments provided by the Friends of the Bay County Public Libraries.
History Club
Bay County Public Library
September 12 @ 10 a.m.
The Wright Brothers
by David McCullough
Special guest: A U.S. Air Force pilot
Description: On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers -- bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio -- changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that the age of flight had begun, with the first powered machine carrying a pilot. Orville and Wilbur Wright were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity. When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education and little money never stopped them in their mission to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off, they risked being killed.
Refreshments provided by the Friends of the Bay County Public Libraries.
The History Club reads fiction and nonfiction history and meets bimonthly. For more information, please call 850-522-2107.
Beach Book Club
Panama City Beach Public Library
August 3 @ 10:30 a.m.
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
by Kate Clifford Larson
Description: Joe and Rose Kennedy's strikingly beautiful daughter Rosemary attended exclusive schools, was presented as a debutante to the Queen of England, and traveled the world with her high-spirited sisters. And yet, Rosemary was intellectually disabled -- a secret fiercely guarded by her powerful and glamorous family.
The Beach Book Club meets the 1st Wednesday of each month at 10:30 a.m. For more information, please call 850-233-5055.
Library Book Club
Corinne Costin Gibson Memorial Public Library in Port St. Joe
August 15 @ 10:30 a.m.
The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory
Description: Fleeing violent rebellions in Scotland, Mary, Queen of Scots, looks to Queen Elizabeth of England for sanctuary. Though promised protection, Mary, perceived as a serious threat to the English crown, is soon imprisoned by her former friend as a "guest" in the house of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and his indomitable wife, Bess of Hardwick. The newly married couple welcomes the condemned queen into their home, certain that serving as her hosts and jailers will bring them an advantage in the cutthroat world of the Elizabeth court. To their horror, they grow to realize that the task will bankrupt their estate and lose them what little favor they've managed to gain as their home becomes the epicenter of intrigue and rebellion against Queen Elizabeth. And Mary is not as hopeless as she appears, manipulating the earl and spinning her own web of treachery and deceit, as she sharpens her weapons to reclaim her Scottish throne -- and to take over Queen Elizabeth's of England.
The Library Book Club meets the 3rd Monday of each month at 10:30 a.m. For more information, please call 850-229-8879.
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Ongoing Events @ Your Library
Bay County Public Library in Panama City
English as a Second Language - Easy English
Mondays from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Thursdays from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
English as a Second Language - Beginners
Mondays from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Tuesdays from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
English as a Second
Language - Intermediate & Advanced
Tuesdays from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Thursdays from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
English as a Second Language - Conversation & Pronunciation
Tuesdays from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
US Citizenship Class
Wednesdays from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Adult Literacy Reading and Pronunciation Class
Fridays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Jimmy Weaver Memorial Library in Hosford
Craft Day
Thursdays all day
Family History Workshop
Thursdays @ 4 p.m.
Needlework @ Your Library
Every other Saturday @ 12:30 p.m.
Harrell Memorial Public Library in Bristol
Craft Day
Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Panama City Beach Public Library
Sea Needles
invites all needle-crafters to share the fun.
Fridays @ 10 a.m.
English as a Second Language -- Intermediate with Conversation & Pronunciation
Fridays from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
English as a Second Language -- English Conversation
Mondays from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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POPIN Program
Parents of the Panhandle Information Network (POPIN) programs are held every 3rd Monday from 10 a.m. to 11:30
a.m. at the Bay County Public Library.
POPIN has served as a parent training information (PTI) center for over 30 years. PTI services help to ensure that parents with special needs children have the training and information they need to prepare their children for school and beyond.
For more information, call 850-522-2103 or visit
www.nwrls.com.
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New E-books and Downloadable Audiobooks @
Your Library
We recently added new items to our digital collection, including:
The Singles Game by Lauren Weisberger
When America's sweetheart, Charlotte "Charlie" Silver, makes a pact with the devil -- the infamously brutal tennis coach Todd Feltner -- she finds herself catapulted into a world of celebrity stylists, private parties, charity matches aboard mega-yachts, and secret dates with Hollywood royalty.
No Safe Secret
by Fern Michaels
Living a seemingly idyllic life of luxury with a husband who is privately oppressive and demanding, Molly reflects on her early life with her twin brother and neglectful mother in a run-down Florida trailer park, where an act of vengeance compelled her to flee and reinvent her identity.
Magic
by Danielle Steel
Once a year in the City of Light, a lavish dinner takes place outside a different spectacular landmark. Selected by secret invitation, guests at this White Dinner release hundreds of white paper lanterns bearing everyone's fervent wishes into the night sky. What happens next in their lives is truly magical.
Ink and Bone by Lisa Unger
Finley Montgomery is visited by people whom others can't see and haunted by prophetic dreams. When her abilities start to become too strong for her to handle -- and even the roar of her motorcycle or another dazzling tattoo can't drown out the voices -- she turns to the only person who she knows can help her: her grandmother Eloise Montgomery, a renowned psychic living in The Hollows, New York.
The House of Secrets
by Brad Meltzer
After an accident leaves her with no memory, Hazel Nash must put together the pieces of her past and present to find the truth about her father and his connection to a corpse found with a book in his chest.
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Two half-sisters are born into different villages in 18th-century Ghana. One is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to her, her sister is imprisoned beneath her in the castle's dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast's booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery.
Here's to Us by Elin Hilderbrand
Gathering at a ramshackle Nantucket cottage, a late celebrity chef's former wives and children confront the sources of their bitter rivalries and slowly let go of resentments as they remember the positive times and share long-held secrets.
Guilty Minds
by Joseph Finder
The chief justice of the Supreme Court is about to be defamed, his career destroyed, by a powerful gossip website that specializes in dirt on celebs and politicians. Nick Heller, a private spy, has 48 hours to disprove the story about the chief justice.
The Black Widow by Daniel Silva
Gabriel Allon, art restorer, spy, and assassin, is poised to become the chief of Israel's secret intelligence service. But on the eve of his promotion, events conspire to lure him into the field for one final operation. ISIS has detonated a massive bomb in Paris, and a desperate French government wants Gabriel to eliminate the man responsible before he can strike again.
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
The stories of ten wealthy victims of a plane crash intertwine with those of a down-on-his-luck painter and a four-year-old boy, the tragedy's only survivors, as odd coincidences surrounding the crash point to a possible conspiracy.
All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
A nail-biting, breathtaking story of suspense about the disappearances of two young women -- a decade apart -- told in reverse.
You can check out e-books and downloadable audiobooks for free from your library. All you need is your library card number and PIN. Forgot your PIN? Just give us a call at 850-522-2100 or stop by your local branch and we'll set one up for you.
To access e-books and downloadable audiobooks, click here or:
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Need assistance with e-books and downloadable audiobooks? Just call us at 850-522-2107 or stop by your local branch.
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Friday ColorFest for Adults
 Join us at the Bay County Public Library the first Friday of each month from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and rediscover the joy and relaxation found in coloring.
These are not your kids' coloring books! Intricate designs provide a challenge.
We'll supply coloring sheets, pens, colored pencils, and soothing music. You can bring your own supplies (if you want) and snacks!
For more information, call 850-522-2100 or visit
www.nwrls.com.
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