April 4th -10th is National Library Week. Come celebrate with us by visiting some fascinating fictional libraries. With Genevieve Cogman’s The Invisible Library you can travel between alternate worlds with librarian/spy Irene to procure special books for the one master library. There are 7 books (so far) in this series. Kit Rocha’s Deal With the Devil features a team of mercenary librarians in a post-apocalyptic world using their knowledge to help those in need; two sequels are in the works. In A.J. Hackwith’s Library of the Unwritten head librarian Claire oversees a library of unfinished books and must deal with a crisis when a character desperate to exist escapes from one of the books, while in Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s Shadow of the Wind, set in a Barcelona slowly recovering from the ravages of the Spanish Civil War, there is a mysterious Cemetery of Forgotten Books. 

Prefer your libraries a little more grounded in the real world? Felicity Hayes-McCoy’s Library at the Edge of the World follows librarian Hanna Casey back to her small Irish hometown, where she becomes involved with trying to save the local library. Kim Michele Richardson’s Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek follows Cussy Mary Carter, a traveling librarian bringing books to her corner of 1930s Appalachia. And in Sue Halpern’s Summer Hours at the Robbers Library, set in New Hampshire, head librarian Kit, a troubled 15 year old girl named Sunny, and a refugee from Wall Street are drawn together in unexpected ways.

There’s more to libraries and librarians than meets the eye! Take a gander into the lives of librarians; good and bad; with Evil Librarian, Magus of the Library, and Barbara Gordan as Batgirl or take a journey to epic libraries in Ink and Bone: The Great Library and Sorcery of Thorns. Check out this book list for more evil librarians, epic libraries, and other excellent books featuring librarians and libraries.

AARP Tax-Aide help will be remote this season (there will be no in-person tax help at the library), requiring clients to use computers, scanners and the internet to complete their returns with them. AARP is offering free tax assistance online now through May 17th, learn more here.

FIVE TOWNS: ONE BOOK. Bringing our communities together for important conversations around Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson. Register for all of the events below at caste.eventbrite.com.

Featuring a virtual visit and discussion with the author, Ms. Wilkerson, on April 25th 4-5pm, in addition to four facilitated talks that dive deeper into the themes of the book.

Sponsored by CURE (The Coalition for Understanding Racism through Education) in partnership with our five community libraries: Harrison, Larchmont, Mamaroneck, New Rochelle, and Rye.