Upcoming Events
See what's happening this month.
Click on the Events Calendar to see a detailed listing of programs and events happening at SCPL.
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Mesker Park Zoo & Botanical Garden
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Evansville's Mesker Park Zoo has graciously provided SCPL with 4 Zoo Passes! Here are the guidelines for use of the passes:
- Zoo Pass is valid ONLY for free general admission for up to two adults and four children.
- Zoo Pass is exclusive to individuals; it cannot be used by businesses, organizations, schools, or daycares.
- No additional membership benefits will be provided to visitors using the Zoo Pass
- A photo ID is NOT required to be checked when a visitor presents a Library Zoo Pass.
Zoo Passes will check out for 1 week and are NOT renewable. A $1 per day fine will be assessed for late passes. For more information, please call 812-649-4866.
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New items are added to the Indiana Digital Library monthly. Stuck waiting for your next book? Here's a helpful tip, set your preferences to available now to find something while you wait.
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Discover this month's most exciting new book in the current issue of BookPage, provided courtesy of Spencer County Public Library. |
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SCPL will be offering a variety of programming this Spring. There's something for everyone! |
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Bookmark Contest
Calling all artists! We are looking for a few talented artists to design our SCPL bookmarks. Each winner will have his/her bookmark printed for public distribution and receive other prizes! This program is presented by the Spencer County Public Library. Follow us on Facebook or visit our website for future announcements regarding this fun contest. |
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1000 Books Before Kindergarten |
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Do you have a baby, toddler or preschooler? If so, join SCPL's 1000 Books Before Kindergarten program to help your child be ready for kindergarten. This program promotes reading to newborns, infants, and toddlers and encourages parent and child bonding through reading. The goal of the program is to establish strong early literacy skills that will allow children to gain the confidence to become strong readers. Contact our Children's Department or Click here for more information.
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Each month SCPL will feature a new puzzle challenge. For this month's challenge, download or pick up an April sheet at any branch. Return your sheet by email or drop it off at any SCPL location. Each person who solves the puzzle correctly will be entered into a drawing for a $10 local gift card.
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Memorial and Honor Donations |
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Selections From the New Shelf |
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April 7th at 1:00 PM at Rockport in the Small Meeting Room
Discussing I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren’t free to dream; they are bound by rules and force.
Amidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. He’s left with only two choices: betray everyone and everything he loves—or use his position to creatively undermine the most notoriously evil dictator in Eastern Europe.
Cristian risks everything to unmask the truth behind the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. He eagerly joins the revolution to fight for change when the time arrives. But what is the cost of freedom?
-Excerpt from Amazon.
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May 5th at 1:00 PM at Rockport in the Small Meeting Room
Discussing Someone Knows by Lisa Scottoline
Allie Garvey is heading home to the funeral of a childhood friend. Allie is not only grief-stricken, she's full of dread. Because going home means seeing the other two people with whom she shares an unbearable secret.
Twenty years earlier, a horrific incident shattered the lives of five teenagers, including Allie. Drinking and partying in the woods, they played a dangerous prank that went tragically wrong, turning deadly. The teenagers kept what happened a secret, believing that getting caught would be the worst thing that could happen. But time has taught Allie otherwise. Not getting caught was far worse.
Allie has been haunted for two decades by what she and the others did, and by the fact that she never told a soul. The dark secret has eaten away at her, distancing her from everyone she loves, including her husband. Because she wasn't punished by the law, Allie has punished herself, and it's a life sentence.
Now, Allie stands on the precipice of losing everything. She's ready for a reckoning, determined to learn how the prank went so horribly wrong. She digs to unearth the truth, but reaches a shocking conclusion that she never saw coming--and neither will the reader.
-Excerpt from Amazon.
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April 12th at 3:30 PM at Hatfield Branch
Discussing Because You're Mine by Colleen Coble
Alanna has been plagued by tragedy. So it should come as no surprise that in the beauty that surrounds Charleston, all is not as it seems.
When her husband is killed by a car bomb while their band is on tour in Charleston, Alanna doesn't know where to turn. Her father-in-law is threatening to take custody of the baby she carries, but the one thing she knows for sure is that she can't lose the last piece of Liam she has left.
Their manager offers her a marriage of convenience to gain her US citizenship and allow her to escape her father-in-law's control. It seems like the perfect solution...but her doubts begin almost as soon as she arrives at Barry's family home, a decaying mansion surrounded by swamp.
To make matters worse, Liam's best friend survived the car bomb. She's never really liked Jesse, and now she can't seem to get away from him. When he takes Liam's place in their band, it's almost more than she can bear.
But then things start happening. Things that could easily cost Alanna her life - or the life of her unborn child. Are they merely coincidences? Or is there something much more sinister at work?
-Excerpt from Amazon
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May 10th at 3:30 PM at Hatfield Branch
Discussing Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. She ascends to the Beyond where she's assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows Vivi to watch what happens below for one last summer. Vivi also is granted three “nudges” to change the outcome of events on earth, and with her daughter Willa on her third miscarriage, Carson partying until all hours, and Leo currently “off again” with his high-maintenance girlfriend, she’ll have to think carefully where to use them.
From the Beyond, Vivi watches “The Chief” Ed Kapenash investigate her death, but her greatest worry is her final book, which contains a secret from her own youth that could be disastrous for her reputation. But when hidden truths come to light, Vivi’s family will have to sort out their past and present mistakes—with or without a nudge of help from above—while Vivi finally lets them grow without her.
-Excerpt from Amazon
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April 10th at 1:30 PM at Richland
Discussing The Last Flight by Julie Clark
Two women. Two flights. One last chance to disappear.
Claire Cook has a perfect life. Married to the scion of a political dynasty, with a Manhattan townhouse and a staff of 10, her surroundings are elegant, her days flawlessly choreographed, and her future auspicious. But behind closed doors, nothing is quite as it seems. That perfect husband has a temper that burns as bright as his promising political career, and he's not above using his staff to track Claire's every move, making sure she's living up to his impossible standards. But what he doesn't know is that Claire has worked for months on a plan to vanish.
A chance meeting in an airport bar brings her together with a woman whose circumstances seem equally dire. Together they make a last-minute decision to switch tickets - Claire taking Eva's flight to Oakland, and Eva traveling to Puerto Rico as Claire. They believe the swap will give each of them the head start they need to begin again somewhere far away. But when the flight to Puerto Rico goes down, Claire realizes it's no longer a head start but a new life. Cut off, out of options, with the news of her death about to explode in the media, Claire will assume Eva's identity, and along with it, the secrets Eva fought so hard to keep hidden.
-Excerpt from Amazon.
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May 8th at 1:30 PM at Richland
Discussing The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.
Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.
Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations―a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....
-Excerpt from Amazon.
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Spring has sprung! Join SCPL's Virtual Recipe Swap page on Facebook to share fresh and tasty recipes. Click here to request to join. This group allows members to share tips, tricks, and recipes with each other. Join today!
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