Magic Show!

Come to this free event in our Music Hall!

The famous Dox Dixon will be here to perform his magic act!

Monday, August 2nd at 1pm.

Need Something New To Read?

Whether you’ve signed up for adult summer reading at CLOH and are trying to get your hands on as many books as you can, or if you’re just in the mood to sit back and relax with a great story, here are some recommended titles that we think you’ll really like:

Whiplash by Catherine Coulter
The latest installment in the author’s series of FBI thrillers featuring Agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock. If you have not yet read the others: The Cove, The Maze, The Target, The Edge, Riptide, Hemlock Bay, Eleventh Hour, Blind Side, Blow Out, Point Blank, Double Take, TailSpin, and Knock Out, then you better get busy, because this is one awesome series that you don’t want to miss!

Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich
More chaos in store for Jersey Girl bounty hunter Stephanie Plum in Evanovich’s latest addition to the beloved series. From One for the Money all the way through Finger-Lickin Fifteen, these books are addictively fun.

Private by James Patterson

Patterson’s newest thriller, full of murder, revenge, and intrigue. You won’t be able to put it down!

The Lion by Nelson DeMille
Thrilling sequel to DeMille’s 2000 novel The Lion’s Game.

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Soon to be a movie starring Julia Roberts, this memoir follows the author’s travels around the world as she searches for inner peace, answers to life’s big questions, and of course, lots of good food!

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Steig Larsson
The last in the author’s exciting Millenium trilogy about a computer hacker. If you have not already, pick up the first two: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and The Girl Who Played With Fire. You’ll be hooked!

Summer Fun

Painting a still life at Art Time.

Art Time happens every Tuesday at 1:30!

Miss Jenny created a life-sized Candyland for the kids.

Huge bubbles at BUBBLE STORYTIME!


Toddler Storytime!

Come every Wednesday at 11:30!

Some stuffed animals having fun at our Stuffed Animal Sleepover.

If you’re an adult, participating in the summer reading program, then you know that you get extra drawing entries if you read a water related book. Here is a review of one book that would fit that description!

Review of Water for Elephants (4 out of 5 stars)

As a young man, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. It was the early part of the great Depression, and for Jacob, now ninety, the circus world he remembers was both his salvation and a living hell. A veterinary student just shy of a degree, he was put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It was there that he met Marlena, the beautiful equestrian star married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. And he met Rosie, an untrainable elephant who was the great gray hope for this third-rate traveling show. The bond that grew among this unlikely trio was one of love and trust, and, ultimately, it was their only hope for survival.

bubbles!

Come join us for Bubble Storytime on Tuesday, July 20th at 5:30!

We will read a few stories about bubbles and then create our own huge bubbles!

History, Romance, and the Paranormal

Reviewed by Abby DeVuyst (3 out of 5 stars)

If you are looking for something to do this summer, why not slip into a new world, created by Libba Bray. Her trilogy, starting with A Great and Terrible Beauty, is a surprising delight set in Victorian England, in the late 1800s. A headstrong and suppressed girl, named Gemma Doyle, is shocked to find that she has powers that allow her to enter a magical land, known as the realms. After being shipped off to boarding school, Gemma finds herself thrown into an unlikely friendship with three of her fellow classmates. The four girls find themselves thrust into the strange beauty of the realms, a land that holds as much danger as it does delight.

Deciding who to trust, the Rakshana (a mysterious brotherhood sworn to protect the natural world from the realms), or the Order (the group of woman who ruled the realms and its magic in the past), may be the least of her worries. With a chill coming from the forbidden winter lands and the looming of an unknown enemy Gemma must hurry to control her new powers. Before something terrible happens…