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Storytime at Home via Zoom Join Miss Lori and Miss Erin LIVE on Zoom for storytime! Your toddlers & preschoolers can watch and interact with them each Tuesday at 10 am beginning September 8. Register to receive your invitation to join (a new passcode will be assigned each week). Pick up your Storytime at Home Kit beginning September 1. This great resource provides you with fingerplays, songs, & craft materials that go along with what will be presented. Due to copyright restrictions storytime will only be presented live and will not be recorded for later viewing.
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Hopeful: Living with Mental Illness and Hope Best-selling author Jared Garret will talk with us about finding hope, despite the effects of trauma or mental illness in your life. Teens & Adults welcome September 24, 6:30 -8:00 pm Robinson Park
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The Princess Bride Interactive Movie Night Quote along, sword fight, and laugh with one of the greatest Fairy Tale Movies of all time! Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, monsters, true love, miracles...there's something for everyone in the Princess Bride! September 18, 9:00 pm Robinson Park
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Remember the last day to pick up a Children's Summer Reading book prize (with your gold coin) is Monday, August 31.
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The annual Scary Story Contest sponsored by the Friends of the American Fork Library is coming soon! Entries will be accepted October 1-15 More information to come
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Overdue Fines We have not been charging overdue fines at our library since mid-March. Beginning September 1, overdue fines will be assessed on items returned late. Due to the necessity of quarantining returned items, there will be a 1 week grace period after the due date before overdue fines are added to your library account.
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This is My America
by Kim Johnson
Sending weekly letters to an organization she hopes will save her innocent father from death row, 17-year-old Tracy uncovers racist community secrets when her track star brother is wrongly accused of murder.
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September's Adult Reading Challenge Prompts
*Read a book guaranteed to bring you joy OR *Read a banned book Read one of the monthly reading prompts and enter our quarterly drawing for an Amazon gift card! Entries accepted by commenting on our social media posts about the challenge.
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Coral Edwards - Works at the Circulation, Children's & Reference desks assisting patrons with their needs
- Has worked at the American Fork Library for 7 years
- Likes to eat sushi and drink Dr. Pepper
- Likes to read all genres, but especially enjoys historical fiction
- Recommends A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- "I believe books and reading can open up worlds in a person's life. I've witnessed firsthand the joy and excitement in my children and grandchildren as they learn to talk and read by being read to. Libraries are an essential resource to assist in a person's education"
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