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From the library... As the school year comes to a close, we invite you to get your summer started early and join us as we partner with community groups to offer you lots of fun activities. Our Pop-Up Library will be at Southern Pines on Saturday, May 14, from 10:00 -1:00 for the "Great American Outdoors and Fun Run" presented by LCBOE, DLCRA, and Literacy in Laurens partners. You don't want to miss the fun! The library will be providing story times, crafts, and a scavenger hunt. We hope you will also join us at the Market on Madison on Saturday, May 21, from 1:00 - 4:00 for the "Dive into Summer Celebration & Resource Fair” hosted by the Laurens County Family Connection Collaborative & the Heart of Georgia Healthy Start Coalition. Bring the whole family to enjoy food, jump houses, community resources, and more! It’s almost time to register for our Summer Reading Program. This year’s theme is “Ocean of Possibilities,” and we can’t wait to see what you discover! The program is open to children, teens, and adults. Registration begins May 27th.
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Mechatronics Monday Every Monday @ 3:30 PM In the Multi-Purpose Room Drop by our open LEGO technic lab. Build with LEGO gears, motors, and more! Learn coding, too. Ages 10+ recommended. ★The Library will be closed Monday, May 30th for Memorial Day
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Bingo For Books
Monday, April 16th @ 10:30 AM In the Auditorium Come play bingo at the library! You could win books and more! Coffee will be served.
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Summer Pruning Thursday, May 26th @ 5:30pm In the Auditorium Come learn tips and tricks to prune your shrubs and trees this summer for healthy, vigorous plants. Check out previous sessions of the Yard & Garden series here.
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Library Closed for Memorial Day Monday, May 30th The library will reopen on Tuesday, May 31st at 9am.
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Eyes that Kiss in the Corners
by Joanna Ho
A young Asian girl notices that her eyes look different from her peers but by drawing from the strength of the powerful women in her life, she recognizes her own beauty and discovers a path to self-love and empowerment.
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Meet Yasmin!
by Saadia Faruqi
In this compilation of four separately published books, Pakistani American second grader Yasmin learns to cope with the small problems of school and home, while gaining confidence in her own skills and creative abilities.
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Half A World Away
by Cynthia Kadohata
Twelve-year-old Jaden, an emotionally damaged adopted boy fascinated by electricity, feels a connection to a small, weak toddler with special needs in Kazakhstan, where Jaden's family is trying to adopt a "normal" baby.
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Front Desk
by Kelly Yang
After emigrating from China, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel, despite the nasty owner, Mr. Yao, who exploits them, while she works the front desk and tries to cope with fitting in at her school.
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They Called Us Enemy by 1937- Takei, GeorgeTakei's firsthand account of years spent in a Japanese concentration camp, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future.
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American Panda
by Gloria Chao
Struggling with guilt stemming from her parents' cultural expectations about her future as a proper wife and doctor, a 17-year-old Taiwanese-American college freshman hides the truth about her germ phobia and her crush on a Japanese classmate before reconnecting with her brother, who is estranged from the family for dating the wrong woman.
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Whereabouts
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Questioning her place in the world, a woman, wavering between stasis and movement, loneliness and connection, finds her life forever changed during one day at the beach under the sun's vital heat.
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Sigh, Gone : A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In by Phuc TranIn 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran immigrates to America along with his family. By sheer chance they land in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a small town where the Trans struggle to assimilate into their new life. In this coming-of-age memoir told through the themes of great books such as The Metamorphosis, The Scarlett Letter, The Iliad, and more, Tran navigates the push and pull of finding and accepting himself despite the challenges of immigration, feelings of isolation, teenage rebellion, and assimilation, all while attempting to meet the rigid expectations set by his immigrant parents.
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Minor Feelings : An Asian American Reckoningby Cathy Park HongAsian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor black enough, unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity. In the popular imagination, Asian Americans are all high-achieving professionals. But in reality, this is the most economically divided group in the country, a tenuous alliance of people with roots from South Asia to East Asia to the Pacific Islands, from tech millionaires to service industry laborers. How do we speak honestly about the Asian American condition--if such a thing exists? Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively confronts this thorny subject, blending memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the truth of racialized consciousness in America.
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