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The Friends of the Lyon Township Public Library Book Sale is this Week!

The Friends of the Lyon Township Public Library Book Sale is back this week on Thursday, May 19 through Sunday, May 22!

Drop by the Lyon Township Public Library to browse the Friends of LTPL Book Sale, which takes place over four days. Gently used books, DVDs, and audiobooks are available at low prices. Find something for yourself, family, or friends! All proceeds go toward library events, collections, and special projects for our community to enjoy.

Book Sale Dates and Hours:

Thursday, May 19, 10am-8:30pm

Friday, May 20, 10am-4:30pm

Saturday, May 21, 10am-4:30pm

Sunday, May 22, 12pm-3:30pm

Volunteer for the Friends of LTPL Book Sale

Support the library by volunteering for the Friends of LTPL Book Sale or by becoming a Friend!

Are you interested in how you can support the Lyon Township Public Library? We are looking for volunteers to help set up, run and take down our Friends of the Library Book Sale from Thursday, May 19 through Sunday, May 22. Interested in organizing the sale and seeing items before anyone else? Interested in selling materials to our customers? Interested in taking down the sale and seeing what's left? We have a volunteer opportunity for you! Come in to the library to sign up, or sign up virtually here:

Do you love books, reading, and libraries? Consider joining the Friends of the Lyon Township Public Library as a volunteer and help organize donations, setup for book sales throughout the year, and plan and manage other special events to support the library!

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Summer Reading is Coming Soon!

Discover an Ocean of Possibilities this summer at LTPL!

This summer, when you join LTPL's Summer Reading Challenge, you can read, attend events, complete activities, earn points, and even win tons of cool prizes! Registration begins on June 1, with activities officially kicking off on June 18 to coincide with the end of school. Summer Reading concludes on August 31, 2022. Keep a look out this June so you can register yourself and your family members and start participating!

Upcoming Events

Youth

In-Person Legos with Librarians

Monday, May 23, 6pm.

Sprout a Seed Take-and-Make Kits

Tuesday, May 24, All Day.

Virtual Family Trivia: Bugs & Butterflies

Thursday, May 26, 6pm.

Teen

Virtual Teen Game Night

Thursday, May 19, 6:30pm.

On the first, third, and fifth Thursdays of each month, we host Teen Game Nights for grades 6-12. Teens from Clinton-Macomb, Fraser, Holly, Ionia, Lyon Twp, and Milan Libraries meet virtually to play games together online. We meet at 6:30pm on Zoom and all log into BoardGameArena to play. You'll need to create a free BoardGameArena account. Games are chosen based on whatever attendees want to play! Favorites include Just Desserts, Sushi Go, Incan Gold, Coup, and others.

Adult

Virtual

Michigan's Magnificent Spring

Migration

Wednesday, May 18, 6:30pm.

Virtual

Chef Val's Springtime

Lentil Asparagus and Escarole Dish

Thursday, May 19, 6:30pm.

In-Person and Virtual Understanding & Treating Hoarding Disorder

Tuesday, May 24, 7pm.

Genealogy

Virtual Researching Italian Civil Records and Church Records

Tuesday, May 17, 6:30pm.

In-Person

Genealogy Roundtable

Friday, May 27, 2pm.

LTPL Grows

In-Person and Virtual Plants on the Move - Container Gardening

Monday, May 16, 6:30pm.

Virtual Fabulous Fabaceae: Lesser Grown Legumes

Monday, May 23, 6:30pm.

Start Learning a New Language with Mango

Learning a language is easy with Mango Languages, provided by LTPL!

Mango Languages is a free language-learning app available to you through the library. Mango offers more than 70 foreign languages to explore.

Each language is composed of lessons which focus on the four key elements of language learning: vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and culture. With these elements at the core, each language lesson builds your skill with real situations and audio from native speakers.

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2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners

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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
by Winfred Rembert

The late celebrated artist tells his life story of growing up in the segregated south, joining the civil rights movement and surviving a near-lynching through a series of drawings and paintings.

The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
by Joshua Cohen

Mixing fiction with non-fiction, this wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity and politics follows a Jewish historian (but not an historian of the Jews) as he plays the reluctant host to an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition and his family.

Attend Our Next Library Board Meeting

Monthly Library Board Meeting
Tuesday, May 31, 7:00 PM
Lyon Township Public Library Community Center
Attend the monthly meeting of the Lyon Township Public Library Board of Trustees to stay informed about what's happening at LTPL.

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