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Claim Your Summer Reading Prizes!

It is not to late to begin the Summer Reading challenge! You can still sign-up to participate on the ReadSquared app here.

You can begin claiming your Summer Reading Prizes in July!

Log on to READsquared, find the prize store, browse the prizes, and "buy" a prize of your choosing for 250 points!

Prizes will be prepared one time each week. Any orders in by Wednesday evening will be available for pick up inside LTPL on Friday morning!

Need help signing up for or logging minutes for our Summer Reading Challenge in READsquared? Check out our website here.

Upcoming Red Cross Blood Drive

The next Red Cross Blood Drive is coming up at LTPL on Tuesday, July 30, from 10:00am-4:00pm.

Donors of all blood types are needed! Donors should drink plenty of water the day before their donation.

Click HERE to schedule an appointment.

All donors who come to donate blood July 1–31 will get a Fandango Movie Ticket by email – which they can use to see the big-screen thrill ride TWISTERS! Donors who come to give in July will also be automatically entered for a chance to win a 2025 Ram 1500 Big Horn® Plus, presenting donors July 1–14 will also get a one-of-a-kind TWISTERS & Red Cross umbrella, while supplies last!

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Youth and Teen Events

Storytime @ the Library
Thursdays at 10:30am

MiLibrary Quest

Thursday, July 18

3:30-4:30pm

Family Game Day
Monday, July 22

11am-3pm or 3pm-7pm

Family Yoga
Tuesday, July 23, 3-3:45pm

Teen and Tween Yoga
Tuesday, July 23, 6:30-7:15pm

Evening Family Storytime
Thursday, July 25, 6:00-6:45pm

Pirate Science

with Sloan-Longway
Saturday, July 27

11am-12pm, 1-2pm, or 3-4pm

Lego Fun
Monday, July 29

1:30-3pm or 6-7pm

Paws For Reading
Wednesday, July 24

Timeslot available: 11:30-11:45am

Wednesday, July 31

Timeslots available: 7:30-7:45pm and 7:45-8pm

New or struggling readers in grades 1-5 are invited to sign up for a 15-minute "Paws for Reading" session with our local certified therapy dogs. Dogs are excellent listeners! The goal is to provide a non-judgmental atmosphere in which kids can read without correction or interruption and learn not just to read, but to love reading as well.
A handful of books will be available, but feel free to bring one from home. Each child will have one-on-one reading time.

Adult Events

Travel Talk: Bulgaria and

Balkan Wanderings

Wednesday, July 17, 7-8pm

Family Game Day

Monday, July 22, 11am or 3pm

Free Notary Service

Monday, July 22, 6-7pm

Amy McKechnie from Comerica Bank returns to offer evening hours for notary services. Please bring a photo id and do not sign your documents before arrival.

First-come, first-served in the large study room.

Genealogy Events

Genealogy Roundtable
Friday, July 26

2:00-3:30pm

All are welcome to come share their ideas, show genealogy treasures or tell us about a brick wall that they have encountered.

We all have a lot of experiences to share with each other!

Featured on Kanopy:

July is Disability Pride Month and marks the 1990 enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act. This curated collection of films on Kanopy honor those with disabilities and pay homage to those that support and care for these members of our communities.

Click here to browse the full collection.

Free Gun Locks at Oakland County Health Division

New Library Updates

LTPL has been hard at work on the plans for your new library! Please have a look at our updated floor plan and draft site plan. We are currently working on coordinating with utility companies, furniture selection, planning for new technologies, and so much more. We will be certain to share more information as soon as we can.

The Library Board and staff are thankful to our team - Quinn Evans Architects, Civil Engineering Solutions and Frank Rewold & Sons- for their dedication to the project.

Visit the Reimagine Your Library page on our website to stay up to date with the latest information as planning progresses.

And The Theme Is ......... *SUMMER*

Summer Romance
by Annabel Monaghan

A professional organizer whose own life is a mess, newly single mom Ali Morris meets a man who looks at her like she's a version of herself she hasn't been in a long while and decides there's no harm in a little summer romance—or is there?

One Summer : America, 1927
by Bill Bryson

The award-winning author of A Short History of Nearly Everything recounts the story of a pivotal cultural year in the United States when mainstream pursuits and historical events were marked by contributions by such figures as Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth and Al Capone.

The Complete Summer Cookbook : Beat the Heat With 500 Recipes That Make the Most of Summer's Bounty
by America's Test Kitchen (Firm)

A collection of seasonally inspired recipes, designed to minimize kitchen heat during the peak of the summer, shares instructions for preparing options ranging from North Carolina-Style Pulled Pork to Shrimp and White Bean Salad.

Join the Friends of the Library

Do you love reading, books and libraries? Help out our Friends' group!

What you can do:

Volunteer to organize all of the donations that are dropped off to the library
Assist in setting up the annual book sales 3 or 4x a year
Volunteer to run the book sales
Help recruit new Friends to the group
Share ideas for special events to fund raise and support the library!

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