The final session in the Lunch and Learn series with the Alzheimer’s Association will be held on Wednesday, May 21 at Noon, please feel free to bring your lunch. “The Empowered Caregiver” will share information for communicating effectively and explain how dementia affects communication. The program also includes tips for communicating with family, friends and health care professionals. Plan to attend!
The library will host a “Read & Feed” discussion series this summer beginning with “A Man Called Ove” by Fredrik Backman at noon on Monday, June 9. Ove is probably the grumpiest man you will ever meet – people think him bitter, and he thinks himself surrounded by idiots. But the uplifting story is a gentle reminder that life is sweeter when shared with other people. The young adult novel “I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives” by Caitlin Alifirenka will be featured on July 7 and Barbara Allen Bogart’s “In Place: Stories of Landscape & Identity from the American West” will be featured on August 4. Stop by the library to register and pick up the first book. For more information stop by the library or call (307) 334-3490.
This year “Summer Crafting & Painting” begins on Wednesday, May 28 and continues on Wednesdays through June 25. Call the library to register your children! LegoTime will be held weekly on Tuesdays beginning May 27 through July 31 and Read with Delilah will also be held on Tuesdays at 2 p.m. through June 25. Several live performers are scheduled, many hosted by the Friends of the Library! Stop in and get the details.
“Murderous Reunion” is by Rusty Bradshaw, a former resident of Wyoming. Retired from law enforcement, Craig Reilly travels to his small hometown in Wyoming for a class reunion. When his classmates begin turning up dead under suspicious circumstances, he agrees to help the local sheriff’s department. Then his sister, Kathleen and his lady friend, Anna are taken and it becomes a race against time and the challenges of the Wyoming back country to save them.
Other new fiction books include “The Devil’s Kitchen: a Murder in Yellowstone” by Mark Thielman, “Land of Dreams” by Lauraine Snelling, “Elmer Kelton’s the Familiar Stranger” by Steve Kelton, “The Fisherman’s Gift” by Julia R. Kelly, “The First Mountain Man: Preacher’s Strike” by William W. Johnstone and “Flirting Lessons” by Jasmine Guillory.
New nonfiction books include “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains” by Nicholas G. Carr, “Story of a Murder: the Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen” by Hallie Rubenhold and “Code Name Pale Horse: How I Went Under Cover to Expose America’s Nazis by Scott Payne.
The Lenna Lewis Slagle Children’s Library has these new junior books “The Trouble with Sunshine” by Yamile Saied Mendez, “Resist: the Story of D-Day” by Alan Gratz, and the series “Vet Kids in Training” by Sue Skelding. Recent easy books include “Nellie’s Big Splash” by Cori Doerrfeld, “We Are Up a Tree” by Jeff Mack and “Richard Scarry’s Best Daddy Ever!: a Book for Busy, Busy Dads” by Richard Scarry.
“Memorial Day & Friends!” is the theme for Storyhour on May 20, 2025. Storyhour is held from 10 to 11 a.m. every Tuesday throughout the year for preschool-aged children. Call 307-334-3274 anytime to hear a recorded story! Dial-A-Story is sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
Have you visited the library’s website? Go to: https://niobraracountylibrary.org and click on WyldCat to browse the library’s collection as well as collections throughout Wyoming’s libraries. You can reserve items with your library card and PIN and initiate interlibrary loan borrows all in WyldCat! Stop by the library if you have questions!
Library hours are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Wednesday 12 p.m. to 7 p.m.