Fort Smith Public Library

📚Find your favorites at the Fort Smith Public Library!📚
Keegan is a big fan of 'Clifford, the Big Red Dog' -- what's on your TBR list for this summer?

Tuesday is NEW BOOK day! Here are new titles selected by “Shelf Awareness” that arrive in the book world* tomorrow, Tuesday June 9: -- *please note, new releases (if purchased) take time for processing before arriving to your library shelf.

* ‘Contrapposto: A Novel’ by Dave Eggers (Knopf, $32, 9780593803509) follows a lifetime friendship between two artists.

* ‘Daughters of the Sun and Moon: A Novel’ by Lisa See (Scribner, $29, 9781982117054) takes place in 1870s Los Angeles, where three Chinese women struggle to build lives.

* ‘A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America’ by Brook Wilensky-Lanford (Atlantic Monthly Press, $38, 9780802167347) is a history of the U.S. focused on religion and spiritual movements.

* ‘Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America's Future’ by Fergus M. Bordewich (Knopf, $35, 9780593803363) explores the country's centennial through the eyes of Rutherford B. Hayes, Alexander Graham Bell, railroad magnate Tom Scott, and sculptor Edmonia Lewis.

* ‘The Fourth Branch: How State Government Can Save Our Union’ by Daniel Squadron (Zando, $28.95, 9781638933854) looks to state governments to counteract dysfunctional federal leaders.

* ‘Rasputin Swims the Potomac: A Novel’ by Ben Fountain (Flatiron, $29.99, 9781250776549) is satire about a professional wrestler in the White House.

* ‘Villa Coco: A Novel’ by Andrew Sean Greer (Doubleday, $30, 9780385551977) focuses on a young man working for the elderly owner of a Tuscan villa.

* ‘Children of the Wild: A Novel’ by Kevin Powers (Harper, $30, 9780063488571) follows a trio of young people in rural Virginia as the U.S. enters World War I.

* ‘The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss’ by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris (W.W. Norton, $35, 9781324006848) is a guide not just to identifying birds, but how to identify with them.

* ‘The Traveler: One Man's Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris’ by Andrea Wulf (Knopf, $38, 9780593803400) is a biography of 18th-century naturalist George Forster.

* ‘Devils We Know’ by L.T. Thompson (Bloomsbury, $20.99, 9781547615230) is the final title in the YA historical fantasy duology, Devils Like Us.

* ‘Greatest Bedtime Story Ever’ by Jessie Sima (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665974523) is a picture book featuring an aspiring author who, while trying to find inspiration, finds a dragon instead.

Paperbacks:
* ‘Waist Deep: A Novel’ by Linea Maja Ernst, trans. by Nicolette Sherilyn Hellberg (S&S/Summit Books, $18, 9781668246085).

* ‘You Won't Forget Me: A Novel’ by Mazey Eddings (St. Martin's Griffin, $19, 9781250343840).

* ‘Baby in a Box: Stories’ by Sarah Braunstein (W.W. Norton, $19.99, 9781324051060).

🦖🦕Unearth a Story at the Windsor Drive Branch Library this Summer!📚🦕

For library location or directions, visit https://www.fortsmithlibrary.org/about-the-library/windsor-drive-branch

🎶This Wednesday at 2 PM at the Main Library!🎵

Kim is a published singer/songwriter and music educator from Kansas who has been using music to teach for decades. She creates joyful and hope-filled music that is great for the whole family. Check out some of her music https://www.youtube.com/ before the show, including a special song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDK8fKg22Rk created especially for this year's summer reading program! Please SHARE!

📚Need help finding a book?📚
Roll the Dice at the Main Library during the month of June!

🎲First, drop campaign dice into the dice tower located in the lobby at the Main Library.
🎲Second, based on the numbers on the dice, follow the instructions for a recommendation of genre, cover color, and the first letter of an author's last name.
🎲Finally, go on a quest to check out a book that fits the description!

For help finding your perfect book, visit with the staff at any FSPL location!

🍿Fun free family movies this Monday at the Dallas Branch Library! 📽️

⭐️10 AM - 'Dog Man' (PG)
⭐2 PM - 'A Minecraft Movie' (PG)

Enjoy these summer films on a 120-inch projector screen in a darkened room with a sound system and popcorn! For library location or directions, visit https://www.fortsmithlibrary.org/about-the-library/dallas-street-branch Please SHARE!

🦖This Monday from 3:30 - 5 PM at the Main Library! 🦕

Drop in for STEAM Team, a program for children ages 8-12 who have an interest in science, technology, engineering, art, and math. This month, the STEAM Team The STEAM Team will learn about fossils and create their own salt dough dinosaur fossils. For library location or directions, visit https://www.fortsmithlibrary.org/about-the-library/main-library Please SHARE!

🏆Congratulations to this week’s
Summer Reading Program winners!🏆

⭐Teen winner - Griffin Bright
⭐Adult winners - Patti Polk & Lindsey Schwartz.

🎂They all won a $20 gift card to Confectionately Yours. 🧁

Are you signed up yet? The Summer Reading Program is a FREE fun activity for kids, teens, and adults. Visit https://www.fortsmithlibrary.org/node/30350 to find out more and sign up, and you can be a winner too!

Reading is always more fun when you are doing it with a buddy💚! Make sure your BFF is signed up for our Summer Reading Program, so you can read together! Sign up at readerzone.com or download the Reader Zone app and use code c1672. This cute sign was created by Dallas Branch staff member Crystal Cordoba. Please SHARE!

Thanks to Crystal Bridges for bringing their Mobile Art Lab to our first Wonderful Wednesday of the summer! You can see some of these creative sculptures in person at Crystal Bridges this weekend when they celebrate their recent expansion. Don't miss another free cool event -- check out our library program schedule on our events page https://www.fortsmithlibrary.org/events