After School Reading
Children from the Brooksville Elementary School and home school children are invited to join the library’s after school reading program. After a healthy snack, children are paired with adult volunteers to read and enjoy the library. Children must pre-register. For more information, contact Stephanie at stephanie@brooksvillelibrary.org
Fairy Garden Stake Workshops
On Saturday, May 4, the Brooksville Library will offer a workshop for people of all ages to create bright and whimsical garden stakes for your fairy garden, or any garden! The workshop will be led by library volunteer Connie Myrick. There are two workshop times, 10am and 1:30pm. Children are welcome to attend with an accompanying adult. No special skills are required and all supplies are provided.
The workshops are offered for free but space is limited and registration is required. To sign up, email Brook at brook@brooksvillelibrary.org or call the library at 207-326-4560.
After School Reading
Children from the Brooksville Elementary School and home school children are invited to join the library’s after school reading program. After a healthy snack, children are paired with adult volunteers to read and enjoy the library. Children must pre-register. For more information, contact Stephanie at stephanie@brooksvillelibrary.org
Readers' Cafe
Join other readers at the informal Readers’ Cafe where we discuss what we’re reading, what we loved, and what we didn’t like quite as much! Give and receive book recommendations and connect with your community at this monthly gathering. Readers’ Cafe takes place at 10am on the second Saturday of the month. All are welcome.
After School Reading
Children from the Brooksville Elementary School and home school children are invited to join the library’s after school reading program. After a healthy snack, children are paired with adult volunteers to read and enjoy the library. Children must pre-register. For more information, contact Stephanie at stephanie@brooksvillelibrary.org
After School Reading
Children from the Brooksville Elementary School and home school children are invited to join the library’s after school reading program. After a healthy snack, children are paired with adult volunteers to read and enjoy the library. Children must pre-register. For more information, contact Stephanie at stephanie@brooksvillelibrary.org
After School Reading
Children from the Brooksville Elementary School and home school children are invited to join the library’s after school reading program. After a healthy snack, children are paired with adult volunteers to read and enjoy the library. Children must pre-register. For more information, contact Stephanie at stephanie@brooksvillelibrary.org
After School Reading
Children from the Brooksville Elementary School and home school children are invited to join the library’s after school reading program. After a healthy snack, children are paired with adult volunteers to read and enjoy the library. Children must pre-register. For more information, contact Stephanie at stephanie@brooksvillelibrary.org
Readers' Cafe
Join other readers at the informal Readers’ Cafe where we discuss what we’re reading, what we loved, and what we didn’t like quite as much! Give and receive book recommendations and connect with your community at this monthly gathering. Readers’ Cafe takes place at 10am on the second Saturday of the month. All are welcome.
Readers' Cafe
Join other readers at the informal Readers’ Cafe where we discuss what we’re reading, what we loved, and what we didn’t like quite as much! Give and receive book recommendations and connect with your community at this monthly gathering. Readers’ Cafe takes place at 10am on the second Saturday of the month. All are welcome.
Author event: Roxana Robinson
Author Roxana Robinson will read from her latest book, Leaving, on Monday, July 15 at 6pm. Books will be available for sale and signing.
About the book, author Geraldine Brooks, says, “What does love demand of us, and who must pay the price? Leaving is a searing interrogation of honor and passion. It dissects the hidden cost of the choices we make, and the consequences with which we must endeavor to live.”
Roxana Robinson is the author of eleven books—seven novels, three collections of short stories, and the biography of Georgia O’Keeffe. Four of these were chosen as New York Times Notable Books, two as New York Times Editors’ Choices.
Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Best American Short Stories, The Southampton Review, Ep!phany and elsewhere. Her work has been widely anthologized and broadcast on NPR. Her books have been published in England, France, Germany, Holland and Spain.
Roxana Robinson has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation and the MacDowell Colony, and she was named a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library. Robinson has served on the Boards of PEN and the Authors Guild, and was the president of the Authors Guild. She has received the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers Award,” given by Poets and Writers, and the Award for Distinguished Service to the Literary Community from the Authors Guild. She teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College.
Author event: Lynn Spriggs
Author Lynn Spriggs will read from her new book, Elk Love: A Montana Memoir. Books will be available for sale and signing.
Having spent ten summers on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation near Glacier National Park, part of her doctoral fieldwork for a Ph.D. in Native American Art History at Columbia University, forty-two-year-old Lynne Spriggs thinks of Montana as her healing place. When she moves to “Big Sky Country” from the East Coast in a quest to reset her life, she has high hopes for what awaits her.
Great Falls, a farming and military town in central Montana, is not what Lynne imagined when she left city life behind. But her dream of being more connected to nature in the American West comes alive when she meets Harrison, a handsome rancher thirteen years her senior. Wary but curious, with her dog Willow by her side, she leans into the seasonal rhythms of his unfamiliar existence. In a modern world where listening is rare, Elk Love explores an intimate place where loneliness gives way to wonder, where the natural world speaks of what matters most.
While conducting research for her Ph.D. in Native American Art History from Columbia University in NYC, Lynn spent ten consecutive summers on northern Montana’s Blackfeet Indian Reservation. After moving to live in Montana, she curated a three-year project called Bison: American Icon, a major permanent exhibit for the C.M. Russell Museum on bison in the Northern Plains. For the past fifteen years, she has lived with her husband on a cattle ranch in an isolated Montana mountain valley east of the Rockies. Her life centers around writing, family, and animals—dogs, horses, and cattle—as well as elk, mountain lions, beavers, bears, and other species in the surrounding National Forest. The ranch’s old-growth grasslands also provide habitat for over ninety bird species. In 2021, O’Connor and her husband partnered with the National Audubon Conservation Ranching Initiative, utilizing regenerative grazing practices to help sustain this increasingly threatened habitat. Elk Love is her first memoir.
Readers' Cafe
Join other readers at the informal Readers’ Cafe where we discuss what we’re reading, what we loved, and what we didn’t like quite as much! Give and receive book recommendations and connect with your community at this monthly gathering. Readers’ Cafe takes place at 10am on the second Saturday of the month. All are welcome.
Readers' Cafe
Join other readers at the informal Readers’ Cafe where we discuss what we’re reading, what we loved, and what we didn’t like quite as much! Give and receive book recommendations and connect with your community at this monthly gathering. Readers’ Cafe takes place at 10am on the second Saturday of the month. All are welcome.
Readers' Cafe
Join other readers at the informal Readers’ Cafe where we discuss what we’re reading, what we loved, and what we didn’t like quite as much! Give and receive book recommendations and connect with your community at this monthly gathering. Readers’ Cafe takes place at 10am on the second Saturday of the month. All are welcome.
Readers' Cafe
Join other readers at the informal Readers’ Cafe where we discuss what we’re reading, what we loved, and what we didn’t like quite as much! Give and receive book recommendations and connect with your community at this monthly gathering. Readers’ Cafe takes place at 10am on the second Saturday of the month. All are welcome.
Readers' Cafe
Join other readers at the informal Readers’ Cafe where we discuss what we’re reading, what we loved, and what we didn’t like quite as much! Give and receive book recommendations and connect with your community at this monthly gathering. Readers’ Cafe takes place at 10am on the second Saturday of the month. All are welcome.
After School Reading
Children from the Brooksville Elementary School and home school children are invited to join the library’s after school reading program. After a healthy snack, children are paired with adult volunteers to read and enjoy the library. Children must pre-register. For more information, contact Stephanie at stephanie@brooksvillelibrary.org
Book Club
In April, we will discuss Ann Patchett’s book Tom Lake.
Everyone is always welcome at book club. We meet the 3rd Saturday of each month at 10am.
Readers' Cafe
Join other readers at the informal Readers’ Cafe where we discuss what we’re reading, what we loved, and what we didn’t like quite as much! Give and receive book recommendations and connect with your community at this monthly gathering. Readers’ Cafe takes place at 10am on the second Saturday of the month. All are welcome.
After School Reading
Children from the Brooksville Elementary School and home school children are invited to join the library’s after school reading program. After a healthy snack, children are paired with adult volunteers to read and enjoy the library. Children must pre-register. For more information, contact Stephanie at stephanie@brooksvillelibrary.org
Library Closed
The Town House building will be closed on Thursday, April 4. We apologize for the inconvenience.
After School Reading
Children from the Brooksville Elementary School and home school children are invited to join the library’s after school reading program. After a healthy snack, children are paired with adult volunteers to read and enjoy the library. Children must pre-register. For more information, contact Stephanie at stephanie@brooksvillelibrary.org
After School Reading
Children from the Brooksville Elementary School and home school children are invited to join the library’s after school reading program. After a healthy snack, children are paired with adult volunteers to read and enjoy the library. Children must pre-register. For more information, contact Stephanie at stephanie@brooksvillelibrary.org
Drop In Tech Help
Everyone is welcome to bring your tech troubles and devices to the library on Wednesday morning to get some help! We cannot fix all problems but we try our best to help out. Bring your devices, any relevant passwords, and your questions.
After School Reading
Children from the Brooksville Elementary School and home school children are invited to join the library’s after school reading program. After a healthy snack, children are paired with adult volunteers to read and enjoy the library. Children must pre-register. For more information, contact Stephanie at stephanie@brooksvillelibrary.org
Book Sale
This year, we’re hosting a spring book sale! All are welcome; there’s something for everyone. Books are by donation only. All proceeds benefit the library.
Readers' Cafe
The Readers’ Cafe is an informal monthly gathering of people who love to read! We discuss what we’ve read recently that we liked (or maybe didn’t like so much!) and give recommendations to one another. it’s a friendly group and a great way to get to know your neighbors.
Poetry Reading: Bea Gates
Join Brooksville-based poet Bea Gates as she reads from her new book, The Burning Key: 50 Years of Hope as Resistence. Books will be available for sale and for signing.
Drop In Technology Help
Bring your devices, your technology problems, and your password list (if necessary) and get some help. We can help with most problems but not all! First come, first served.
Children's Holiday Tea Party
Children of all ages are invited to a holiday tea! We will drink tea in fancy cups, eat delicious snacks, hear a holiday story or two, and make holiday crafts.
Book Club
Everyone is welcome to join the library’s monthly book club. We meet the 3rd Saturday of each month. In November, we will discuss Lily King’s 2020 novel, Writers & Lovers. If you need a copy of the book, contact Brook at brook@brooksvillelibrary.org