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We READ, We TALK Book Club

We READ, We TALK Book Club reading Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse for our January session.

Request your copy of the book and enter preferred meeting times.

Online Registration Form
Registration DEADLINE: DECEMBER 21ST, 2020

Registration is limited to 30 participants, but a waiting list is available.

Trail of Lightning
By Rebecca Roanhorse

While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters.

Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last—and best—hope. But what Maggie uncovers about the monster is much larger and more terrifying than anything she could imagine…MORE

Photo Courtesy: GoodReads

Online Registration Form
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 21ST, 2020

Registration is limited to 30 participants, but a waiting list is available.

Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Big Library Read

Borrow the featured title Reverie by Ryan La Sala with no waitlists or holds from our digital collection.

OFPL is connecting their patrons with millions of readers and a compelling young adult ebook during the next Big Library Read, the world’s largest digital book club. From November 2nd through 17th, readers’ secret dreams can become a reality when they borrow and read the debut novel Reverie from their public library.

Cardholders can borrow the ebook or audiobook without waiting by visiting http://nm.lib.overdrive.com or downloading the Libby app.

Read REVERIE on OverDrive HERE

Discuss Reverie Online HERE

Brief Synopsis:
Inception meets The Magicians in the most imaginative YA debut of the year!

All Kane Montgomery knows for certain is that the police found him half-dead in the river. He can’t remember how he got there, what happened after, and why his life seems so different now. And it’s not just Kane who’s different, the world feels off, reality itself seems different…MORE

READ THE FULL SYNOPSIS HERE

Reverie.
Publish December 2019.
By Ryan La Sala.

Cardholders can borrow the ebook or audiobook without waiting by visiting http://nm.lib.overdrive.com or downloading the Libby app.

Read REVERIE on OverDrive HERE

Discuss Reverie Online HERE

Author Ryan La Sala.
Photo Credit: Lauren Takakjian.
Circa November 2019.

Author Bio:
Ryan La Sala has always lived on the partition between the real and unreal. He writes about surreal things happening to real people, and his stories are almost always queer. His first book, Reverie, focuses on the worlds we build within ourselves—our dreams and our delusions—and how they warp our reality.

Learn More About the Author HERE

Cardholders can borrow the ebook or audiobook without waiting by visiting http://nm.lib.overdrive.com or downloading the Libby app.

Read REVERIE on OverDrive HERE

Discuss Reverie Online HERE

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Library Advisory Board Meeting

The public is invited to join virtually or by phone

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81501174844

LAB Meeting Agenda – 10.13.2020Download

AGENDA

Call to Order – Janet Tempest, Library Advisory Board Chair or designee

BUSINESS AGENDA

August 26, 2020 – Meeting Minute (action)

CONSENT AGENDA
(These items are placed on Consent Agenda so the Board may designate by unanimous consent these routine items they wish to be approved on one motion. If any item does not meet with the approval of all Board members or if a citizen so requests, it will be heard as a separate item)

August, 2020
• Cash Revenues Report (action)
• Circulation Statistics (action)

September, 2020
• Cash Revenues Report (action)
• Circulation Statistics (action)

Comments from the audience (limit of 5 minutes)

REPORTS of OFFICERS, BOARDS, STANDING COMMITTEES

• Library Updates – Tammi Moe (information/discussion)
• Friends of the Library Updates – Anne Price (information/discussion)

NEW BUSINESS

• Election of Officers (discussion/vote)
• Shared Drive for Library Advisory Board Materials (information)

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

• Design of Strategic Planning Process (discussion/action)
• Absentee Library Advisory Board Members (discussion)
• LAB Report for Council and Mayor (discussion/action)

Comments from Advisory Board

Adjournment

LAB Meeting Agenda – 10.13.2020Download

We READ, We TALK Book Club

Register below for a copy of Heart Berries by Therese Marie Mailhot now through October 9th.

A powerful, poetic memoir of a woman’s coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder…MORE.

Read the full synopsis HERE

Register for Book Club HERE

Get ready for some great conversations and tons of fun as we meet virtually! Zoom discussions will be held:

Thursday, October 22nd
at 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 31st
at 2:00 p.m.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Libraries Transform Digital Reading

OFPL joins public libraries nationwide in a digital reading program September 14th – 28th  by offering access to the same eBook for a two-week period through the Libraries Transform Book Pick.

The eBook selection is Lauren Francis-Sharma’s epic saga Book of the Little Axe. Ambitious and masterfully wrought, it is an incredible journey, spanning decades and oceans from Trinidad to the American West during the tumultuous days of warring colonial powers and westward expansion.

During the lending period, eBook copies will be available without waitlists or holds through U.S. public libraries using OverDrive. Readers will only need a library card and the Libby app to borrow and read the eBook.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.

Follow the Libraries Transform Book Pick on Facebook and Twitter and join the discussion on social media using the hashtag #LTBookPick.

Big Library Read

Borrow the featured title ‘The Darwin Affair’ by Tim Mason with no waitlists or holds from our digital collection August 3rd through 17th.

The Big Library Read is the world’s largest digital book club and gives us an opportunity to read the same digital title simultaneously. Join millions of others around the globe in reading this historical fiction thriller eBook or eAudiobook.

OFPL readers can solve the mystery of the Darwin Affair by visiting http://nm.lib.overdrive.com or downloading the Libby app. Readers can then discuss online at https://discuss.biglibraryread.com/. 

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.

*BONUS: Use #BigLibraryRead for a chance to win a Samsung Galaxy Tablet from @OverDriveLibs

We READ, We TALK Book Club – August

Register at ofpl.online for a copy of The Library Book by Susan Orlean now through August 7th. 

The story chronicles the Los Angeles Public Library fire and its aftermath.  Get ready for some great conversations and tons of fun as we meet virtually for the first time ever!

Zoom discussions will be held Thursday, August, 20th at 6:00 p.m. and Saturday, August 29th at 2:00 p.m.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.

Adult & Teen Summer Reading Bingo Card

Imagine Your Story this summer at OFPL! Adults and Teens can participate in Summer Reading by completing a Book Bingo card available on our website octaviafellin.libguides.com/srp2020. 

Win by completing a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line! Turn in your card and you’ll be entered into a weekly prize drawing – OR – complete all 25 squares (Blackout) for an even better prize!

Drop off your card inside our OFPL Book Drop or post a photo of your completed card to one of the Library’s social media channels using the hashtag, #OFPLBookBingo2020, Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter, @galluplibrary.

Entries must be received by 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 1st, 2020. Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.