Chess League is back with online play Friday, February 5th at 4:00 p.m. Please register ahead of time by emailing childlib@gallupnm.gov.
Internet access will be needed for play on lichess.org.
Call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
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We READ, We TALK Book Club – Registration
Register at ofpl.online for a copy of The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones now through February 15th. The story follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives.
Zoom discussions will be held in March.
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
We READ, We TALK Book Club
We are reading Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse for our January session. Discussions will be held
- Thursday, January 21st at 6:00 p.m.
- Saturday, January 30th at 3:00 p.m.
Both sessions will take place via Zoom, participants must attend one (1) session to keep their book. Registered participants will receive in advance an email with instructions on how to log into Zoom sessions.
Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Cardholders can borrow the ebook or audiobook without waiting by visiting http://nm.lib.overdrive.com or downloading the Libby app.
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
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.
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.
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.
Money Club – March
Do you need assistance with finding funds for college expenses?
Join the Money Club at the Main Library on Friday, March 13th, and 27th between 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. for scholarship search based on academics, ethnicity and college majors to help pay for college expenses.
We will also be hosting a workshop to file your Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) which you need for most scholarships.
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
Manga Club: Drawing Manga Characters
Continue learning how to draw Manga characters, by learning how to draw clothing and poses at the Children’s Branch on Friday, March 13th at 4:00 p.m.
All supplies provided.
Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call 505-726-6120 for more information.
We READ, We TALK Book Club – March
The second and last discussion of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston will take place at the Main Library on Saturday, March 7th at 2:00 p.m. & Saturday, March 14th at 4:00 p.m.
As a girl, Kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother’s “talk stories.” The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother’s tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come.
Get ready for some great conversations, good food and tons of fun!
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.