The public is invited to attend the Library Advisory Board (LAB) monthly meeting LIVE on Zoom September 15th at 5:00 PM.
Join the Zoom Meeting at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88992307025 or at Meeting ID: 889 9230 7025.
Email tmoe@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Register below for a copy of Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo now through July 30th.
Anna is at a stage of her life when she’s beginning to wonder who she really is. She has separated from her husband, her daughter is all grown up, and her mother—the only parent who raised her—is dead. Searching through her mother’s belongings one day, Anna finds clues about the African father she never knew.
Zoom discussions will be held in August or in person at the Main Library. Refreshments will be served!
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood is the next We READ, We TALK Book Club read. Book Club discussions will be held on June 25th at 2:00 PM on Zoom or at The Octavia Fellin Public Library.
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
As the daughter of a meth dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. Struggling to raise her little brother, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible “adult” around. She finds peace in the starry Midwestern night sky above the fields behind her house. One night everything changes when she witnesses one of her father’s thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold, wreck his motorcycle. What follows is a powerful and shocking love story between two unlikely people that asks tough questions, reminding us of all the ugly and wonderful things that life has to offer.
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood is the next We READ, We TALK Book Club read. Book Club discussions will be held on June 14th at 6:00 PM on Zoom or at The Octavia Fellin Public Library.
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
As the daughter of a meth dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. Struggling to raise her little brother, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible “adult” around. She finds peace in the starry Midwestern night sky above the fields behind her house. One night everything changes when she witnesses one of her father’s thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold, wreck his motorcycle. What follows is a powerful and shocking love story between two unlikely people that asks tough questions, reminding us of all the ugly and wonderful things that life has to offer.
OFPL’s Book Club is reading Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings―asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass―offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices.
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Borrow the featured title The Quiet Girl by S. F. Kosa with no waitlists or holds from our digital collection.
OFPL is connecting their patrons with millions of readers during the next Big Library Read, the world’s largest digital book club. From Monday, June 28th to Monday, July 12th, readers can solve a compelling mystery in S.F. Kosa’s debut thriller, The Quiet Girl, eBook from their public library.
Card holders can borrow the ebook without waiting by visiting Overdrive or downloading the Libby app. Readers can then discuss online at Big Library Read Discussion Forum.
Use #biglibraryread on social media, for a chance to win a Samsung Galaxy Tablet and signed book by the author.
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
OFPL’s Book Club is reading Canyon Dreams: A basketball season on the Navajo Nation by Michael Powell.
The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the great and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations.
Zoom discussions will be held:
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Join us LIVE on Facebook, @galluplibrary on Saturday, May 29th at 3:00 p.m. for a panel discussion featuring 7000 BC, a New Mexican independent comics organization, and AIGA New Mexico, the professional association for graphic design.
Translating a written story into a visual language can be done in many different ways. In this panel discussion graphic designers, illustrators, and comics creators elaborate on different methods to translate stories.
Email aprice@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Learn more about these groups at newmexico.aiga.org and 7000bc.org
OFPL’s Book Club is reading The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones.
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:
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
OFPL’s Book Club is reading The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones.
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:
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.