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Blind Date with a Book

The Library is celebrating Valentine’s Day by playing matchmaker! 

You shouldn’t always judge a book by its cover.  Put your trust in fate and choose a book without knowing the title.

Requests for blind dates can be made using the Supply Request Form at ofpl.online.  Maybe you will fall in love!  Place a request for a blind date with a book starting February 1st and then rate it by filling out the “Rate the Date” card included with each book. 

Return the card to the book drop by March 15th and be entered in a drawing to win a prize.  Post a picture with your blind date on our Facebook or Instagram pages @galluplibrary for a second entry into the drawing. 

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

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

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.

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.

Mini Horror Story Art Challenge

Need some inspiration to create Halloween art?

Contact OFPL to receive a FREE book with a random mini-story based in the Southwest.

Request a FREE Southwest book

Read the story and transform it into a dark, or terrifying work of art. All art mediums welcome! The deadline for submissions is Saturday, October 31st, and can be emailed to jwhitman@gallupnm.gov in a .PDF, .JPG, or .PNG file format.

Free mini-story books are available on a first-come, first-serve basis and can be requested through the Online Request Form for curbside delivery. Participate for a chance to win a Halloween gift basket and other prizes!

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

Create Your Own Memes

FREE computer classes. Registration is not required but is available for anyone who wants to participate in the live stream course. Completion certificates available for live stream classes.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30th AT 4:00 P.M.

You’ve read them, laughed at them, and even shared them. Memes are a great way to make statements, entertain, and more. So why not make your own? Learn how in this session.

Classes will be available on OFPL social media channels @galluplibrary.

Email libtrain@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