September 2024 Staff Picks
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Upcoming Programs
Computer Classes
We offer Computer Classes on various topics every month! All classes are free with no registration required. Click here to view our schedule of upcoming computer classes for adults.
Our Seed Library
Our Seed Library is located in the Mountain View Room of the library. We provide seeds and planting, growing, and harvesting resources for our community. For more information and a seed guide, click here.
Library Clubs
Let’s Quilt!
Love to quilt? Bring your own supplies and enjoy the company of other quilters. Enjoy a place for adults to quilt for a couple hours. Meets the 3rd Monday of each month (4th Monday when the Library is closed for a holiday) from 1:30 – 3:30 PM.
Apache Junction Writers Group
Share your writing talents, creativity and ideas in a comfortable atmosphere. Meets the 1st Thursday of the month from 1 – 3 PM and the third Tuesday of the month from 6 – 8 PM.
Open Art Group
Bring your own supplies; drop-in. Meets every Tuesday from 9:30 – 1 PM.
Wild West Crochet Club
Bring your materials and join this fun group! Meets every Saturday from 1-4 PM.
Book Clubs
The Library is proud to host multiple book clubs that are active October – March. If you run or attend your own, try checking out a Book Club Kit!
Books & Brews
Meets May-October, the 3rd Thursday at 6:30 PM at The Handlebar Pub & Grill (650 W Apache Trail).
Non-Fiction Book Club
Meets October-March, the 1st Tuesday at 1:30 PM. October– Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me by Bill Hayes
November – The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin’s Propaganda War by Alan Philps
December – Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness
January – What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
February – A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
March – My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds by Hannah Pick-Goslar
Dying for a Mystery Book Club
Meets October-March, the 3rd Tuesday at 1:30 PM.
October– Cyanide and Sensibility by Katie Oliver
November – The Dead Guy Next Door by Lucy Score
December – Treasure State by C.J. Box
January – Cold, Cold Bones by Kathy Reichs
February – A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
March – Winter’s End by Paige Shelton
Classic Book Club
Meets Sept- April, the 4th Tuesday at 1:30 PM.
September– Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
October– Light in August by William Faulkner
November – A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
December – A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
January – Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
February – The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
March – The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
April– Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad