Hamden Public Library at 3 locations: Miller Memorial Central Library ∙ 2901 Dixwell Avenue ∙ 287-2680 Brundage Community Branch ∙ 91 Circular Avenue ∙ 287-2675 Whitneyville Branch ∙ 125 Carleton Street ∙ 287-2677 and on the web at: www.hamdenlibrary.org H AMDEN L IBRARY N EWS 2019 Summer Reading Edition Volume 12, Issue 3 All locations are closed Thursday, July 4 and Monday, September 2. Branch Libraries will be closed Saturdays July 6 – August 31. ‘Out of This World’ Activities Encourage Children’s Summer Reading in Hamden This year Hamden Public Libraries’ summer reading program, designed to serve as a means for maintaining children’s reading skills during the long summer hiatus from their classrooms, ex- plores the reaches of space with its S.T.E.M.- based theme, “Universe of Stories”. Beginning June 12 children may register to participate in the summer-long program at any of the three Hamden Public Library locations or on the library’s website www.hamdenlibrary.org. Reading progress can be tracked on our special reading logs or online. Not-yet-readers can log time they are read to. Prizes and raffle tickets are awarded as reading goals are accomplished. Stu- dents who choose to keep reading can come to the library for a special second tracker sheet and earn more chances to enter the raffle. Raffle winners will be announced on August 15th at the summer reading finale. During the summer months the library will offer a variety of fun and educational programs including Connecticut Water Authority’s Bubble Pro- gram, Rocket Science with Jane Copes and the return of the Llama in the Library at Miller Library, The Se- cret Lives of Owls and the CT Water Authority’s Slime Program at Brundage Community Branch and Science Outside the Box and Alien Cartooning at Whitneyville Branch. (A complete program list is in- cluded in this newsletter.) All programs are free and open to all, but registra- tion is required. Register online at hamdenlibrary.org or call the appropriate branch for the programs in which you wish to participate.
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Hamden Public Library at 3 locations: Miller Memorial Central Library ∙ 2901 Dixwell Avenue ∙ 287-2680
Brundage Community Branch ∙ 91 Circular Avenue ∙ 287-2675 Whitneyville Branch ∙ 125 Carleton Street ∙ 287-2677
and on the web at: www.hamdenlibrary.org
HAMDEN L IBRARY NEWS 2019 Summer
Reading Edition
Volume 12, Issue 3
All locations are closed
Thursday, July 4 and
Monday, September 2.
Branch Libraries will be closed
Saturdays July 6 – August 31.
‘Out of This World’ Activities Encourage Children’s Summer Reading in Hamden
This year Hamden Public Libraries’ summer reading program, designed to serve as a means for maintaining children’s reading skills during the long summer hiatus from their classrooms, ex-plores the reaches of space with its S.T.E.M.-based theme, “Universe of Stories”.
Beginning June 12 children may register to
participate in the summer-long program at any of
the three Hamden Public Library locations or on
the library’s website www.hamdenlibrary.org.
Reading progress can be tracked on our special
reading logs or online. Not-yet-readers can log
time they are read to. Prizes and raffle tickets are
awarded as reading goals are accomplished. Stu-
dents who choose to keep reading can come to the
library for a special second tracker sheet and earn
more chances to enter the raffle. Raffle winners
will be announced on August 15th at the summer
reading finale.
During the summer months the library will
offer a variety of fun and educational programs
including Connecticut Water Authority’s Bubble Pro-
gram, Rocket Science with Jane Copes and the return
of the Llama in the Library at Miller Library, The Se-
cret Lives of Owls and the CT Water Authority’s
Slime Program at Brundage Community Branch and
Science Outside the Box and Alien Cartooning at
Whitneyville Branch. (A complete program list is in-
cluded in this newsletter.)
All programs are free and open to all, but registra-
tion is required. Register online at hamdenlibrary.org
or call the appropriate branch for the programs in
The Hamden Public Library, the community’s information center, provides a variety of library resources, access to innovative
technology and a knowledgeable staff to improve the quality of life and meet the informational, educational and cultural
interests of the entire Hamden community.
Hot Flashes!!! New books by your favorite authors coming in July and August. Reserve a copy today.
David Baldacci One Good Deed Daniel Silva The New Girl Nora Roberts Under Currents The Welcoming Debbie Macomber Window on the Bay Catherine Coulter Labyrinth Richard Russo Chances Are… Linda Castillo Shamed Spencer Quinn Heart of Barkness A. McCall Smith The Second Worst Restaurant in France Nancy Thayer Surfside Sisters Mercedes Lackey Eye Spy Colson Whitehead Nickel Boys Iris Johansen Smoke Screen Beatriz Williams The Golden Hour Stephen Hunter Game of Snipers Johanna Lindsey Temptation’s Darling Miranda James The Pawful Truth David Rosenfelt Bark of Night Fiona Davis Chelsea Girls
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child Old Bones J.R.Ward Blood Truth Karin Slaughter The Last Widow James Patterson The Inn The Warning Danielle Steel The Dark Side Ruth Ware The Turn of the Key C.J. Box The Bitterroots Robert Crais A Dangerous Man Stuart Woods Contraband Susan Wiggs The Oysterville Sewing Circle Fern Michaels Cut and Run Rhys Bowen Love and Death Among the Cheetahs Philippa Gregory Tidelands Sandra Brown Outfox Linda Howard After Sundown Candace Bushnell Is There Still Sex in the City? Donna Andrews Terns of Endearment
Winners of the 2019 Thornton Wilder Writing Contest
