Watch for some PIE or DYE staff challenges throughout the summer!! July 2025 The challenge is on again this year, and, yes, I have (ahem) committed to the “Pie or Dye” (or something?) challenge if we reach 2,000 registrations in the Summer Reading program. The staff has already set their weekly challenges and are reaching goals. Can you believe the first week challenge between the youth services and the adult services staff came out in a tie? And the photo below is evidence of how serious the staff is about their team winning. Do I want us to reach the registration goal? Yes! Do I want to get a pie or dye? No! So it is all up to you - the patrons - to take action to get registered, get some great reading done, enjoy a few programs and even win some prizes along the way. My “Pie or Dye” future is in your hands. DIRECTOR’S NOTE Gary Branson PLENTY OF SUMMER LEFT FOR FUN Get registered, win prizes and take in great programs Our Color our World Summer Reading program is well underway and is reaching for a record amount of registrations. Our goal is to get 2,000 registrations and we are more than halfway there!! We would love to exceed that goal, and you can help us do so by making it a point to get yourself and your family members registered. Reading challenge logs with guidelines can be picked up at registration so you are able to enter to win prizes while reaching reading goals. Individuals can sign up anytime through July. Check out our online calendar for programs for all age groups, including family fun nights, teen cupcake decorating, mocktails for adults, story time and lapsit for babies, summer American Sign Language club, junk journaling, Dragon Training Academy and more... along with the usual programs everyone enjoys. Adults get extra entries into the drawings if they attend an adult program. Check it out on the next page or at MarionLibrary.org. A special thank you goes to the Greg and Janis Swepston Family Fund at Marion Community Foundation for their support to supplement the many engaging programs througout the summer. And another thank you goes to each of the community businesses who contributed prizes that are being given away to winners of the reading challenges. They are our community partners in making reading fun.
July 1 Fiction Book Discussion @ 6pm July 2 What can Libby do for you? @ 6pm July 3 Story Time! @ 10 & 11am July 4 Closed - Independence Day July 7 Lapsit Baby Time @ 11am TEEN Cupcake Decorating @ 5pm* July 8 Books in Focus @ 3pm Mocktail Summer Fun @ 5:30pm* July 9 Emergency Financial Planning: Protecting Your Family’s Future @ 5:30pm July 10 Story Time! @ 10 & 11am July 11 Babies Explore Senses! @ 2pm July 12 Pawtrait Perfection @ 10:30am* July 14 Lapsit Baby Time @ 11am Make a Minecraft Portrait @ 5:30pm July 15 Nonfiction Book Discussions @ 6pm July 16 Game Night @ 5:30pm* July 17 Story Time! @ 10 & 11am TEEN Trivia @ 2:30pm July 19 Summer ASL Club @ 10:30am July 21 Lapsit Baby Time @ 11am Shapes Evening Story Time! @ 5:30pm July 22 Book Show & Tell @ 3pm Create with Kristin @ 5:30pm* July 23 July Junk Journaling @ 5:30pm* July 24 Story Time! @ 10 & 11am July 26 D&D Crafts @ 12pm* July 28 Lapsit Baby Time @ 11am Dragon Training Academy Show @ 5:30pm July 29 Exploratory Art & Proper Disposal Awareness @ 5:30pm July 30 Family Fun Night: Bubble Wrap Pop Art @ 5:30pm July 31 Story Time! @ 10 & 11am *Registration required calendar of events https://www.marionlibrary.org/events *ALL - Registration and a fee required Adult Child/Teen ALL Digital Lit SITTING PRETTY FUNDRAISER RETURNS Local artist transform chairs and stools BookMarks Friends of Marion Public Library Sitting Pretty fundraiser offers five chairs, a bench made from two chairs and six stools to bid on this year. All pieces were transformed into pieces of art and some are based on books. Visit www.MarionOhBook Marks.org/SittingPretty or stop by the Library to see all of these beautiful pieces created by local artist. After finding the repurposed chair or stool you can’t live without, make your bid at app.galabid.com/sitting pretty2025/items. The virtual auction runs till July 31, so bid high and bid often to get your piece. Marion OHBookMarks.org. Scan to bid
FICTION: July 1 @ 6pm North Woods by Daniel Mason NONFICTION: July 15 @ 6pm The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt Find the 2025 Book Discussions List: www.MarionLibrary.org/bookdiscussions Full video on our Library YouTube channel at: https://youtu.be/cpYMHfJJIb8 book discussion Stop by, pick up a book, read and join the discussion. books in focus Check out the new titles hitting our shelves within the month of July. The next author hosted by Marion Public Library will be Michael Koryta (Scott Carson), a New York Times-bestselling author. Koryta is a former private investigator and newspaper reporter who graduated from Indiana University with a degree in criminal justice. Many of his books have been translated into more than 20 languages and he has won, or been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Edgar Award, Shamus Award, Barry Award, Quill Award, International Thriller Writers Award, and the Golden Dagger. You may also recognize him as Scott Carson, his pseudonym name. Michael feels most writers secretly desire another identity. He is one of many authors who write under multiple names. His reasoning is to fulfill a lifelong fantasy of having a name that could be spelled and easily pronounced. His 2024 release, Lost Man’s Lane, was under Scott Carson. The next release, Departure 37, due in 2025, will also be under the Scott Carson name. Stop by the display table just inside the front doors of the Library to see the display of many of the great books he has written. Check out a few of his books, read them and then join us August 14 to hear the author talk. Copies of his books will be available for purchase the night of the event. For updates on 2025 IN THE AUTHOR’S VOICE SERIES, visit MarionLibrary.org/AuthorSeries KORYTA NEXT AUTHOR TO VISIT The Author Series continues August 14 Michael Koryta (aka Scott Carson) NEW TEEN HEALTH DATABASE Access to start August 1 We are excited to announce a new database offering for our teen patrons: Teen Health and Wellness. This database provides middle and high school students with up-to-date nonjudgmental, curricular, and self-help support. Articles written for teens cover a variety of topics including: self-esteem; mindfulness; relationship skills for friendships, dating, and family life; grief; body care; and much more. The database also features a page called “The Calm Room,” which is a curated collection of tools to help users relax, de-stress, and refocus. With an interface of primarily blues and greens, The Calm Room contains videos of falling leaves and a peaceful lake, rain sounds and a crackling fireplace, a kitten rescue cam, and links to mindfulness apps and podcasts. Even adults can benefit from visiting the Calm Room! Access to the Teen Health and Wellness database will begin August 1 and patrons will use their MPL card number to log in. To access all of MPL’s databases, visit: MarionLibrary.org/dbases
Kristinne: New England school, highly academic, mysterious with secrets/rituals, students get no outside contact, characters brought together by their struggles, strange tension, indulgent lifestyles, topics of ambition, and longing facebook.com/mplohio instagram: @MarionPublicLib twitter: @MarionPublicLib youtube: @MarionPublicLibraryOhio linkedin: @MarionPublicLibraryOhio Marion Public Library 445 East Church Street Marion, Ohio 43302 740-387-0992 MarionLibrary.org Board of Directors Malcolm Goodman, President Phyllis Butterworth Patrick Carey Jennifer Donelson Blake Gates Dana Martin Leslie Schneider Gary Branson Executive Director Patrick: early 20th century England historical fantasy. Clover is a student whose brother has been cursed as he returns from WWI. Pursues a magic school to help her brother, finds friends along the way #staffRA Gary Butler: Quentin is a gifted, awkward student accepted to an elite school of magic. The reader gets to know Quentin and his friends and their skills. Students are eventually led to a deadly land to save a friend. Serious, gothic feel Susan: contemporary fantasy, families protecting magical libraries. Separated sisters who strive to protect the family’s books. Intricately plotted, intensifying pace, complex sympathetic characters https://youtu.be/xfu86aLz-JU Watch more extensive reviews on our YouTube channel. Coming soon! Check out a full list of books at MarionLibrary.org. Please remember you can always place a hold if the book has not arrived yet or is currently checked out. new for young readers BOOKMARKET OFFERING BLIND DATES You never know what you may end up loving. Thank you to BookMarket volunteer, Jean Smith, for supplying the BookMarket display table with an ongoing collection of “blind dates!” She put together a number of mysterious selections, covered them and added a few little gifts in the pockets. The descriptions on the outside give you a clue as to what you might be reading. Check them out and see if one fits your reading style. Pick one up for a creative, adventurous friend who needs a birthday gift. The BookMarket is open Mon.- Thurs., 10am - 4pm, Sat 10:30am - 1:30pm and are always looking for volunteers who want to give a couple of hours a week or month. Visit www.Marion OhBookMarks.org to find an application, or stop by the market and ask for a volunteer application. Ash: Final in the trilogy, characters clash, emotionally tense, enemies-to-lovers sub-plot. Lots of conflict. Magicians meets Umbrella Academy in this contemporary dark academia romantasy
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