March 2025 Newsletter

Springvale Public Library

 Announcements:


Tax season is upon us! We have federal forms in the lobby. We are happy to print any tax forms you require at the main desk. Copies are.25 per side for black and white and .50 per side for color. Taxes are due by April 15, 2025. The IRS strongly suggests e-filing as well as filing as early as possible to avoid identity theft. Visit the IRS website at IRS.gov for more tips to help.

 

 

Our 5th Annual Online Auction is in the works, and our fundraising group is working hard!  We welcome donations of experiences, gift baskets, and gift cards. Thank you for your support! Auction preview will be April 7-12 in the community room.


From the Staff:


We are less than 20 days until Spring, not that you can tell by looking out the window! Soon we'll be putting the snowshoes away for the year (fingers crossed) and bringing out the birding backpacks and yard games.


Spring also means new book releases! Spring and summer is when all the big authors get their newest books published. We have a weekly post on Facebook with our new releases. If you don’t already follow us on Facebook, now’s a great time to start!

This is the time of year where we are busy at work getting the Summer Reading Programs developed. The Summer Music Series is getting fine tuned, and we will have more details as the dates get closer. 

As the days get longer and the snow starts melting we look forward to seeing our friends that winter in warmer climates. We hope to see you all very soon!


Enjoy these last days of Winter!

   

Children's Programs


Mondays Baby Rhyme Time @ 10 Babies under 3 meet together with parents or caregivers for 20 minutes of rhymes, songs and books.


Mondays Lego Builders Club @ 3:30 in the Children’s Room. We provide the Legos and a challenge. Your creations are on display for the whole week!


Thursdays @ 10 Sensory Story Time for ages 3-6 will incorporate a visual schedule and sensory activities to support neurodiversity.


Home School Meet-up on Friday, March 14th join Miss Sheila for game hour. Bring your favorite board game to share. Feel free to ask her for assistance in finding books to support your curriculum.

Make it/Take it Craft Wednesday, March 12th from 2-5 in the children's room. We will be making a Shamrock craft. All materials will be provided. Suggested for ages 5-12.


Bundle up and Read! Prize week is March 3rd-8th. Come and get your prizes and return your backpacks.

Adult Programs


Knit Lits meets every Tuesday, from 3-4:30 in the Williams Reading Room. All fiber artists are welcome.


Cook the Book (program is currently full) meets on the 2nd Tuesday of the month in the community room at 5:30.On January 14th the group is choosing recipes from The Best of the Best from Indiana. If you would like to be added to the waiting list for this program please ask at the main desk.


Sam’s Book Club meets on the 1st Wednesday of each month at 5:30 in the community room. We will be discussing A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams. We will be reading The Guncle by Steven Rowley for our April discussion.


Want to play Cribbage? We have a newly formed group that is ready to play! Every Tuesday from 1-3 in the Williams Reading Room. You can watch, play or learn the game of cribbage. If you have a board feel free to bring it along!


Walking Sacred Sites with Margaret Jones Wednesday, March 19 @ 5:30. She will transport us to places she has visited in Wales, Scotland, England, Ireland, and Jordan. With compelling detail, Margaret narrates a lesser known history of these sacred places by touching stones, kneeling before holy wells and sensing the more invisible forces around her. She hears the whispers of the ancestors who once lived there and weaves magic into their deeper stories. Margaret is an award winning storyteller, workshop leader and travel guide. In her spare time she preforms, writes and continues her search for sacred places. 

 



Staff Picks


The Things We Leave Unfinished Rebecca Yarros *Sam

Clever Little Thing Helena Echlin *Sam and Dawn

 

Famous Last Words Gillian McAllister *Dawn and Lesley

Close Your Eyes and Count to 10 Lisa Unger *Dawn

The Many Lives of Mama Love Lara Hardin Love *Dawn


 Wayward Children Series Seanan McGuire *Kaity

Mixed-Up Kami Garcia *Kaity

The Stardust Grail Yume Kitasei *Kaity

All Our Wrong Todays Elan Mastai *Kaity

 

Penitence Kristin Koval *Lesley

 

The Author’s Guide to Murder Beatriz Williams *Sheila

 



Mark Your Calendars…


4/1 Cook the Book

4/2 Book Group

4/4 Auction Preview

4/14-4/20 Auction is Live

4/21 Closed for Patriots Day and Auction Pick Up Day

4/30 Book Group May Discussion

 



Some of our New Fiction Titles


 Toto A J Hackwith

 

Now or Never Janet Evanovich

 

The City and it’s Uncertain Walls Haruki Murakami

 

We Three Queens Rhys Bowen

 

On the Hunt Iris Johansen

 

Trial by Fire Danielle Steel

 

Hot Property Robert B Parker

 

The Mirror Nora Roberts

 

Identity Unknown Patricia Cornwell

 

Lies He Told Me James Patterson

 

The Waiting Michael Connelly

 

To Die For David Baldacci

 

An Age of Winters Gemma Liviero

 

Murder Island James Patterson

 

The Greatest Lie of All Jillian Cantor

 

What the Wife Knew Darby Kane

 

Society of Lies Lauren Ling Brown

 

Variation Rebecca Yarros

 

Havoc Christopher Bollen

 

 



Did you know….

 

That Women’s History Month started as Women’s History Week? President Jimmy Carter proclaimed the week of March 8th as Women’s History Week. It wasn’t until 1987 that congress    declared the month of March as Women’s History Month.

 




New Fiction Titles cont.

 

Rental House Weike Wang

 

Deadly Animals Marie Tierney

 

Golden Hour Stuart Woods

 

Definitely Better Now Ava Robinson

 

The House of Cross James Patterson

 

 

 

 Non-Fiction



Ghosts of Panama: A Strongman Out of Control, A Murdered Marine, and the Special Agents Caught in the Middle of an Invasion Mark Harmon

 

The New American Heart Association Cookbook

 

Android Smartphones for Seniors Marsha Collier

 

Iphone For Dummies Guy Hart-Davis

 

J.K. Lasser’s Your Income Tax 2025

 

My Mexican Kitchen: 100 Recipes Rich With Tradition, Flavor, and Spice Eva Longoria

 

Delicious Tonight Nagi Maehashi

 

A Kind Life: Eat Plants, Buy Less, Slow Down, and Save the Planet Carina Wohlleben

 

I will Scream to the World: My Story, My Fight, My Hope For Girls Everywhere Jaha Marie Dukureh

 

Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History Olivia Campbell

 

GED Test Prep 2025/2026 for Dummies