JULY 2024

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LITKIT (A BOOK SUBSCRIPTION BOX)

To participate in this subscription service, you must be between the ages of 13-25 and have a DPLS library card. There will be library books in the box that will need to be checked out to your library card.


Only 10 boxes will be available. You will be placed on a waiting list if registration is full.


The box will be ready for pick up by the first of the month. You will receive an email notifying you that the box is ready for pick up.


If the box is not claimed by the seventh of the month, it will go to the next person on the waiting list.


Most everything in this box is yours to keep, we just ask that you return the two library books and box by the 25th of the month to any DPLS location.


This is a three month subscription. After the subscription period is over, you will need to sign up again to receive more boxes. 



Any questions, contact Pam at prellstab@defiancelibrary.org.

ALL BOXES HAVE BEEN SPOKEN FOR: JOIN THE WAITLIST

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Spend your summer at the beach.


Our Way Back to Always by Nina Moreno

You Have a Match by Emma Lord

We Were Liars by e. lockhart

Never Coming Home by Kate Williams

The Edge of Summer by Erica George

The Reunion by Kit Frick

The Rest of the Story by Sarah Dessen

When the Stars Lead to You by Ronni Davis

When We Had Summer by Jennifer Castle

The Lifeguard by Deborah Blumenthal

One With the Waves by Vezna Andrews

READ SOMETHING NEW

Check out the New Shelf at Defiance and read something new.


Breakup Artists by Adriana Mather

Heiress Takes All by Emily Wibberley

Quelling by C.L. Lauder

All Roads Lead to Rome by Sabrina Fedel

Of Jade and Dragons by Amber Chen

Calculation of You and Me by Serena Kaylor

Bad Graces by Kyrie McCauley

How to Get Over Your (Best Friend's) Ex by Kristi McManus

Six More Months of June by Daisy Garrison

Past Present Future by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Wilderness of Girls by Madeline Claire Franklin

Seasick by Kristin Cast

Six of Sorrow by Amanda Linsmeier

We Shall Be Monsters by Tara Sim

Two Sides to Every Murder by Danielle Valentine

Girls Like Her by Melanie Sumrow

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BOOK OF THE MONTH

On Thursday, July 18 at 5:00 PM Mindy McGinnis will be at Defiance Public Library discussing her new book Under this Read Rock. In honor of this momentous occasion, we should all pick up this book at read it this month.


"Neely’s monsters don’t always follow her rules, so when the little girl under her bed, the man in her closet, and the disembodied voice that shadows her every move become louder, she knows she’s in trouble.


With a history of mental illness in her family, and the suicide of her older brother heavy on her mind, Neely takes a job as a tour guide in the one place her monsters can’t follow—the caverns. There she can find peace. There she can pretend to be normal. There . . . she meets Mila.


Mila is everything Neely isn’t—beautiful, strong, and confident. As the two become closer, Neely’s innocent crush grows into something more. When a midnight staff party exposes Neely to drugs, she follows Mila’s lead . . . only to have her hallucinations escalate.


When Mila is found brutally murdered in the caverns, Neely has to admit that her memories of that night are vague at best. With her monsters now out in the open, and her grip on reality slipping, Neely must figure out who killed Mila . . . and face the possibility that it might have been her.


Award-winning author Mindy McGinnis delivers a powerful psychological thriller, deftly exploring the dark places in the earth and the human mind, where what is real and imaginary isn’t so easily distinguishable." - Goodreads


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SUMMER READING BOOK LIST

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The Collaborative Summer Library Program has compiled a list of books for your summer reading enjoyment.


Here are just few of the selected titles.


Promise Boys by Nick Brooks

Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin

Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez

Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

CHECK OUT THE COMPLETE LIST

100 BOOKS BEFORE GRADUATION

Defiance Public Library System is challenging area high school students to finish 100 books before they turn the tassel. The 100 Books Before Graduation Challenge is ongoing, and geared to students in grades 9-12.


Students can easily log reading online using the Beanstack platform, or by downloading the Beanstack Tracker app for easy, on-the-go tracking. The app is available in the Apple and Google Play stores.

100 BOOKS BEFORE GRADUATION
DEAR YA READERS

We created a Padlet called Dear YA Readers for those who love to read and discuss YA books!


Some topics of discussion include:

  • new YA books
  • currently reading
  • Book of the Month


Join in the discussion with fellow YA aficionados.

DEAR YA READERS
SQUEEZY McSQUEEZY

Hello there my dearest lemony friends,


Summer has been fantastic here, but...


Can you believe it?! Pam took us to all of these events, but left us in the cart! We had to watch all of the fun from afar.


Let's hope she doesn't forget to take a picture of us again.


Love,


Squeezy


P.S. Hope your summer is exactly what you hoped it would be! Stay awesome my friends.

Secrets of the Nile Lock-In at Sherwood Branch Library. Group Shot.

Making bracelets.

Introduction of game play.

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Discussing hippos.

Dinner after a disastrous trip to Philae Island.

Will the group survive their trip to Egypt?

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