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Summer Celebration 🎉
Summer is in full swing at the library in July!
On Thursday, July 25th from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM we'll host our annual Summer Celebration event.
This year's celebration will feature traditional favorites like Culver's custard and the Milwaukee Brewers Famous Racing Sausages as well as new features like Pete's Pops, bubbles and music from DJ Kid Boogie Down.
Rain or shine, come celebrate the best of summer with your friends, neighbors, and favorite library staff members.
This event is generously sponsored by the Lange Bequest.
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Author Visit with
Lucy Knisley
Join us Wednesday, July 3rd from 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM for an author visit with critically acclaimed and award-winning comic creator Lucy Knisley. We'll have an exciting afternoon including an author talk, drawing demo, book signing and pet-portrait raffle!
Lucy Knisley specializes in personal, confessional graphic novels and travelogues. Her work includes Relish and Kid Gloves, and her indie-bestselling Peapod Farm series.
Registration is required.
Click Here to Register
Thank you to our co-sponsor for this event, Boswell Book Company!
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Terrific Tuesday:
Milwaukee Steve
On Tuesday, July 9th from 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM we'll host a Terrific Tuesday family performance by multi-talented Milwaukee Steve!
Join us in the Shorewood Village Center for a wonderful afternoon of juggling, jokes, magic and silly songs. No registration is required.
Terrific Tuesdays are funded by the Friends of the Shorewood Public Library.
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Terrific Tuesday:
Community Mural
Join us Tuesday, July 23rd from 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM for a very creative Terrific Tuesday family program!
We'll host an interactive activity for kids and adults alike in creating a Community Art Mural. The Shorewood Waters Project, an initiative of the Shorewood Department of Public Works, will be working in collaboration with local artist Anna Coffaro to help design a mural which focuses on education as it pertains to the local waterways and environment.
Terrific Tuesdays are funded by the Friends of the Shorewood Public Library.
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Furry Fridays
Celebrate the Dog Days of summer with Furry Fridays!
Stop in and meet a therapy dog! You'll be "paws-itively" glad you did! 🐶
Drop-in any time between 1:30 PM and 2:30 PM on Friday, July 26th in the Library Program Room.
See you there!
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Family Fun: STEM Night
Join us for an evening of STEM activities for the whole family on Thursday, July 11th in the Library Program Room.
Try your hand at mini-science projects and learn about new technologies!
This is a drop-in program, so feel free to stop by anytime between 3:30 PM and 5:00 PM.
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Teen Summer Take & Make
We have Take & Make kits for Teens this summer!
Teens can stop by the library every other Tuesday in July and August to pick up a Take & Make kit with all supplies included for a fun craft ✨
- 7/9: Hemp Bracelets
- 7/23: Cross Stitch
- 8/6: Folded Zines
- 8/20: Potion Bottle Necklace
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Shorewood Public Library
Staff Spotlight
Meet Gerry, a Shelver at Shorewood Public Library. Gerry is celebrating an anniversary of 20 years of service at the library!
Gerry's favorite things about working at the library are putting the books on the shelves in order, seeing co-workers and helping people. Gerry also likes to see all the new books as they come in, and has a favorite hobby of reading.
Say hi the next time you see Gerry at the library!
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See all of our upcoming July programs in our online event calendar! You can filter by age group, view events in a list format, or do a keyword search to find a specific event you're looking for.
Click a button below for all July events by age group:
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July's PM Book Club fiction pick, Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, is a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope. Join the conversation on Wednesday, July 10th at 7:00 PM. | |  |
July's AM Book Club fiction pick explores a young woman's journey through the upper echelons of 1938 New York City society in search of a brighter future. Check out Rules of Civility by Amor Towles, and join the conversation on Thursday, July 18th at 11:00 AM.
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July 4th
Library Hours
Shorewood Public Library will be closed all day on Thursday, July 4th in celebration of Independence Day.
We will be open regular hours all other days.
Have an enjoyable and safe holiday!
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Summer Sunday
Library Hours
The library is closed on Sundays in the summer from June through August 2024.
The library will be open in the summer for regular hours on all other days.
Have a great summer!
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In celebration of all the joy and discovery that summer brings, we're reading great books about travel and adventure. Check them out at the library: | | |
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Weird Wisconsin by Linda S. Godfrey
Recommended by KAYLA, who notes this book "highlights the 'weird' sides of what our wonderful state has to offer, including art, museums, and even local legends such as our very own cryptids" and that "any Wisconsinite that picks up this book will be joyed by factoids they are familiar with, and enthralled by the new ones they find!"
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His Name Was Death by Rafael Bernal
Recommended by BEN, who describes this as a book "about a hermit that leaves civilization to live by himself in a Mesoamerican rainforest, settling as a neighbor to a local indigenous tribe. While living there, he teaches himself how to communicate with Mosquitoes and has the bizarre realization that they are actually the overlords of every living thing on Earth. They bond over their shared hatred of humanity and plot to enslave the human race...It's a story that considers the twisting philosophies of "the intellectual upper class" and foils them with the realities of nature. All told, it's a brilliant, ridiculous, and violent classic."
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Grandma Gatewood's Walk
by Ben Montgomery
Recommended by KATE, who notes this book "is the true story of the first person to do a through-hike of the entire Appalachian Trail. She wasn't an athlete or a celebrity, she was a 67 year old great grandmother who needed a break after a rough life of hard work. This woman went for a walk in the woods, and in so doing proved the trail was and should continue to be accessible for average Americans, likely saving it in the process. This nonfiction book is a great summer read for anyone planning to travel! It will remind you that a lot can be done with a very little."
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Mamo
by Sas Milledge
Recommended by ABBY, who describes this book as "an internal adventure and mystery involving a young traveling witch who finds herself in the town she grew up in. The town is suffering from a magical curse and as she begins to deal with this curse, she learns more about herself and the town that she left behind. The artwork is beautiful and it's a moving story about the connection between people and places."
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Last Chance to See
by Douglas Adams
"By the author of the famed Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, this autobiographical travel journal tells the tale of a project that Adams did for the BBC, where he traveled around the globe with naturalist Mark Carwardine to visit the native habitats of 9 of the most critically endangered species on the planet, from the kakapo in New Zealand to the komodo dragon. Along the way, Adams tells the story of each of these remarkable species and the conservation efforts that are being made to save them with a healthy dose of his trademark humor."
Recommended by QUINN
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SHOREWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY
3920 North Murray Avenue
Shorewood, WI 53211
414 847-2670
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