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Fathers’s Day 2025

Celebrate fatherhood with some great picks for dads to read this summer while they are relaxing! Whether it’s Dad’s favorite author with a new release, a hot nonfiction topic, or a book on their favorite sport there is something for every father on this list.

World Refugee Day

World Refugee Day is an international day organized every year on 20 June by the United Nations. It is designed to celebrate and honor refugees from around the world.

United in Pride

Check out these titles celebrating the LGBT+ communities, their talents, activism and hope for social change.

New Movies of Interest

Some foreign films that may have flown under your radar are Last Summer, a controversial forbidden romance from French provocateur Catherine Breillat; Kill, a train-set Hindi-language action thriller; Evil Does Not Exist, a beguiling and subtly suspenseful eco-drama from Japanese art house darling Ryusuke Hamaguchi; and Close Your Eyes, a highly autobiographical and mysterious work from renowned Spanish director Victor Erice, his first feature since 1992. 

Other additions are the delightful and conservationist humming bird documentary, Every Little Breath, a sure hit for nature lovers; Presence, Steven Soderbergh’s intriguing and clever film about a haunting told from the perspective of a ghost; and Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat, the Oscar nominated music/history/political doc about jazz musicians crashing the UN Security Council to protest the murder of a Congolese independence activist. 

You may be wondering if some of the more well-known films are worth the hype. Well, in the case of Nosferatu, the answer is an emphatic yes. Lily-Rose Depp gave the best horror performance of 2024, and Robert Eggers’ faithful, highly detailed, and thematic take on the 1922 German Expressionist classic paints on dark and adult layers. 

Library of Things Spotlight:

Board Games

The Kirkwood Public Library has many items you can borrow from books to movies, magazines to music. We also loan out a variety of non-traditional library items. We refer to these items as the Library of Things. Each month, we will be highlighting parts of this collection.

Featured in June, and just in time for summer break, are our collection of board games. Board games, in some form or fashion have been around for thousands of years. Many of us grew up on games like Monopoly and Sorry. Today, there are so many options it blows the mind!

So what to do when you have a game you want to try but are not sure it is worth the money? Maybe its your turn to pick for family game night and you are tired of the same old games. Well, fear not! Kirkwood Public Library has a selection of games both classic and new. So, why not stop on by and pick one out. We have board games such as:

• Forbidden Island
• Blokus
• Labyrinth (one of this author's personal favorites)
• Pandemic
• Apples to Apples
• and Really Loud Librarians

View our entire collection of board games here. And while our selection of board games is not comprehensive, we welcome suggestions for new additions to the collection. You can use the contact forms on our website to make a suggestion to the Technology dept.