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Heads Up!! In 15 days we will be announcing the 2025 Summer Reading Program Theme! Everyday we will remove one block from the bulletin board until the final image is revealed! We CAN"T WAIT for this summer with you all- it's going to be an adventure!

Library hours are Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10-4; Tuesday and Thursday 1-7; and Saturday 10-2. Closed on Sunday

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From the American Library Association: “Last night (3/14/25) the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.

We'll have more to share in the coming days. But what can you do right now? Call your members of Congress. Call your state and local officials. Tell them exactly what's at stake if the President's order stands: the future of America's libraries. It's time to Show Up #ForOurLibraries

Send an email to your local politicians to save IMLS

Full Executive Order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/.../continuing-the-reduction.../”

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Saturday May 3rd and Sunday May 4th

This two-day festival is all about family fun on the most famous two-lane highway in America - Route 66. Sponsored by the fifteen communities, including Towanda, which make up the 100-mile linear museum from Joliet to Bloomington, the annual festival invites everyone to experience the good life in the slow lane.

Did you know that the Towanda District Library offers more than books? We also have:

Public computers
Copying/Faxing
Programming for kids and adults
Cricut machines free for use
Toys
DVDs
Online databases
eBooks
Technology assistance
And much. much more!

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Upcoming events.

Welcome to the Towanda District Library! Our mission is to provide access to materials and programs - both informational and recreational - to ignite a love of reading and inspire lifelong learning, as well as to be a vital part of the communities it serves.

We hope you visit and attend our programs to help us fulfill our mission!

MATERIALS ADDED THIS WEEK

Cover of the book "Speechless" by Aron Nels Steinke, featuring a girl at the front of a classroom holding papers, with a speech bubble above her head displaying the title. She appears nervous while classmates look on with various expressions.

Book cover of 'Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, A Memoir' by Sarah Wynn-Williams, featuring a minimalist design with a shark fin over blue water.

Illustrated children's book cover featuring a smiling child with curly hair surrounded by colorful flowers, birds, and butterflies. The sun shines in the background. Title "Hello There, Sunshine" by Tabitha Brown, illustrated by Olivia Duchess.

Cover of 'The Antidote' by Karen Russell featuring a gradient sky and a rural house with a windmill.

Cover of the novel "Dream Count" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, featuring a stylized flame design.

Cover of "A Minecraft Movie" Step Into Reading book featuring characters with Minecraft elements like a Creeper and bees, along with people holding pixelated tools. Text reads 'Welcome to the Overworld!'

Book cover of 'The Tell' by Amy Griffin, with abstract black lines on a pink and orange background, featuring an Oprah's Book Club 2025 sticker.

Cover of "Zen Pig: The Art of Gratitude" featuring a simple, watercolor illustration of a content pig with closed eyes, authored by Mark Brown and illustrated by Amy Lynn Larwig.

Cover of the Star Wars Encyclopedia featuring various characters, spaceships, and planets from the Star Wars universe. Includes lightsaber-wielding figures, droids, and iconic scenes. Title and foreword information prominently displayed.

Cover of "Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know" updated and expanded edition, featuring BB-8 droid and a burst of light.

Book cover for "Stag Dance" by Torrey Peters, featuring an illustration of fighting stags with antlers. A pink bow decorates one antler, and the title is in bold pink text.

Cover of the book 'Summer in the City' by Alex Aster, featuring a pink background, large red heart with a skyline silhouette, and a couple standing in front of it.

Cover of the book "Llama Llama Loves His Teacher" by Anna Dewdney, featuring a llama giving flowers to a zebra, both smiling.

Cover of the children's book 'Little Blue Truck and Racer Red' featuring a blue truck and a red race car on a dirt road, surrounded by animals like a horse, chicken, pig, and frog. Illustrated with bright colors.

Cover of the book 'Fight or Flight' by Fern Michaels, featuring a large house on a hill with a picturesque landscape and dramatic sky.

Book cover for 'Lethal Prey' by John Sandford, featuring thorns on a blue background. Text includes 'A Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers Novel' and '#1 New York Times Bestselling Author.'

Cover of the book 'Dissolution' by Nicholas Binge featuring abstract geometric shapes, clouds, and blue skies.

Book cover of 'This Book Will Bury Me' by Ashley Winstead, featuring bold text over a dark forest road with a car and quotes from authors.

Cover of "Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)" by Jesse Q. Sutanto, featuring an illustration of an elderly woman holding a notebook labeled "A Novel."

Cover of "Marvel Around the Spider-Verse" graphic novel featuring Spider-Man characters swinging through a cityscape, with a bridge and skyscrapers in the background, highlighting dynamic poses and colorful costumes.

Cover of "Earl & Worm: The Bad Idea and Other Stories" by Greg Pizzoli, featuring a bird and a worm with paintbrushes, sitting on a rock in a grassy area with flowers.

Illustration of a cartoon character holding oversized underwear with the words 'Hedgehogs Don't Wear Underwear' crossed out to read 'Hedgehogs Wear Underwear.' A speech bubble says 'But they're my size!' by Marissa Valdez.

Illustrated book cover of 'Say You'll Remember Me' by Abby Jimenez, featuring a couple embracing near a beach with a setting sun and a Ferris wheel in the background. A dog runs with a stick on the sand. Bright colors with a romantic theme.

Book cover featuring the title 'A Drop of Corruption' by Robert Jackson Bennett, designed with intricate floral patterns and silhouettes, surrounded by green succulents.

Book cover of 'Overkill' by J.A. Jance, featuring a digital background and silhouette, labeled as 'An Ali Reynolds Mystery.'

Cover of the book 'The World's Fair Quilt' by Jennifer Chiaverini, featuring a quilt design, apples, vintage postcards, and a letter.

Cover of "Baby-Sitters Little Sister: Karen's Prize," a graphic novel by Shauna J. Grant, based on Ann M. Martin's book. It features a young girl with glasses and a number one ribbon, standing confidently on a stage with curtains.

Cover of the book 'Dragon Masters: Night of the Dream Dragon' by Tracey West, featuring two children sitting on clouds in front of a castle, with a flying dragon above.

Book cover of "Gifted & Talented" by Olivie Blake, showing multiple fragmented faces of people in formal attire, with gold splatter and text overlay. The cover includes a quote about money and magic and notes Blake as a bestselling author.

Book cover of "The Library of Lost Dollhouses" by Elise Hooper, featuring shelves with books and miniature dollhouses.

Illustrated book cover of 'Rebellion 1776' by Laurie Halse Anderson, featuring a person's face partially obscured by red and white stripes.

Book cover of 'I See You've Called In Dead' by John Kenney, featuring a dark blue background with light brown text and cut-out newspaper details. Includes subtitle 'A Novel' and mentions Kenney as a New York Times bestselling author.

Book cover featuring the title 'Run Away With Me' by Brian Selznick, with an illustration of two people embracing made of flying birds and an architectural skyline below at sunset.

Cover of "Grumpy Monkey: Mom for a Day" featuring a cartoon monkey with a turtle, bird, and snake on its head against a purple background. Includes text "Includes Fun Stickers."

Illustrated cover of "Hilwa's Gifts" by Safa Suleiman, featuring people harvesting olives from trees.

Colorful illustrated book cover for "The Gobbling Goblins" showing playful goblin characters gathered around a table with various foods, set in a lively, whimsical forest setting. The book is written by Maika Llaneza and illustrated by Ara Villena.

Children's book cover depicting a child riding a blue unicorn with a rainbow mane, wearing a "Best Dad!" shirt. Title reads "My Life is Weird! My Dad is a Unicorn!" by Bill Canterbury. Illustrated by Jeff Harter with "Stickers Inside!" badge.

Book cover for "A Country of Ghosts" by Margaret Killjoy, featuring a large, fantastical castle city in a foggy landscape. Praise quote from author Laurie Penny is displayed at the bottom.

Cover of the novel 'Ring' by Michelle Lerner featuring a snowy landscape and a dog's ears in the foreground.

An illustrated book cover with a black cat surrounded by various hands on a pink background, titled 'Cat's People, A Novel' by Tanya Guerrero.

Book cover of 'MK's Detective Club: The Double Trouble Puzzle' by James Patterson and Keir Graff, featuring three animated kids with a flashlight in front of a neon sign.

Fearless book cover with a crown and roses by Lauren Roberts

Book cover for "Firebird" by Juliette Cross, depicting a woman in a red dress with flowing hair and a dragon in the background. The tagline reads, "It is said that no one can defeat dragons..."

Cover design for the book 'Flirting Lessons' by Jasmine Guillory, featuring silhouettes of a couple dancing against a pink, patterned background.

Book cover of "The Maid's Secret" by Nita Prose with a stylized maid holding a locked book on a yellow background.

Book cover of 'The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits' by Jennifer Weiner with silhouettes of two women and musical notes.

Book cover of "Don't Trust Fish" featuring large aqua text and an illustration of a fish.

Cover of "Stink and the Big Bad Badgers" by Megan McDonald, illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds, featuring a boy in a scout uniform holding a rope and a magnifying glass, with a cat and a caterpillar on a branch.

Cover of "Bluey: Fairytale" by Joe Brumm featuring animated dogs riding bicycles and vibrant geometric colors in the background.

Illustration of cats wearing construction hats and vests, operating a crane on a vehicle, with the title 'Cats in Construction Hats'. Several cats are on a red truck, some lifting materials, while a mouse is perched on a construction beam. Traffic co

Cover of the book 'The Cat Who Saved the Library' by Sosuke Natsukawa featuring colorful illustrations of books on a black background and a cat lying on a bookshelf.

Cover illustration of 'The Great Dinosaur Sleepover' featuring a large green dinosaur peeking into a house window. The dinosaur is wearing a party hat, holding a red balloon, a pillow, and a teddy bear. It's nighttime with a full moon in the backgrou

Cover art of manga "Beyblade X" Volume 2 featuring characters launching spinning tops, illustrated by Posuka Demizu.

Cover of "A Minecraft Movie: The Junior Novelization," featuring a grassy block with cutouts forming a Creeper face.

Book cover of "Murder by Cheesecake" by Rachel Ekstrom Courage, featuring illustrations of four women, a cheesecake with a knife, palm leaves, and flamingos. Subtitle: "A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery."

Book cover of 'The Next Day' by Melinda French Gates with a branch and budding leaves.

Book cover of 'Strangers in Time' by David Baldacci, featuring a silhouette of Big Ben, airplanes, and raindrops.

Cover of the book 'Watch Me' by Tahereh Mafi, featuring an illustrated eye with colorful, cosmic background.

Book cover of 'The Perfect Divorce' by Jeneva Rose, featuring torn paper and blood splatter design.

Book cover of "Orson and the World's Loudest Library" featuring a child peeking through colorful books on a shelf, written by Laura Gehl and illustrated by Stephanie Roth Sisson.

Cover of 'The Liars Society: A Risky Game' by Alyson Gerber, featuring a girl and a boy standing in an open doorway leading to a library, with shelves of books and a globe nearby, and an ornate key design in the title.

Cover of 'The Liars Society' by Alyson Gerber, featuring a key and lock design in the title with a group of teenagers walking through a forest, and one girl looking back at the viewer.

Cover of the book "The Sirens" by Emilia Hart, featuring underwater imagery with starfish, seaweed, coral, fish, and a silhouette of a woman swimming. Includes 'Good Morning America Book Club' badge.

Book cover of 'The Story She Left Behind' by Patti Callahan Henry, featuring a country house by a lake with colorful flowers and a mountainous background.

Cover of "Bunny" by Mona Awad featuring a silhouetted rabbit against a pink background, with text "National Bestseller" and a quote from Margaret Atwood.

Book cover of 'All That Life Can Afford' by Emily Everett featuring a woman's eye, map background, Big Ben, colorful buildings, and Reese's Book Club badge.

CATALOGS AND LINKS

Blue abstract letter 'B' design on a dark blue background.

Stylized white barcode icon on blue square background

Illustration of a black octopus with bubbles, "Inkie.org" text in purple on green background.