New Board Books, Picture Books and Launchpads

Do you have a young child at home longing for more books? We have new board books, picture books, and Launchpads available. Launchpads are preloaded tablets for kids with learning apps, games, videos and more (no WiFi needed)! 

Teen Summer Reading Goal

Local teens have read over 1,080 books towards our 4,000 book goal this summer. If you want to join them, sign up online through Beanstack. Each book read equals a 25 cent donation to the Oregon Food Bank. We also found out that an anonymous donor will double whatever amount teens raise this summer, so you have extra incentive! Let's Read!

Online Writers' Mill
Sunday August 16 | 1-3pm | Ages 16+

Whether you’re writing just for fun, hoping for publication, or planning to self-publish, join us for a hands-on inspiring gathering of people who love to write. Special guest speaker: This month local author Erik Nebel presents Comics and Graphic Novels: From Inspiration to Creating, Publishing and Marketing.

This event will be held online via Zoom. If you already receive e-mail from the Writers' Mill, you’ll receive a link for this meeting a few days before the event.

If you’re new, welcome! Please e-mail laurab@wccls.org to receive a link and password for the event a few days before it happens.

Online Voices in Verse Poetry Group
Saturday August 22 | 10:30am-12pm

Share your own poetry or listen to others read their favorites. The group meets on the fourth Saturday morning of each month.

This event will be held online via Zoom. If you already receive e-mail from Voices in Verse, you’ll receive a link for this meeting a few days before the event.

If you’re new, welcome! Please e-mail laurab@wccls.org to receive a link and password for the event a few days before it happens.

Online Owl Book Group
Friday August 28 | 10:30am-12pm

Join us for a book discussion of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.

Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery. Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. This extraordinary novel illuminates slavery’s troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed — and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation.

This event will be held online via Zoom. If you already receive e-mail from the Owl Book Group, you’ll receive a link for this meeting a few days before the event.

If you’re new, welcome! Please e-mail laurab@wccls.org to receive a link and password for the event a few days before it happens.