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February Staff Picks

February Staff Picks

Feb 7, 2024 | , ,

Looking for a good book? Try one of our favorites!Michelle: Hot and Bothered: What No One Tells You About Menopause and How To Feel Like Yourself Again by Jancee Duncan Holy hot flash. Women over 35 and the men who love them: if you haven't read this book yet, get thee to the library! (1) I thought I knew it all but I'm slightly embarrassed to say I learned a lot. Some things were completely new to me and for others, the information has changed over the years as more research was conducted....

Looking for something to break up those winter doldrums? Try “Mini-Golf at the Library” on February 2-3

Looking for something to break up those winter doldrums? Try “Mini-Golf at the Library” on February 2-3

Jan 16, 2024 |

York Public Library will transform its building into an 18-hole miniature golf course in its upcoming “Mini-Golf at the Library” with events for all ages on February 2–3. The Library is working with New England based Library Mini-Golf, LLC, to set up a one-of-a-kind mini-golf course covering both levels of the building, with one hole even spanning a set of stairs. “For a while now, we at the Library have wanted to do something fun, something community focused, and something that we’ve never...

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Book List: Women’s Suffrage

Aug 19, 2020 | ,

In honor of the 100th Anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment, we've put together a list of books and DVDs from our collection about the Women's Suffrage Movement. One hundred years ago this year, after  75 YEARS of fighting...after hunger strikes, marches, arrests, and...

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Staff Picks: The Archives

Aug 4, 2020 |

The struggle is real. Your book has ended and you can't figure out what to read next. Librarians to the rescue! Each month we provide you with a list of our favorite books, to hopefully help you find a new favorite too.  Our new website still features the staff picks, but perhaps in a slightly...

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Shelf Life: READ WOKE Challenge

Jul 1, 2020 | ,

As outrage, protests, and marches continue to shake our nation in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and others, we encourage our community - adults, children, and teens - to elevate, amplify and support Black voices. To that end, York Public Library has launched a special, ongoing reading...

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Join the Library’s Summer Reading Challenge!

Jun 25, 2020 | ,

Is the library hosting the annual Summer Challenge program? Coronavirus can’t keep us down! All of us at York Public Library are excited to announce that we will offer our annual Summer Challenge program. This year we are testing out a new (to us) online program called Beanstack. Participants of...

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Black Lives Matter. Period.

Jun 11, 2020 | ,

I am a fierce believer in the role of libraries not only as purveyors of knowledge and understanding, but as places for communal civic discourse. Our nation is being torn apart by the recent horrific deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and countless others at the hands of police—the...

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