Lost in the StacksAugust 2025
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7/30/2025
Welcome to this newsletter highlighting upcoming titles and programs for kids, teens, and adults! There are just a couple weeks left to complete Summer Reading! Kids and teens can pick up their free book for reading 15 hours with Level Up at Your Library. Adults can Read for Refuge and track their hours spent reading to help earn donations for Safe Route Immigration. Through Aug. 15. Learn more: www.BeavertonLibrary.org/SRP |
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Forts Children explore the world around them and discover different ways to create forts--magical spaces for play, imagination, and belonging. |
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The Library of Unruly Treasures Gwen MacKinnon's parents are dreadful. Truly, deeply, almost impressively dreadful. So Gwen's not upset at all when she's foisted onto her never-before-seen Uncle Matthew for two weeks. Especially when it turns out he has a very opinionated dog named Pumpkin. Things take a turn for the weird when Gwen makes a discovery in the local library. |
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Dream On As one of six kids, Cassie doesn't get much one-on-one time with her parents and often feels overlooked. When her best friend, Vali, starts to hang out with a mean girl in their class, Cassie feels abandoned with no one to talk to.
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The Good Vampire's Guide to Blood and Boyfriends Nineteen-year-old Brennan, a college freshman who becomes a vampire after a suicide attempt, navigates his new life in an underground vampire society, keeps his secret from Cole, the cute campus librarian, and deals with rising dangers while balancing his humanity and growing feelings for Cole
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White Lies: How the South Lost the Civil War and Rewrote History This powerful and unflinching examination of racism in America by award-winning historian Ann Bausum deconstructs the warped history of the Civil War for teen readers.
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Legendary Frybread Drive-in: Intertribal Stories The road to Sandy June's Legendary Frybread Drive-In slips through every rez and alongside every urban Native hangout. The menu offers a rotating feast, including traditional eats and tasty snacks. But Sandy June's serves up more than food: it hosts live music, movie nights, unexpected family reunions, love long lost, and love found again.
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Love Forms For much of her life, Dawn has felt as if something had been missing. Now, at the age of fifty-eight, with a divorce behind her and her two grown-up sons busy with their own lives, she should be trying to settle into a new future for herself. But she keeps returning to the past and to the secret she's kept all these years: at just sixteen, Dawn found herself pregnant, and--as was common in Trinidad back then--her parents sent her away to have the baby and give her up for adoption. More than forty years later, Dawn yearns to reconnect with her lost daughter.
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Magician of Tiger Castle The floundering king's magician must choose between protecting the kingdom and betraying the princess when he's asked to brew a potion to ensure she weds the right person. |
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Together in Manzanar Memoirist Slater (The Good Shufu) offers a poignant account of a family facing a series of increasingly impossible conundrums during WWII. In March 1942, "Civilian Exclusion order No. 3" was issued, the latest in a series of orders for the internment of Japanese American civilians. Los Angeles labor organizer Elaine Buchman Yoneda faced a dilemma: her Japanese American husband Karl had already been removed to Manzanar, a camp at the foot of the Sierra Nevadas, while Elaine, who was Jewish and white, remained the caretaker of their three-year-old son Tommy--now listed among those ordered for removal. Elaine, told she was not allowed to accompany her toddler, drew on her rambunctious years of experience organizing for the American Communist Party to force her way onto the transport. She was reunited with her husband at Manzanar, where the couple became mediators between the disaffected internees and authoritarian camp officials.
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For Kids at Main and Murray Scholls
Beaverton Modular Railroad
Saturday, August 9, 10 AM-6 PM
Sunday, August 10, 1-4:30 PM
All ages. Come see model trains! Club members will have trains set up for viewing and be available to answer questions about this fascinating hobby. Summer Reading Lawn Party
Sunday, August 10
1-2:30 PM
Ages 2-12 Celebrate Summer Reading with fun and games on the lawn! Penny's Puppet Show, "The Magic Book"
Main: Thursday, August 7, 12-1 PM
Murray Scholls: Friday, August 8, 12-1 PM
Kids and families. Penny's imaginative shows take the audience on a magical, musical journey. All shows include music, dancing, and audience participation. They are essentially mini-musical puppet shows. Check out the rest of the BCL calendar. |
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For Adults at Main and Murray SchollsFrom Debate to Dialogue Workshop Saturday, August 2 1-5 PM Our community has become so polarized that we rarely have the opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations with people who hold different views. If we do get the chance, the exchange often becomes a shouting match. Dialogue offers a different approach. In this very interactive workshop, participants will practice strategies for navigating heated exchanges and learn to share their views in a way that can be heard. Presented by Lisa Fitzgerald, Program Coordinator at the City of Beaverton, Center for Mediation and Dialogue. Registration required. Book Chat Happy Hour Tuesday, August 5 5-6 PM Let's talk about books! Connect virtually with fellow book lovers as we chat about what we're currently reading and what's in our TBR (that's to-be-read) piles. Join via Zoom: https://www.zoomgov.com/j/1606272585 Cybersecurity Basics Monday, August 18 1-1:45 PM Increase your confidence in your ability to engage online while staying safe from scams and fraud. In this class, we’ll learn about keeping your accounts and identity safe online, including recognizing secure websites, making your account passwords strong and memorable, and recognizing and avoiding common scams. Registration required. ues. Presented by Martha McJacobs of Life by Design. Register to receive the Zoom link.
Check out the rest of the BCL calendar. Thanks for reading! Sandy & Anne |
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