Lima Public Library

Story Time
2023-11-04 10:00 - 10:45, 2023-11-09 16:00 - 16:45, 2023-11-16 16:00 - 16:45, 2023-11-18 10:00 - 10:45, 2023-11-30 16:00 - 16:45, 2023-12-02 10:00 - 10:45, 2023-12-09 10:00 - 10:45 (America/New_York) | NY
Join us for Story Time with Betsy for music, books, and a craft!
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Friends of the Lima Public Library: Make a Roller Coaster for a Marble
2023-11-04 10:30 - 12:00
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Online Author Talk: Get Good with Money and Reach Your Financial Goals with Tiffany “The Budgetnista” Aliche
2023-11-09 14:00 - 15:00
Tiffany Aliche was a successful preschool teacher with a healthy nest egg when a recession and advice from a shady advisor put her out of a job and into a huge financial hole. As she began to chart the path to her own financial rescue, the outline of her ten-step formula for attaining both financial security and peace of mind began to take shape. These principles have now helped more than one million women worldwide save and pay off millions in debt, and begin planning for a richer life.
Her New York Times bestseller, Get Good with Money introduced the powerful concept of building wealth through financial wholeness: a realistic, achievable, and energizing alternative to get-rich-quick and over-complicated money management systems.
We all want to live within our means, save for retirement, invest a little, and yet still have some left over each month for fun. But as most people know, real life can get in the way of even our best intentions! To help us set realistic goals and keep us on track to meeting them, Tiffany “The Budgetnista” Aliche has another invaluable 10-step action plan: Made Whole. With her signature down-to-earth style, her new workbook offers worksheets, checklists, clear explanations of intimidating financial terminology, Simple instruction on calculating our present situation and future needs, and handy hacks for increasing your credit score, making savings “hard to access,” and finding support to stay on track to your goals
In this webinar, she will introduce action items for ten important building blocks, including advice on:
The ins and outs of budgeting,
Investing,
Credit rating,
Estate planning,
Getting insurance, and
Getting the flow of our money automated
A masterclass in taking charge of your money, “The Budgetnista” has what every reader needs to achieve financial savvy, stability, and security.
About the Author:
Tiffany Aliche, aka “The Budgetnista,” co-hosts the award-winning Brown Ambition podcast, appears as a financial expert on The Real, and runs an online school, the Live Richer Academy, through which she has taught thousands of women how to create, implement, and automate their financial plans. She has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Black Enterprise, Reader’s Digest, USA Today, Ebony, Forbes, Redbook, The New York Times, Fast Company, and U.S. News & World Report and has been on the Today Show, Good Morning America, and CNN. A repeat speaker at EssenceFest and The Watermark/Women’s Conference, she has also taped a series of financial tips for CNBC that reaches eighty million unique viewers each month.
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Friends of the Lima Public Library: Chair Yoga
2023-11-09 18:00 - 18:45
Always wanted to try yoga? The Friends of the Library are offering “Chair Yoga” to improve your muscle strength and flexibility. Learn exercises you can do at home. Join us for 45 minutes of gentle, low-impact movements.
Limited to 9 participants. Cost: $6/person

Veterans' Day Closing
2023-11-11
We will be closed on Saturday 11/11 for Veterans’ Day.

Friends of the Lima Public Library: Game Night
2023-11-13 18:30 - 20:30

Friends of the Lima Public Library - Food Preservation - Intro to Dehydrating
2023-11-14 18:30 - 20:30
TBD

Friends of the Lima Public Library: Food Preservation - Intro to Dehydrating
2023-11-15 10:30 - 12:30

Board of Trustees Meeting
2023-11-15 18:30 - 20:00
Lima Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting

Online Author Talk: Why She Writes - An Afternoon Chat with Joy Harjo, Internationally Renowned Performer, Writer and Poet of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation
2023-11-16 16:00 - 17:00
United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award, Joy Harjo, joins us for a chat about her most recent memoir, Catching the Light and to discuss her rewarding lifetime as a writer and poet.
In Catching the Light, Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing.
In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author’s life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry functions as an expression of purpose, spirit, community, and memory.
Harjo insists the most meaningful poetry is birthed through cracks in history from what is broken and unseen. At the crossroads of this brokenness, she calls us to watch and listen for the songs of justice for all those America has denied. This is an homage to the power of words to defy erasure—to inscribe the story, again and again, of who we have been, who we are, and who we can be.
About the Author: In 2019, Joy Harjo was appointed the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold the position and only the second person to serve three terms in the role. Harjo’s nine books of poetry include Weaving Sundown in a Scarlett Light, An American Sunrise, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses. She is also the author of two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior, which invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her “poet-warrior” road. She has edited several anthologies of Native American writing including When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through — A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, and Living Nations, Living Words, the companion anthology to her signature poet laureate project. Her many writing awards include the 2022 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2019 Jackson Prize from Poets & Writers, the Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Board of Directors Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and is artist-in-residence for the Bob Dylan Center. A renowned musician, Harjo performs with her saxophone nationally and internationally; her most recent album is I Pray For My Enemies. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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CANCELED Friends of the Lima Public Library: Rolling Beeswax Candles (All ages)
2023-11-16 18:00 - 19:00
This event has been canceled.

Crossroads Crafters' Circle
2023-11-18 09:30 - 12:00, 2023-12-02 09:30 - 12:00, 2023-12-09 09:30 - 12:00
Bring your favorite craft and socialize with like-hearted people! All crafts and all folks welcome. Any open Saturday at the library. Arrive and leave as you please.

CANCELED Friends of the Lima Public Library: Alcohol Ink (Fundraiser)
2023-11-18 10:00 - 12:00

Friends Meeting
2023-11-21 18:30 - 20:00
Friends of the Lima Public Library Meeting

Thanksgiving Closing
2023-11-23 - 2023-11-26
We will be closed for Thanksgiving beginning on Thursday 11/23 and we will re-open on Monday 11/27.

Friends of the Lima Public Library - Game Night
2023-11-27 18:30 - 20:30, 2023-12-11 18:30 - 20:30

Online Author Talk: Power of Women in Science Fiction: Naomi Alderman on Writing Dystopian Worlds
2023-11-30 15:00 - 16:00
Bestselling and award-winning author, Naomi Alderman will join us to talk about her new book, The Future. This new novel delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.
When Martha Einkorn fled her father’s isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she’s surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private weather, predictive analytics, and covert weaponry, while spouting technological prophecy. Martha may have left the cult, but if the apocalyptic warnings in her father’s fox and rabbit sermon—once a parable to her—are starting to come true, how much future is actually left?
Across the world, in a mall in Singapore, Lai Zhen, an internet-famous survivalist, flees from an assassin. She’s cornered, desperate and—worst of all—might die without ever knowing what’s going on. Suddenly, a remarkable piece of software appears on her phone telling her exactly how to escape. Who made it? What is it really for? And if those behind it can save her from danger, what do they want from her, and what else do they know about the future?
Martha and Zhen’s worlds are about to collide. An explosive chain of events is set in motion. While a few billionaires assured of their own safety lead the world to destruction, Martha’s relentless drive and Zhen’s insatiable curiosity could lead to something beautiful or the cataclysmic end of civilization.
By turns thrilling, hilarious, tender, and always piercingly brilliant, The Future unfolds at a breakneck speed, highlighting how power corrupts the few who have it and what it means to stand up to them. The future is coming. The Future is here. What are you waiting for? Register now!
About the Author: Naomi Alderman is the bestselling author of The Power, which was the winner of the 2017 Baileys’ Women’s Prize for Fiction. It was longlisted for the 2017 Orwell Prize and chosen as one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, NPR, Entertainment Weekly and the San Francisco Chronicle. The Power topped Barack Obama’s list of his favorite books from 2017 and has been translated into more than thirty languages. Naomi grew up in London and attended Oxford University and UEA.
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Friends of the Lima Public Library: Book Tasting (Ages 18+)
2023-12-02 10:00 - 11:00

Online Author Talk: Let's Talk World Building with YA Fantasy Fiction Superstar Author Victoria Aveyard
2023-12-05 19:00 - 20:00
Join us as the instant #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Red Queen and Realm Breaker series, Victoria Aveyard, chats with us about YA fantasy fiction, world-building, and her incredible body of work!
In the bestselling series Realm Breaker, a strange darkness grows in Allward even Corayne an-Amarat can feel it in her small town at the edge of the sea. The long lost heir to an ancient lineage, it’s not until Corayne meets a rag-tag group of companions that she learns how to wield the magic slumbering in her blood—and how together they might stop what’s coming.
As the realm descends into chaos, the choices are clear: Save the world…or end it. Together, they stand against a vicious opponent, invincible and determined to burn all kingdoms to ash and an army unlike anything the realm has ever witnessed.
Irresistibly action-packed and full of lethal surprises, this stunning fantasy series promises Breakneck adventure and impossible thrills! Register now to join the adventure!
About the Author: Victoria Aveyard was born and raised in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, a small town known only for the worst traffic rotary in the continental United States. She moved to Los Angeles to earn a BFA in screenwriting at the University of Southern California. She currently splits her time between the East and West coasts. As an author and screenwriter, she uses her career as an excuse to read too many books and watch too many movies. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Red Queen series, and you can visit her online at www.victoriaaveyard.com.
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Christmas Party & Concert
2023-12-08 18:30 - 20:30
The Friends of the Lima Public Library will be hosting a holiday party with light refreshments & Christmas concert.

Online Author Talk: Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education: An Author Talk with Stephanie Land
2023-12-12 14:00 - 15:00
You’re invited to an afternoon chat with New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Land as she talks to us about her new memoir, Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education.
When Stephanie Land set out to write her first book, a memoir titled Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, it was later adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid, which was viewed by 67 million households and was Netflix’s fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Stephanie’s escape from poverty and abuse in search of a better life inspired millions. Maid was a story about a housecleaner, but it was also a story about a woman with a dream.
In Class, Land takes us with her as she finishes college and pursues her writing career. Facing barriers at every turn, including a byzantine loan system, not having enough money for food, and navigating the judgments of professors and fellow students who didn’t understand the demands of attending college while under the poverty line—Land finds a way to survive once again, finally graduating in her mid-thirties.
Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition. In clear, candid, and moving prose, Class offers a searing indictment of America’s educational system and an inspiring testimony of a mother’s triumph against all odds.
About the Author: Stephanie Land is the author of the New York Times bestseller Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive, called “a testimony…worth listening to,” by The New York Times and inspiration for the Netflix series Maid. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and many other outlets. Her writing focuses on social and economic justice and parenting under the poverty line. She is a frequent speaker at colleges and national advocacy organizations. Find out more at @Stepville or Stepville.com
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