Lima Public Library

Friends Meeting
2023-08-15 18:30 - 20:00, 2023-07-18 18:30 - 20:00, 2023-06-20 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Friends of the Lima Public Library Meeting

New York Times Bestselling Author of The Prophets: Author Talk with Robert Jones, Jr.
2023-08-15 16:00 - 17:00
All are welcome and encouraged to join us for an engaging hour online with New York Times bestselling author Robert Jones, Jr., as he discusses his debut and award-winning novel, The Prophets.
The Prophets is a story of love. Isaiah was Samuel’s, and Samuel was Isaiah’s. That was how it was from the beginning and how it was to be until the end. In the barn, they tended to the animals but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vicious masters. But when an older man—a fellow slave—seeks to gain favor by preaching the master’s gospel on the plantation, the enslaved begin to turn on their own. Isaiah and Samuel’s love, once so simple, is seen as sinful and a clear danger to the plantation’s harmony.
Robert Jones, Jr. fiercely summons the voices of slaver and enslaved alike. As tensions build and the weight of centuries—of ancestors and future generations to come—culminates in a climactic reckoning, The Prophets fearlessly reveals the pain and suffering of inheritance but is also shot through with hope, beauty, and truth, portraying the enormous, heroic power of love.
About the Author: Robert Jones, Jr. (formerly known online as “Son of Baldwin”) is a Brooklyn-based, award-winning writer. He is the author of The New York Times bestselling novel, The Prophets, which won the 2022 Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Essence, Variety, and The Paris Review, as well as in the critically acclaimed anthologies Four Hundred Souls and The 1619 Project. His latest work can be found in his newsletter, Witness, at robertjonesjr.substack.com.
Register: https://libraryc.org/lima/29775

Game Night
2023-08-14 18:30 - 20:30, 2023-07-24 18:30 - 20:30, 2023-07-10 18:30 - 20:30
Friends of the Lima Public Library are hosting another fun game night!

Summer Reading 2023: Lima Public Library Film Festival
2023-08-09 10:30 - 12:15
Wednesday 8/9 10:30 AM
Let’s visit Italy!
Luca (2021)
Rated PG
©Walt Disney

Friends of the Lima Public Library: Annual Book Sale
2023-08-05 10:00 - 16:00
It’s that time of year again! Join the Friends for their annual book sale during the Lima Crossroads Festival.

Friends of the Lima Public Library: Annual Book Sale
2023-08-04 13:00 - 16:00
It’s that time of year again! Join the Friends for their annual book sale, held during the Lima Crossroads Festival.

Summer Reading 2023: Lima Public Library Film Festival
2023-08-02 10:30 - 12:15
Wednesday 8/2 10:30 AM
Let’s visit Australia!
Finding Nemo (2003)
Rated G.
©Walt Disney

Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir: An Author Talk with Erika Sánchez
2023-07-25 16:00 - 17:00
Join us as we chat with award-winning writer Erika Sánchez about her utterly original, moving, and disarmingly funny memoir-in-essays Crying in the Bathroom.
Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the nineties, Erika Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment—a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy, often laughing so hard with her friends that she had to leave her school classroom. Twenty-five years later, she’s now an award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist, but she’s still got an irrepressible laugh, an acerbic wit, and singular powers of perception about the world around her.
In these essays, Sánchez writes about everything from sex to white feminism to debilitating depression, revealing an interior life rich with ideas, self-awareness, and perception. Raunchy, insightful, unapologetic, and brutally honest, Crying in the Bathroom is Sánchez’s best—a book that will make you feel that post-confessional high that comes from talking for hours with your best friend.
About the Author:
Erika L. Sánchez is the daughter of Mexican immigrants. Her debut poetry collection, Lessons on Expulsion, was published by Graywolf in July 2017 and was a finalist for the PEN America Open Book Award. Her debut young adult novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, published in October 2017 by Knopf Books for Young Readers, was a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Awards finalist. It is now being made into a film directed by America Ferrera. Most recently, Sánchez published a critically acclaimed memoir-in-essays titled Crying in the Bathroom with Viking Books. Sánchez was a Fulbright Scholar, a 2015 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent fellow from the Poetry Foundation, a 2017-2019 Princeton Arts Fellow, a 2018 recipient of the 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library Foundation, and a 2019 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She is the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz chair at DePaul University in Chicago.
Register: https://libraryc.org/lima/28944

The Voice in Our Head: Author Talk with Award-Winning Psychologist Ethan Kross
2023-07-20 13:00 - 14:00
The most important conversation we have each day isn’t with our boss, spouse, or friends: it’s the one we have with ourselves. When facing a challenging task, our inner voice can motivate us and help us keep our focus. But often, we come up against the nagging voice that tells us we can’t do it or that people will laugh at us if we try. The million-dollar question is how can we transform our self-saboteur, determined to undermine our success, into an internal life coach that will buoy us up and help us expand our potential?
Enter Ethan Kross. A world-class psychological scientist, Kross has written one of modern history’s most definitive guides to mastering self-talk. In Chatter, he uses a blend of cutting-edge science (from his own lab) and real-world case studies to help us harness the power of our inner voice. The tools are all around us—from the objects we surround ourselves with to our relationships with others, the physical spaces we inhabit, and the digital worlds we interact in. This talk is a lively exploration of how we can use those tools to make our inner voice work in our favor, and it answers some valuable questions along the way. For instance, why do we seem immune to toxic chatter when we attempt to advise other people? What factors determine whether we receive—and provide—helpful or harmful social support? And how can we approach our decision-making differently, learning to control our emotions and reason wisely instead of acting on impulse? An expert storyteller, Kross brings his research to life in a way that is fascinating, accessible, and immediately applicable to our daily lives.
About the Author:
Ethan Kross is one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind. An award-winning professor and bestselling author in the University of Michigan’s top-ranked Psychology Department and its Ross School of Business, he studies how the conversations people have with themselves impact their health, performance, decisions, and relationships and is the founder of Emotion & Self-Control Laboratory. Ethan’s research has been published in Science, The New England Journal of Medicine, and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among other peer-reviewed journals. He has participated in policy discussions at the White House and has been interviewed on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper Full Circle, and NPR’s Morning Edition. His pioneering research has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, The Economist, The Atlantic, Forbes, and Time.
Ethan is the author of the National Bestseller Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why it Matters and How to Harness It, which was chosen as one of the best new books of the year by the Washington Post, CNN, and USA Today and the Winning Winter 2021 selection for Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Dan Pink’s Next Big Idea Book Club. Chatter is scheduled to be translated into over 40 languages.

**The archived recording of this event will be removed on October 20, 2023.**
Register: https://libraryc.org/lima/28659

Board of Trustees Meeting
2023-07-19 18:30 - 20:00
Lima Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting

Summer Reading 2023: Lima Public Library Film Festival
2023-07-19 10:30 - 12:30
Wednesday 7/19 10:30 AM
Let’s visit Mexico!
Coco (2017)
Rated PG
©Walt Disney

Author Talk with Charles Soule: New York Times Bestselling Author of Daredevil & She-Hulk
2023-07-15 14:00 - 15:00
You’re invited to an awe-inspiring chat with New York Times bestselling author Charles Soule as he talks about his newest book, The Endless Vessel, which explores the way we’re all connected—and what can happen when we lose our capacity for joy.
The Endless Vessel transports us to a few years from now, in a world similar to ours, where there exists a sort of “depression plague” that people refer to simply as “The Grey.” No one can predict whom it will afflict or how, but once infected, there’s no coming back. A young Hong Kong-based scientist, Lily Barnes, is trying to maintain her inner light in an increasingly dark world. The human race is dwindling, and people fighting to push forward are increasingly rare. One day, Lily comes across something that seems to be addressing her directly, calling to her, asking her to follow a path to whatever lies at its end. Is this the Endless Vessel that leads to happiness? She leaves her life behind and sets out through time and space to find out.
Charles Soule artfully channels history, science, and drama to create a story for the ages—a story of hope and love, and possibility.
About the Author: Charles Soule is a New York-based, #1 New York Times-best-selling novelist, comic book writer, musician, and former attorney. While he has worked for DC and other publishers, he is best known for writing Daredevil, She-Hulk, Death of Wolverine, and various Star Wars comics from Marvel Comics and his creator-owned series Eight Billion Genies and Curse Words (with Ryan Browne), Undiscovered Country (with Scott Snyder & Giuseppe Camuncoli), Letter 44 (with Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque) and the Shrouded College series (with Will Sliney), which began with Book I: Hell to Pay in November 2022.
His first novel, The Oracle Year, was released in April 2018 by the Harper Perennial imprint of HarperCollins. His second novel, Anyone, was released in November 2019. His third original novel is The Endless Vessel.
Register here: https://libraryc.org/lima/28374

Summer Reading 2023: Lima Public Library Film Festival
2023-07-12 10:30 - 12:30
Wednesday 7/12 10:30 AM
Let’s visit ancient Polynesia!
Moana (2016)
Rated PG
©Walt Disney

Summer Reading 2023: Cris Riedel, Story Teller
2023-07-10 10:30 - 11:30
Storyteller Cris Riedel performs…

All Together Now!

Stories of kindness and friendship from around the world.
This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program from the NYS Council on the Arts with support of the Office of the Governor and the NYS Legislature and administered by the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts

Summer Reading 2023: Lima Public Library Film Festival
2023-07-05 10:30 - 12:00
Wednesday 7/5 10:30 AM
Let’s visit Colombia!
Encanto (2021)
Rated PG
©Walt Disney

Independence Day Closing
2023-07-04
We will be closed for Tuesday 7/4 for Independence Day.

Summer Reading Event: Grace & Grins Puppet Show: All Together Now
2023-06-30 10:30 - 11:15
This show is about visible and invisible disabilities. Grace and her friends believe if we all are willing to work “All Together Now” our world can be a kinder and more caring place for humanity! For ages 4-10

Online Author Talk: with Tananarive Due: Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda Contributing Author
2023-06-28 20:00 - 21:00
Register here: https://libraryc.org/lima/27424
Please join us for a chat with Tananarive Due about her newest work, The Wishing Pool and Other Stories. The second collection of stories by the author is full of her signature offerings of horror, science fiction, and suspense while confronting monsters of all kinds, including racism, the monster within, and the supernatural. Due’s prolific body of work cements the author as a leading voice in black speculative fiction for more than 20 years. Due is an award-winning writer, educator, and producer. Her body of work includes sixteen books, including the Blood Colony, The Living Blood, The Good House, Joplin’s Ghost, Devil’s Wake, and the forthcoming The Reformatory. In addition, she is a contributing author of Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda and Black Panther: Sins of the King. Collaborating with her partner Steven Barnes, she also co-wrote “A Small Town” for Season 2 of Jordan Peele’s “The Twilight Zone” on Paramount Plus and two segments of Shudder’s anthology film Horror Noire.
About the Author: Tananarive Due is an American Book Award–winning, Essence bestselling author of sixteen books. She was also a contributor to Jonathan Maberry’s middle grade anthology, Don’t Turn Out the Lights. She has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award. She teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Visit her website TananariveDue.com.

Summer Reading Film Festival: Premiere!
2023-06-28 10:30 - 12:00
Summer Reading 2023: All Together Now!

Our premiere film in the Summer Reading 2023 Film Festival takes us to Africa! Come and watch The Lion King right here for our Summer Reading Kick-Off.
The Lion King (1994)
Rated G
©Walt Disney

Summer Reading 2023: All Together Now!
2023-06-28 - 2023-07-28
We are coming up to our very favorite time of year which is Summer Reading! Our theme this year is All Together Now. This year’s program focuses on DIVERSITY: how people from all over the world can be both different from us and the same as us at the same time! The beautiful thing about our community is that we come from all walks of life. Libraries are truly for everyone and we are excited to embrace this year’s theme. We will have 8 different activities set up around the library and participants can do them at their own pace over a month’s time. You can also complete some of the activities at home, if you wish. A game board will be provided at registration. A reading log is included to keep track of the number of minutes you read this summer. Registrants that complete the activities will receive a prize at the end of the program.

Game Night
2023-06-26 18:30 - 20:30, 2023-06-12 18:30 - 20:30

Juneteenth Closing
2023-06-19
We will be closed on Monday 6/19 for Juneteenth.

Online Author Talk: An American In Provence: Author Talk with Award-Winning Photographer Jamie Beck
2023-06-15 14:00 - 15:00
Register here: https://libraryc.org/lima/27158

An American in Provence is a beautiful collection of exquisite portrait, scenic, and still-life photography from New York Times bestselling author and award-winning photographer Jamie Beck. Looking to slow down from her fast-paced life in New York City, Beck embarked on a one-year getaway to Provence. One year, turning into five, Beck moved to the French countryside, documenting her life as “An American in Provence.”
Equal parts art book, travel diary, memoir, and cookbook, An American in Provence transports you to the South of France. Beck shares her tips and techniques for creating incredible photos and details her transformational journey as an artist and woman. Beck also includes farm-to-table recipes she’s learned along the way, including Braised Beef Stew, Spring Chicken with Herbs de Provence, Fresh Tagliatelle Pasta with Spring Asparagus, and Lemon Meringue Tart. This stunning visual journey will surely delight anyone wishing to escape reality and immerse themselves in life in Provence.
About the Author: Jamie Beck took her first photograph at the age of thirteen and soon after began earning her living as a professional photographer. By twenty-eight, she opened her own commercial photographic studio in lower Manhattan. Jamie has shot campaigns and editorials for some of the world’s most famous brands, including Chanel, Donna Karan, Nike, Oscar de la Renta, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft. Her work has appeared under the mastheads of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, on Netflix, and in digital ad displays for Disney. In 2016, she took what was to be a one-year sabbatical to create a personal body of work in the South of France, which changed the entire course of her life, one that blossomed into a career as an art photographer and delivered her a French-born baby girl named Eloise. Jamie is the author of the New York Times bestselling An American in Provence. She lives in Provence with her husband and daughter. Follow her on Instagram @JamieBeck.co.

Special Meeting - Board of Trustees - Budget
2023-06-14 18:30 - 20:00
The Lima Public Library Board of Trustees will be holding a special meeting on Wednesday 6/14 at 6:30 PM for the purposes of discussing the 2024 budget.

Online Author Talk: The Fun Habit with Mike Rucker, Ph.D.
2023-06-07 16:00 - 17:00
Register here: https://libraryc.org/lima/26892
Doesn’t it seem that the more we seek happiness, the more elusive it becomes? There is an easy fix, hiding in plain sight. Fun is an action you can take here and now, practically anywhere, anytime. Through research and science, we know fun is enormously beneficial to our physical and psychological well-being, yet fun’s absence from our modern lives is striking. Whether you’re a frustrated high-achiever trying to find a better work-life balance or seeking relief from life’s overwhelming challenges, it is time you gain access to the best medicine available. The Fun Habit: How the Disciplined Pursuit of Joy and Wonder Can Change Your Life is the ultimate guide to reap the serious benefits fun offers. Grounded in current research, accessible science, and practical recommendations, Dr. Rucker will use The Fun Habit strategies to teach you:

How you can build having fun into an actionable and effortless habit; and
Why doing so will help you become a healthier, more joyful, more productive person.

The Fun Habit is an inspiring and motivational guidebook that you will want to share with everyone in your life.
About the Author: Dr. Mike Rucker is an organizational psychologist and charter member of the International Positive Psychology Association whose work has been published in the International Journal of Workplace Health Management and Nutrition Research. His ideas about fun and health have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Vox, Thrive Global, mindbodygreen, and more. Named one of ten digital change makers by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, he currently serves as a senior leader at Active Wellness. Learn more at MichaelRucker.com.
