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Moon Buggy Program

Location: Madison Public Library
Date: Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

The Huntsville Center for Technology will bring their moon buggy vehicle by for everyone to see. All ages are welcome!

Discover Tech Kick Off

Location: Main Library
Date: Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Help us launch the Discover Tech exhibit AND Summer Reading at our grand opening festival!  We'll have science crafts, snacks, face painting, and live music.  Be one of the first people to try out the Discover Tech hands on exhibit!

Library Board Meeting

Location: Main Library
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Please note the date change for May's meeting.

Board meetings regularly occur on the third Wednesday of each month at 4:00pm and are open to the public.

Literature Out Loud!: O Pioneers!

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Monday, June 3, 2013 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Join us for a slide show of artworks created in 1913, a cup of tea or two, and a lively discussion of Willa Cather's "O Pioneers!".

Creativity Night @ Bailey Cove Library: Origami!

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Join us this evening for a free art/craft "getaway" for grown-ups each 3rd Thursday of the month at 6:00. Back by popular demand, this evening's theme is origami!  We will begin with a slide-show and a demo of basic paper folding skills, and finally we will have free time and assistance with making any number of origami items. ALL skill levels invited! Supplies and beverages will be provided. Stay tuned for a new theme each month!

Madison Murder, Ink.: Joyland

Location: Madison Public Library
Date: Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 6:30pm - 7:30pm

A STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING AUTHORS OF ALL TIME! Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. "I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. That combo made Hard Case Crime the perfect venue for this book, which is one of my favorites.

Madison Murder, Ink.: Blue Monday

Location: Madison Public Library
Date: Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Immensely intelligent and poignantly human, Frieda Klein has captivated book critics and crime readers everywhere with her debut outing as Blue Monday 's iconoclastic heroine. A psychotherapist and insomniac who spends her nights walking along the ancient rivers that lie beneath modern London, Frieda stars in a dazzling new crime series in which the terrors of the mind spill over into real life. When five-year-old Matthew Farraday is abducted, Frieda cannot ignore the fact that his photograph perfectly matches the boy one of her patients describes from his fantasies.

Madison Murder, Ink.: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Location: Madison Public Library
Date: Thursday, April 18, 2013 - 6:30pm - 7:30pm

This splendid collection of mysteries carries readers back to a gas-lit era, when literature's greatest detective team lived on Baker Street. A dozen of Holmes and Watson's best-known cases include "The Speckled Band," "The Red-Headed League," The Five Orange Pips," "The Copper Beeches," and "A Scandal in Bohemia."

Madison Murder, Ink.: Josh Whoever

Location: Madison Public Library
Date: Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Josh was an army veteran, but a maneuver-turned-massacre cover-up threw him into a hero's harsh spotlight. After walking away from it all, Josh, who's been pulling scams for a living, takes refuge in the bottle and tries to stay invisible. But his latest con puts him in the sights of a Russian mob family convinced that he is a private detective-and the only one who can find missing reality star Kiev Romanov.

Eleanor Murphy ForeverYA: Every Day by David Levithan

Location: Eleanor E. Murphy Branch Library
Date: Saturday, June 8, 2013 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl.

There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere.

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