StoryWalk at the French Art Colony The StoryWalk title for January is Just SNOW Already! by Howard McWilliam. StoryWalk is located on the grounds of the French Art Colony, 530 First Avenue. StoryWalk is a great way for both children and adults to enjoy the great outdoors and great children’s books! Adult Book Club announces 2025 book selections Bossard Library’s Adult Book Club recently selected its featured books for 2025. In the upcoming year, the book club will again read a mixture of fiction and nonfiction titles, including bestselling novels and books on topics related to both world wars. Below is a full list of the books selected for 2025: January: Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac February: Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson March: The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism by John U. Bacon April: The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins May: Ground Breaking: The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City’s Search for Justice by Scott Ellsworth June: Vox by Christina Dalcher July: Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts August: The Bodyguard by Katherine Center September: The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede October: Fairy Tale by Stephen King November/December: The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter The book club will hold its first meeting of the year beginning at 1 p.m. on Saturday, January 25 to discuss Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac. Copies of the book can be borrowed from the library. Digital copies are available from hoopla and the Ohio Digital Library. The Adult Book Club meets at 1 p.m. the last Saturday of each month except for a combined November/December meeting each year. All interested readers are welcome and encouraged to attend. For more information about the Adult Book Club, please contact Lynn at 740.446.7323. Over 10,000 visits have been recorded to “BODY WORLDS: Animal Inside Out” during its time at Bossard Library. This unique exhibit gives visitors the opportunity to view the bones, circulatory, muscular, and organ systems of some of the world’s most spectacular creatures all preserved through the process of plastination. The fourth major exhibit hosted by the library since 2016, “Animal Inside Out” opened on September 28 and will continue through January 4. Following its conclusion, the load-out of the exhibit will take place and programs will return to the library beginning on Saturday, January 11. Several programs had been held offsite during the run of the exhibit, including weekly lapsit and storytime programming, Color Me Happy Adult Coloring, Adult Book Club, Yoga, and Trivia Night. These programs and all regular library programs will return to the library after January 11. Following routine maintenance and clean-up, the library’s meeting room spaces will also be available for use by patrons, groups, and organizations beginning on January 21. For more information about the library’s many programs, visit bossardlibrary.org. To learn more about the library’s meeting rooms or to make a reservation, please call the library at 740.446.7323. Over 10,000 visit ‘Animal Inside Out’
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