Murphys Volunteer Library

Sign-ups are now closed for the summer reading program. If you signed up your children please pickup the wonderful packets! We may run out so come every week to pick them up. We are on week 1! We hope to have replacements if needed.

IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO SIGN UP FOR THE SUMMER READING PROGRAM... Children are invited to join the 2021 Summer Reading Program at Murphys Library. Our 8-week program will feature a weekly packet that can be picked-up at your local library. Each packet will include a free book and activities for children ages 0-2 and 3-5, and grades K-2, 3-4, and 5-6. Week 1 packets will be available for pick up beginning Tuesday, June 15th. Readers can register, fill out reading logs, and co...mpete for prizes! To register, fill out the form (available online and at the libraries) and return it to your branch. Or return it by mail or email. Call 209-754-6510 or email [email protected] if you have questions. See more

Murphys Volunteer Library Book Club Meet June 17th Thursday, 10:00-11:00 Murphys Community Park The Elegance of a Hedgehog, by Muriel Barberry. ... There are eleven (11) copies within Calaveras County circulation. Kris will gladly help you order your copy to read. To kick off the summer, we are reading, The Elegance of a Hedgehog, by Muriel Barberry. In this novel, Renee Michel is a concierge who believes that every concierge is perceived as unintelligent by those for whom they work. For this reason, Renee goes to great lengths to hide the fact that she often spends her days reading Marx and Tolstoy. It is not until Renee meets a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu, that she finally finds a person with whom she can truly be herself. At the same time, Paloma Josse is struggling with the same sort of identity crisis. She is a highly intelligent girl who feels she must hide her real thoughts from those who do not understand her. In befriending both Renee and Kakuro, Paloma finds a way to relate to the outer world and find pleasure in life. The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a novel of personal identity that will inspire the reader to face life head-on, rather than hiding behind masks that are designed to deceive not only the outside world but ourselves as well. ~Bookrags. Murphys Volunteer Library Book Club: Meet: Thursday, July 6th 10:00-11:00- Murphys Community Park Of Women and Salt, by Gabriella Garcia. Three copies will be available in June through the County Library System. Our second summer read will be, Of Women and Salt, by Gabriella Garcia. In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. The conflict between the Cuban matriarchs is intertwined, as Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her grandmother and reckon with secrets from the past destined to erupt. From 19th-century cigar factories to present-day detention centers, from Cuba to Mexico, Gabriela Garcia's Of Women and Salt is a kaleidoscopic portrait of betrayals--personal and political, self-inflicted and those done by others--that have shaped the lives of these extraordinary women. This is more than a diaspora story; it is a story of America's most tangled, honest, human roots. ~ Goodreads.

Children are invited to join the 2021 Summer Reading Program at the Calaveras County Library. Our 8-week program will feature a weekly packet that can be picked-up at your local library. Each packet will include a free book and activities for children ages 0-2 and 3-5, and grades K-2, 3-4, and 5-6. Week 1 packets will be available for pick up beginning Monday, June 14th. Readers can register, fill out reading logs, and compete for prizes! To register, fill out the form (available online and at the libraries) and return it to your branch. Or return it by mail or email. Call 209-754-6510 or email [email protected] if you have questions.

Upcoming Book Club Meeting - the chosen book is available at Murphys Library, Tuesday - Friday, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm February 18th 2:00-3:30 on Google Meet The Signature of All Things, by Elizabeth Gilbert has written an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine tr...ade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. The story continues through the next generation with Henry's brilliant daughter, Alma and her love for botany and talented mind. As Alma's research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who creates painting of orchids. Ambrose draws her in the exact opposite direction into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical. Alma is a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose a utopian artist but what unites this unlikely couple is a desperate need to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all life. Exquisitely researched and told at a galloping pace, The Signature of All Things soars across the globefrom London to Peru to Philadelphia to Tahiti to Amsterdam, and beyond. ~ Goodreads. See more

Thank you Sarah Kelly for brightening up the library for the holidays. We will be closed Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day.

Murphys Library is still OPEN - Tuesday through Friday, 11:00 - 4:00. Wear your favorite mask and stop on by. Books, DVDs, Holiday music CDs, and friendly people!