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Tuesday Evening Book Club 6:30 pm
Tuesday Evening Book Club
Mar 12 @ 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm
Tuesday Evening Book Club
The Tuesday Evening Book Club—meets on the 2nd Tuesday of the Month.  This is our reading list as of 12/18/2023. 2024 February 13 Five Days at Memorial: Life ... Read More »
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Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 9:15 am
Woodridge Local Schools Art Show
Mar 23 @ 9:15 am – 4:30 pm
Woodridge Local Schools Art Show
Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024 March 23-April 4 Woodridge Local Schools will be displaying artwork created by gifted students at the Peninsula Library March 23–April 4. Come ... Read More »
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Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024 9:15 am
Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024
Mar 25 @ 9:15 am – 7:30 pm
Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024 March 22-April 5 Woodridge Local Schools will be displaying artwork created by gifted students at the Peninsula Library March 22–April 5. Come ... Read More »
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Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024 9:15 am
Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024
Mar 26 @ 9:15 am – 7:30 pm
Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024 March 22-April 5 Woodridge Local Schools will be displaying artwork created by gifted students at the Peninsula Library March 22–April 5. Come ... Read More »
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Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024 9:15 am
Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024
Mar 27 @ 9:15 am – 7:30 pm
Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024 March 22-April 5 Woodridge Local Schools will be displaying artwork created by gifted students at the Peninsula Library March 22–April 5. Come ... Read More »
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Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024 9:15 am
Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024
Mar 28 @ 9:15 am – 7:30 pm
Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024 March 22-April 5 Woodridge Local Schools will be displaying artwork created by gifted students at the Peninsula Library March 22–April 5. Come ... Read More »
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Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 9:15 am
Woodridge Local Schools Art Show
Mar 29 @ 9:15 am – 4:30 pm
Woodridge Local Schools Art Show
Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024 March 23-April 4 Woodridge Local Schools will be displaying artwork created by gifted students at the Peninsula Library March 23–April 4. Come ... Read More »
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Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 9:15 am
Woodridge Local Schools Art Show
Mar 30 @ 9:15 am – 4:30 pm
Woodridge Local Schools Art Show
Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024 March 23-April 4 Woodridge Local Schools will be displaying artwork created by gifted students at the Peninsula Library March 23–April 4. Come ... Read More »
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Woodridge Local Schools Art Show
Mar 29 @ 9:15 am – 4:30 pm
Woodridge Local Schools Art Show

Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024
March 23-April 4
Woodridge Local Schools will be displaying artwork created by gifted students at the Peninsula Library March 23–April 4. Come to the Peninsula Library to see what wonderful things are happening in the art rooms of Woodridge!

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Woodridge Local Schools Art Show
Mar 30 @ 9:15 am – 4:30 pm
Woodridge Local Schools Art Show

Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024
March 23-April 4
Woodridge Local Schools will be displaying artwork created by gifted students at the Peninsula Library March 23–April 4. Come to the Peninsula Library to see what wonderful things are happening in the art rooms of Woodridge!

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Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024
Apr 1 @ 9:15 am – 7:30 pm

Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024
March 22-April 5
Woodridge Local Schools will be displaying artwork created by gifted students at the Peninsula Library March 22–April 5. Come to the Peninsula Library to see what wonderful things are happening in the art rooms of Woodridge!

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Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024
Apr 2 @ 9:15 am – 7:30 pm

Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024
March 22-April 5
Woodridge Local Schools will be displaying artwork created by gifted students at the Peninsula Library March 22–April 5. Come to the Peninsula Library to see what wonderful things are happening in the art rooms of Woodridge!

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Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024
Apr 3 @ 9:15 am – 7:30 pm

Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024
March 22-April 5
Woodridge Local Schools will be displaying artwork created by gifted students at the Peninsula Library March 22–April 5. Come to the Peninsula Library to see what wonderful things are happening in the art rooms of Woodridge!

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Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024
Apr 4 @ 9:15 am – 7:30 pm

Woodridge Local Schools Art Show 2024
March 22-April 5
Woodridge Local Schools will be displaying artwork created by gifted students at the Peninsula Library March 22–April 5. Come to the Peninsula Library to see what wonderful things are happening in the art rooms of Woodridge!

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Library Closed
Apr 6 all-day
Library Closed

Eclipse 2024
As has been widely reported, our area will be experiencing a total eclipse on April 8.  The last eclipse of this sort occurred in 1806.  Many travel and tourism websites are directing eclipse watchers to the Cuyahoga Valley.  Local entities, such as the Summit County Emergency Management Agency and the Summit County Public Health District, are advising residents to stay home.  The prediction is that visitors will begin arriving on April 6 (The state motto is “arrive early, stay late”).  The time of biggest concern is immediately after the eclipse is over when everyone is trying to leave at the same time.  We advise our patrons to plan for the eclipse as if it was a major weather event.  Have sufficient food and water and make sure your prescriptions are filled.  Because of the anticipated crowds, the Peninsula Library board voted at their meeting on February 20 to close both the library and the museum for the weekend.  Both facilities will be closed on Saturday, April 6 through Monday, April 8.

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Library Closed
Apr 8 all-day
Library Closed

Eclipse 2024
As has been widely reported, our area will be experiencing a total eclipse on April 8.  The last eclipse of this sort occurred in 1806.  Many travel and tourism websites are directing eclipse watchers to the Cuyahoga Valley.  Local entities, such as the Summit County Emergency Management Agency and the Summit County Public Health District, are advising residents to stay home.  The prediction is that visitors will begin arriving on April 6 (The state motto is “arrive early, stay late”).  The time of biggest concern is immediately after the eclipse is over when everyone is trying to leave at the same time.  We advise our patrons to plan for the eclipse as if it was a major weather event.  Have sufficient food and water and make sure your prescriptions are filled.  Because of the anticipated crowds, the Peninsula Library board voted at their meeting on February 20 to close both the library and the museum for the weekend.  Both facilities will be closed on Saturday, April 6 through Monday, April 8.

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Tuesday Evening Book Club
Apr 9 @ 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm
Tuesday Evening Book Club

The Tuesday Evening Book Club—meets on the 2nd Tuesday of the Month.  This is our reading list as of 12/18/2023.

2024

February 13
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink

After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs.

Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink, unspools the mystery, bringing us inside a hospital fighting for its life and into the most charged questions in health care: which patients should be prioritized, and can health care professionals ever be excused for hastening death?

March 12
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel by James McBride (Author)

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe’s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe.

April 9

Fifty Words for Rain. Asha Lemmie

Kyoto, Japan, 1948. “Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist.”

Such is eight-year-old Noriko “Nori” Kamiza’s first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with only these final words. She will not fight her confinement to the attic of her grandparents’ imperial estate. And she will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to lighten her skin.

The child of a married Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. Her grandparents take her in, only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. Obedient to a fault, Nori accepts her solitary life, despite her natural intellect and curiosity. But when chance brings her older half-brother, Akira, to the estate that is his inheritance and destiny, Nori finds in him an unlikely ally with whom she forms a powerful bond—a bond their formidable grandparents cannot allow and that will irrevocably change the lives they were always meant to lead. Because now that Nori has glimpsed a world in which perhaps there is a place for her after all, she is ready to fight to be a part of it—a battle that just might cost her everything.

 

 

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Are you ready to bring a puppy home?
Apr 13 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Are you ready to bring a puppy home?

Are you ready for a new puppy? – Saturday, April 13 at 10:00 am-11:00am

If you are thinking about bringing a new puppy home, do you think you’re ready? On April 6th, Jacob Mayer, a canine specialist with American Caniner, LLC, will help you find the perfect match and make the puppy homecoming a breeze! He will highlight:
If your life is ready for a new dog
What kind of dog is right for you
Where to get a new dog
How to pick out a dog
How to introduce your new dog to your house
Present and Future: life with a dog
Reservations are requested, please call the
library at 330-657-2291 or
email info@peninsulalibrary.org