Grimes Public Library

Tonight's Family Night program has been cancelled.

Join us on Friday at 10am for Mini Pizzas! Registration is suggested to help us prepare supplies but not required. https://grimes.librarycalendar.com/event/no-school-program-8032

Tags for the annual Grimes Giving Tree will be delivered to the library this week!

The Grimes Giving Tree has been a tradition for many years here in Grimes. It is an opportunity to make sure our local families receive gifts, both fun and practical, for Christmas. It is organized by a group of DC-G teachers and the library is the host.

Take a tag(s) off the tree.
Write down your name and phone number on the paper to the corresponding tag number.
Buy the item(s).
Wrap the gift (s).
Return it to the library with the tag attached by library closing on Tuesday, December 1.

Check Out What's Happening at the Library this week!

Mark your calendars! We are one month out from our annual Gingerbread Jamboree!

Are your holiday lights not lighting up? Don't put them in the trash -- bring them to the library. The Metro Waste holiday light recycling bin is back to properly dispose of those old broken lights.
The bin will be in the lobby through the end of January.

We still have a few seats open for our next Check out What's Cooking. This month we will be making two delicious potato dishes perfect for the upcoming holidays.

Register Here: https://grimes.librarycalendar.com/event/check-out-whats-cooking-library-7321

The library will be closed Wednesday, November 11.

Our next book club book is Winter Street by Elin Hilderbrand.
Copies of the book are available at the lobby desk.

About the book:
Kelley Quinn is the owner of Nantucket's Winter Street Inn and the proud father of four, all of them grown and living in varying states of disarray. Patrick, the eldest, is a hedge fund manager with a guilty conscience. Kevin, a bartender, is secretly sleeping with a French housekeeper named Isabelle. Ava, a school teacher, is finally dating the perfect guy but can't get him to commit. And Bart, the youngest and only child of Kelley's second marriage to Mitzi, has recently shocked everyone by joining the Marines.

As Christmas approaches, Kelley is looking forward to getting the family together for some quality time at the inn. But when he walks in on Mitzi kissing Santa Claus (or the guy who's playing Santa at the inn's annual party), utter chaos descends. With the three older children each reeling in their own dramas and Bart unreachable in Afghanistan, it might be up to Kelley's ex-wife, nightly news anchor Margaret Quinn, to save Christmas at the Winter Street Inn.

Before the mulled c***r is gone, the delightfully dysfunctional Quinn family will survive a love triangle, an unplanned pregnancy, a federal crime, a small house fire, many shots of wh***ey, and endless rounds of Christmas caroling, in this heart-warming novel about coming home for the holidays. (From StoryGraph)

Did you change out your smoke detector batteries with the time change over the weekend? Don't throw them in your home garbage. Drop them off at an area Metro Waste Battery and Electronics recycling bin so they are disposed of safely.
We have one at the library, as well as city hall.