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Page Turner Animal Adventures

Monday - Friday at noon June 28th - August 20th Let your imagination run wild this summer with Page Turner Animal Adventures!  In this eight-week virtual program series, children will explore different adventures with intrepid Storyologist Page Turner&...

2021 Primary Elections

This year's Primaries feature local elections, including races for Huntington Town Council seats. Remember, you must belong to a political party holding a primary in order to vote in these elections. You can cast your ballot as follows: Vote Early As in previous elections, any voter registered...

June Community Service for SHPL residents currently in Grades 6-12

Please send all the below community service activities to ysprograms@shpl.info or to jgriffing@shpl.info with the title “COMMUNITY SERVICE” in the subject line. Please include your first and last name, age, grade and school in your email.  Please be patient as it might take a little time for us...

June 2021 - New Movies & TV Releases

It is a time of great flux and change in the film industry as news sources report Amazon has offered $8.45 billion to purchase the legendary studio MGM.  If consummated, the deal would not only give the Prime video library an enormous content boost, it would also give Amazon a 50 percent stake ...

June 2021 - New Books

This June we feature some rising stars in the thriller genre, with some great psychological and suspenseful books that will keep you guessing. In Edgar-nominated author Kimberly McCreight’s Friends Like These, a bachelor party in the Catskills is a cover for a staged intervention to help one of t...

Celebrating Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month: Young Adult!

Welcome, May! The weather is warming up, summer vacation seems to be right around the corner, and Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month is here!  What a lot to celebrate! Especially now, with the recent increase of hate and harassment towards Asians and Asian Ame...

Celebrating Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month: Middle Grade!

There are many wonderful things to celebrate in May.  The weather is warming up, summer vacation is getting closer every day, there’s Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day, and Dance Like a Chicken Day (recognized on May 14th, but don’t worry if you missed it  -- I’m sure a belated celebration would...

Celebrating Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month: Younger Readers!

There are many wonderful things to celebrate in May.  The weather is warming up, summer vacation is getting closer every day, there’s Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day, and Dance Like a Chicken Day (recognized on May 14th, but don’t worry if you missed it -- I’m sure a belated celebration would still...

Introduction to Space Operas

If the science in science fiction strikes you as detached, or your interest runs more toward epic adventure, dynastic drama, and political machinations, space operas may be a sub-genre that will appeal to you.  While "space opera" may sound too musical, fear not: the "opera" part of the term...

May 2021 - New Books

This month we start with three titles that test the limits of human exploration on our world and beyond. The first book is Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead. The year is 1914 and we meet Marian, an intrepid young Montana woman whose love of flight culminates with her attempt to circumnavigate the glo...