Community Calendar

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Join the Library's longest running book club on the 2nd Thursday of every month to discuss a new book! This month, we are reading Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez. Copies are available at the Downtown Information Desk.

We will meet in person in the Downtown Library Community Room. If you need to attend by Zoom, please reach out to programming staff at libraryprograms@flagstaffpubliclibrary.org or call the Information Desk (928-213-2332) ahead of time. Please no later than Monday the week of the discussion.

Join us at the Mead Hall as we discuss the book, American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins about a Mexican bookseller who is forced to flee as an undocumented immigrant to the United States, along with her son, after her journalist husband exposes a local drug kingpin. Come sip on some Mead and chat with others about this Bestseller!

Join us at the Mead Hall as we discuss the book, American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins about a Mexican bookseller who is forced to flee as an undocumented immigrant to the United States, along with her son, after her journalist husband exposes a local drug kingpin. Come sip on some Mead and chat with others about this Bestseller!

Discuss the stories of the Southwest with the Southwest Reads book club, the 4th Wednesday of every other month!

This month's read is Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors

A decade ago Philip Connors left work as an editor at the Wall Street Journal and talked his way into a job far from the streets of lower Manhattan: working as one of the last fire lookouts in America. Spending nearly half the year in a 7' x 7' tower, 10,000 feet above sea level in remote New Mexico, his tasks were simple: keep watch over one of the most fire-prone forests in the country and sound the alarm at the first sign of smoke.

Fire Season is Connors's remarkable reflection on work, our place in the wild, and the charms of solitude. The landscape over which he keeps watch is rugged and roadless — it was the first region in the world to be officially placed off limits to industrial machines — and it typically gets hit by lightning more than 30,000 times per year. Connors recounts his days and nights in this forbidding land, untethered from the comforts of modern life: the eerie pleasure of being alone in his glass-walled perch with only his dog Alice for company; occasional visits from smokejumpers and long-distance hikers; the strange dance of communion and wariness with bears, elk, and other wild creatures; trips to visit the hidden graves of buffalo soldiers slain during the Apache wars of the nineteenth century; and always the majesty and might of lightning storms and untamed fire.

Pick up a copy of this month's book from the Downtown Library Information Desk.

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Join us for Poetry Book Club! This month we will read Bestiary by Donika Kelly.

Pick up a copy at the Downtown Library's Information Desk.

We will met in the Northwest Corner (past the Information Desk) from 5:30-7:00 on Thursday, June 5. The first hour will be dedicated to discussion with the last 30 minutes reserved for writing exercises!

Join the Library's longest running book club on the 2nd Thursday of every month to discuss a new book! This month, we are reading The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman. Copies are available at the Downtown Information Desk.

We will meet in person in the Downtown Library Community Room. If you need to attend by Zoom, please reach out to programming staff at libraryprograms@flagstaffpubliclibrary.org or call the Information Desk (928-213-2332) ahead of time. Please no later than Monday in the week of the discussion.

Join the Library's longest running book club on the 2nd Thursday of every month to discuss a new book! This month, we are reading The Dictionary People by Sarah Ogilvie. Copies are available at the Downtown Information Desk.

We will meet in person in the Downtown Library Community Room. If you need to attend by Zoom, please reach out to programming staff at libraryprograms@flagstaffpubliclibrary.org or call the Information Desk (928-213-2332) ahead of time. Please no later than Monday the week of the discussion.

Join us for Poetry Book Club! This month we will read A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver.

Pick up a copy at the Downtown Library's Information Desk.

We will met in the Northwest Corner (past the Information Desk) from 5:30-7:00 on Thursday, August 7. The first hour will be dedicated to discussion with the last 30 minutes reserved for writing exercises!

Join the Library's longest running book club on the 2nd Thursday of every month to discuss a new book! This month, we are reading The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry. Copies are available at the Downtown Information Desk.

We will meet in person in the Downtown Library Community Room. If you need to attend by Zoom, please reach out to programming staff at libraryprograms@flagstaffpubliclibrary.org or call the Information Desk (928-213-2332) ahead of time. Please no later than Monday the week of the discussion.