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RESCHEDULED TO AUGUST 1, 2023 @ 10:00 AM

To Attend In-Person, the meeting will be held at:
Cowles Council Chambers
Homer City Hall
491 E. Pioneer Avenue
Homer, AK 99603

To Attend via Zoom, click the link to join the meeting:

Eligible items checked out from the library  automatically renew on the original due date! Books, DVDs, magazines, and most other physical items will renew automatically twice...

Drop in at the library between 3-5 on Monday July 3 to make megaphones, sea creature masks, and learn a chant for the parade! Then join us on July 4 to walk with BOB the Bookmobile! Families and all ages welcome! 

To Attend In-Person, the meeting will be held at:
Cowles Council Chambers
Homer City Hall
491 E. Pioneer Avenue
Homer, AK 99603

To Attend via Zoom, click the link to join the webinar:
https://cityofhomer.zoom.us/j/96586314135?pwd=WTdvVHdDVmxxZHJwaC9ZNmFYYlZ3dz09

To Attend In-Person, the meeting will be held at:
Cowles Council Chambers
Homer City Hall
491 E. Pioneer Avenue
Homer, AK 99603

To Attend via Zoom, click the link to join the webinar:
https://cityofhomer.zoom.us/j/96586314135?pwd=WTdvVHdDVmxxZHJwaC9ZNmFYYlZ3dz09

Homer, Alaska, June 22, 2023 -- The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) is introducing the Alaska Project Exchange (APEX) – a public resource for staying connected and involved with the DOT&PF construction projects that matter to you. Here's what you need to know:

Tuesday, July 25th at 12:00 PM AKDT

Join us as we chat with award-winning writer Erika Sánchez about her utterly original, moving, and disarmingly funny memoir-in-essays Crying in the Bathroom. 

Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the nineties, Erika Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment—a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy, often laughing so hard with her friends that she had to leave her school classroom. Twenty-five years later, she’s now an award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist, but she’s still got an irrepressible laugh, an acerbic wit, and singular powers of perception about the world around her...

Thursday, July 20th at 9:00 AM AKDT

The most important conversation we have each day isn’t with our boss, spouse, or friends: it’s the one we have with ourselves. When facing a challenging task, our inner voice can motivate us and help us keep our focus. But often, we come up against the nagging voice that tells us we can’t do it or that people will laugh at us if we try. The million-dollar question is how can we transform our self-saboteur, determined to undermine our success, into an internal life coach that will buoy us up and help us expand our potential?

Enter Ethan Kross. A world-class psychological scientist, Kross has written one of modern history's most definitive guides to mastering self-talk. In Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why it Matters and How to Harness It, he uses a blend of cutting-edge science (from his own lab) and real-world case studies to help us harness the power of our inner voice...

Saturday, July 15th at 10:00 AM AKDT

You’re invited to an awe-inspiring chat with New York Times bestselling author Charles Soule as he talks about his newest book, The Endless Vessel, which explores the way we’re all connected—and what can happen when we lose our capacity for joy...

Wednesday, June 28th at 4:00 PM AKDT

Join us for a chat with Tananarive Due about her newest work, The Wishing Pool and Other Stories. The second collection of stories by the author is full of her signature offerings of horror, science fiction, and suspense while confronting monsters of all kinds, including racism, the monster within, and the supernatural. Due’s prolific body of work cements the author as a leading voice in black speculative fiction for more than 20 years. Due is an award-winning writer, educator, and producer. Her body of work includes sixteen books, including the Blood Colony, The Living Blood, The Good House, Joplin’s Ghost, Devil’s Wake, and the forthcoming The Reformatory. In addition, she is a contributing author of Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda and Black Panther: Sins of the King. Collaborating with her partner Steven Barnes, she also co-wrote "A Small Town" for Season 2 of Jordan Peele’s "The Twilight Zone" on Paramount Plus and two segments of Shudder’s anthology film Horror Noire.