Have you heard the news? You can now browse through digitized issues of the Homer News at the library!
Sound Publishing, the parent company of the Homer News, partnered with Newspapers.com to digitize past issues of the newspaper and convert them into a searchable online database. All issues of the paper from 1954-2021 are now available through the Newspapers.com website.
Welcome to ten years of reading with the Lit Lineup! This reading challenge was created 10 years ago by Teresa Sundmark to inspire our community to read more. Prizes are generously funded by the Friends of the Homer Library.
Join our community-wide initiative to read fifteen books throughout the year. Anyone can participate, although the books were chosen with adults or mature teens in mind.
Each book you've read (and reported) enters you into a monthly drawing for a prize. Any person who reads and enters fifteen or more books by the end of the year will be eligible to win the grand prize!
Join the Friends of the Homer Public Library for an Author Talk with local author Harold Shepherd! Shepherd will discuss his bookReturn to Ekeunick's Time: Defending Waters and Tradition in the Arctic.
Join two Homer writers to discuss the joys and challenges of writing about historical events and individuals. How does a historian take the facts of a real person’s actions in a previous time and make them interesting and compelling to a modern reader? How does a fiction writer embellish or even set aside the facts of history for the same reason?
Come and see what happens when a journalist and a novelist walk into a library!
Come have a magical moment with New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune as he chats about his Cerulean Chronicles, with special emphasis on his newest in the series, Somewhere Beyond the Sea.
Join us for a captivating conversation with #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave, as she chats with us online about her newest book The Night We Lost Him.
The Night We Lost Him focuses on estranged siblings who discover their father has been keeping a secret for over fifty years, one that may have been fatal..
Join us for an absolutely dazzling presentation with the emeritus curator of the Smithsonian's National Gem Collection, Dr. Jeffrey E. Post as he talks about The Smithsonian National Gem Collection Unearthed: Surprising Stories Behind the Jewels.
Shine bright with us this holiday season and register now!
