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A Summer@HPL 2024 Event!

Join us for a special screening of Disney’s WALL-E (2008 - G rated) at the Homer Public Library!

After hundreds of lonely years, a waste management robot finds a new purpose in life. With only a cockroach for a friend, he finds true love in another robot sent on a mission to Earth to see if it is safe for human life.

A Summer@HPL 2024 event!

Join guest performers Ken Waldman and Josh Krohn for stories and fiddle music.

Tuesday, June 11th

6 - 7pm

In the Children's Library. For families.

An Evening of Poetry and Conversation

Tuesday, May 14th, 2024

6:30 - 7:30 pm

Join the Friends of the Homer Public Library in the library's cozy Fireplace Reading Lounge to hear from four local treasured poets as they read from their latest collections of poetry. We will hear passages from:

A Summer@HPL 2024 Weekly Event!

Ages 0-5

For littles (babies through preschoolers) and their caregivers. Join us for 20-25 minutes of one story, lots singing and dancing, followed by creative making with recycled materials! 

Every Monday 6/9 - 7/29 

10:30 - 11:30am

Safety improvements, a new parking lot, and more new bus parking/loading zones are on the way! 

2024 Parking Updates for the Lots between Ramps 3 to 5

Now that the snow has melted off City streets, your Public Works Department is springing into street sweeping operations to remove sand remaining from the winter season.  Sweeping up the excess dust and debris on nearly 2o miles of roadway keeps it out of the air and our storm drain system and makes our town cleaner, more aesthetically pleasing and livable.

Tuesday, May 21st at 3:00 PM AKDT

We welcome you to register for a thrilling conversation with Rebecca F. Kuang (R.F. Kuang) as she chats with us about her New York Times bestselling novel, Yellowface. Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media.

Wednesday, May 8th at 3:00 PM AKDT

Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door.

You’re invited to join Nina Simon online as she chats about her lighthearted whodunnit about a grandmother-mother-daughter trio of amateur sleuths, Mother-Daughter Murder Night.

Wednesday, May 1st at 11:00 AM AKDT

Join us as we chat with New York Times bestselling author, Douglas Brunt, about instant bestselling debut non-fiction work The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I. This book reveals the hidden history of Rudolf Diesel, one of the world’s greatest inventors, and his mysterious disappearance on the eve of World War I.