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Wednesday, August 23rd at 4:00 PM AKDT

Join us for an exciting evening online as we chat with mega-bestselling author, Cassandra Clare, about her newest and final book in The Last Hours series, Chain of Thorns.....

Tuesday, August 15th at 12:00 PM AKDT

All are welcome and encouraged to join us for an engaging hour online with New York Times bestselling author Robert Jones, Jr., as he discusses his debut and award-winning novel, The Prophets....

Tuesday, August 8th

6:30 to 7:30 pm in the Fireside Lounge and over Zoom

Corky Parker,  author of the award-winning self-illustrated memoir, La Finca, Love, Loss, and Laundry on a Tiny Puerto Rican Island, is returning to Alaska this summer.  Her book, published in 2021 by Trinity University Press, is this year’s winner of the Pacific Northwest Writer’s Association’s Nancy Pearl Award for Memoir, as well as two international design awards for both book and cover design...

To Attend In-Person:
Cowles Council Chambers
Homer City Hall
491 E. Pioneer Avenue
Homer, AK 99603

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

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84261009469?pwd=aWhDZHVSY3BOU2IwdXNPS3pPdG4rQT09

Homer, Alaska, August 14, 2023 – The City of Homer, in conjunction with the Kenai Peninsula Borough Office of Emergency Management, will temporarily close a portion of the Spit Trail on Monday, August 21, and Tuesday, August 22, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. The closure aims to facilitate the installation of enhanced tsunami sirens by the Kenai Peninsula Borough Office of Emergency Management and the execution of a testing project.

The Homer Public Library will be CLOSED for Independence Day, Tuesday July 4th. Normal hours resume Wednesday, July 5th.

Join us for the Pre-parade meet-up between 3-5 on Monday July 3 to make megaphones, sea creature masks, and learn a chant for the parade! Or join us at the parade on July 4 to walk with BOB the Bookmobile! Families and all ages welcome! 

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...

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

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...