Book News: July/August 2024

Breasts: The Owner’s Manual: Every Woman’s Guide to Reducing Breast Cancer Risk, Making Treatment Choices, and Optimizing Outcomes by Kristi Funk, M.D. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during their lives. Breast cancer is the #1 killer of women ages 20-59. Did you know that only 5 to 10 percent of all […]

Children’s Book News – July/August 2024

Announcement: Summer is upon us and with it comes the Summer Reading Program for children at our library. This year’s theme is Adventure Begins at Your Library. Adventures come in many forms – mysteries, new experiences, exploring the unknown. Below are three books that reflect such adventures. Chester Keene Cracks the Code, by Kekla Magoon […]

Placitas Adult Community Education (PACE): Upcoming Classes

Upcoming Classes This Fall Placitas Adult Community Education (PACE) is a local non-profit membership organization. It’s for people like you who have natural curiosity and want to learn new things – who want to “keep their brains in the game.”  Sound like you? Join us at the Placitas Community Library on August 24th at 2pm.  […]

Placitas Community Library Benefit Concert

Saturday, August 3, 2024 at 6:30 to 9:00 PM A concert in support of Placitas Community Library.  Listen to three Placitas singer-songwriters as they perform original compositions, each in their unique style. James Bell excels in writing vignettes that tell a story or define a moment in time or place. To this end, he has […]

Hampton Sides Author Reading: The Wide Wide Sea

Saturday, August 10, 2024 at 2 PM From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, comes an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day. Placitas Community Library is excited to announce […]

Children’s Summer Reading Program Information

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Book News: May-June 2024

NO MORE EMPTY SPACES by D. J. Green In this thoughtful, engaging novel, divorced father, single parent, and geologist, Will Ross attempts to make a better life for his family, Kevin, Rob, and Didi. We all know there is no “handbook” on raising children. Will blunders along with his often-misguided intentions of being a good […]

Children’s Book News – May/June 2024

Voting for a child’s favorite Land of Enchantment book ends May 15. Hopefully, your child has had an opportunity to explore the nominees for this year and have read (or have read to them) some of the selections.  The desk by the Reader’s bookshelf has information concerning this event along with some of the nominated […]

PLACITAS STAR PARTY AND STAR TALK

Saturday, May 4, 2024 Rescheduled Star Party Solar viewing begins at 6PM followed by star viewing at 7 PM. Placitas Community Library’s spring star party had o be rescheduled due to very cloudy weather in March. The new date is Saturday May 4. The star party BEGINS AT 6PM WITH Solar Viewing. At 7pm The […]

Reception: “Magical Realism: Colores de Mexico”

Image by Armando Adrian-Lopez