Join us on Wednesdays for social stitching time with Mina and Jamie at Lakeville! Learn the basics, bring your current project, or participate in one of our maker drives during our weekly knitting, crochet and craft circle.

Have a question? Call us at 516-466-8055 ext 255 for assistance!

Join us on Wednesdays for social stitching time with Mina and Jamie at Lakeville! Learn the basics, bring your current project, or participate in one of our maker drives during our weekly knitting, crochet and craft circle.

Have a question? Call us at 516-466-8055 ext 255 for assistance!

Join us on Wednesdays for social stitching time with Mina and Jamie at Lakeville! Learn the basics, bring your current project, or participate in one of our maker drives during our weekly knitting, crochet and craft circle.

Have a question? Call us at 516-466-8055 ext 255 for assistance!

Join us on Wednesdays for social stitching time with Mina and Jamie at Lakeville! Learn the basics, bring your current project, or participate in one of our maker drives during our weekly knitting, crochet and craft circle.

Have a question? Call us at 516-466-8055 ext 255 for assistance!

Join us on Wednesdays for social stitching time with Mina and Jamie at Lakeville! Learn the basics, bring your current project, or participate in one of our maker drives during our weekly knitting, crochet and craft circle.

Have a question? Call us at 516-466-8055 ext 255 for assistance!

Join us back at Lakeville for lively discussions! Lakeville Literary Club is now in-person only. Please register by the first of the month in order to guarantee receiving the item on time. Please call Lakeville at 516-466-8055 ext 255 in order to request a physical copy of the book.  Please call by the first of the month in order to receive a physical copy.  Title is also available via Overdrive as well.

May Pick: Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie

From debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's quest for acceptance in post–World War II Japan.

Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. . . . Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with only these final words. She will not fight her confinement to the attic of her grandparents' imperial estate. And she will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to lighten her shameful skin.

The illegitimate child of a Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. Though her grandparents take her in, they do so only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. Obedient to a fault, Nori accepts her solitary life for what it is, despite her natural intellect and nagging curiosity about what lies outside the attic's walls. But when chance brings her legitimate older half-brother, Akira, to the estate that is his inheritance and destiny, Nori finds in him the first person who will allow her to question, and the siblings form an unlikely but powerful bond—a bond their formidable grandparents cannot allow and that will irrevocably change the lives they were always meant to lead. Because now that Nori has glimpsed a world in which perhaps there is a place for her after all, she is ready to fight to be a part of it—a battle that just might cost her everything.

Spanning decades and continents, Fifty Words for Rain is a dazzling epic about the ties that bind, the ties that give you strength, and what it means to try to break free. (Goodreads)
 

Title is also available as an Ebook and an EAudiobook on Overdrive: https://nassau.overdrive.com/search?query=fifty+words+for+rain

Join us on Wednesdays for social stitching time with Mina and Jamie at Lakeville! Learn the basics, bring your current project, or participate in one of our maker drives during our weekly knitting, crochet and craft circle.

Have a question? Call us at 516-466-8055 ext 255 for assistance!

Join us on Wednesdays for social stitching time with Mina and Jamie at Lakeville! Learn the basics, bring your current project, or participate in one of our maker drives during our weekly knitting, crochet and craft circle.

Have a question? Call us at 516-466-8055 ext 255 for assistance!

Join us on Wednesdays for social stitching time with Mina and Jamie at Lakeville! Learn the basics, bring your current project, or participate in one of our maker drives during our weekly knitting, crochet and craft circle.

Have a question? Call us at 516-466-8055 ext 255 for assistance!

Join us on Wednesdays for social stitching time with Mina and Jamie at Lakeville! Learn the basics, bring your current project, or participate in one of our maker drives during our weekly knitting, crochet and craft circle.

Have a question? Call us at 516-466-8055 ext 255 for assistance!

Join us back at Lakeville for lively discussions! Lakeville Literary Club is now in-person only. Please register by the first of the month in order to guarantee receiving the item on time. Please call Lakeville at 516-466-8055 ext 255 in order to request a physical copy of the book.  Please call by the first of the month in order to receive a physical copy.  Title is also available via Overdrive as well.

June Pick: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.

After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.

Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors--until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.

Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late.

Shelby Van Pelt's debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible. (Goodreads)
 

Title is also available as an Ebook and an EAudiobook on Overdrive: https://nassau.overdrive.com/search?query=remarkably+bright+creatures

Join us on Wednesdays for social stitching time with Mina and Jamie at Lakeville! Learn the basics, bring your current project, or participate in one of our maker drives during our weekly knitting, crochet and craft circle.

Have a question? Call us at 516-466-8055 ext 255 for assistance!