As if you needed another good reason to visit the Shenandoah County Library, we now have Take & Make Craft Kits! Two different kits are available each week: one basic craft for younger kids and beginning crafters, and one more advanced kit for crafters seeking more of a challenge. Kits are free but we do ask that you limit yourself to one kit per person, per week. All kits available while supplies last.

Summer fun is is here at the Shenandoah County Library! If it's been a while since you've stopped by the library, now is the perfect time. Our shelves are absolutely packed with new books, movies, and tv shows and we've planned exciting activities for the whole family! The summer fun runs from June 1 through July 30. 

• Register for the summer reading challenges to be entered to win fun prizes by clicking here: Countylib.beanstack.org
• Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch weekly storytime videos, book recommendations, craft kit tutorials, and more!
• Follow us on Facebook for the latest updates: @countylibrary, Fort Valley Community Center Library, @newmarketarealibrary, @strasburgvalib

---And don't forget to use the hashtag #ShenCoReads2021 to share what you're reading this summer!---

For the first stop on our Great American Road Trip 2020 reading challenge, try one of these titles set in New England!

• City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg (Adult Fiction)
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Adult Fiction)
• Just Kids by Patti Smith (Adult NonFiction)
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Adult Fiction)
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Adult Fiction)
• Where She Went by Gayle Forman (YA)
• The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez (Adult/YA)
• Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl (YA)
• The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon (YA)
• The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding by Alexandra Bracken (Juvenile Fiction)
• Quicksand Pond by Janet Taylor Lisle (Juvenile Fiction)
• Right as Rain by Lindsey Stoddard (Juvenile Fiction)
• Maine Clambake Mystery Series by Barbara Ross (Paperback)
• Under the Dome by Stephen King (CD Sound Recording)
• Harmony: a novel by Carolyn Parkhurst (CD Sound Recording)

Choose a book from this list to get lost in the American South, the second stop on our Great American Road Trip reading challenge.

• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (Adult Fiction)
• The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home by Denise Kiernan (Adult Nonfiction)
• Collected Works by Flannery O’Connor (Adult Fiction)
• Swamplandia! By Karen Russell (Adult Fiction)
• Deep South by Paul Theroux (Adult Nonfiction)
• Looking for Alaska by John Green (YA)
• The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han (YA)
• The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee (YA)
• This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp (YA)
• Love like Sky by Leslie C. Youngblood (Juvenile Fiction)
• Hoodoo by Ronald L. Smith (Juvenile Fiction)
• Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai (Juvenile Fiction)
• Waiting for Augusta by Jessica Lawson (Juvenile Fiction)
• Sweet Magnolias series by Sherryl Woods (Paperback)
• The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield (CD Sound Recording)
• Nashville Chrome by Rick Bass (CD Sound Recording)

Browse these wonderful titles to start the next adventure in our Great American Road Trip reading challenge. Will you choose a quiet romance on the great plains or a heart-stopping murder mystery in the windy city?

• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (Adult Fiction)
• The Round House by Louise Erdrich (Adult Fiction)
• The Turner House by Angela Flournoy (Adult Fiction)
• Off to the Side: A Memoir by Jim Harrison (Adult Nonfiction)
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (Adult Fiction)
• All That I Can Fix by Crystal Chan (YA)
• The Lake Effect by Erin McCahan (YA)
• Divergent by Veronica Roth (YA)
• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez (YA)
• Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park (Juvenile Fiction)
• Prairie Winter by Bonnie Geisert (Juvenile Fiction)
• Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool (Juvenile Fiction)
• Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer (Juvenile Fiction)
• The Batboy by Mike Lupica (Juvenile Fiction)
• The Bookstore Café Mystery series by Alex Erickson (Paperback)
• O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (CD Sound Recording)
• The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn a Lakota History by Joseph Marshall (Overdrive eAudiobook)

We've reached the Pacific in our Great American Road Trip reading challenge. From Washington state down to California, there is sure to be a book on this list for you!

• The Girls by Emma Cline (Adult Fiction)
• Where I Was From by Joan Didion (Adult Nonfiction)
• Blood Meridian, or, The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy (Adult Fiction)
• Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan (Adult Fiction)
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (Adult Nonfiction)
• Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow (YA ebook)
• When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon (YA)
• American Born Chinese by Gene Yang (YA)
• Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon (YA)
• The Georges and the Jewels by Jane Smiley (Juvenile Fiction)
• Banjo by Graham Salisbury (Juvenile Fiction)
• The Case of the Deadly Desperados by Caroline Lawrence (Juvenile Fiction)
• Seaglass Summer by Anjali Banerjee (Juvenile Fiction)
• The Longhorn Canyon series by Carolyn Brown (Paperback)
• Old Bones by Douglas J. Preston (CD Sound Recording)
• Killer Summer by Ridley Pearson (CD Sound Recording)

While on an actual road trip, Alaska and Hawaii may be a bit out of reach, with a good book there is no state too far! Pick your bonus location, the Last Frontier or the Aloha State, to finish out our Great American Road Trip reading challenge.

The company behind Ancestry, the world's premier genealogical resource, is providing our users remote access while we remain closed to the public. All you need is a Shenandoah County library card to pursue your research from home. Click here to begin.

Instantly borrow digital movies, television shows, music, eBooks, and audiobooks--free with your Shenandoah County Library card! To begin, download the hoopla app from your favorite app store or visit www.hoopladigital.com. 

Your Shenandoah County Library Card provides access to a world of reliable online information. Begin your exploration by clicking here.

Late fees are back in effect staring July 1. Avoid those fines and call us at 540-984-8200 or log in to your account online to renew your materials.

Our libraries run on Volunteer Power! More than 100 volunteers contribute at least 150 hours per week to keep our libraries running.

Additional Weekday Hours
(updated April 5, 2021)

The County Library in Edinburg has expanded weekday hours to include morning openings and expanded evenings until at least 6PM. The new hours are effective Monday, April 5 and are posted on our Hours and Locations page. Updates for all libraries will be posted on that page as available.

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