Winter Reading Challenge 2026 (adults)
Winter Reading Challenge 2026 (adults)
January 7-March 31
Pick up a challenge sheet in the library; complete the challenges and turn the sheet back in by March 31. Every participant that turns their sheet in will receive a gift. Complete 5 challenges to be eligible for one of our prizes. HAPPY READING
March Take & Make Kits
March Take & Make kits will be available March 11 at the front desk while supplies last.
Story Time
Join us Tuesday mornings at 10:30 for stories, learning fun, activities and songs! After the stories, we have craft and playtime! Story Time is geared towards children ages 5 and under but children of all ages are welcome!
Tech Tuesday
Having trouble with your devices. We can help. Call the library @ 989-823-2171 to reserve your timeslot.
Fiber Arts & Diamond Dots
Join us for a relaxing evening working on your current project. All skill levels are WELCOME, yes that includes I want to learn how.
Homeschool Hangout
Connect with other homeschooling families in our area! Each Homeschool Hang-out will feature a new activity where your child can engage and create with other children.
Pickin with the Champ
Whether you are a seasoned pro or a first time picker you’re bound to find a new perspective to gathering the illusive morel.
Join us March 18 @ 6pm for this informative presentation to learn more about morel hunting.
March Book Club
March Book Club selection: The lies they told by Ellen Marie Wiseman is a work of Historical Fiction.
In rural 1930s Virginia, a young immigrant mother fights for her dignity and those she loves against America’s rising eugenics movement – when widespread support for policies of prejudice drove imprisonment and forced sterilizations based on class, race, disability, education, and country of origin – in this tragic and uplifting novel of social injustice, survival, and hope for readers of Susan Meissner, Kristin Hannah, and Christina Baker Kline.
When Lena Conti—a young, unwed mother—sees immigrant families being forcibly separated on Ellis Island, she vows not to let the officers take her two-year old daughter. But the inspection process is more rigorous than she imagined, and she is separated from her mother and teenage brother, who are labeled burdens to society, denied entry, and deported back to Germany. Now, alone but determined to give her daughter a better life after years of living in poverty and near starvation, she finds herself facing a future unlike anything she had envisioned.
Silas Wolfe, a widowed family relative, reluctantly brings Lena and her daughter to his weathered cabin in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains to care for his home and children. Though the hills around Wolfe Hollow remind Lena of her homeland, she struggles to adjust. Worse, she is stunned to learn the children in her care have been taught to hide when the sheriff comes around. As Lena meets their neighbors, she realizes the community is vibrant and tight knit, but also senses growing unease. The State of Virginia is scheming to paint them as ignorant, immoral, and backwards so they can evict them from their land, seize children from parents, and deal with those possessing “inferior genes.”
After a social worker from the Eugenics Office accuses Lena of promiscuity and feeblemindedness, her own worst fears come true. Sent to the Virginia State Colony for the Feebleminded and Epileptics, Lena face impossible choices in hopes of reuniting with her daughter—and protecting the people, and the land, she has grown to love.
Story Time
Join us Tuesday mornings at 10:30 for stories, learning fun, activities and songs! After the stories, we have craft and playtime! Story Time is geared towards children ages 5 and under but children of all ages are welcome!
March Cookbook Club
March Cookbook Club selection is “whole in one” by Ellie Krieger. A collection of complete healthy meals in a single pot, sheet pan or skillet.
Come to the front desk and ask for Jen to choose a recipe.
Tween and Teen DIY Mini Bookshelf Tin
Create your own unique mini bookshelf at this fun & free DIY workshop! Sign up at the front desk, or email Sarah@vassarlibrary.org
Tech Tuesday
Having trouble with your devices. We can help. Call the library @ 989-823-2171 to reserve your timeslot.
Story Time
Join us Tuesday mornings at 10:30 for stories, learning fun, activities and songs! After the stories, we have craft and playtime! Story Time is geared towards children ages 5 and under but children of all ages are welcome!
Winter Concert Series
Join us for the final show for this year’s Winter Concert series featuring Finnigans Cross.
This very talented duo will be entertaining everyone with beautiful Irish Music.
Homeschool Hangout
Connect with other homeschooling families in our area! Each Homeschool Hang-out will feature a new activity where your child can engage and create with other children.
Fiber Arts & Diamond Dots
Join us for a relaxing evening working on your current project. All skill levels are WELCOME, yes that includes I want to learn how.
Tech Tuesday
Having trouble with your devices. We can help. Call the library @ 989-823-2171 to reserve your timeslot.
Story Time
Join us Tuesday mornings at 10:30 for stories, learning fun, activities and songs! After the stories, we have craft and playtime! Story Time is geared towards children ages 5 and under but children of all ages are welcome!
Cook Book Club
February cookbook selection is Trisha’s Kitchen by Trisha Yearwood
Choose your recipe, prepare it and bring the dish the meeting of the Cookbook Club. After we taste the dishes and discuss the book we will learn a new skill. This month we will be making a mocktail. Ask for Jen at the library and she will get you the book.
Winter Concert Series featuring Laugh Magic Live
Magician with a twist of comedy! February 22 @ 2 pm doors open at 1:30 pm
FREE FAMILY FRIENDLY EVENT
Laugh Magic LIVE!® is an unforgettable comedy and magic show that delivers non-stop laughter! Featuring Jonathon LaChance, a skilled comedian and magician, this performance combines youthful charm, expertly crafted jokes, and quick-witted improv to keep audiences engaged from start to finish. With clever punchlines, spontaneous moments, and a blend of comedy and magic, Laugh Magic LIVE!® guarantees an exciting and fun-filled experience that will leave your guests laughing and talking long after the show ends.
February Book Club
The Sunflower House by Adriana Allegry
Family secrets come to light as a young woman fights to save herself, and others, in a Nazi-run baby factory—a real-life Handmaid's Tale—during World War II.
In a sleepy German village, Allina Strauss’s life seems idyllic: she works at her uncle’s bookshop, makes strudel with her aunt, and spends weekends with her friends and fiancé. But it's 1939, Adolf Hitler is Chancellor, and Allina’s family hides a terrifying secret—her birth mother was Jewish, making her a Mischling.
One fateful night after losing everyone she loves, Allina is forced into service as a nurse at a state-run baby factory called Hochland Home. There, she becomes both witness and participant to the horrors of Heinrich Himmler’s ruthless eugenics program.
The Sunflower House is a meticulously-researched debut historical novel that uncovers the notorious Lebensborn Program of Nazi Germany. Women of “pure” blood stayed in Lebensborn homes for the sole purpose of perpetuating the Aryan population, giving birth to thousands of babies who were adopted out to “good” Nazi families. Allina must keep her Jewish identity a secret in order to survive, but when she discovers the neglect occurring within the home, she’s determined not only to save herself, but also the children in her care.
A tale of one woman’s determination to resist and survive, The Sunflower House is also a love story. When Allina meets Karl, a high-ranking SS officer with secrets of his own, the two must decide how much they are willing to share with each other—and how much they can stand to risk as they join forces to save as many children as they can. The threads of this poignant and heartrending novel weave a tale of loss and love, friendship and betrayal, and the secrets we bury in order to save ourselves.
Fiber Arts & Diamond Dots
Join us for a relaxing evening creating and socializing. If you want to pick up a new skill 2/17 we will have free patterns to make warm winter beanies/hats and we help you get going on it.
Tech Tuesday
Having trouble with your devices? We can HELP! Just call the library at 989-823-2171 or stop at the front desk to reserve your timeslot.
Winer Concert Series featuring The Comedy Series
Join us February 15 for an afternoon of laughter. The show starts @ 2pm and doors open @ 1:30pm
FREE FAMILY FRIENDLY EVENT
Canvas Painting Class
Free Adult Class
Preregistration required. To register email Pam@vassarlibrary.org
February Take & Make
This month’s kits will be available at the front desk while supplies last
Tech Tuesday
Having trouble with your devices? We can HELP! Just call the library at 989-823-2171 or stop at the front desk to reserve your timeslot.
Tech Tuesday
Having trouble with your devices? We can HELP! Just call the library at 989-823-2171 or stop at the front desk to reserve your timeslot.
Cookbook Club
Make it… Sample it… Discus it…
Cook the Book CookBook Club
January 27 6pm
Join us to see new cookbooks, try new recipes, learn new techniques and socialize while you sample everybody's dish. For more info email: jen@vassarlibrary.org or pam@vassarlibrary.org
Winter Concert Series
We have a fun line up for this year’s Winter Concert Series!
Laugh Magic Live featuring Jon LaChance January 25 @ 2pm An entertaining show that blends comedy and magic
The Comedy Series February 15 @ 2pm Come enjoy stand up comedy
Finnigans Cross March 8 @ 2pm Acoustic Celtic Music Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day
All shows are FREE FAMILY FRIENDLY
DOORS OPEN AT 1:30pm
Laugh Magic Live w/ Jon Lachance
It’s time for the Winter Concert Series! Kicking it off this year is the Comedy Magic Live Show featuring Jon LaChance. This is a FREE FAMILY FRIENDLY EVENT. Doors open at 1:30pm.
Laugh Magic LIVE!® is an unforgettable comedy and magic show that delivers non-stop laughter! Featuring Jonathon LaChance, a skilled comedian and magician, this performance combines youthful charm, expertly crafted jokes, and quick-witted improv to keep audiences engaged from start to finish. With clever punchlines, spontaneous moments, and a blend of comedy and magic, Laugh Magic LIVE!® guarantees an exciting and fun-filled experience that will leave your guests laughing and talking long after the show ends.
Fiber Arts & Diamond Dots
So many kids are into Fiber Arts right now we have decided to have a bring your kid to Fiber Arts night. This is for kids grades 5-12 and parents or guardians must stay with them. Bring their projects with them and they can join us for the night.
Tech Tuesday
Having trouble with your devices? We can help! Call the library @ 989-823-2171 to reserve you spot.
January Book Club
January Book Club: Women’s Hotel by Daniel M. Lavery
January 15 6:30 pm
From the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist, a poignant and funny debut novel about the residents of a women’s hotel in 1960s New York City.
The Beidermeier might be several rungs lower on the ladder than the real-life Barbizon, but its residents manage to occupy one another nonetheless. There’s Katherine, the first-floor manager, lightly cynical and more than lightly suggestible. There’s Lucianne, a workshy party girl caught between the love of comfort and an instinctive bridling at convention, Kitty the sponger, Ruth the failed hairdresser, and Pauline the typesetter. And there’s Stephen, the daytime elevator operator and part-time Cooper Union student.
The residents give up breakfast, juggle competing jobs at rival presses, abandon their children, get laid off from the telephone company, attempt to retrain as stenographers, all with the shared awareness that their days as an institution are numbered, and they’d better make the most of it while it lasts.
Tech Tuesday
Having trouble with your devices? We can help! Call the library @ 989-823-2171 to reserve you spot.
Canvas Painting Class
Join us for January’s Free adult Canvas Painting Class. We will be painting this winter snowman.
Pre registration is required. To register follow the QR Code on the flyer or email: pam@vassarlibrary.org. See you there!
Tech Tuesday
Having trouble with your devices? We can help! Call the library @ 989-823-2171 to reserve you spot.
January Schedule of Events @ the library
A quick peek at our January schedule of events at the library
December Book Club
A quirky group of seniors attempts to solve one murder while covering up another—with the help of an enterprising tortoise—in this twisty, darkly funny mystery from the author of Three Bags Full.