Next Mystery Readers Meeting is May 19th

The next Mystery Readers meeting will be held on May 19th at 6:30 PM in the Visalia Library's upstairs "blue" meeting room. For this month's meeting, read any mystery written by a Mystery Award-winning author.

Some Mystery Awards include:

The Agatha Award
The Edgar Award
The Anthony Award
The Gumshoe Award
The Dagger Award
The Shamus Award

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The Friends of the Tulare County Library will be holding their next meeting on Thursday, May 13th, at 7 PM in the library's upstairs (blue) meeting room. Everyone is welcome to attend! Please contact Sheryll Strachan at 713-2709 for more information.

Friends of the Library Book Sale

The next Friends of the Library book sale will be held on May 15, 2010 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on the north/east lawn. Come and see our selection of fiction, non-fiction, and children's books. We will also have a large selection of vintage books and VHS movies for sale. See you there!

Mystery Readers Meeting on April 21st

The next Mystery Readers meeting will be held on April 21st at 6:30 PM in the Visalia Library's upstairs meeting room. For this month's meeting, read any History Mystery (about WWI or WWII).

Some author ideas for WWI:

Suzanne Arruda
Graham Ison
Anne Perry
Charles Todd

Some author ideas for WWII:

James R. Benn
David Downing
Robert Gott
J. Robert Janes
M.T. Jefferson
Philip Kerr
Kate Kingsbury
Kelli Stanley
Jo Walton

Friends of the Library Meeting

The Friends of the Tulare County Library will be holding their next meeting on Thursday, April 8th, at 7 PM in the library's upstairs (blue) meeting room. Everyone is welcome to attend! Please contact Sheryll Strachan at 713-2709 for more information.

Free Local Authors Fair

The Friends of the Tulare County Library invite you to meet authors from your Central Valley community at a free local author fair at the Visalia Library on Friday, April 23rd, at 7:00 PM. The 11 authors participating are:

• John Bergman
• Chris Brewer
• Ron Hughart
• Louise Jackson
• Ed Kesterson
• Sharon Lathan
• Larry Lewis
• Janet Nichols Lynch
• Marilyn Meredith
• Sylvia Ross
• Monty Sands

For more information, please contact Sheryll Strachan at 713-2709.

Literary Basket Drawing

The Friends’ Literary Baskets are back, and we have some great ones for you this year. Tickets are just $1.00 each. If you wish to enter the drawing, simply purchase the number of tickets you wish to enter – be sure to fill out the ticket and mark which basket number you wish to win, then put the tickets in the correct box at the check out desk before April 23rd.

Photos of the baskets will be on display at the Visalia Library until April 23rd, and the drawing will be that evening at a free Friends’ Author Fair event where you can meet some of our local authors. You do not have to be present to win.

More information on each of the 9 baskets is available in this flyer (PDF):

See all 9 of the baskets in this short video:



Good luck and thank you for supporting your Library!