🇺🇸📚 Celebrate America’s 250th with Revolutionary Read! Throughout October and November, explore the nation’s past through music, crafts, local history, creative activities and more. Discover what’s happening at BCPL! 👇
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BCPL is getting ready to celebrate Revolutionary Read!
Discover upcoming Revolutionary Read events, including American History Doll Bingo and more! 🇺🇸📚 ➡️ https://t.co/TiLcsDaJT7
📬✨ For International Postcard Week, we’re opening up BCPL’s archives to explore postcards that captured people, places and moments from more than a century ago.
Discover more about the postcards in our archives 👇
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This October, get lost in mysterious plots, eerie settings and haunting tales. 🏰 🕯️📚 Discover the dark and atmospheric world of gothic fiction in our genre highlight 👇👇👇
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The BCPL Foundation is sponsoring a fundraiser event that supports Dolly Parton's Imagination Library TOMORROW, Friday, October 9 from 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Present this flyer with each order to receive credit towards the BCPL Foundation. Thank you for your support!
Drop in TONIGHT, Thursday, October 8, from 5–7 p.m. at the Main Library to meet and talk directly with candidates running for local, county, state and federal office. Presented by LINK NKY.
In preparation for November’s election, hear from Boone County Judge/Executive candidates Chet Hand and Tim Johnson. Join us at the Main Library on Tuesday, October 13 at 7 p.m., for a candidate forum moderated by former Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson.
Staff Pick
📚 Adrianna recommends: "Assistant to the Villain" by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
💬 "This book is the perfect mix of fairytale, comedy and romance! It feels like you're reading a workplace sitcom...if that workplace also had dragons and a slow burn love story."
🇺🇸🏡 From Revolutionary War veterans to early settlers, the people who came to Boone County helped lay the foundation for the communities we know today. Explore their stories and lasting legacy 👇
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Celebrate America’s 250th with an evening of patriotic violin music! 🇺🇸🎻 Jared Maucotel performs Friday, October 9, at 7 p.m. at the Main Library in Burlington. Attendees have the chance to win a copy of “1776” by David McCullough!
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The BCPL Foundation is sponsoring a fundraiser event that supports Dolly Parton's Imagination Library on Friday, October 9 at 9:30am to 10pm. Present this flyer with each order to receive credit towards the BCPL Foundation. Thank you for your support!
Long before it was Washington Square, the Joseph Graves House was built in 1814. As Burlington’s oldest standing building, it has some spooky stories to tell. 👻 Discover its history and the mysterious happenings reported over the years. 👇
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First rule of Banned Books Club? Keep reading! 📚✨ This Bookface Friday, we’re celebrating Banned Books Week at the Library and the freedom to choose your own reading adventure.
Celebrate America’s 250th with Revolutionary Read at Boone County Public Library! 🇺🇸 Join us this October and November for programs, experiences and opportunities that bring history to life. There’s something for everyone!
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Ready for a challenge? Take on TeenTober October 1–31! 📗 Teens in grades 6–12 can complete activities and log them in the Beanstack Tracker app. Complete BINGO, stop by the library to collect a prize (while supplies last)!
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👻🍁 Mystery-solving kids, supernatural scares and ’80s nostalgia come together in this Falloween collection of books, movies and music curated by Public Service Librarian Kevin. 👇
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Changes are coming to BCPL’s regional partnerships in 2027. At the same time, BCPL is redirecting resources toward eBooks, eAudiobooks and other digital materials for Boone County residents. 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗡 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 👇
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☕📖🍂 Celebrate National Coffee Day with these cozy BCPL Staff Picks, perfect for pairing with your favorite cup of coffee!
If you had a cup of coffee and a few hours to yourself, what would you read or watch?