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Flagstaff City-Coconino County Public Library events for the week of May 19, 2025

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HAPPENING AT YOUR LIBRARY
May 19th, 2025
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Adult & All-Ages Events
The Coconino County Bookmobile IS BACK! Schedule of Stops: https://tinyurl.com/coboschedule
Flyer shows graphics for program Movie and Discussion: 12 Angry Men. Join us the 3rd Tuesday of each month for a movie and a group discussion! This month, we’re showing the classic jury-room drama, 12 Angry Men. A young Peurto Rican is on trial for his fathers murder and 11 of the 12 jurors have voted him guilty. The sole innocent vote comes from Juror No. 8, who must persuade the others to reconsider, while showing the motivations of each juror. Reginald Rose was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for a script based on his play.
Flyer advertising the Wily Writers program. Flyer style resembles a piece of notebook paper. This is a weekly writing group. It takes place every Wednesday at the new time of 5:30pm, and is located in the Northwest corner of the Downtown Library. Make writing a habit with practice! With the use of prompts, time allotments, and group sharing, Wily Writers will learn more about their writing and support others along the way. You bring your writing tools and we’ll bring the fun!
Flyer depicts library program “Knitting Hour”. The flyer has a light pink and brown theme. In the border of the flyer shows pink and brown yarn knitting together. The Knitting Hour takes place the 4th Friday of the month from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Program will be taking place at the Downtown library at the Northwest fireplace. Want to learn to knit? Need help with a knitting project? Members oof the Fiber Arts of Northern Arizona Guild are available to help! All skill levels welcome!
Book Clubs
Welcome! The Senior Book Club meets the 3rd Monday of every month at the Joe C. Montoya Community and Senior Center, located at 245 N Thorpe Rd, Flagstaff, AZ 86001. All books provided are large print books for easier reading. If you need to check out the current book, call 928-213-2380 or email libraryprograms@flagstaffpubliclibrary.org. You can also stop by the library and get your book there. Next meeting books will be available at the Joe C. Montoya Community Center to check out after the meeting. You can also return the previous book then. This month we are reading: The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean by Susan Casey From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets For all of human history, the deep ocean has been a source of wonder and terror, an unknown realm that evoked a singular, compelling question: What’s down there? Unable to answer this for centuries, people believed the deep was a sinister realm of fiendish creatures and deadly peril. But now, cutting-edge technologies allow scientists and explorers to dive miles beneath the surface, and we are beginning to understand this strange and exotic underworld: A place of soaring mountains, smoldering volcanoes, and valleys 7,000 feet deeper than Everest is high, where tectonic plates collide and separate, and extraordinary life forms operate under different rules. Far from a dark void, the deep is a vibrant realm that’s home to pink gelatinous predators and shimmering creatures a hundred feet long and ancient animals with glass skeletons and sharks that live for half a millennium—among countless other marvels. Susan Casey is our premiere chronicler of the aquatic world. For The Underworld she traversed the globe, joining scientists and explorers on dives to the deepest places on the planet, interviewing the marine geologists, marine biologists, and oceanographers who are searching for knowledge in this vast unseen realm. She takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of deep-sea exploration, from the myths and legends of the ancient world to storied shipwrecks we can now reach on the bottom, to the first intrepid bathysphere pilots, to the scientists who are just beginning to understand the mind-blowing complexity and ecological importance of the quadrillions of creatures who live in realms long thought to be devoid of life. Throughout this journey, she learned how vital the deep is to the future of the planet, and how urgent it is that we understand it in a time of increasing threats from climate change, industrial fishing, pollution, and the mining companies that are also exploring its depths. The Underworld is Susan Casey’s most beautiful and thrilling book yet, a gorgeous evocation of the natural world and a powerful call to arms.
Flyer is advertising the Southwest Reads book club. This book club is every 4th Wednesday of every other month. There is a forest green border, and a light background of tree bark. On the left side of the flyer, a cover of the book selection, “Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout”, by Philip Connors, is shown. This program will take place on May 28 in the Downtown Library Community Room. “A reflection on life as a fire lookout, the wildness of fire, our place in nature, and the charms of solitude”.
Youth Events
Flyer depicts a library program called Saturday Story Stop Story Times. There is a graphic of multiple colorfukl rainbows and flowers, in the theme of Color Our World for the Summer Reading Challenge 2025. This is a year round program taking place at the Downtown Flagstaff Library in the Community Room. The program starts at 10:30am. Join us for fun on stories for the whole family!
Flyer depicts advertisement for the upcoming Summer Reading Challenge. The theme of this year’s challenge is “Color Your World”. The flyer is very colorful, showing flowers and the “Color Your World” logo. The program will start on June 9th at both libraries.
Flyer depicts ad for Teen Volunteer applications for the Flagstaff Libraries. Need community service hours? Want to see how libraries work? Come help the Downtown and East Flagstaff Community Libraries with the Summer Reading Challenge 2025 running from June 9th to July 25th. Ages 14-18 and applications will be due on May 30th!
Technology Help
Free Technology Instruction and Resume Help. 30-minute,one-on-one instruction sessions available for help with introductory software, creating email accounts, downloading eBooks, résumé development, online job applications, and more. Click here to see available dates. Registration is required for all sessions.
To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, please call 928-213-2330 (Downtown Library) or 928-213-2348 (East Flagstaff Library). Three days prior notice is requested.

For all other event questions, emaillibraryprograms@flagstaffpublibrary.org
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