Name: Blind Date with a Book
Start: 2024-02-01
End: 2024-02-01
Location: Hope Mills Community Library

Blind Date with a Book

All Day

19+ Years

Hope Mills Community Library

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Library Branch: Hope Mills Community Library

Age Group: 19+ Years

Program Type: Self-Directed Activity

Event Details:

Take a book home with you without knowing its title. Who knows...you just might fall in love! Afterwards, tell us how your blind date went. This program will run from February 1 to February 29, 2024.

Happy Hearts Scavenger Hunt

All Day

19+ Years, All Ages

Hope Mills Community Library

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Library Branch: Hope Mills Community Library

Age Group: 19+ Years, All Ages

Program Type: Games & Activities, Self-Directed Activity

Event Details:

In celebration of Valentine's Day and American Heart Month, find the 10 hearts around the adult computer lab and around the adult DVD and book collections. Then, come to the adult services desk for your own special heart to take home.

Lunar New Year Dragon Scavenger Hunt

All Day

0-5 Years, 6-11 Years, 12-14 Years, All Ages

Hope Mills Community Library

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Library Branch: Hope Mills Community Library

Age Group: 0-5 Years, 6-11 Years, 12-14 Years, All Ages

Program Type: Games & Activities, Self-Directed Activity

Event Details:

Happy Lunar New Year! We are celebrating the Year of the Dragon by hiding twelve (12) dragons in the children's area. Find them and come back to the children's desk for a prize.

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Make a Mardi Gras Mask Art Challenge

All Day

0-5 Years, 6-11 Years, 12-14 Years, All Ages

Hope Mills Community Library

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Library Branch: Hope Mills Community Library

Age Group: 0-5 Years, 6-11 Years, 12-14 Years, All Ages

Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Self-Directed Activity

Event Details:

Decorate a Mardi Gras mask with materials at home or at the library with crayons. Please return your mask by February 28.

Please note that this program is appropriate for sensory seekers and sensory sensitive participants.

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

The Case of the Missing Princes

All Day

19+ Years

Bordeaux Community Library

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Library Branch: Bordeaux Community Library

Age Group: 19+ Years

Program Type: Self-Directed Activity

Event Details:

All of the princes are missing from their fairy tales! Their princesses are very worried about them and want to know what happened.

There are three possibilities, and it’s up to you to find the true culprit.

Valentine Sweetheart Scavenger Hunt

All Day

6-11 Years

North Regional Library

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Library Branch: North Regional Library

Age Group: 6-11 Years

Program Type: Games & Activities, Self-Directed Activity

Event Details:

We've scattered eight Valentine sweethearts around our children's area. Pick up a scavenger hunt sheet at the children's service desk, find all eight sweethearts and return the sheet for a free sticker.

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Baby Bounce & Tots Story Time: Dinosaurs

10:00am - 10:45am

0-5 Years

North Regional Library

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Library Branch: North Regional Library

Room: Meeting/Activity Room (NRL)

Age Group: 0-5 Years

Program Type: Story Time

Event Details:

Join us for a fun and interactive story time for babies and toddlers up to 23 months old! We will read stories, sing songs and do simple movement activities.

This week's theme is dinosaurs.

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Preschool Story Time: Groundhog Day!

10:00am - 11:00am

0-5 Years

East Regional Library

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Library Branch: East Regional Library

Room: Meeting/Activity Room (ERL)

Age Group: 0-5 Years

Program Type: Story Time

Event Details:

Story time for children 1-5 years old.

This week's theme is Groundhog Day.

For more information about this program, please call (910) 483-7727 ext. 1403.

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Toddler and Preschool Story Time: Groundhogs

11:00am - 11:45am

0-5 Years

Headquarters Library

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Library Branch: Headquarters Library

Room: Story Time Area (HQU)

Age Group: 0-5 Years

Program Type: Story Time

Event Details:

Join us for our story time for 2-5-year-olds. Each week will be a different theme of stories and fun!

This week's theme is groundhogs.

For more information about this program, please call (910) 483-7727 ext. 1361.

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Beginners' Bridge

1:00pm - 4:00pm

19+ Years

North Regional Library

Closed

Required

Closed

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Library Branch: North Regional Library

Room: Meeting/Activity Room (NRL)

Age Group: 19+ Years

Program Type: Games & Activities

Required

Seats Remaining: 15

Event Details:

Bridge is fun, and recent studies show it keeps people smarter, happier and more social as they age. Want to learn bridge or brush up on your skills?

Valentine's Card Party

3:00pm - 4:00pm

0-5 Years, 6-11 Years

West Regional Library

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Library Branch: West Regional Library

Room: Meeting/Activity Room (WRL)

Age Group: 0-5 Years, 6-11 Years

Program Type: Arts & Crafts

Event Details:

Come show off your creative skills by making Valentine’s Day cards for loved ones. Everything will be provided to make homemade cards.

For more information about this program, please call (910) 483-7727 ext. 1481.

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Tech Time @ the Library

3:30pm - 5:00pm

19+ Years

West Regional Library

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Library Branch: West Regional Library

Room: Conference Room A (WRL)

Age Group: 19+ Years

Program Type: Digital Literacy

Event Details:

Whether you need help setting up an email account, learning how to use Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) or anything in between, we’re here to help you with your computer, tablet or smartphone questions.

Dungeons and Dragons

4:00pm - 6:00pm

12-14 Years, 15-18 Years

Hope Mills Community Library

Closed

Required

Closed

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Library Branch: Hope Mills Community Library

Room: Meeting/Activity Room (HPM)

Age Group: 12-14 Years, 15-18 Years

Program Type: Games & Activities

Required

Seats Remaining: 8

Event Details:

Calling all heroes, mages, wanderers, scoundrels and goblins! Join the party and play 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons with Dungeon Master Taylor. We will be meeting every Thursday.

Club Insomnia: Everyone Here Is Lying

5:00pm - 6:00pm

19+ Years

Spring Lake Community Library

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Library Branch: Spring Lake Community Library

Room: Conference Room (SPL)

Age Group: 19+ Years

Program Type: Book Club

Event Details:

Welcome to Stanhope. A safe neighborhood. A place for families. On the surface, William Wooler is a family man. But he's been having an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road.