Bowman Library Update for 12/17/25
Bowman Library will be closed Wednesday morning, December 17, due to building maintenance. We expect to open at 1 PM. Stay tuned!
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There are so many new YA non-fiction books covering such a wide variety of topics that you are guaranteed to find something that interests you! Here are a few examples:
Life Skills Book for Teens: Everything You Need To Know To Be More Independent by Maureen Stiles
Set yourself up for success as an adult. How do you create a budget? Clean a bathroom? Make a doctor's appointment? If you're feeling a little overwhelmed by…
Join us for Third Thursday Book Club at 11 am at The Barns of Rose Hill, next door to the Clarke County Library!
For our June book club, choose any book that has a witchy theme or characters, then join us on October 17th to discuss your pick! The library has dozens of selections to choose from, from "Wicked" to "The Once and Future Witches!"
Once a month, we get together and read. That's it!
Bring a book, bring a friend, grab a quiet snack, and then settle in for an hour of quiet reading with fellow book lovers. There's no assigned reading or forced discussion—that's the "silent" part of our book club—but we do like to share book recommendations and meet like-minded readers.
Quiet snacks will be provided!
So, please join us at our next meeting. Sit back, relax, read!
Celebrating local history through books!
The Newtown History Center and Handley Regional Library System present the Academy Hill History Book Club. This club aims to teach and discuss aspects of history through book discussions.
The selection for this meeting is Rebel Chronicles: Raiders, Scouts and Train Robbers of the Upper Potomac by Steve French. The library's copies can be found here: https://catalog.handleyregional.org/#section=resource&resourceid=117210474¤tIndex=0…
Join us for Third Thursday Book Club at 11 am at The Barns of Rose Hill, next door to the Clarke County Library!
We'll be discussing this month's book selection, "Remarkably Bright Creatures" by Shelby Van Pelt.
Even if you haven't read the book, stop by for a lively discussion with fellow book lovers. We'll also be revealing next month's reading selection!