Read Woke
St. Mary’s County Library invites community members of all ages to join the Read Woke Challenge! See more information and get started!
Winter Reading 2021
Join us for Winter Reading, January 1 – 31! Register today!
YA First Chapter Fridays
Trying to find your next awesome read? Listen to the first chapter of some great books recommended for teens and tweens by library staff. We hope you get hooked and want to read the rest!
Trivia Mondays
Register with an email address to receive the link to a trivia game and test your knowledge! The game is multiple choice questions and speed matters!
Registration for each week ends at 5 p.m. on Mondays. After 5 p.m., registrants will be emailed a link to that week's trivia. You will have until Thursday at 5 p.m. to complete the game, then you'll receive an email with the full results. Trivia uses Kahoot, accessible through any internet browser, no account needed.
One Shot Roleplaying Game: The Hunt for Black Fang
Welcome to town of Sandpoint! Come visits our quaint beaches, ancient ruins, and... dangerous monsters?!
Recently, a fearsome and mysterious creature, known only as Black Fang, has been attacking the farmlands surrounding the town, and the mayor is growing desperate. She has put a bounty out on Black Fang for any adventurers brave enough to stop this menace.
This adventure utilizes the rules from Pathfinder 2nd Edition, and is designed for 1st level characters.
No experience required. Pre-made character sheets, with a brief overview of the rules, will be provided. Microphone required.
Teen Craft Corner
Follow our 3 Instagram craft sessions that are really easy, and will add a new touch to your personal style. https://www.instagram.com/stmaryslibrary/
Trivia Mondays
Register with an email address to receive the link to a trivia game and test your knowledge! The game is multiple choice questions and speed matters!
Registration for each week ends at 5 p.m. on Mondays. After 5 p.m., registrants will be emailed a link to that week's trivia. You will have until Thursday at 5 p.m. to complete the game, then you'll receive an email with the full results. Trivia uses Kahoot, accessible through any internet browser, no account needed.
Isabel Wilkerson on "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents"
Isabel Wilkerson discusses her critically acclaimed book "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents."
In this brilliant book, Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.
Sponsored by Friends & Foundation of Howard County Library System and Maryland Libraries Together. Copies of Caste are available to borrow from SMCL or purchase a copy from Books with a Past.
ASL interpretation provided.
For more information on this Speaker please visit prhspeakers.com.
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation. You will receive a second email 24 hours prior to the start of the event with the information to join by computer, tablet, or phone.
Author photo credit: Joe Henson
ABOUT ISABEL WILKERSON
Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize winner and the National Humanities Medal, is the author of The New York Times bestsellers The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. A gifted storyteller, Wilkerson captivates audiences with the universal human story of migration and reinvention, as well as the unseen hierarchies that have divided us as a nation, in order to find a way to transcend them.
She has become an impassioned voice for demonstrating how history can help us understand ourselves, our country and our current era of upheaval. In her writing, Wilkerson brings the invisible and the marginalized into the light and into our hearts. In her lectures, she explores with authority the need to reconcile America’s karmic racial inheritance — a notion she has expressed in her widely-shared Op-Ed essays in The New York Times.
Wilkerson captivates audiences with the universal story of migration and the enduring search for the American dream, the origins of our shared commonality. She draws a direct link between the leaderless revolution known as the Great Migration and the protest movements for social justice today, both of them responses to unacknowledged and unaddressed history.
The Warmth of Other Suns tells the true story of three people among the six million who made the decision of their lives during the Great Migration, a watershed in American history. Wilkerson spent 15 years working on Warmth, interviewing more than 1,200 people to tell what she calls one of the greatest underreported stories of the 20th Century. In addition to the National Book Critics Circle Award, the book won the Heartland Prize for Nonfiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Award for Nonfiction, the Lynton History Prize from Harvard and Columbia universities, and the Stephen Ambrose Oral History Prize and was shortlisted for both the Pen-Galbraith Literary Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The Warmth of Other Suns became a New York Times and national bestseller. It was named to more than 30 Best of the Year lists, including The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of the Year, Amazon’s 5 Best Books of the Year, and Best of the Year lists in The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post, among others. It made national news when President Obama chose the book for summer reading in 2011. In 2012, The New York Times Magazine named The Warmth of Other Suns to its list of the best nonfiction books of all time, and in 2019, TIME Magazine named it one of the “10 Best Non-Fiction Books” of the decade.
Her latest book, Caste: The Origins of our Discontents, was published in August 2020 to critical acclaim, with Dwight Garner of The New York Times calling it, “An instant American classic” and Oprah choosing it for her monthly book club pick. Picked as a Time’s 2020 must-read book, the book examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how a hierarchy of social divisions still defines our lives today. Wilkerson brings the past’s complexities to vivid life through her passionate research and her profound gift for connecting with audiences of all backgrounds. Caste is being adapted into a Netflix film directed, written, and produced by Ava DuVernay.
Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her work as Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times in 1994, making her the first Black woman in the history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first African-American to win for individual reporting in the history of American journalism.
She has lectured on narrative nonfiction at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University and has taught at Princeton, Emory and Boston universities. She has lectured at more than 200 other colleges and universities across the United States, Europe and in Asia. Her work has garnered seven honorary degrees, most recently from Bates College and Southern Methodist University. She has appeared on national programs such as CBS’s 60 Minutes, NPR’s Fresh Air, NBC’s Nightly News, MSNBC, CNN, C-SPAN, and others.
In conferring Wilkerson the 2015 National Humanities Medal, the National Endowment for the Humanities honored her “for championing the stories of an unsung history. Her masterful combination of intimate human narratives with broader societal trends allows us to measure the epic migration of a people by its vast impact on our Nation and on each individual life.”
Trivia Mondays
Register with an email address to receive the link to a trivia game and test your knowledge! The game is multiple choice questions and speed matters!
Registration for each week ends at 5 p.m. on Mondays. After 5 p.m., registrants will be emailed a link to that week's trivia. You will have until Thursday at 5 p.m. to complete the game, then you'll receive an email with the full results. Trivia uses Kahoot, accessible through any internet browser, no account needed.
Zines! Publishing on the Edge
Join us online for a history and how-to with Yago Cura, Bilingual Outreach Librarian for Los Angeles Public Library!
Hosted by the Ruth Enlow Library of Garrett County.
Co-hosted by:
Montgomery County Public Libraries
Enoch Pratt Free Library
Baltimore County Public Library
Prince George’s County Memorial Library System
Washington County Free Library
Worcester County Library
Anne Arundel County Public Library
Caroline County Public Library
Somerset County Library
Howard County Library System
Carroll County Public Library
Harford County Public Library
St. Mary’s County Library
Queen Anne's County Library
Talbot County Free Library
Cecil County Public Library
Dorchester County Public Library
Calvert Library
Teen Stress-less Kits
Are you feeling a little stressed? We're bringing some chill to your day with our Stress-Less Kits!
Included are treats and a fun project intended to help you take a break, catch your breath, and keep the calm. Register with an email to be notified when your kit is ready for pick-up.
Art with Jamie Naluai
Complete an acrylic on canvas art project in this two-part series!
Materials List:
Canvas- either a canvas board or a wrapped canvas- preferably larger than 8x10.
Acrylic paint:
Titanium white (large)
Ultramarine blue
Crimson red
Burnt sienna
Brushes:
1 inch flat brush
1 Small round brush - (either size 2, 4, 6)
1 Large round brush - (either size 8, 10, 12)
Pencil
Paper towels
Masking tape
Paint palette
Cup of water
Old toothbrush
Trivia Mondays
Register with an email address to receive the link to a trivia game and test your knowledge! The game is multiple choice questions and speed matters!
Registration for each week ends at 5 p.m. on Mondays. After 5 p.m., registrants will be emailed a link to that week's trivia. You will have until Thursday at 5 p.m. to complete the game, then you'll receive an email with the full results. Trivia uses Kahoot, accessible through any internet browser, no account needed.
Art with Jamie Naluai
Complete an acrylic on canvas art project in this two-part series!
Materials List:
Canvas- either a canvas board or a wrapped canvas- preferably larger than 8x10.
Acrylic paint:
Titanium white (large)
Ultramarine blue
Crimson red
Burnt sienna
Brushes:
1 inch flat brush
1 Small round brush - (either size 2, 4, 6)
1 Large round brush - (either size 8, 10, 12)
Pencil
Paper towels
Masking tape
Paint palette
Cup of water
Old toothbrush
Please note that library staff may be taking photos of any or all events to use for future library publications. Event participants’ photos may be used without notification or compensation. If you do not feel comfortable having your photo taken, please inform library staff when you arrive to an event.