East Wenatchee Public Library

06/04/2026

🌈 Join us this month as we celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month and Rainbow Book Month through our diverse collections, engaging book displays at our libraries, and inclusive programming.

📖 Learn more and find reading recommendations for all ages in our latest blog: https://www.ncwlibraries.org/celebrate-pride-month/

06/03/2026

🔆📚🌱 Our summer of fun begins this Friday when we kick off our annual Summer Library Program.

Throughout the summer, we will offer reading challenges, activities, performances, and events designed to support literacy and lifelong learning while bringing people together in welcoming community spaces.

Sign up in person at one of our 30 libraries, on the Bookmobile, or online.

📌Learn more: https://www.ncwlibraries.org/slp/

06/02/2026

There are some road closures happening in East Wenatchee for quite some time. See the following website with the East Wenatchee Water District for more information on closures and questions. https://www.ewwd.org/index.php

🚧 Road Closures - East Wenatchee Water District Project 🚧

Beginning May 26, the East Wenatchee Water District will begin a major infrastructure improvement project to upgrade the community’s water distribution system and support future growth.

Crews will be installing larger transmission water mains to improve water delivery, increase reservoir fill capacity, and strengthen long-term system reliability for residents and businesses.

Construction will begin at SR-28 and 19th Street NE and continue in phases through:
• 19th Street NE
• N Baker Avenue
• 15th Street NE
• Eastmont Avenue to 9th Street NE

Drivers should expect road closures and traffic impacts starting with 19th Street NE between SR28 and N Baker Ave. For project details and updates on what roads are closed, please visit the City’s website or the East Wenatchee Water District's websites.
www.eastwenatcheewa.gov
www.ewwd.org

06/02/2026

📚 Happy New Book Tuesday!

This week in new books, we’re celebrating Pride Month!

⭐In Father Material (Hall), Luc and Oliver have been through it all, but as their friends begin reaching new milestones, advancing careers and having babies, they decide it's time to open their hearts to something new.
⭐The Disaster Gay Detective Agency (Rosen) is a punchy, hilarious mystery-thriller that follows a group of loveable and messy q***r twenty-somethings determined to solve a murder.
⭐Dreams in Which I’m Almost Human (Soyer) is a genre-defying memoir of disability, identity, and desire that fuses lyricism, myth, and medical truth to explore what it means to live and love a body defined by others.

Find a new book: https://catalog.ncwlibraries.org/MyAccount/MyList/12500

05/26/2026

📚 Happy New Book Tuesday!

In new releases this week, books and writing come to the forefront.

⭐Marilyn and Her Books (Crowther) showcases the Marilyn Monroe who, away from the spotlight of the Hollywood and the flashbulbs of the press, was a great reader and lover of books.
⭐Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography (Kendall) chronicles the life and work of Garry Trudeau, creator of the massively popular and influential cartoon Doonesbury, the first comic strip to win a Pulitzer Prize.
⭐ For middle-grade readers, The Chismosas Only Book Club (Kemp) is a heart-warming novel with illustrations about four friends and the magical bookstore that holds them together.

Find a new book: https://catalog.ncwlibraries.org/MyAccount/MyList/12463

05/19/2026

📚Happy New Book Tuesday!

In new books this week, some of the covers are looking a bit pastel!

⭐Explore the esoteric worlds of psyops, UFO imagery, magicians and more in How to See Like a Machine (Paglen)

⭐In Fever Dream (Silver), a small-town, rivals-to-lovers romance, professional bull rider Emmett Bush is not looking for love; he's looking for a paycheck to save his family's farm.

⭐Author Mandy Tang shares about healing and creating her dream life in In Heal Your Career Wounds, offering hope to those who are burned-out, dealing with a toxic boss, or otherwise seeking refuge from their work.

Find a new book: https://ncwlibraries.aspendiscovery.org/MyAccount/MyList/12418

05/14/2026

🌸 Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander history, culture, and contributions in the AAPI collection of ebooks and audiobooks on Libby.

📖 Find a book: https://ncwlibraries.overdrive.com/collection/1797508

05/11/2026

💚🎗May is Mental Health Awareness Month.

This year’s theme "More Good Days, Together" encourages us to reflect on what a good day looks like - both for ourselves and for the people around us.

We invite you to check out a curated reading list for all ages: https://www.ncwlibraries.org/a-mental-health-reading-list/

05/09/2026

🎬🍿 Celebrate the moms and mother figures in your life ❤
Explore Kanopy’s Mother’s Day collection, full of films that uplift, inspire, and honor the many forms of motherhood.

Start watching: https://www.kanopy.com/category/48783

05/08/2026

🤫📚 Shhh! Reading.

Once a month we host a Silent Reading Party at Norwood Bar, where everyone brings a book and reads while enjoying a beverage of choice.

📖We thought it would be fun to share what everyone was reading this week. Check out our latest blog for the list: https://www.ncwlibraries.org/silent-reading-party-book-list/

📅 Join us next month: June 2 @ 5 p.m.