J. Joel Edwards Public Library

05/21/2026

As the school year winds down, we wind up for summer reading!!! Join us on June 4th for our summer reading kickoff party and sign up for our summer reading challenge. Festivities will start at 1:00 pm with inflatables provided by To the Moon inflatables. At 3:00 pm we will have free snow cones provided by Janie Clark from Brightmoor. At 5:30 pm we will have our first performer of the summer: Out of the Box: Dino Discovery.

We look forward to seeing you guys this summer! We have prizes to give away throughout the summer for all ages (even adults!), so this is a great opportunity to incentivize your children (or yourselves!) to read while school is out.

P.S. don't worry-- if you miss the kickoff party, you can still sign up for Summer Reading after June 4th.

05/20/2026

Have you ever looked at your favorite book and thought, "Wow, this book is amazing, but the cover needs some love..."

Boy, have we got the event for you! What better way to zhuzh up your favorite book than adding SPARKLES?!? Grab your favorite book and join us on June 2nd for Book Bedazzling. Add a few classy rhinestone accents or go ham with the heart-shaped gems. This is your bedazzled world, after all. Sparkle however you please.

Supplies for this event are limited, so act now to reserve your spot! Call 770-567-2014 to sign up or stop by in person.

While rhinestones, glue, and tweezers are provided, we want to make it clear that participants must bring their own books.

This is going to be a fun one, guys. We look forward to seeing you there!

05/20/2026

05/20/2026

Hello everyone! We're so excited to share our June Summer Reading calendar! We have so many fun things planned for kids of all ages (and adults too!) We will be diving into our summer reading events with Book Bedazzling on June 2 and our Summer Reading Kickoff Party on June 4th!

You may have noticed that this schedule looks a little bit different from our Summer Reading 2025 calendar. With the library remaining closed on saturdays, we have scheduled the majority of our events on Tuesday and Thursday evenings.

We look forward to seeing you all this summer, and we know that Summer Reading 2026 will be amazing!!!

05/20/2026

Attention everyone! There will not be bingo or a movie on May 29th, Golden Movie Club will meet again on June 5th. We look forward to seeing you next month.

05/18/2026

Today is the last day to register for our Bee Event tomorrow, please call or stop by the library to sign up. Bee there or Bee square!

05/13/2026

From the author of Me Before You, set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond.

Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically.

The leader, and soon Alice’s greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who’s never asked a man’s permission for anything. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky.

What happens to them–and to the men they love–becomes an unforgettable drama of loyalty, justice, humanity and passion. These heroic women refuse to be cowed by men or by convention. And though they face all kinds of dangers in a landscape that is at times breathtakingly beautiful, at others brutal, they’re committed to their job: bringing books to people who have never had any, arming them with facts that will change their lives.

Based on a true story rooted in America’s past, The Giver of Stars is unparalleled in its scope and epic in its storytelling. Funny, heartbreaking, enthralling, it is destined to become a modern classic–a richly rewarding novel of women’s friendship, of true love, and of what happens when we reach beyond our grasp for the great beyond.

05/13/2026

Summer Reading is almost here! Stay tuned for more details, the calendar will be posted soon!
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05/08/2026

Are you a bee lover? Have you been personally victimized by carpenter bees? Whatever your feelings for bees may be, we have just the event for you! Come make a bee hotel on May 19th and give the bees a safe place to stay...that isn't your mailbox post, and learn more about these important (if sometimes frustrating) pollinators. Spot are limited so reserve your place today!