One-on-One with a Financial Advisor
2024-10-09 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
The Library is offering One-on-One sessions with Anthony Young who is a financial advisor from Thrivent, a non-profit financial organization. 30 minute sessions are free and private in our meeting room. Getting your finances in order isn’t always easy or clear. That’s why Anthony is here to provide the expertise and support you need. Whether you’re just starting out or preparing for a meaningful retirement, you deserve personalized financial guidance driven by what’s important to you. Together, we’ll assess your financial picture and explore how you can.
There are 4 sessions available starting at 5:00 PM: 5:00, 5:30, 6:00 and 6:30. Sessions are free, but limited. Please register for a session (only one session per person). If you need to cancel, please let us know so we can contact someone on the waiting list. *No products will be sold*
Pre-register today to reserve a spot!

Crime Reads Book Club: The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon #1) by Daniel Silva
2024-10-12 15:00 - 16:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing The Kill Artist by Ann Rule.
Gabriel Allon had a simple but brutal job: he tracked down and eliminated Israel’s terrorist enemies. But when his wife and son fell victim to the danger that accompanied him everywhere, Gabriel quit and devoted himself to the work of art restoration, an occupation that had previously been a cover for his secret assignments. Now Ari Shamron, the head of Israeli intelligence, needs Gabriel’s particular kind of experience to thwart a Palestinian plot to destroy the peace negotiations in the Middle East. The architect of this plot, a Palestinian zealot named Tariq, is a lethal part of Gabriel’s past, so as the two begin an intercontinental game of hide-and-seek, with life and death as the prizes, the motives are as personal as they are political.
The story features a vivid and fascinating supporting cast, including the magus-like Ari Shamron, a beautiful French Jewish model who is seeking retribution for her family’s death in the Holocaust, and a marvelously comic down-at-the-heels London art dealer. Set these colorful and varied characters against a brilliant background of political intrigue and vengeance at the highest levels and a manhunt that covers three continents, and the result is a smart and electrically exciting global thriller.
Daniel Silva was born in Michigan in 1960 and raised in California where he received his BA from Fresno State. Silva began his writing career as a journalist for United Press International (UPI), traveling in the Middle East and covering the Iran-Iraq war, terrorism and political conflicts. From UPI he moved to CNN, where he eventually became executive producer of its Washington-based public policy programming. In 1994 he began work on his first novel, The Unlikely Spy, a surprise best seller that won critical acclaim. He turned to writing full time in 1997 and all of his books have been New York Times/national best sellers, translated into 25 languages and published across Europe and the world. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Adult Craft: Spider Web Welcome Mats
2024-10-15 17:00 - 18:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Welcome Fall visitors with your very own custom spider web doormat. This easy, fun spooky season mat is cute layered over a black and white or other solid colored throw rug.
Open to participants 17+ years, first come, first served, no library card requirement.

Paws to Read: Therapy Dog
2024-10-17 16:00 - 17:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Meet Phoenix! This pup is all ears and ready to hear you read to him during our Paws to Read hour. Pick a book from our shelves and read to Phoenix or visit with him. If you are shy around dogs, you can watch Phoenix while you do the small craft provided. For safety, we will limit the number of people in the room at one time.

Fiction Addiction Book Club: Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
2024-10-22 16:30 - 17:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett.
“This tragicomic novel is heartfelt, touching, and delightfully quirky. You’ll fall in love with the offbeat cast of characters (both living and dead) and find yourself rooting for them right through the last page.”—Good Housekeeping (Book Club pick) A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake.

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Book Riot • Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize

It was a source of entertainment at Maple Street Cemetery. Both funny and sad, the kind of story we like best.

Natural-born healer Emma Starling once had big plans for her life, but she’s lost her way. A medical school dropout, she’s come back to small-town Everton, New Hampshire, to care for her father, who is dying from a mysterious brain disease. Clive Starling has been hallucinating small animals, as well as having visions of the ghost of a long-dead naturalist, Ernest Harold Baynes, once known for letting wild animals live in his house. This ghost has been giving Clive some ideas on how to spend his final days.

Emma arrives home knowing she must face her dad’s illness, her mom’s judgment, and her younger brother’s recent stint in rehab, but she’s unprepared to find that her former best friend from high school is missing, with no one bothering to look for her. The police say they don’t spend much time looking for drug addicts. Emma’s dad is the only one convinced the young woman might still be alive, and Emma is hopeful he could be right. Someone should look for her, at least. Emma isn’t really trying to be a hero, but somehow she and her father bring about just the kind of miracle the town needs.

Annie Hartnett is the author of Unlikely Animals, which won the Julia Ward Howe prize for fiction and was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and Rabbit Cake, a finalist for the New England Book Award and a Kirkus Reviews best book of the year. Hartnett has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Associates of the Boston Public Library. Along with the writer Tessa Fontaine, she co-runs the Accountability Workshops for writers, helping writers commit to routines and embrace the long, slow, joyful, terrible process of doing the work. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, daughter, and dog.

Basic Sign Language for Babies and Toddlers
2024-10-23 15:00 - 15:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Our Collegedale neighbor, student and library patron Ms. Ellie will be here to teach us some of the basics of ASL communication to toddlers and baby + their parent, grandparent or other guardian. She will demonstrate greetings, basic words and emotions in order to allow our youngest patrons to communicate before developing their verbal skills. Join Ms. Ellie for a taste of ASL communications for parents and babies/toddlers!

Origami Workshop: Pumpkins & Ghosts
2024-10-29 17:30 - 18:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join local Math teacher and origami artist Ms. Shirley for some Fall fun and paper crafting. We will learn to fold paper pumpkins and ghosts in this month’s origami workshop. This is a fun activity for all ages and families. This program is open to anyone in the community, free and no library card requirement.

Trick or Treat at the Library
2024-10-31 15:00 - 19:00 | TN
Stop by the Collegedale Public Library between 3:00 – 7:00 PM on Halloween night in your costume or wearing your favorite Halloween or Fall shirt to receive a Fall treat bag from your local Collegedale librarians. We hope that each and every one of you has a fun, happy and safe night and we hope to see some of you in the library. While supplies last, first come, first served. No library card requirement.

Crime Reads Book Club: The Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey
2024-11-02 15:00 - 16:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing The Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey.
Introducing Detective Inspector Darko Dawson: dedicated family man, rebel in the office, ace in the field—and one of the most appealing sleuths to come along in years. When we first meet Dawson, he’s been ordered by his cantankerous boss to leave behind his loving wife and young son in Ghana’s capital city to lead a murder investigation: In a shady grove outside the small town of Ketanu, a young woman—a promising medical student—has been found dead under suspicious circumstances. Dawson is fluent in Ketanu’s indigenous language, so he’s the right man for the job, but the local police are less than thrilled with an outsider’s interference. For Dawson, this sleepy corner of Ghana is rife with emotional land mines: an estranged relationship with the family he left behind twenty-five years earlier and the painful memory of his own mother’s inexplicable disappearance. Armed with remarkable insight and a healthy dose of skepticism, Dawson soon finds his cosmopolitan sensibilities clashing with age-old customs, including a disturbing practice in which teenage girls are offered to fetish priests as trokosi, or Wives of the Gods. Delving deeper into the student’s haunting death, Dawson will uncover long-buried secrets that, to his surprise, hit much too close to home.
Kwei Quartey is a crime fiction writer and physician based in Pasadena, California. In 2018, having practiced medicine for more than 15 years while simultaneously working as a writer, Quartey finally retired from medical practice to become a full-time novelist. Prior to that, though, he had balanced the two professions by dedicating the early morning hours to writing before beginning each day in his clinic.
Quartey was born in Ghana, West Africa, to a Ghanaian father and Black American mother, both of whom were lecturers at the University of Ghana. Quartey describes how his family’s home was full of hundreds of books, both fiction and nonfiction, which inspired him to write novellas as early as the age of eight or nine. By then, Quartey was certain he wanted to be an author.
But his interests shifted by the time he was a teenager, when he decided he wanted to be a doctor. Quartey began on a science-to-medicine track in secondary school. After the death of his father, Quartey’s mother returned to the United States. By then, Quartey had already begun medical school in Ghana. Transferring to a medical school in the United States wasn’t easy, but he successfully gained admission to Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, DC.
After graduation from his residency training in Internal Medicine, Kwei Quartey returned to his love of writing. He went to a UCLA extension course in creative writing, and wrote two novels while in a writing group that met every Wednesday evening. But it would be a few years yet before Quartey would create the Inspector Darko Dawson series.
As a crime fiction writer, Kwei made the Los Angeles Times Bestseller List in 2009. The following year, the GOG National Book Club voted him Best Male Author. The five Inspector Darko Dawson novels, set in Ghana, are WIFE OF THE GODS, CHILDREN OF THE STREET, MURDER AT CAPE THREE POINTS, GOLD OF OUR FATHERS, and DEATH BY HIS GRACE.

Medicare 101: It’s Open Enrollment Time!
2024-11-05 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-11-05 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-11-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join us for Medicare 101: It’s Open Enrollment Time! This session is being lead by Mr. Tim Reynolds, a local Licensed Medicare Advisor who is passionate about demystifying Medicare for new enrollees or those enrolled who are curious about this year’s updates to Medicare policy and procedure. This session and his services are free of charge to our library community and everyone is welcome, no library card requirement for attendance. He is offering two different session times to accommodate different schedules.

Dungeons and Dragons Club
2024-11-05 17:30 - 19:30 | West Room City Hall, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37363
Join us this month for a one-shot! We will be using pre-made characters this time for ease. No experience is needed.
Located in the West Room of City Hall.

One-on-One with a Financial Advisor
2024-11-06 17:00 - 19:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
The Library is offering One-on-One sessions with Mr. Anthony Young who is a certified financial advisor from Thrivent, a non-profit financial organization. 30 minute sessions are free and private in our meeting room. Getting your finances in order isn’t always easy or clear. That’s why Anthony is here to provide the expertise and support you need. Whether you’re just starting out or preparing for a meaningful retirement, you deserve personalized financial guidance driven by what’s important to you. Together, we’ll assess your financial picture and explore how you can.
There are 4 sessions available starting at 5:00 PM: 5:00, 5:30, 6:00 and 6:30. Sessions are free, but limited. Please register for a session (only one session per person). If you need to cancel, please let us know so we can contact someone on the waiting list. *No products will be sold*
Pre-register today to reserve a spot!

Family Board Game Night
2024-11-07 17:00 - 18:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join us for a laid back afternoon of board game fun. We supply the games and location. This activity is open to all ages and there is no library card requirement.

String Theory
2024-11-09 15:00 - 16:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Bring any style of needlework project (knit, crochet, cross stitch, embroidery…) to this informal gathering and talk about books, recipes, and whatever else strikes your fancy while you work.

Adult Craft: Thanksgiving Place Cards with Paper Quilling
2024-11-12 17:30 - 18:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
We will welcome back local artist Ms. Sandy to the library to learn how to make paper-quilled pumpkins and decorate a set of Fall place cards for your Thanksgiving dinner tables. Open to all participants 17 years and up with no library card requirement.

Origami Workshop: Holiday Ornaments
2024-11-13 17:00 - 18:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join local Math teacher and origami artist Ms. Shirley for some Fall fun and paper crafting. We will learn to fold holiday ornaments for Christmas season decorating and tree trimming in this month’s origami workshop. This is a fun activity for all ages and families. This program is open to anyone in the community, free and no library card requirement.

Basic Sign Language for Babies and Toddlers
2024-11-14 14:00 - 14:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Our Collegedale neighbor, student and library patron Ms. Ellie will be here to teach us some of the basics of ASL communication to toddlers and baby + their parent, grandparent or other guardian. She will demonstrate greetings, basic words and emotions in order to allow our youngest patrons to communicate before developing their verbal skills. Join Ms. Ellie for a taste of ASL communications for parents and babies/toddlers!
Open to all community members – no library card requirement.

Fiction Addiction Book Club: A Woman I Know by Mary Haverstick
2024-11-19 16:30 - 17:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination by Mary Haverstick.
The true story of a filmmaker whose unexpected investigation of her film’s subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Independent filmmaker Mary Haverstick thought she’d stumbled onto the project of a lifetime — a biopic of a little-known aviation legend whose story seemed to embody the hopeful spirit of the dawn of the space age. But after she received a mysterious warning from a government agent, Haverstick began to suspect that all was not as it seemed. What she found as she dug deeper was a darker story — a story of double identities and female spies, a tangle of intrigue that stretched from the fields of the Congo to the shores of Cuba, from the streets of Mexico City to the dark heart of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas.
As Haverstick attempted to learn the truth directly from her subject in a cat-and-mouse game that stretched across a decade, she plunged deep into the CIA files of the 1950s and 60s. A Woman I Know brings vividly to life the duplicities of the Cold War intelligence game, a world where code names and doubletalk are the lingua franca of spies bent on seeking advantage by any means necessary. As Haverstick sheds light on a remarkable set of women whose high-stakes intelligence work has left its only traces in redacted files, she also discovers disturbing and shocking new clues about what really happened at Dealey Plaza in 1963. Offering new clues to the assassination and a vivid picture of women in mid-century intelligence, A Woman I Know is a gripping real-life thriller.a hero, but somehow she and her father bring about just the kind of miracle the town needs.
Mary Haverstick is a director, writer, and cinematographer. Her most notable work as director was for Home, 2009, which starred Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden. She is currently chronicling the turbulent political landscape of her home state, Pennsylvania, for her documentary, Tipping Point, PA.

Sourdough Starters
2024-11-24 15:00 - 16:00 | TN
Join us for an informative and engaging event focused on the art of sourdough starters. Discover the science behind fermentation, learn how to cultivate a lively starter, and explore tips for incorporating it into your baking. We look forward to sharing this enriching experience with you! Patrons will be provided a small amount of starter to begin their journey! Remember to arrive early, this event is first come, first served.

Collegedale Family BINGO Night
2024-11-26 17:30 - 18:30 | City Hall​, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37315, United States
This event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Gingerbread Wars
2024-12-03 17:30 - 18:30 | TN
Get ready for a deliciously fun challenge at the library! Gather your friends and put your creativity to the test in our Gingerbread Wars. Teams will design and build amazing structures using graham crackers, icing, and candy decorations—all while exploring engineering and design principles. Limited availability; first come, first served.

One-on-One with a Financial Advisor
2024-12-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
The Library is offering One-on-One sessions with Anthony Young who is a financial advisor from Thrivent, a non-profit financial organization. 30 minute sessions are free and private in our meeting room. Getting your finances in order isn’t always easy or clear. That’s why Anthony is here to provide the expertise and support you need. Whether you’re just starting out or preparing for a meaningful retirement, you deserve personalized financial guidance driven by what’s important to you. Together, we’ll assess your financial picture and explore how you can.
There are 4 sessions available starting at 5:00 PM: 5:00, 5:30, 6:00 and 6:30. Sessions are free, but limited. Please register for a session (only one session per person). If you need to cancel, please let us know so we can contact someone on the waiting list. *No products will be sold*
Pre-register today to reserve a spot!
Open to any and all community members – no library card membership required.

Crime Reads Book Club: Kill for You, Kill for Me by Steve Cavanagh
2024-12-07 15:00 - 16:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing Kill for You, Kill for Me by Steve Cavanagh.
For fans of The Silent Patient and Gone Girl, a razor-sharp and Hitchcock-inspired psychological thriller about two ordinary women who make a dangerous pact to take revenge for each other after being pushed to the brink.
One dark evening on New York City’s Upper West Side, two strangers meet by chance. Over drinks, Amanda and Wendy realize they have much in common, especially loneliness and an intense desire for revenge against the men who destroyed their families. As they talk into the night, they come up with the perfect if you kill for me, I’ll kill for you.
In another part of the city, Ruth is home alone when the beautiful brownstone she shares with her husband, Scott, is invaded. She’s attacked by a man with piercing blue eyes, who disappears into the night. Will she ever be able to feel safe again while the blue-eyed stranger is out there?
Intricate, heart-racing, and from an author who “is the real deal” (Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author), Kill for Me, Kill for You will keep you breathless until the final page.
Steve Cavanagh is a critically acclaimed, Sunday Times best-selling author of the Eddie Flynn series which has sold a million copies in the UK. His third novel, The Liar, won the CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the year 2018. Thirteen won the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime novel of the year 2019. FIFTY FIFTY was a Richard and Judy Book club choice, and the BBC Between The Covers book club choice. All of his novels have been nominated for major awards. He is a consistent International bestseller.
Open to any members of the community – no library card membership required.

Fiction Addiction Book Club: Surviving Savannah by Patti Callahan Henry
2024-12-10 16:30 - 17:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing Surviving Savannah by Patti Callahan Henry.
When Savannah history professor Everly Winthrop is asked to guest-curate a new museum collection focusing on artifacts recovered from the steamship Pulaski, she’s shocked. The ship sank after a boiler explosion in 1838, and the wreckage was just discovered, 180 years later. Everly can’t resist the opportunity to try to solve some of the mysteries and myths surrounding the devastating night of its sinking.
Everly’s research leads her to the astounding history of a family of eleven who boarded the Pulaski together, and the extraordinary stories of two women from this family: a known survivor, Augusta Longstreet, and her niece, Lilly Forsyth, who was never found, along with her child. These aristocratic women were part of Savannah’s society, but when the ship exploded, each was faced with difficult and heartbreaking decisions. This is a moving and powerful exploration of what women will do to endure in the face of tragedy, the role fate plays, and the myriad ways we survive the surviving.

Patti Callahan Henry is a New York Times, Globe and Mail, and USA Today bestselling author of sixteen novels, including her newest, The Secret Book of Flora Lea. She’s also a podcast host of original content for her novels, Surviving Savannah and Becoming Mrs. Lewis.​
She is the recipient of The Christy Award “Book of the Year”; The Harper Lee Distinguished Writer of the Year and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year for Becoming Mrs. Lewis. She is the co-host and co-creator of the popular weekly online Friends and Fiction live web show and podcast. Patti also was a contributor to the monthly life lesson essay column for Parade Magazine. She’s published in numerous anthologies, articles, and short story collections, including an Audible Original about Florence Nightingale, titled Wild Swan narrated by the Tony Award winner, Cynthia Erivo.​
A full-time author, mother of three, and grandmother of two, she lives in Mountain Brook, Alabama with her husband, Pat Henry.
This program is open to any and all community members – no library card membership required.

Family Origami Workshop: Snowflakes
2024-12-11 17:00 - 18:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join local Math teacher and origami artist Ms. Shirley for some holiday fun and paper crafting. We will learn to fold super cool, large, 3-D paper snowflakes for winter and the holiday season during this month’s origami workshop. This is a fun activity for all ages as well as families. This program is open to anyone in the community, free and no library card requirement.

Basic Sign Language for Babies and Toddlers
2024-12-12 14:00 - 14:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Our Collegedale neighbor, student and library patron Ms. Ellie will be here to teach us some of the basics of ASL communication to toddlers and baby + their parent, grandparent or other guardian. She will demonstrate greetings, basic words and emotions in order to allow our youngest patrons to communicate before developing their verbal skills. Join Ms. Ellie for a taste of ASL communications for parents + babies/toddlers!
This program is open to any and all community members – no library card membership required.

Happy Birthday Taylor Swift Party
2024-12-12 16:30 - 18:00 | West Room City Hall, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37363
Join us in the West Room of the Collegedale City Hall Building for a sparkling night of fun for our 2nd Annual Taylor Swift Birthday! Help us celebrate her birthday this December with an array of activities to include: cupcake decorating, friendship bracelet making, music and karaoke, a pinata bust, photo booth, temporary tattoos and face jewels, Taylor-approved coloring sheets, buttons and bookmarks, etc.
Participants are encouraged to wear their best Taylor Eras Tour outfits/costumes and winners will be chosen to win Taylor prize packs!
This is a first come, first served activity. Our first 40 guests will receive a complimentary pair of red heart sunglasses!

Friends of the Katie Lamb Public Library Book Sale
2024-12-14 - 2024-12-28 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
The Friends of the Katie Lamb Public Library in Collegedale, TN will host their semi-annual Book Sale Saturday, December 14 – Saturday, December 28, 2024.
The library will have one of it largest selections of materials for sale this season. We will have books for all ages, magazines, audiobooks, DVDs, etc.
Prices:
Children’s Books – $1.00
Hardcover Young Adult Books – $2.00
Hardcover Adult Books – $2.00
Mass Paperbacks (i.e. smaller Romance, Westerns, etc) – $0.25
Magazines – $0.25
Audiobooks – $2.00
DVDs – $1.00
