Katie Lamb Public Library

Adult Silent Book Club
2024-06-20 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Description: Join the Collegedale Public Library for a book club without the assigned reading! We invite fellow book worms to join us for an hour of silent reading at the library with a 10-minute period of book discussions. You can share what you are currently reading and maybe pick up a book rec from a fellow participant. Bring your own book (BYOB) or borrow one of ours.
Schedule: 5:15-5:35 – settle in / discussion
5:35-6:35 – silent reading

Crime Reads Book Club: Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenadoah Murders by Kathryn Miles
2024-06-22 15:00 - 16:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathyrn Miles.

A riveting deep dive into the unsolved murder of two free-spirited young women in the wilderness, a journalist’s obsession, and a new theory of who might have done it.
In May 1996, Julie Williams and Lollie Winans were brutally murdered while backpacking in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park, adjacent to the world-famous Appalachian Trail. The young women were skilled backcountry leaders who had met—and fallen in love—the previous summer while working at a world-renowned outdoor program for women. But despite an extensive joint investigation by the FBI, the Virginia police, and National Park Service experts, the case remained unsolved for years.
In early 2002, and in response to mounting political pressure, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that he would be seeking the death penalty for Darrell David Rice—already in prison for assaulting another woman—in the first capital case tried under new, post-9/11 federal hate crime legislation. But two years later, the Department of Justice quietly suspended its case against Rice, and the investigation has since grown cold. Did prosecutors have the right person?
Journalist Kathryn Miles was a professor at Lollie Winans’s wilderness college in Maine when the 2002 indictment was announced. On the 20th anniversary of the murder, she began looking into the lives of these adventurous women—whose loss continued to haunt all who had encountered them—along with the murder investigation and subsequent case against Rice. As she dives deeper into the case, winning the trust of the victims’ loved ones as well as investigators and gaining access to key documents, Miles becomes increasingly obsessed with the loss of the generous and free-spirited Lollie and Julie, who were just on the brink of adulthood, and at the same time, she discovers evidence of cover-ups, incompetence, and crime-scene sloppiness that seemed part of a larger problem in America’s pursuit of justice in national parks. She also becomes convinced of Rice’s innocence, and zeroes in on a different likely suspect.
Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders is a riveting, eye-opening, and heartbreaking work, offering a braided narrative about two remarkable women who were murdered doing what they most loved, the forensics of this cold case, and the surprising pervasiveness and long shadows cast by violence against women in the backcountry.
Kathryn Miles is an award-winning journalist and science writer. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Saint Louis University and took both her Master of Arts and Doctorate in English from the University of Delaware. The long-time editor of Hawk & Handsaw, Miles served as professor of environmental studies and writing at Unity College from 2001-2015 and has since taught in several graduate schools and low residency-MFA programs. Miles is the author of five books: Adventures with Ari, All Standing, Superstorm, Quakeland, and Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders. Her essays and articles have appeared in publications including Audubon, Best American Essays, The Boston Globe, Down East, Ecotone, History, National Geographic, The New York Times, Outside, Pacific Standard, Politico, Popular Mechanics, and Time. She currently serves as a scholar-in-residence for the Maine Humanities Council, a visiting professor at Colby College, and a member of the Eastern Oregon University MFA faculty. She is also a private consultant available for emerging and established writers. Kathryn lives in Portland, Maine.

Intro to Mahjong for Beginners
2024-06-23 14:00 - 16:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join us at the Collegedale Public Library for an introductory meeting of the new game sensation, Mahjong. This tile-based game dates back to 19th Century China with regional variants across Southeast Asia, Korea, Japan and Vietnam. It is considered a game of skill, strategy and luck. We are hosting this meeting to allow local novice Mahjong players to be able to connect and introduce those interested but with no experience to the game. If connections are made – the hope is that a group of regular players can start playing rotating meeting locations.
This introductory session is for adult beginners (17+) who would like to learn more about the playing of mahjong. This program is open to anyone in the community with an interest, no library card requirement.

Creature Features: Tortilla the Collared Peccary
2024-06-24 10:30 - 11:00 | West Room City Hall, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37363
Join us for an exciting event in the west room at city hall! Creature Features will visit us to present their Collared peccary and teach us about these interesting animals. This event is for all ages, however, there is only room for 40 people so sign up soon! All attendees will need to sign up for a spot, including adults.
Registration will open June 1st.

Paws to Read with Therapy Dog
2024-06-25 16:00 - 17:00, 2024-07-23 16:00 - 17:00, 2024-08-27 16:00 - 17:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Meet Atreyu! 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 Atreyu or visit with him. If you are shy around dogs, you can watch Atreyu while you do the small craft provided. For safety, we will limit the number of people in the room with Atreyu at one time.

Collegedale Family BINGO Night
2024-06-25 17:30 - 18:30 | West Room City Hall, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37363
BINGO will play in rounds and is open to all ages! We will play for one hour and winners for each round will win small prizes. No entry fee. The library will provide the Bingo playing cards and plastic chips. We hope to see you there.

Senior Craft: Origami Swans in conjunction with Parks & Rec
2024-06-26 10:00 - 11:00 | City Hall​, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37315, United States
Join us for a morning with community Seniors! Our local origami teacher Ms. Shirley is back to teach us the art of folding origami swans. She is an excellent, patient teacher who will make you feel accomplished by the end of the workshop!

Basic Sign Language for Adults, Teens & Tweens
2024-06-26 17:00 - 18:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Our Collegedale neighbor and library patron Ms. Sharon will be here to teach us some of the basics of ASL communication. She will demonstrate greetings, basic words and emotions in order to greet our deaf friends in the community. Have you ever wished you could sign welcoming communications when greeting deaf or hard of hearing neighbors, classmates, church friends, etc? If so, join Ms. Sharon for a small taste of ASL communications!

Origami Workshop: Frogs!
2024-06-27 17:30 - 18:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join Ms. Shirley for some fantastic frog folding fun adventures when we make origami jumping frogs and other reptiles during this Summer Reading origami session.

Adult Craft: Beach in Jar
2024-07-02 17:30 - 18:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Inflation is high and vacations may be limited this Summer – so join us at the library to create your very own ‘beach in a jar’ to enjoy at home. You may not be able to visit the shore this season or maybe you just want to pretend you are there while you’re counting down the days to your beach trip! We will make a beachy wonderland with all the coastal elements plus fairy lights. Crank up an ocean waves playlist, open your beach read and sit beside your jar and have a “Calgon take me away” moment!
Open to participants 17+ years, first come, first served.

Family Event: Kindness Rocks! Rock Painting!
2024-07-09 14:00 - 15:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join us for more family Summer Reading program fun! We will paint rocks to encourage reading and/or kindness in our local community. Stop in and paint a rock, or two or three to take with you to hide for your neighbors to find!

Intro to Yoga to Relax for Adults and Teens
2024-07-11 17:30 - 18:30 | West Room City Hall, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37363
Community member Cyndi Allen will be leading us through a beginner yoga class focused on relaxation. Bring your own mat and meet in the west room at city hall.

String Theory
2024-07-13 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.

Origami Workshop: Airplanes!
2024-07-15 17:30 - 18:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join Ms. Shirley for some awesome airplane folding fun adventures when we make origami airplanes and other aircraft during this Summer Reading origami session.

Fiction Addiction Book Club: Beach Read by Emily Henry
2024-07-17 16:00 - 17:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing Beach Read by Emily Henry.

A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD! FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION AND BOOK LOVERS!
A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.
They’re polar opposites.
In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block.
Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no-one will fall in love. Really.

Emily Henry is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers, People We Meet on Vacation, and Beach Read, as well as the forthcoming Happy Place. She lives and writes in Cincinnati and the part of Kentucky just beneath it.

Find her on Instagram @EmilyHenryWrites.

One-on-One with a Financial Advisor
2024-07-17 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! Registration will open July 1st.

Adult Silent Book Club
2024-07-18 17:30 - 18:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join the Collegedale Public Library for a book club without the assigned reading! We invite fellow book worms to join us for an hour of silent reading at the library with a 10-minute period of book discussions. You can share what you are currently reading and maybe pick up a book rec from a fellow participant. Bring your own book (BYOB) or borrow one of ours.
Schedule: 5:15-5:35 – settle in / discussion
5:35-6:35 – silent reading

Crime Reads Book Club: Last Bus to Woodstock (Book #1 Inspector Morse series) by Colin Dexter
2024-07-20 15:00 - 16:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter..

The first intriguing case that began Colin Dexter’s phenomenally successful Inspector Morse series.
Beautiful Sylvia Kaye and another young woman had been seen hitching a ride not long before Sylvia’s bludgeoned body is found outside a pub in Woodstock, near Oxford. Morse is sure the other hitchhiker can tell him much of what he needs to know. But his confidence is shaken by the cool inscrutability of the girl he’s certain was Sylvia’s companion on that ill-fated September evening. Shrewd as Morse is, he’s also distracted by the complex scenarios that the murder set in motion among Sylvia’s girlfriends and their Oxford playmates. To grasp the painful truth, and act upon it, requires from Morse the last atom of his professional discipline.
Norman Colin Dexter was an English crime writer, known for his Inspector Morse novels.
He started writing mysteries in 1972 during a family holiday: “We were in a little guest house halfway between Caernarfon and Pwllheli. It was a Saturday and it was raining – it’s not unknown for it to rain in North Wales. The children were moaning … I was sitting at the kitchen table with nothing else to do, and I wrote the first few paragraphs of a potential detective novel.” Last Bus to Woodstock was published in 1975 and introduced the world to the character of Inspector Morse, the irascible detective whose penchants for cryptic crosswords, English literature, cask ale and Wagner reflect Dexter’s own enthusiasms. Dexter’s plots are notable for his use of false leads and other red herrings.
The success of the 33 episodes of the TV series Inspector Morse, produced between 1987 and 2001, brought further acclaim for Dexter. In the manner of Alfred Hitchcock, he also makes a cameo appearance in almost all episodes. More recently, his character from the Morse series, the stalwart Sgt (now Inspector) Lewis features in 12 episodes of the new ITV series Lewis. As with Morse, Dexter makes a cameo appearance in several episodes. Dexter suggested the English poet A. E. Housman as his “great life” on the BBC Radio 4 programme of that name in May 2008. Dexter and Housman were both classicists who found a popular audience for another genre of writing.
Dexter has been the recipient of several Crime Writers’ Association awards: two Silver Daggers for Service of All the Dead in 1979 and The Dead of Jericho in 1981; two Gold Daggers for The Wench is Dead in 1989 and The Way Through the Woods in 1992; and a Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement in 1997. In 1996 Dexter received a Macavity Award for his short story Evans Tries an O-Level. In 1980, he was elected a member of the by-invitation-only Detection Club.
In 2000, Dexter was awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to literature.

Local Author Visit: Miranda Smith’s Not My Mother
2024-07-21 14:00 - 15:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join the Collegedale Friends of the Library as they host local author Miranda Smith who will discuss his book – Not My Mother – Mystery/Thriller

Byron loves his job as a marriage counselor but is disappointed when he begins to lose clients because of his marital status. Julie is similarly frustrated with the world’s view that she must not be happy because of her lack of a husband. Byron devises a simple answer, an ad in the paper asking for a wife. Julie thinks it’s crazy but ultimately realizes it might be exactly what she needs. It works perfectly and both are happily single, but married. Julie isn’t getting set up and Byron can even tell his clients that to help his marriage he makes sure to give his wife some space. But the honeymoon phase wears off and in time they find that always making excuses for why their spouse isn’t easy. They begin to invite each other to activities to avoid excuses, and before long Byron discovers he has fallen in love with his wife. She however has decided she wants to find real love and thinks Charlie might be the answer. She asks for a divorce. Can Byron do what he has asked hundreds of couples to do and fight for his marriage?

About the Author: Miranda Smith writes domestic and psychological suspense. She is drawn to stories about ordinary people in extraordinary situations. Her debut novel, SOME DAYS ARE DARK, will be released in March 2020.

Miranda has been a staff writer at a local newspaper and a secondary English teacher. When it comes to fiction, Miranda writes about complicated women, dark impulses and Southern settings.

She lives in East Tennessee with her husband and three children.

Creature Features: Wallaby
2024-07-22 16:00 - 16:30 | West Room City Hall, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37363
Join us for an exciting event in the west room at city hall! Creature Features will visit us to present their Wallaby and teach us about these interesting animals. This event is for all ages, however, there is only room for 40 people so sign up soon! All attendees will need to sign up for a spot, including adults.
Registration will open July 1st.

Community Craft Swap
2024-07-23 17:00 - 19:00 | West Room City Hall, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37363
Join the Collegedale Public Library and the Collegedale Parks and Recreation Department for our 1st Annual Community Craft Swap. We will have the West Room in Collegedale City Hall set aside for all community members to bring extra, unused, defunct, etc crafting materials to share and swap with others in the community. Maybe you bought the supplies for a crating project that fell by the wayside? Instead of letting the materials collect dust, bring these out for others to peruse. Maybe you overbought ribbon or paints or stamps or stickers and so on? One of your neighbors may be able to use your extras in their classroom, church, synagogue, home, etc! What do you need to do? Just show up by 5:00 PM with your crafting supplies to display on a table. Browse other tables also, if you like.

Senior Craft: Donut Art in conjunction with Parks & Recreation
2024-07-24 10:00 - 11:00 | West Room City Hall, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37363
Join us for a morning with community Seniors! We will each select a donut and then paint our individual interpretations of the donuts on small canvases. Once the art is complete – we will then eat!

Murder Mystery Date Night in conjunction with FOL and CP&R Dept.
2024-07-30 18:00 - 19:00 | West Room City Hall, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37363
This activity is designed to be a fun night out for parents, grandparents, singles, girlfriends, etc.! For the adults there will be an interactive murder mystery activity where everyone will play a role – whether big or small. Tonight’s activity is a Murder at a Luau Mystery. Guests will enjoy pizza dinner and then work together to solve the mystery! Participants are encouraged to dress for a luau but it is not a requirement to participate. While the adults enjoy their time in the City Hall West Room – their children, grandchildren, etc will enjoy watching a tropical kids movie, crafts and pizza with our Children’s Librarian, Ms. Bailey. The kiddos will be located in the adjoining East Room – so not too far away and enough room to enjoy a fun, adults night out while they enjoy a kids night out!
This event will cost $5 per adult and registration will be located on the Collegedale Parks and Recreation Website. Registration is not yet open.

ASL for Adults and Teens
2024-07-31 17:00 - 18:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

End of Summer Reading Party
2024-08-02 10:00 - 12:00 | Collegedale Commons, 4910 Swinyar Dr., Collegedale, TN, 37315, United States
Join us for this years Summer Reading Wrap-up Party! We are so excited to celebrate a Summer of reading fun for all ages. It’s amazing how quickly time is flying this Summer and you do not want to miss out on the end of Summer fun.

Raffle prizes will be drawn at this time as well – but you are not required to be present to claim your prize. We will contact any winners not present to arrange for pick-up.

We will have crafts, games, sparkle tattoos, an obstacle course and the always popular petting zoo! We hope to see you there.

Family Event: Collegedale Cupcake Wars!
2024-08-20 18:00 - 19:00 | West Room City Hall, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37363
*THIS EVENT IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED FOR THE FIRST 50 PEOPLE.*

Join us for an August family fun night of our 2nd Annual Collegedale Cupcake Wars! Participants will decorate one cupcake and choose their theme. Supplies and decorating materials will be provided. There will be four grand prizes awarded for the following categories: Best of Show (best overall cupcake), Most Creative (with use of supplies/toppings provided), Best Literary Theme (for any cupcakes using a book or book character theme), The People’s Choice Award (voted on by the participants).

Fiction Addiction Book Club: The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard
2024-08-21 16:00 - 17:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard.
In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and The Wives of Los Alamos, comes a riveting novel of the everyday women who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. “What you see here, what you hear here, what you do here, let it stay here.”
In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked bus, destined for a city that doesn’t officially exist. Oak Ridge, Tennessee has sprung up in a matter of months—a town of trailers and segregated houses, 24-hour cafeterias, and constant security checks. There, June joins hundreds of other young girls operating massive machines whose purpose is never explained. They know they are helping to win the war, but must ask no questions and reveal nothing to outsiders.
The girls spend their evenings socializing and flirting with soldiers, scientists, and workmen at dances and movies, bowling alleys and canteens. June longs to know more about their top-secret assignment and begins an affair with Sam Cantor, the young Jewish physicist from New York who oversees the lab where she works and understands the end goal only too well, while her beautiful roommate Cici is on her own mission: to find a wealthy husband and escape her sharecropper roots. Across town, African-American construction worker Joe Brewer knows nothing of the government’s plans, only that his new job pays enough to make it worth leaving his family behind, at least for now. But a breach in security will intertwine his fate with June’s search for answers.
When the bombing of Hiroshima brings the truth about Oak Ridge into devastating focus, June must confront her ideals about loyalty, patriotism, and war itself.
Born and raised in East Tennessee, Janet Beard moved to New York to study screenwriting at NYU and went on to earn an MFA in creative writing from The New School. Her first novel, Beneath the Pines, was published in 2008, and her follow-up, The Atomic City Girls became an international bestseller in 2018. Janet’s latest novel The Ballad of Laurel Springs was published in October 2021. Janet has lived and worked in Australia, England, Boston, and Columbus, Ohio, where she is currently raising a daughter, and working on a new novel.

Crime Reads Book Club: Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
2024-08-24 15:00 - 16:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter. ~ Good Reads Choice Award: Nominee for Best Thriller & Mystery (2015)
Twenty years ago Claire Scott’s eldest sister, Julia, went missing. No one knew where she went – no note, no body. It was a mystery that was never solved and it tore her family apart. Now another girl has disappeared, with chilling echoes of the past. And it seems that she might not be the only one. Claire is convinced Julia’s disappearance is linked. But when she begins to learn the truth about her sister, she is confronted with a shocking discovery, and nothing will ever be the same…
Karin Slaughter is the author of more than twenty instant NEW YORK TIMES bestselling novels, including the Edgar–nominated COP TOWN and standalone novels THE GOOD DAUGHTER, PRETTY GIRLS, and GIRL, FORGOTTEN. She is published in 120 countries with more than 40 million copies sold across the globe. PIECES OF HER is a #1 Netflix original series starring Toni Collette. The Will Trent Series is on ABC (and streaming on Hulu in the U.S and Disney+ internationally). THE GOOD DAUGHTER and FALSE WITNESS are in development for film/tv. Slaughter is the founder of the Save the Libraries project—a nonprofit organization established to support libraries and library programming. A native of Georgia, she lives in Atlanta.
