Katie Lamb Public Library

Crime Reads Book Club: The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
2023-11-11 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
In every person’s story, there is something to hide…
The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quiet, until the tranquility is shattered by a woman’s terrified scream. Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is identified and contained. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers, who’d happened to sit at the same table, pass the time in conversation and friendships are struck. Each has his or her own reasons for being in the reading room that morning—it just happens that one is a murderer.
Award-winning author Sulari Gentill delivers a sharply thrilling read with The Woman in the Library, an unexpectedly twisty literary adventure that examines the complicated nature of friendship and shows us that words can be the most treacherous weapons of all.
Once upon a time, Sulari Gentill was a corporate lawyer serving as a director on public boards, with only a vague disquiet that there was something else she was meant to do. That feeling did not go away until she began to write. And so Sulari became the author of the Rowland Sinclair Mysteries: thus far, ten historical crime novels chronicling the life and adventures of her 1930s Australian gentleman artist, the Hero Trilogy, based on the myths and epics of the ancient world, and the Ned Kelly Award winning Crossing the Lines (published in the US as After She Wrote Hime). In 2014 she collaborated with National Gallery of Victoria to write a short story which was produced in audio to feature in the Fashion Detective Exhibition, and thereafter published by the NGV. IN 2019 Sulari was part of a 4-member delegation of Australian crime writers sponsored by the Australia Council to tour the US as ambassadors of Australian Crime Writing.
Sulari lives with her husband, Michael, and their boys, Edmund and Atticus, on a small farm in Batlow where she grows French Black Truffles and refers to her writing as “work” so that no one will suggest she get a real job.

Origami Workshop: Christmas Ornaments
2023-11-14 17:00 - 18:15 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join us for a free evening of learning the art of folding origami Christmas tree ornaments! We will make a beautiful Christmas tree, a stocking with candy cane, teardrop Ms. Shirley and Ms. Emily will be back to teach us the necessary steps to create our own beautiful holiday ornaments.

Sign Language Basics for Babies & Toddlers
2023-11-15 14:00 - 15:30 | 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, and etc? If so, join Ms. Sharon for a small taste of ASL communications!

Tween/Teen Hangout: Natural Gemstones Bracelet Making
2023-11-16 16:00 - 17:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join us for our monthly craft for teens and tweens as we craft bracelets made from natural stones and gemstones. Tiger’s eye, rose quartz, lava rock, and more to choose from as you add charms, channel your energies, and create great wearable art!

Paws to Read with Therapy Dog
2023-11-28 16:00 - 17:00, 2024-01-30 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.

Fiction Addiction Book Club: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
2023-11-28 17:00 - 18:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
“Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose.”
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.
Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.

Paint & Sip Night (Adults and Teens)
2023-11-29 17:00 - 18:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join us as we welcome local artist Jennifer Kring (https://jennifer94496.wixsite.com/jenniferkring) who will teach us the basics of painting a winter watercolor scene at the library. We will sip sparkling grape juice, listen to holiday music and create a winter painting for you to take home. All materials will be provided and this event is capped at 18 participants so please pre-register here: https://dev.collegedalepubliclibrary.org/event/paint-n-sip-night-adults-teens/?preview=true

Long Term Forum
2023-12-05 11:00 - 14:00 | City Hall​, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37315, United States
Join the library with Thrivent Financial for a Long Term Care Forum to provide essential information to members of our community on planning for the future including the financial and healthcare aspects of aging. This forum will serve as a “one-stop-shop” to gather info from representatives in the areas of Medicare, nursing, mobility, legal and financial. Location is West Room of City Hall Bldg.

The Great Cookie War
2023-12-05 17:30 - 18:30 | City Hall​, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37315, United States
Our first cookie decorating contest! So bring out the judges and grab the icing and sprinkles for an all out war! Cookies & decorating supplies provided by the Library. Participants will each receive a blank cookie and have a 20-minute timed window to decorate their cookie according to several set themes of their choosing. Members of our Friends of the Library will serve as voluntary judges of the night. This competition is open to all ages!

Crime Reads Book Club: We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz
2023-12-09 15:00 - 16:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
We Were Never Here” by Andrea Bartz is an involving domestic thriller; there are not too many surprises for anyone who reads a lot in the genre, but a tight plot and taut pacing makes it hard to put down.
Kristen and Emily have been best friends since college. Both had solitary upbringings, and they became uncommonly close at college. They’re now on the brink of their 30s, and still best friends.
But Kristen has moved to Australia for work, leaving Emily in the US. And Emily is starting to think that Kristen’s friendship isn’t enough for her; she wants a romantic relationship, marriage, kids.
The two women meet up in Chile for an off-the-grid holiday. It’s not the first time; they’ve had more than one adventurous holiday together. Towards the end, this one goes horribly awry. Kristen is attacked by a backpacker and has no choice but to kill him. They must cover up the murder to save themselves. After all, he was a bad guy, wasn’t he?
Remember watching movies with your hands over your eyes because they’re scary, but peeping through your fingers because you just have to know what happens? “We Were Never Here” provokes exactly the same feeling.
You know something awful is coming, you have a pretty good idea where it’s coming from, but you can’t step away until you know exactly what the awful thing is. This sense of suspense makes it hard to stop reading, even though the broad strokes of the story are pretty obvious.
Join us on Saturday, December 9th at 3:00 PM to discuss this thrilling mystery by Andrea Bartz while we enjoy hot chocolate and snacks.

Adult Craft: Knotted Ribbon Wreaths
2023-12-12 17:00 - 18:15 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join us for our December’s Adult Craft on Tuesday, December 12th from 5:00-6:15 PM. We will be making mini hand-knotted ribbon wreaths in festive holiday ribbon. These are perfect to hang in a window, on a bedroom door or wherever you need to add a little Christmas cheer in your home. All supplies will be provided! If you have a pair of new, sharp scissors or designated fabric-cutting scissors then it will be helpful to bring these for your own personal use as we will be doing a lot of ribbon cutting for this craft.

Origami Workshop: Christmas Ornaments - Part Deux
2023-12-14 16:00 - 17:15 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Back by popular demand! Join us for a free evening of learning the art of folding origami Christmas tree ornaments! We will make a beautiful star that converts to a wreath ornament – plus a stocking with candy cane, etc. Ms. Shirley and Ms. Emily will be back to teach us the necessary steps to create our own beautiful holiday ornaments. If you attended the November date – we will be creating different ornaments at this event. And if you did not attend the November date – please join us as you need not have been present at the first session to participate in the second session. Everyone was so enthusiastic that they asked to make more ornaments in December!

Fiction Addiction Book Club: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
2024-01-02 17:00 - 18:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results.
But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo.
Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.
Join us Tuesday, January 2nd at 5:00 PM to discuss this marvelous work of fiction by Bonnie Garmus while we sip hot tea.

Winter-Palooza
2024-01-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
This program is open to all ages!
Looking for something to do over the holiday break to beat the Winter blues? It’s cold outside — so visit us inside the warm library for a Winter-themed movie, a super cool craft and snacks! We will show the adorable Academy Award Winning family film, Happy Feet on our big screen. In addition we will have a Hot Chocolate Bar to build your own hot beverage and cookies. During the movie everyone is invited to work on Diamond Painting Snowflakes. Snowflakes include a clip chain where you can add your beautiful Winter creation to a backpack, purse, keyring, etc. Feel free to bring a blanket from home if you prefer to sit on the floor during the movie.

Crime Reads Book Club: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
2024-01-06 15:00 - 16:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.”
New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson’s Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder.
Frank begins the season preoccupied with the concerns of any teenage boy, but when tragedy unexpectedly strikes his family— which includes his Methodist minister father; his passionate, artistic mother; Juilliard-bound older sister; and wise-beyond-his-years kid brother— he finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal, suddenly called upon to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his years.
Told from Frank’s perspective forty years after that fateful summer, Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God.

Adult Craft: Snowflake Mason Jar
2024-01-09 17:00 - 18:15 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
We will paint glass jar snowflake votives to celebrate Winter. Participants paint a snowy jar and add Epsom salt and a tealight to make a fun and cute decorative centerpiece to help fill the void after the holiday decorations have come down.

Sign Language Basics for Adults, Teens & Tweens
2024-01-10 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 taste of ASL communications!

Sign Language for Babies & Toddlers
2024-01-17 14:00 - 15:00 | 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!

Free One-on-One Financial Assistance with Licensed Expert
2024-01-17 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 nonprofit 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 p.m. 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. If you do not get a session this time, the library will be hosting Anthony again on future dates.​ *No products will be sold*

Pre-register today to reserve a spot!

Snowflake Origami Art Workshop
2024-01-18 16:00 - 17:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join us for a free Winter afternoon of learning the art of folding origami snowflakes! We will make lovely snowflakes to hang in our window in order to encourage real snowflakes to fall in our backyards this season!

Crime Reads Book Club: The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
2024-01-23 08:00 - 17:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR BEST MYSTERY & THRILLER
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List comes a new locked room mystery, set in a Paris apartment building in which every resident has something to hide…
Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn’t sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn’t say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up – to find a very nice apartment, could Ben really have afforded this? – he’s not there.
The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig into her brother’s situation, and the more questions she has. Ben’s neighbors are an eclectic bunch, and not particularly friendly. Jess may have come to Paris to escape her past, but it’s starting to look like it’s Ben’s future that’s in question.
The socialite – The nice guy – The alcoholic – The girl on the verge – The concierge
Everyone’s a neighbor. Everyone’s a suspect. And everyone knows something they’re not telling.

Collegedale Family BINGO Night!
2024-01-23 17:00 - 18:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
BINGO is back! We will play in rounds and will be open to all ages! We will play for one hour and winners for each round will win small prizes. We hope to see you there.
Meets in the Collegedale City Hall Building, West Room.

String Theory
2024-01-27 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.

Fiction Addiction Book Club: The First Ladies by Marie Benedict
2024-01-30 17:00 - 18:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
The Instant New York Times Bestseller!
A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian.
The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists attempt to thwart her work. She marches on as an activist and an educator, and as her reputation grows she becomes a celebrity, revered by titans of business and recognized by U.S. Presidents. Eleanor Roosevelt herself is awestruck and eager to make her acquaintance. Initially drawn together because of their shared belief in women’s rights and the power of education, Mary and Eleanor become fast friends confiding their secrets, hopes and dreams—and holding each other’s hands through tragedy and triumph.
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president, the two women begin to collaborate more closely, particularly as Eleanor moves toward her own agenda separate from FDR, a consequence of the devastating discovery of her husband’s secret love affair. Eleanor becomes a controversial First Lady for her outspokenness, particularly on civil rights. And when she receives threats because of her strong ties to Mary, it only fuels the women’s desire to fight together for justice and equality.
This is the story of two different, yet equally formidable, passionate, and committed women, and the way in which their singular friendship helped form the foundation for the modern civil rights movement.

Village Valentines: Card Making Workshop
2024-02-06 16:30 - 18:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Help us give back to our community this Valentine’s Day! We will assemble a card making workshop for folks to drop-in and create Valentine cards to be distributed to residents at local assisted living and nursing home residences. Please stop in and make one – or ten cards!

Valentine’s Origami
2024-02-08 17:00 - 18:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
We welcome Mrs. Shirley and Emily back this month for origami fun just in time for Valentine’s Day! Join us this afternoon while they teach us the steps for folding Valentine hearts and flower creations.

Mardi Gras at the Library!
2024-02-13 | TN
Stop by the Library today and “Laissez les bons temps rouler!” Check out our Interactive Mardi Gras display, create your own festive Mardi Gras masks, take home some Mardi Gras handouts, check out some celebratory books and indulge in a mini King’s Cake from Tasty Donuts (while supplies last)!
*Also, Books for beads! Check out books today and earn some Mardi Gras beads.

Books for Beads!
2024-02-13 | TN
Books for beads! Stop in the library today (Tuesday, February 13th for Mardi Gras), check out book(s) and earn some Mardi Gras beads to wear and show your New Orleans spirit. There is no cost – this is just a fun way to get folks into the library and share information on a holiday and culture that is unique to another U.S. state and region.
If you do not have a Collegedale Public Library Card, you can still earn beads! Just stop by our library and show us the book you are currently reading from your personal collection – or even sign up for a library card!
While you are in, check out our interactive Mardi Gras display!

Adult Craft: Book Bouquets
2024-02-13 17:00 - 18:15 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
We will be making Valentine floral bouquets using vintage book pages to give to a friend, spouse, family member or to keep for yourself! Pretty, small glass bud vases will be provided to hold your floral bouquet. The beauty of these bouquets is that they will never die!
