Adult Services

The Stayton Public Library offers a wide-variety of services for adults. Below you will find information on our monthly book club, book recommendations, and more!
  • Our Library book club meets monthly on the last Wednesday to discuss a book. Check out our upcoming titles and feel free to drop in and join us.

    *Please note that in February and March we will be meeting on the last Thursday of the month.*

    Book Club Discussion – Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

    Thursday, February 27, 4:00 p.m.

    Knives Out meets Kim's Convenience in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties. Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady-ah, lady of a certain age-who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco's Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her college-aged son is up to. Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing-a dead man in the middle of her tea shop. In his outstretched hand, a flash drive. Vera doesn't know what comes over her, but after calling the cops like any good citizen would, she sort of . . . swipes the flash drive from the body and tucks it safely into the pocket of her apron. Why? Because Vera is sure she would do a better job than the police possibly could, because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands. Vera knows the killer will be back for the flash drive; all she has to do is watch the increasing number of customers at her shop and figure out which one among them is the killer. What Vera does not expect is to form friendships with her customers and start to care for each and every one of them. As a protective mother hen, will she end up having to give one of her newfound chicks to the police?

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  • We have more than books!

    The Stayton Public Library also offers games, coloring books, book club kits, STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) kits, and Citizen Science Kits. Visit our Library of Things page to view many of the options available.

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  • Stayton Public Library’s digital collection provides you with 24/7 online access to e-books and digital audiobooks to download, product reviews and ratings, practice tests for test preparation, and information that is available through a variety of online subscriptions and paid databases.

    Featured resources: 
    Consumer Reports
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    Kanopy
    The popular on-demand video streaming se nseDragSource,W1933,3,1,18 rvice Kanopy is now available for free with your CCRLS Library card!

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