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:

    The Good Left Undone by Adriana Trigiani

    Wednesday, September 25, 4:00 p.m.

    As Matelda, the Cabrelli family's matriarch, she faces the end of her life, she is determined to share a long-held secret with her family about her own mother's great love story: with her childhood friend, Silvio, and with dashing Scottish sea captain John Lawrie McVicars, the father Matelda never knew.

    Domenica Cabrelli's coastal town of Viareggio became unsafe when Italy teetered on the brink of World War II. Her journey took her from the rocky shores of Marseille to the mystical beauty of Scotland to the dangers of wartime Liverpool-- where Italian Scots are imprisoned without cause. A hundred years later Matelda and her granddaughter, Anina, face the same big questions about life and their family's legacy. As the two timelines weave together, they lead the family to shocking revelations... and redemption.

     

    The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn

    Wednesday, October 30, 4:00 p.m.

     In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper--a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour. Still reeling from war wounds and devastated by loss, Mila finds herself isolated and lonely in the glittering world of Washington, DC--until an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and an even more unexpected connection with a silent fellow sniper offer the possibility of happiness. But when an old enemy from Mila's past joins forces with a deadly new foe lurking in the shadows, Lady Death finds herself battling her own demons and enemy bullets in the deadliest duel of her life. Based on a true story, The Diamond Eye is a haunting novel of heroism born of desperation, of a mother who became a soldier, of a woman who found her place in the world and changed the course of history forever

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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.

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    Consumer Reports
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    Kanopy
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