Upcoming Events
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Tue 11-06-2018 (All day)
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Sat 11-10-2018 (All day)
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Thu 11-22-2018 (All day)
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Tue 12-25-2018 (All day)
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Tue 01-01-2019 (All day)
New Acquistions
Check out the Hawaii State Library's system-wide new acquisitions (Courtesy of Wowbrary).
New York Times Books
- understanding the times: How The Times Avoids Conflicts of Interest in Book Reviews
- Personal Journeys: 7 Hours of Travel, 2 Hours on the Ground: Worth It for the Rewards Points
- Fiction: In a New Collection, Deborah Eisenberg Returns to Say the Unsaid
- New & Noteworthy
- Instagram Now Home to Classic Feminist Literature
- Books of The Times: A Visual Memoir Asks What It Means for Germany to Reckon With Its Past
- Books of The Times: In ‘Godsend,’ an Idealistic Young Woman Gets Tangled Up in Trouble in Afghanistan
- Books of The Times: Tana French Is at Her Suspenseful Best in ‘The Witch Elm’
- Essay: All Those Books You’ve Bought but Haven’t Read? There’s a Word for That
- What to Drink Before Bed? There’s Lots to Consider
- Nonfiction: Michael Lewis Wonders Who’s Really Running the Government
- Nonfiction: John Kerry Describes Politics as It Used to Be
- Books News: How Feminist Dystopian Fiction Is Channeling Women’s Anger and Anxiety
- It’s Time to Become a Time Realist
- Newsbook: Almost 1,500 People Died in Indonesia. 3 Books Show the Impact of Other Tsunamis.
- Vladimir Radunsky, 64, Dies; Protean Children’s Book Illustrator
- The Book Review: Kate Atkinson on ‘Transcription’
- Crime: The Scene of the Crime: Four Mysteries in Ominous Locales
- Children’s Books: A Graphic Nonfiction Account of Hitler’s Would-Be Assassin
- Fiction: Daniel Torday’s New Novel Pits Young Against Old
Please join us for a Dr. Suess birthday celebration as Mr. Kneel raps Dr. Seuss! Mr. Kneel is Neil McIntyre, an award-winning hip-hop musician and educator. With beatbox and vocal percussion, Mr. Kneel will entertain and inspire you to create your own special hip-hop sound! Mahalo to the Friends of the Aina Haina Public Library for sponsoring this program.
You walk into the meeting room for a perfectly ordinary program, but what's this? The meeting room has been transformed into a jungle full of wild creatures, and if you want to get out, you'll have to solve the puzzles and open the locked box hidden somewhere in the room.
Be prepared to be amazed and dazzled by Story Circus, an exciting storytelling show where stories meet the circus! Can you imagine what Balloon Haiku, Storygami, and Storytelling with Magic look like? Stories will come together in visual ways inviting audiences' interaction and lots of fun. Yasu Ishida is an award-winning magician, director and performer. Mahalo to the Friends of the Aina Haina Public Library for sponsoring this program. This program is produced by the UH Manoa Outreach College's Statewide Cultural Extension Program.
Don't miss the February Special! This month everything is "Buy One & Get One Free" in the ongoing book sale. Our Dollar Sale in January was a grand success. We thank our Friends for their hard work and the public for their generous support!
Free help in preparing basic federal and state income tax returns is being offered again this year at the Aina Haina Public Library Meeting Room, with trained volunteers available to help those who cannot prepare their own tax returns, have low to moderate income, are disabled, have limited English skills, or are elderly.