Exploration Commons will be closed on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 for a statewide training. We will reopen for regular hours on Thursday, October 31, 2024.
Check our Program Guide or the Calendar of Events site for more events.
Is your little one starting to walk and is more wiggly and active? Check out our Read and Play programs Tuesdays at 10:30 AM and Thursdays at 9:30 AM!
If this is your first time joining us, please print and complete a copy of the volunteer application.
Presented by A Likely Story Bookstore and Carroll County Public Library.
Tickets $30 – Admission with Book (unsigned, no meet & greet)
Tickets $40 – Admission with Signed Book (no meet & greet)
Tickets $75 – Admission with VIP Meet & Greet (book signing)
Advance ticket purchase is required for all attendees. Click to purchase tickets here.
Presented by A Likely Story Bookstore and Carroll County Public Library.
Louise Penny is the #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels. She has won numerous awards, including a CWA Dagger and the Agatha Award (nine times), and was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. She lives in a small village south of Montréal.
Ticket holders will receive a copy of Penny's latest novel, The Grey Wolf. A limited number VIP tickets, including a signing and meet-and-greet, will be available for purchase.
**Please note that the author will be unable to sign all books or participate in a meet and greet with anyone other than a VIP ticket holder. Signed Book ticket holders will receive a pre-signed book and will not be included in the meet and greet.
Accessibility: If special accommodations are needed, please contact the event organizer at least two weeks prior to the event.
Refund Policy: Refund requests for ticket price will be considered until two weeks before the event date. Eventbrite ticket fees are non-refundable. Any ticket holder who is unable to attend after that date will still be able to receive a copy of The Grey Wolf. In the event of a weather cancellation, ticket holders will receive credit for use on a future event.
Special thanks to Carroll County Public Schools.
If you've never touched a sewing machine or a sewing needle, or if it's been years since you've sewed, and you need a refresher on the basics, then this class is for you.
Prerequisite: None
Materials: A sewing machine and all necessary materials will be provided.
Join us for this special event featuring a panel of cozy mystery authors. Books will be available for signing and purchase.
Olivia Blacke:
Death is only the beginning in Olivia Blacke's A New Lease on Death, a darkly funny supernatural mystery that introduces an unlikely crime-solving duo. She is also the author of the Record Shop Mysteries and the Brooklyn Murder Mysteries.
Donna Andrews:
Bells are ringing and alarms are sounding in Donna Andrews' latest cheery addition in the New York Times bestselling Meg Langslow series, Rockin' Around the Chickadee. Bells are ringing and alarms are sounding in Donna Andrews' latest cheery addition in the New York Times bestselling Meg Langslow series.
Mindy Quigley:
Sleep in Heavenly Pizza is the fourth book in Mindy Quigley's delectable Deep Dish Mystery series, set in a Wisconsin pizzeria. She is the author of the Deep Dish Mysteries and the Lindsay Harding Mystery series.
Korina Moss:
In Korina Moss's Fondue or Die, the lazy, hazy, dairy days of summer are coming to a close in the Sonoma Valley. . . and so is someone’s life. Korina received the Agatha Award for Best First Novel, Cheddar Off Dead.
Is your little one starting to walk and is more wiggly and active? Check out our Read and Play programs Tuesdays at 10:30 AM and Thursdays at 9:30 AM!
Class Prerequisites and Required Skills:
Materials: A sewing machine and all necessary materials will be provided.
Join us for a casual, bi-weekly stitching club. All needle-crafters are welcome!
The selection for this month is The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. It is a Swedish comic novel about a man who escapes his nursing home on the approach of his 100th birthday and the unexpected and hilarious journey he goes on.
Registration and permission slips are required for this after-hours event; download a copy here or pick one up at the Westminster Branch's Customer Service Desk.
Previous Onshape experience is strongly recommended.