Effingham Community Library

11/23/2025

11/22/2025

Santa will be here Saturday, December 20th! Stop by and get your picture taken with the man himself. Thanks to Pam Martin for putting up the banner outside the library/city hall!

11/21/2025

What are you thankful for? Stop by the library and let us know and we will put you on the bulletin board! Or just let us know in the comments ⬇️! We will start!

11/20/2025

Santa Claus is coming to the Effingham Community Library! Stop by and get your picture taken with the big guy himself! Saturday, December 20th from 10:30-Noon! Be sure to bring your Christmas list! Hot cholate and cookies will be available!

11/20/2025

11/19/2025

This weeks is on Megan Miranda!

Megan Miranda writes mainly mystery and suspense novels for both Young Adult and Adult readers. Miranda's first published novel, Fracture (2012), is about a teenager who awakens from a coma after a near-death experience and finds herself able to predict people's deaths. She has since published more than a dozen other novels, including the New York Times bestsellers All the Missing Girls and The Last House Guest.

Her Young Adult novels include: Fracture and its sequel Vengeance, Fragments of the Lost & Come Find Me.

Her adult novels include: All the Missing Girls, The Perfect Stranger (highly recommended), the Last House Guest & Daughter of Mine.

Her newest adult novel, You Belong Here, is available now at the library and Hoopla Digital.

You Belong Here (2025): Beckett Bowery never thought she’d return to Wyatt Valley, a picturesque college town in the Virginia mountains steeped in tradition. Her roots there were strong: Beckett’s parents taught at the college, and she never even imagined studying anywhere else—until a tragedy her senior year ended with two local men dead, and her roommate on the run, never to be seen again…

For the last two decades, Beckett has done her best to keep her distance. Then her daughter, Delilah, secretly applies to Wyatt College and earns a full scholarship, and Beckett can only hope that her lingering fears are unfounded. But deep down she knows that Wyatt Valley has a long memory, and that the past isn’t the only dangerous thing in town…

11/18/2025

We give you…Drake the Reading Dragon! Reading his favorite book, Dragons Love Tacos! The name was submitted by Sophia Yarnlover! Thank you for the submission. The name was chosen by our patrons out of several names sent to us through Facebook! Thank you to all who participated!

11/18/2025

11/18/2025

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11/17/2025

Thank you to Ms. Eckert’s pre-K class for your wonderful artwork! With Thanksgiving coming up, we take time to appreciate and thank those who mean the most to us! Here are the things the preschoolers are thankful for!!!

11/14/2025

Weekend reading recommendation: The Picasso Heist: A Thriller by James Patterson & Howard Roughan.

A $100 million painting.
A previously unknown Picasso is discovered in the attic of a French villa.

Everyone wants to possess it.
Filthy-rich Manhattan art people. Organized crime bosses. Power-hungry government officials. A notorious forger. A glamorous twenty-two-year-old art thief.

Only one person knows how to take it.
She’s the rival none of the power players see coming.

11/13/2025

Here are a few of our Thanksgiving 🦃 books for the kiddos! Also, check out Lazy Ninja sneaking up on Grateful Ninja!