Effingham Community Library

10/31/2025

Halloween parade! One of my favorite times of the year! Thank you to everyone who stopped by to say hello to the library, and thank you Miss Shirley for helping hand out the candy!

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween from the Effingham Community Library!

10/30/2025

Stop by for a piece of candy before he eats them all! Happy Halloween! See you at the parade tomorrow!

10/30/2025

If you have a child/grandchild that is between the ages of 0-5 and would like to sign up for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, reach out to us and we will get the process started! It is free if you sign up through the library! You will receive 1 book a month until your child is 6 years old! It is a great way to get kids to fall in love with reading!

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

10/29/2025

Still 2 days left to check out our Halloween book collection! We have both kid and adult books guaranteed to SPOOOOOK YOU!

10/28/2025

This weeks is on Colleen Hoover!

Colleen Hoover is a New York Times bestselling author of more than 23 novels, primarily in the romance and young adult genres. Her work is known for its emotional depth, complex characters, and willingness to tackle difficult subjects like domestic violence and mental health. Hoover is often credited with helping establish the "new adult fiction" category, which typically centers on twentysomethings navigating adulthood.
She is best known for her 2016 novel "It Ends with Us". As of October 2022, Hoover has sold approximately 20 million books.

Check out Collen Hoover's books at the library or Hoopla Digital!

Verity (2021)

Whose truth is the lie? Stay up all night reading the sensational psychological thriller that has readers obsessed—soon to be a major motion picture starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson!

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.

Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night her family was forever altered.

Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents could devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen’s feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving her.

10/27/2025

Check out our Halloween books! We have a wide selection for both kids and adults! Halloween is this Friday, so you still have time to get spooked! 👻 🎃💀🐈‍⬛

10/27/2025

10/24/2025

Weekend reading recommendation: The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce.
With sparkling wit and insight, this “gorgeous . . . page-turner” (People) from the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry reminds us that family is everything, even when it falls apart.
There is a heatwave across Europe, and four siblings have gathered at their family’s lake house to seek answers about their father, a famous artist, who recently remarried a much younger woman and decamped to Italy to finish his long-awaited masterpiece.

Now he is dead. And there is no sign of his final painting.

As the siblings try to piece together what happened, they spend the summer in a state of lawlessness: living under the same roof for the first time in decades, forced to confront the buried wounds they incurred as his children, and waiting for answers. Though they have always been close, the things they learn that summer—about themselves—and their father—will drive them apart before they can truly understand his legacy. Meanwhile, their stepmother’s enigmatic presence looms over the house. Is she the force that will finally destroy the family for good?

Wonderfully atmospheric, at heart this is a novel about the bonds of siblinghood—what happens when they splinter, and what it might take to reconnect them.

10/23/2025

Picked this up at the at Atchison County Community Schools last week. Check it out from the library, or put it on hold today! Thank you Mrs. Courtney Noll for helping me out at the book fair!

Girl Forgotten by April Henry.

Seventeen years ago, Layla Trello was murdered and her killer was never found. Enter true-crime fan Piper Gray, who is determined to reopen Layla’s case and get some answers. With the help of Jonas—who has a secret of his own—Piper starts a podcast investigating Layla’s murder. But as she digs deeper into the mysteries of the past, Piper begins receiving anonymous threats telling her to back off the investigation, or else. The killer is still out there, and Piper must uncover their identity before they silence her forever.

10/22/2025

We still have a few LED finger Lights & LED Flashing Ornaments left over from our Fall Fest! If your kid hasn’t gotten one yet, stop by and get one free when you check out a book!