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Summer Reading 2025

June 14 – August 2
For all ages • at all library locations
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Upcoming program Throwback Art Party for Teens

Monday, July 14 – 6-7:30 p.m.
South Regional Library
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Upcoming program Durham Grown: Farming with Nature

Saturday, July 12 – 10-11 a.m.
Main Library
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Upcoming program Pinhole Camera Obscura

Saturday, July 5 – 4-5 p.m.
South Regional Library
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Upcoming program French Bilingual Storytime

Saturday, July 5 – 10:30-11:15 a.m.
Main Library

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Katherine Applegate Color Our World Writing Contest

For writers and storytellers ages 8-12 years old
Entries open through July 31

NC Kids Digital Library and NC Kids Level Up.

Online resource NC Kids Digital Library & NC Kids Level Up

Ebooks, e-audiobooks, and video for kids and teens! Also available through the Libby app – add NC Kids Digital Library (for kids) or NC Kids Level Up (for teens and tweens) as a new library in your Libby settings for access.

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Book list LGBTQ Authors

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Upcoming program Color Therapy for Teens and Adults

Saturdays in June and July
10 a.m.-12 p.m.
South Regional Library

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Upcoming program Movie Mondays!

Mondays this summer – 2-4 p.m.
Southwest Regional Library
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Upcoming program Bull City Stories

…is not a film festival.
July 14-19
Main Library

Covers of books with strategies for managing the complexities of life that interfere with our ability to focus.

Book list Stay Focused

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Upcoming program Tabletop Troupe

Tuesdays – 4-5 p.m.
South Regional Library
For ages 7-14
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Covers of books looking at the future and alternate realities through a Black cultural lens.

Book list Afrofuturism

Covers of books featured on HBO's White Lotus.

Book list White Lotus

Covers of nonfiction books about tyranny and propaganda. Lots of red and black in the color scheme.

Book list On Tyranny

Cover art of the Two-Sided Tales anthology. On the left side is a group of mostly sinister-looking characters against a dramatic sunset sky with backlit shapes in the background covered with eyes. On the right side is a group of mostly friendly-looking characters on a green hill in front of a blue sky.

New! Two-Sided Tales: A Triangle Comics Creator Network anthology

There are two sides to every story! The newest anthology by the Triangle Comics Creator Network features 18 comics from 19 North Carolina artists.

This anthology was made possible thanks to the generosity of the Durham Library Foundation.

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