Author Fair and Book Sale this Saturday!

The Friends of the Harker Heights Public Library is having its Fall Book Sale and Author Fair this Saturday. The book sale opens at 8 am so come early to get the best items!

Meet and chat with local writers who will be at the Author Fair from 9 am to 1 pm. Enjoy brunch while you listen to authors read from their works. The brunch hour will be from 11 am to 12 noon. Light snacks and refreshments will be served.

Some of the authors include Emery Lee, Renae Brumbaugh, George I. Duhart, Jr., Alison Craven Roberts, Michael T. Leslie, Malcolm L. Dickinson, Sonia Simmons Wren, Barbara Youngblood Carr, Sidney W. Frost, Charles "Skeeta" Jenkins, Phil Hewitt and more!

This event is FREE to the public.

Book Sale- 8am- 3pm
Author Fair- 9am-1pm
Open mic and brunch- 11am- 12noon





Harker Heights Public Library and Activities Center ∙ 400 Indian Trail, Harker Heights
For more information, please call 254-953-5496.

Banned Books/Freedom to Read Week

This week we're celebrating our freedom to read! National Banned Books Week is September 28-October 3, and it's a great time to think about how important reading is. We all learn from what we read -- and sometimes those biggest lessons come when what we read challenges our ideas. So help us celebrate being free to choose our own reading material and our freedom to read!

For more information on challenged and banned books, check out the American Library Association's Banned Books Week page.

In honor of BBW, I'd like to pass on a challenge from Ray Bradbury, author of numerous science fiction books, including the classic anti-censorship novel Fahrenheit 451.

In the introduction to the new graphic novel version of Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury issued this challenge:

“Finally, may I suggest that anyone reading this introduction should take the time to name the one book that he or she would most want to memorize and protect from any censors or firemen. And not only name the book, but give the reasons why they would wish to memorize it and why it would be a valuable asset to be recited and remembered in the future. I think this would make for a lively session when my readers meet and tell the books they named and memorized, and why.”

Add your suggestions in the comments, or head over to our Goodreads page to join the discussion there!