Fall Jonquil Festival Book Sale Concludes - Highest Proceeds Since 2010

We had the most successful book sale since October, 2010 at this weekend’s Jonquil Festival. We raised $2,050 and it is dedicated to the 2019 Summer Reading Program. 

THANK YOU, Smyrna Volunteers and Shoppers. Special thanks to Jonquil Festival organizers, JRM Management, for supporting our book sales for over 20 years!.

Thank You, Volunteers

THANKS to all of the volunteers who sorted 3000 books and 1000 CDs/DVDs/Audio Books this week for the annual Friends of Smyrna Library Fall Book Sale this weekend at the Jonquil Festival. We have an enormous selection of children’s books from 25 cents to $3. Equally enormous is the selection of hardback fiction novels, nonfiction, paperbacks, cook books, crafting books and many more genres. 

We open at 10 am on Saturday morning. Our tent is located in front of the Smyrna Community Center. 

Genealogy Workshop: Researching Your Military Ancestors

November is the centennial anniversary of the armistice which ended World War I. Smyrna Library is honoring this anniversary with a genealogy workshop, "Researching Your Military Ancestors."  

This free workshop, underwritten by the Friends of Smyrna Library, is Saturday, November 3, at 10:30 a.m. at Smyrna Library. Seating is limited, so RSVP to sreference@smyrnaga.gov.

Thank You, Mayor Bacon

Thank you, Mayor Bacon, for being yesterday's Mystery Reader  The kids had a great time the mayor did an awesome job. The kids learned so much about him and his job. 

Smyrna Reads 2018: Author Appearance with Thomas Mullen

Smyrna Reads 2018
Author Appearance with Thomas Mullen
Presenter: Thomas Mullen, author of Darktown, Lightning Men, The Last Town on Earth

Thank you, Mr. Mullen, for your book discussion today at the Reed House. 

Award-winning author and Decatur resident Thomas Mullen discussed his novel Darktown and the real-life history that inspired it. Set in 1948, when the city of Atlanta hired its first eight African-American police officers, Darktown paints a portrait of a city on the cusp of great change. Following the stories of two black and two white officers, the book explores resonant issues of race, police, and the criminal justice system while showing how the coming Civil Rights Movement would impact life in Atlanta, the South, and the United States--in ways we're still experiencing today.

Thomas Mullen’s newest novel, Lightning Men, was named one of the Top Ten Crime Novels of 2017 by The New York Times. He’s the author of four other novels, including Darktown, an NPR Best Book of 2016, which was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Southern Book Prize, the Indies Choice Book Award, and was nominated for two Crime Writers Association Dagger Awards; The Last Town on Earth, which was named Best Debut Novel of 2006 by USA Today and was awarded the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for excellence in historical fiction; and The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, which was awarded the Townsend Prize for best novel by a Georgia author. Two of his books have been named Books All Georgians Should Read, and the "Darktown" series is being developed for television by Amazon Studios, Sony Pictures, and executive producer Jamie Foxx. He lives with his family in Decatur.

Attendees also enjoyed refreshments and a booksigning after the presentation.

Smyrna Reads is sponsored by The Friends of Smyrna Library.