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BEGINNING JANUARY 2026, ALL ADULT PROGRAM REGISTRATIONS WILL REQUIRE A VALID LIBRARY CARD NUMBER.
This includes adult Emerson Residents and non-residents, where it applies.
To apply for a card, visit In-Person at your home library or Online. Please update your library card if necessary.
2026 Adult Summer Reading
SUMMER OF PATRIOTISM
We are pleased to offer Adults programs and a reading list to enjoy during this historic summer celebrating America’s 250th!
With special prizes and giveaways, you won’t want to miss out.
To celebrate with us, download the reading list or pick up your copy at the Library.
red, white & read
We are pleased to offer Young Adults, Entering Grades 7-12 a summer reading list with a patriotic twist, including new titles and classics.
With special prizes and giveaways, you won’t want to miss out.
To read with us, download the reading list or pick up your copy at the Library.
read to win
Read throughout the summer for a chance to win a prize!
With curated prizes for each reading group and 1st, 2nd & 3rd place winners, pick up a reading tracker at the Library.
For every book that you finish reading, track it and visit the Library to place a raffle ticket in the prize box according to your group.
One (1) Winner will be drawn per prize on August 31st!
Classes & Events
WELLNESS FOR ADULTS
Join Shelley from Every Little Thing Yoga for Chair Yoga!
We will gently move our bodies, encouraging mobility and flexibility, and find some peace together in a fully-supported, adaptable class. No experience needed.
Mondays: July 6th - August 3rd
@ 1:30pm
Chairs will be provided. Classes will move outdoors weather permitting. These classes are for adults of all abilities.
Events Coming Up!
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Movie Showings
THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Wednesday Matinee @ 1pm
Join us for an afternoon film!
August 12th:
“You, Me & Tuscany”
Rated PG-13. 1hr. 44mins.
Romance/Comedy
Online Content
FITNESS AT HOME
Bold Yoga is a virtual studio for Libraries. This new service supports patrons in creating healthy, mindful lifestyles by making classes available on their time, offering fitness classes for all different ability levels. Includes Bendy Bookworm Kids videos!
Buried beneath the tension, the rushing, and the noise is peace. This summer, log into Bold Yoga—Emerson Public Library’s exclusive on-demand yoga collection—to dig deeper and unearth the calm that’s been there for you all along
Login Credentials Upon Request
Book Groups
"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
~Ernest Hemingway~
Introducing the Thursday Night
Book Club!
The Thursday Night Book Club will be discussing ““The Traitor's Wife” by Allison Pataki” Historical Fiction.
Thursday, August 27th @ 6:30pm
Contact the Library for more information! Books are available to check out at the Emerson Library.
Upcoming Meetings: 9/24
"The Museum of Extraordinary Things" by Alice Hoffman. Historical Fiction.
“this above all to thine own self be true” Hamlet
The Great Books Club is a literature discussion group that meets the last Wednesday of the month. New members welcome, just stop by!
Wednesday, July 29th has been CANCELLED.
Meeting Discussion: Selected Poems by John Keats, Conversation 5 Book