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Holiday Closure
 
Library and drive up closed for independence day saturday july 4.
Celebrate disability pride
 
July is Disability Pride Month. Join us in celebrating the strength, diversity, and contributions of the disability community. Explore books, programs, and resources that celebrate disability identity, promote inclusion, and highlight the many ways people experience and navigate the world. Don't miss our featured booklist and the artist reception for our community gallery exhibition.
 
You're Invited
 
Radiant Forms. Wednesday, July 1, 2026. 3:30 to 5 pm. Geneva Public Library.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 • 3:30–5 P.M.
Kick off Disability Pride Month and join us for a reception to celebrate the artists in Radiant Forms, featuring work created in Geneva Public Library’s community outreach programs. The reception is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. 
 
Explore disabled experiences
 
 
by Woody Brown
Upward Bound
A wondrous, deeply affecting portrait of the interlocking lives at an adult day care center in Southern California, depicting an often overlooked community with extraordinary wit and grace.
 
by Paige Layle
But Everyone Feels This Way
Autism acceptance activist and TikTok influencer Paige Layle shares her deeply personal journey to diagnosis and living life autistically.
 
by Olivie Blake
Alone with you in the ether.
Two people meet in the Art Institute by chance. Before their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings.
 
by David S. Tatel
Vision
A powerful memoir by one of America’s most accomplished public servants and legal thinkers—who spent years denying and working around his blindness, before finally embracing it as an essential part of his identity. 
 
by Joe Abercrombie
Half a King
Prince Yarvi has vowed to regain a throne he never wanted. But first, he must survive cruelty, chains, and the bitter waters of the Shattered Sea. And he must do it all with only one good hand.
 
by Alice Wong
Year of the Tiger
This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project.
 
Looking for more? Explore additional fiction and nonfiction titles celebrating Disability Pride.
 
Live Music
 
Members of the Grey Matter Quartet performing.
SUNDAY, JUNE 28 • 2–3 P.M.
Join the Grey Matter Quartet for an evening of live jazz-funk and fusion music. The ensemble performs music inspired by influential artists such as Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, George Duke, and Yellowjackets.
 
First Friday
 
Wanda the groundhog laying next to a pumpkin.
FRIDAY, JULY 3 • 4–5:15 P.M.
Meet Wanda the groundhog, and Tina the opossum, while learning fun facts about wildlife and living alongside nature!
 
Explore, Learn, and Connect.
 
City workers planting a tree.
MONDAY, JUNE 29 • 6–7 P.M.
TUESDAY, JUNE 30 • 1:30–2:30 P.M.
THURSDAY, JULY 2 • 10–11:30 A.M.
by Joseph J. Ellis
American Creation
FRIDAY, JULY 3 • 10–11:30 A.M.
 
 
Just For Teens
 
Red and Gold stars of various sizes.
TUESDAY, JUNE 30 • ALL DAY
Available While Supplies Last
TEEN MAKER STUDIO:
ENGRAVED WOODEN PINS
(ENTERING GRADES 6-12)
Join the summer fun!
 
Summer Reading Challenge. Geneva Public Library District. Play Along June 1 to July 31.
Make reading the highlight of your summer! Join the Summer Reading Challenge, track your reading, and earn exciting prizes all summer long.
 
Accept the Challenge
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Pick Up Your Prizes Today!
 
Summer Reading Challenge prizes.
Have you earned 10, 20, 30, or even 40 points during your Summer Challenge?
 
Stop by the Library to pick up your prize! Plus, for every 10 points earned, you'll also receive a drawing ticket to enter for the grand prize basket of your choice.*
 
*Prizes available while supplies last.
 
All Ages Fun!
 
Woman pushing a stroller with a baby through on a residential sidewalk.
MONDAY, JUNE 29 • 10:30–11 A.M.
Join us for a short walk around the neighborhood, pausing for storytime songs and books!

READ WITH US
FAMILY STORYTIME (ALL AGES)
WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 • 9:30–10 A.M.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 • 10:30–11 A.M.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 • 6:30–7 P.M.
BABY STORYTIME (BIRTH TO
24 MONTHS W/CAREGIVER)

EXPLORE WITH FRIENDS
REFRIGERATOR
ART CLUB (ALL AGES)
TUESDAY, JUNE 30 • 7–8 P.M.
FRIDAY, JULY 3 • 9 A.M.–6 P.M.
FRIDAY, JULY 3 • 3–5 P.M.
 
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