(13 and up) Let’s walk and catch Pokémon, earn items, and capture the gym. Meet at the little library at the park. Please have a device that you have downloaded the app on if you’d like to participate. Feel free to walk with us if you do not want to use the app. Register online at homewoodpubliclibrary.org.

(6-12 Grade) This bi-monthly program will focus on teaching the performing arts to aspiring teen thespians with assistance from the Red Mountain Theatre. Register online at homewoodpubliclibrary.org.

Join us as September Reed shows you how easy it is to paint your own masterpiece on a mini- canvas and easel. We will provide all you need to paint your own masterpiece. Limit t0 20. Register online at homewoodpubliclibrary.org.

Come watch conversation worthy films of all genres with the Birmingham film community.

Join us for Part 2 of the 2000s Indie Gems series. The feature film is Girlfight. This film tells the story of Diana Guzman begins to train as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers, all while keeping it a secret from her father. This movie is rated R.

(All Ages) Wear your bathing suits, slather on your sunscreen, because Summer Reading is here, and we’re also celebrating the end of the school year by throwing our annual Bubble Bash!

Join us for Homewood Library’s newest book club and read books and authors from all over the world.  This month’s focus is the Dominican Republic with the book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. “The book chronicles the life of Oscar de León, a Dominican boy growing up in Paterson, New Jersey, who is obsessed with science fiction and fantasy novels and with falling in love, as well as with the curse that has plagued his family for generations..” Place the book on hold at hpl.pub/catalog.

Join us as Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There’s only one problem—she’s not married. She’s never seen this man before in her life.  As Lauren tries to puzzle out how she could be married to someone she can’t remember meeting, Michael goes to the attic to change a lightbulb and abruptly disappears. In his place, a new man emerges, and a new, slightly altered life re-forms around her. Realizing that her attic is creating an infinite supply of husbands, Lauren confronts the question: If swapping lives is as easy as changing a lightbulb, how do you know you’ve taken the right path? When do you stop trying to do better and start actually living? Place the book on hold at hpl.pub/catalog.

U.S. Army Captain Jack Ludwig, a military doctor stationed in Oregon, begins writing to Louise Rabiner, an aspiring actress and dancer in New York City, hoping to meet her someday if the war will allow. But as the war continues, it threatens to end their relationship before it even starts. Tony Award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig (he wrote "Fox on the Fairway" which we performed a couple of years ago) tells the joyous, heartwarming story of his parents’ courtship during World War II and the results are anything but expected.