Newell Public Library

09/08/2025

This Wednesday (September 10th) at 11:15am!

09/04/2025

Check out the new book of the week!

Nightshade by Michael Connelly

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Stilwell has been “exiled” to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland. But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found weighed down at the bottom of the harbor—a Jane Doe identifiable at first only by a streak of purple dye in her hair. At the same time, a report of poaching on a protected reserve turns into a case fraught with violence and danger as Stilwell digs into the shady past of an island bigwig.

Crossing all lines of protocol and jurisdiction, Stilwell doggedly works both cases. Though hampered by an old beef with an ex-colleague determined to thwart him at every turn, he is convinced he is the only one who can bring justice to the woman known as “Nightshade.” Soon, his investigation uncovers closely guarded secrets and a dark heart to the serene island that was meant to be his escape from the evils of the big city.

09/04/2025

Big news! Storytime with Miss Patty is on September 10th at 11:15am!

Come join us at the library for a story or two and an activity.

This program is geared for ages 0-5, but all ages are welcome!

09/01/2025

September is national Library Card Sign-Up Month!

At the Newell Public Library, a library card can check out more than just books. Your card gives you access to our computers/Wi-Fi, reference materials, photo converter and much more!

Also, your card allows you to enter the South Dakota Digital Consortium. This state database contains 42,000 different eBook and audiobook titles through the Libby app.

If you live in Butte county, signing up for a card is free! If you are outside Butte county, you can still get a Newell Public Library card with a small yearly fee.

Our hours are MWF 10-12AM, 12:30-5pm. Stop in and sign up!

**Children may sign up for a card but must have a parent present as well as a parent signature

08/30/2025

⚠️PARENTS/GUARDIANS OF LITTLES:⚠️

If you haven't filled out this survey to help us determine the best day/time for our 0-5 year old storytime, please do so with the link below!

Kids older than 5 are welcome to attend storytime as well.

Thank you to all who have participated so far!

Please click the link to complete this form.

08/28/2025

Come check out our latest book of the week!

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.

Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore.

Isolation has taken its toll on the Salts, but as they nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, it begins to feel like she might just be what they need. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting herself, starts imagining a future where she could belong to someone again.

But Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own secrets. As the storms on Shearwater gather force, they all must decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the precious seeds in their care before it’s too late―and if they can finally put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new, together.

A novel of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty, and ferocious love, Wild Dark Shore is about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us disappears.

08/25/2025

🚨ATTENTION PARENTS & GAURDIANS🚨

We would like to start our storytime back up again and we need your help!

Last year, our storytime attendance dwindled. Typically, storytime would cater to the 0-5 year olds. We would like to get our numbers back up to what they were. That's where your help comes in!

Below is a link to a short, 3-4 question survey. We want to know what day and time would work best for the majority of parents in the area.

After we get enough interest and filled out surveys, we will coordinate the best date and time.

Your participation is important! Please fill the survey out below and be on the lookout for updates in the near future.

Please click the link to complete this form.

08/21/2025

New Book of the Week!

Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney

Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.

Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared.

A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can’t sleep, and he can’t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible — a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.

08/07/2025

New Book of the Week!

Swan Song by Robert McCammon

In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, Earth’s last survivors have been drawn into a final battle between good and evil that will decide the fate of humanity.
There’s Sister, who discovers a strange and transformative glass artifact in the destroyed Manhattan streets…Joshua Hutchins, the pro wrestler who takes refuge from the nuclear fallout at a Nebraska gas station…and Swan, a young girl possessing special powers, who travels alongside Josh to a Missouri town where healing and recovery can begin with her gifts. But the ancient force behind earth’s devastation is scouring the walking wounded for recruits for its relentless army…beginning with Swan herself

07/31/2025

New book of the week!

The Antidote by Karen Russell

Karen Russell's The Antidote is a historical fiction novel that blends magical realism to explore themes of memory, loss, and hope. Set in the fictional Nebraska town of Uz during the Dust Bowl, the story follows a prairie witch who calls herself "The Antidote". She acts as a "memory vault," taking on people's burdens in exchange for hope and lightness.

07/17/2025

New book of the week!

By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult

Young playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. But seeing it performed is unlikely, in a theater world where the playing field isn’t level for women. As Melina wonders if she dares risk failure again, her best friend takes the decision out of her hands and submits the play to a festival under a male pseudonym.

In 1581, young Emilia Bassano is a ward of English aristocrats. Her lessons on languages, history, and writing have endowed her with a sharp wit and a gift for storytelling, but like most women of her day, she is allowed no voice of her own. Forced to become a mistress to the Lord Chamberlain, who oversees all theatre productions in England, Emilia sees firsthand how the words of playwrights can move an audience. She begins to form a plan to secretly bring a play of her own to the stage—by paying an actor named William Shakespeare to front her work.

Told in intertwining timelines, By Any Other Name, a sweeping tale of ambition, courage, and desire centers two women who are determined to create something beautiful despite the prejudices they face. Should a writer do whatever it takes to see her story live on . . . no matter the cost? This remarkable novel, rooted in primary historical sources, ensures the name Emilia Bassano will no longer be forgotten.