Around the Stitching Table A Drop-In Crafting Community, Career Center at East 38th Street, Lego Block Party at Haughville, Dung

Around the Stitching Table A Drop-In Crafting Community 2:00pm - 4:00pm West Perry Branch Drop in on Tuesday afternoons to hang with other crafters and work on your current projects. Be a part of our crafting community! Bring your own crafts, learn techniques from each other, and swap skills & stories. Career Center at East 38th Street 4:00pm - 7:00pm East 38th Street Branch Made possible by Office of Lawrence Township Trustee Steve Talley through a grant to The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation. Lego Block Party at Haughville 4:00pm - 5:00pm Haughville Branch Let your imagination guide you in making fun Lego creations! Participate in challenges or free-build whatever you want. Legos will be provided. Recommended for children ages 6 and up. Dungeons & Dragons at Wayne 5:00pm - 7:00pm Wayne Branch Just bring your curiosity and sense of fun! This group is for any one 12 and up. Free Notarization Services at West Perry 5:30pm - 7:30pm West Perry Branch All notarizations are free of charge thanks to our partnership with Gold Torch Notary Services. Notary is Stephanie Kaminski - Lic# NP0758651 - EXP: 09/08/2032. Notary is conversational in American Sign Language, but cannot interpret. Library staff and Notaries are not attorneys and will not provide legal advice or interpret legal documents. All signers and witnesses must present a valid, government-issued photo ID. Expired IDs will not be accepted. If you require witnesses, you must bring them with you along with all necessary documents for notarization. Library staff will not serve as witnesses. Advance appointments are not accepted. Come in person between the hours of 5:30-7:30 PM and check in at the reference desk to join the queue for notarizations, first come, first served. General Notarizations Offered: Acknowledgment and witnessing services for the following documents: Complex Notarizations NOT Offered: Gold Torch Notary Services will not notarize documents involving: Questions? Call the branch at 317-275-4390, or reach out to Gold Torch Notary Services for more information. This service is available: (February 10; March 10; April 14; May 12; June 9; July 14; August 11; September 8; October, 13; November 10; December 8) (January 10; February 14; March 14; April 11; May 9; June 13; July 11; August 8; September 12; October 10; November 14; December 12) (February 24; March 24; April 28; May 26; June 23; July 28, August 25; September 22; October, 27; November 24; December 22) (February 28; March, 28; April 25; May 30**; June 27; July 25; August 22; September 26; October 24; November 28; December 19**) ** 2 rescheduled sessions moved to alternate days due to closures on the 4th Saturdays of May and December Family Game Night at College Avenue 6:00pm - 7:30pm College Avenue Branch Staff is available to make recommendations and answer questions. Cut, Paste, and Draw 6:00pm - 7:30pm Central Library Central Library's Makerspace will be open from 6 - 7:30 p.m. for you to work on all your paper crafts – think scrapbooking, collage, junk journaling, painting, watercolor, sketching, coloring, and more. Bring your own work-in-progress or let the space inspire you. Participants will have access to all Makerspace supplies, including vintage magazines, art paper, glue, scissors, ribbons, and more. Dungeons & Dragons at Glendale 6:00pm - 7:45pm Glendale Branch First time players or experienced adventurers, join us to explore Dungeons and Dragons. Game materials and dice provided, just bring your imagination! Ages 12 and up. Adult Book Discussion at Pike 6:00pm - 7:00pm Pike Branch Adults are invited to this monthly book discussion program. New members are always welcome! Paws to Read at College Avenue 6:00pm - 7:00pm College Avenue Branch School-aged children who are beginning or reluctant readers are invited to read to a non-judgmental registered therapy dog who loves to listen to stories. It's a great way to improve a child's reading skills and self-confidence! Adult Horror and Sci-fi Book Club at Yujo Ramen and Boba Tea 6:30pm - 8:00pm Community Location Registration is Required. Local Address: Yujo Ramen and Bubble Tea at 9431 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, IN 46260. EXPENDABLE \ik'spen-d'-b'l\ n. A human clone utilized for dangerous work on space exploration missions. An Expendable's personality and memories may be transferred intact to a new body if and when the current host dies. Mickey Barnes is an Expendable, now on his seventh iteration, living—and dying—among his fellow colonists on the near-uninhabitable ice world of Niflheim. Some consider him immortal. Others believe he's a soulless monstrosity. For the past nine years, he has been deployed for hazardous assignments and subjected to experiments that test the limits of human endurance, his humanity sacrificed for the greater good. While on reconnaissance, Mickey7 is injured and left for dead, only to be saved by Niflheim's native species, thought to be insentient by the colonists. Returning to base, Mickey7 meets his next generation, Mickey8. Neither clone is willing to recycle himself, but if anyone discovers multiple Mickeys exist, they'll both be executed—and there won't ever be a Mickey9. But Mickey7's premature twin isn't his only secret. He hasn't uploaded his memories in a month, leaving his clone in the dark about his near death and close encounter with the planet's inhabitants. Mickey7 also doesn't know how all of his previous selves died, and those he remembers have left him traumatized and mistrustful of the colony's mission. A mission that has Mickey Barnes questioning his moral and mortal existence... again... and again.... If you would like to receive a copy of our book club materials, check them out from our collection! Mickey7 by Edward Ashton Happy Reading! Virtual Author Talk: Writing the Nightmare 7:00pm - 8:00pm Online Deep into space, far past the triworld outposts, beyond range of the lethal trollbot internet, soars The Sickness: a ship woven from biomatter and capable of reacting to every need of its human crew. Sisilla, a nine-year-old cultist with a brain enhanced by arcane tech known as “niks,” has boarded to investigate the enigma of Fém—a plague-riddled planet that has abruptly gone rogue. The mysterious crew includes a faceless assassin, a beautiful engineer jigsawed by plastic surgery, a peyote-addicted medic, and—most lethal of all—a rugged, NonModded captain with a score to settle with Sisilla. Other dangers abound. A hacked robot begins to believe Sisilla is its daughter. The Sickness itself is mutating, possibly even pregnant. And the secret of Fém is more horrific than anyone could have imagined. To survive, Sisilla will need to forsake her predetermined fate and embrace the unknown. Register now to gain exclusive insight from one of the most visionary voices in modern fiction. About the Author Daniel Kraus is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling writer of novels, TV, and film. His novel Angel Down was the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2025, and a national bestseller. His novel Whalefall received a front-cover review in the New York Times Book Review, won the Alex Award, was an L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist, and was a Best Book of 2023 from NPR, the New York Times, Amazon, Chicago Tribune, and more. With Guillermo del Toro, he co-authored The Shape of Water, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus co-authored Trollhunters, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. He co-wrote The Living Dead and Pay the Piper with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero. Kraus’s The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly‘s Top 10 Books of the Year. Kraus has won the Bram Stoker Award, Scribe Award, two Odyssey Awards (for both Rotters and Scowler), and has appeared multiple times as Library Guild selections, and more. Kraus’s work has been translated into over 25 languages. He lives with his partner in Chicago. Visit him at danielkraus.com. Disclaimer The views expressed by presenters are their own and their appearance in a program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Indianapolis Public Library.