📚✨ **NEXT WEEK BIG-NAME AUTHORS ARE COMING TO CENLA!** ✨📚

Get ready for a special night at Rapides Parish Library! **National Book Award–honored authors Ben Fountain and T. Geronimo Johnson** are coming to Cenla for an evening of books, conversation, and storytelling.

...📅 **Thursday, October 29 • 6:30 PM**

Hear from the authors about their new 2026 books, *Rasputin Swims the Potomac* and *The Occidental Book of the Dead*, followed by a conversation moderated by **Dr. Elizabeth M. Beard, Chancellor of LSUA**.

📚 **FREE books for attendees while supplies last!**
🎟️ **FREE tickets:** https://www.eventbrite.com/.../nbf-presents-southern...

Presented by the **National Book Foundation** in partnership with **Rapides Parish Library**.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4zEqiNc

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📚 Library Closure Notice! 📚

All Rapides Parish Library locations will be closed on Monday, October 19, for Staff Development Day as our team comes together to learn, grow, and improve how we serve you!

We'll reopen with regular hours on Tuesday, October 20. Thank you ...for your understanding! 💙

📚🧁 BOOKS + SWEETS = A PERFECT COMBO!
Stop by the Friends of the McDonald Library Book & Bake Sale in Glenmora and grab some great reads and delicious treats!

📅 October 15–17
⏰ During Library Hours
📍 J.W. McDonald Branch - Glenmora, LA

Come shop, ...snack, and support your library! 💙📖🧁

🎃👻 HAPPENING TONIGHT! 👻🎃

The spooky fun is taking over Kent Plantation House TONIGHT — Friday, October 9! 🕸️🌙

Join us from 6–8 PM for TALES ALONG THE BAYOU — an evening packed with not-so-scary storytelling, live music, trick-or-treating, food and family ...fun!

🎶 Live music with Brian & Terri Kinder
👻 Not-So-Scary Stories with Sylvia Yancy Davis
🍬 Trick-or-Treating
🎃 Food, fun & plenty of spooky vibes!

Costumes encouraged! Grab the family and come spend your Friday night with us — the Bayou is calling! 🦇🎃

📍 Kent Plantation House
⏰ TONIGHT | 6–8 PM

📚✨ BIG-NAME AUTHORS ARE COMING TO CENLA! ✨📚

Get ready for a special night at Rapides Parish Library! National Book Award–honored authors Ben Fountain and T. Geronimo Johnson are coming to Cenla for an evening of books, conversation, and storytelling.

📅 Thursday, ...October 29 • 6:30 PM

Hear from the authors about their new 2026 books, Rasputin Swims the Potomac and The Occidental Book of the Dead, followed by a conversation moderated by Dr. Elizabeth M. Beard, Chancellor of LSUA.

📚 FREE books for attendees while supplies last!
🎟️ FREE tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/.../nbf-presents-southern...

Presented by the National Book Foundation in partnership with Rapides Parish Library.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4zEqiNc

#RapidesParishLibrary #NationalBookFoundation #SouthernStorytelling #CenlaEvents #FreeBooks