Craigmont Community Library

Hours
Mon.       10:00am - 4:00pm
Wed.       10:00am - 4:00pm
Fri.            10:00am - 4:00pm

Contact
(208) 924-5510
craigmont.library@prld.org

113 W. Main Street
PO Box 191
Craigmont, ID 83523

Doreen Schmidt
Branch Manager

Anne Mueller
Branch Substitute

Interested in supporting the library through volunteering and fundraising? 

Join our Friends of the Library Group!

The Friends’ group has recently received a generous donation of $10,000 to kick off their fundraiser for the new library location. You are encouraged to join in on the fund drive by making donations to the Craigmont Community Library Friends, addressed to the Craigmont Community Library, P.O. Box 191, Craigmont, ID 83523.

We have one major fundraiser a year, our Books & Bites Sale on the 1st Saturday in May in conjunction with the City-Wide Yard Sale. 

We are always accepting gently used books for our annual sale and all donations.

Join us from
all day every Friday!
​All ages welcome!

Come in and see our new location!

Book Club
July 14 @ 1 p.m.

The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold

Available in regular print, audio CD, and ebook formats!
The Lovely Bones is the story of a family devastated by a gruesome murder -- a murder recounted by the teenage victim. Upsetting, you say? Remarkably, first-time novelist Alice Sebold takes this difficult material and delivers a compelling and accomplished exploration of a fractured family's need for peace and closure.

The details of the crime are laid out in the first few pages: from her vantage point in heaven, Susie Salmon describes how she was confronted by the murderer one December afternoon on her way home from school. Lured into an underground hiding place, she was raped and killed. But what the reader knows, her family does not. Anxiously, we keep vigil with Susie, aching for her grieving family, desperate for the killer to be found and punished.

Sebold creates a heaven that's calm and comforting, a place whose residents can have whatever they enjoyed when they were alive -- and then some. But Susie isn't ready to release her hold on life just yet, and she intensely watches her family and friends as they struggle to cope with a reality in which she is no longer a part. To her great credit, Sebold has shaped one of the most loving and sympathetic fathers in contemporary literature.

Order a Book

Ilo-Volmer Historical Society book!

It Came Without Warning: The 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic And How It Touched Lewis County, Idaho is now available from VALNet thanks to Shelley Kuther and the Ilo-Vollmer Historical Society.

Request It Came Without Warning

Local Author Spotlight

Tech. Sgt. Eric Tautfest of Mountain Home (son of Tim and Lori Tautfest of Craigmont) has written a children's book called "Meet the Busy Bots." While the Busy Bots are busy helping the world, they also help teach kids their ABCs and a bit about geography at the same time. Mountain Home art teacher Brenda Raub illustrated the 28-page book. 

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Request "Meet the Busy Bots"

Margaret Nells Waters Longeteig was born on a farm outside of Nezperce in 1918. The Camas Prairie native has authored many books on local history including an autobiography called "Margaret Nell: A Prairie Life. 

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