Upcoming Events
Pre-Summer Party
Disclaimer(s)
Accompanying Adults
This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program.
Photo Permission
Staff often take pictures during library programs. The library uses photos in its publicity, in social media, and on its website. If you do not want your photo used, please contact the library and the library will honor that request.
Game Night
Come join us as we break out our collection of board games, playing cards, and dominoes and let you and your family have at them.
Our giant versions of Connect 4, Jenga, checkers, and Kerplunk offer big gaming fun you won’t find hardly anywhere else.
Game Night is a potluck affair, so attendees are encouraged (though not required) to bring food to share so that everyone can snack while they play. The library provides soda, juice, and water for all. The games are set out for you to browse, and you’re welcome to play whichever one(s) you’d like, either with your friends and family or with other game lovers from the community. Occasionally, we’ll have a themed Game Night. Such nights will be noted on the schedule.
Disclaimer(s)
Food Allergies
We cannot guarantee that food served at this program has not come into contact with tree nuts, soy, or other allergens.
Photo Permission
Staff often take pictures during library programs. The library uses photos in its publicity, in social media, and on its website. If you do not want your photo used, please contact the library and the library will honor that request.
Spend an evening creating your own diamond painting keychains. Enjoy camaraderie with other adults through this program. All materials are provided. Ages 18 and up.
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Accessibility
The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.
Photo Permission
Staff often take pictures during library programs. The library uses photos in its publicity, in social media, and on its website. If you do not want your photo used, please contact the library and the library will honor that request.
Join us for a fun and educational botanical illustration class led by a pharmacist and experienced botanical illustrator. Gwen Genius will guide you through the art of capturing nature’s beauty on paper.
Disclaimer(s)
Photo Permission
Staff often take pictures during library programs. The library uses photos in its publicity, in social media, and on its website. If you do not want your photo used, please contact the library and the library will honor that request.
Coffee Break
The only thing better than reading a good book is reading a good book and then talking about it with fellow book lovers. Every month we read a preselected book and then meet to discuss it. The Adult Services Librarian guides the discussion, but attendees are encouraged to bring up their own desired topics for the group to talk about, and we like to keep it loose and let the conversation flow naturally.
The book club reads primarily fiction titles, but we change things up with a non-fiction title from time to time. Click here to view the current reading list.
Disclaimer(s)
Photo Permission
Staff often take pictures during library programs. The library uses photos in its publicity, in social media, and on its website. If you do not want your photo used, please contact the library and the library will honor that request.
Benbrook Bound is a free delivery service for patrons who are unable to visit the library due to a temporary or extended illness or disability.
Applications are available at the information desk, or by emailing our Adult Services Librarian.
The library is proud to offer a collection of circulating technological devices. All devices circulate for a period of three weeks. Borrowers of devices must be resident or non-resident Benbrook Public Library cardholders 18 years of age or older. A signed technology agreement will need to be on file before items are checked out, please see our information desk for assistance.
Public computers are available in the main area, teen room, and children's area of the library. You may use your Benbrook Library Card to gain access, or see the information desk to obtain a guest pass.
There is a two-hour limit on computers. If you need additional time, and nobody is waiting for a computer, please see the information desk to extend your time.
Items available for purchase:
USB Drives: $3.00
Ear Buds: $2.50
Prints and Copies (Letter or legal size only)
Black & White: $.10 page (single-sided), $.20 page (double-sided)
Color: $.25 page (single-sided), $.50 page (double-sided)
Wireless Printing
Pick up your prints at the Information Desk. Send prints as attachments to reference@benbrooklibrary.org.
Faxing
We offer fax services to local and toll-free numbers free of charge.
Interlibrary loan (also known as ILL) service is a system that libraries nationwide participate in. It allows Benbrook cardholders (resident or non-resident) to borrow items from a larger network and obtain items that are not owned by Benbrook Public Library or one of our MetroShare partners. Another library will loan our library materials, and we will loan it to you. This allows you to get your hands on harder to find materials.
The Library of Things is a collection of kits of items that facilitate a variety of educational, recreational, and practical activities. Most kits contain books and other materials that provide instruction and guidance on the activity each kit supports.
Library of Things kits are available to resident and non-resident Benbrook Public Library cardholders ages 18 and up and may be borrowed for a three-week checkout period. Kits are limited to one per borrower.
The Makerspace is a space built just for you to dream, plan, and create – all ages are welcome. We have variety of innovative tools available for in-house use at the Library.
Use of the Makerspace is by appointment and there will be a library staff member to provide guidance while leaving the vision and execution of the projects to you. Please use the Makerspace Calendar to reserve an appointment for use of our 3D printers and laser engraver. If you would like to make an appointment to print a poster, use the Poster Printer Calendar.
Benbrook Public Library has commissioned notaries public on staff ready to help you get your documents notarized.
For more information on our notary services, you can view our notary page here.
Para la información en español haga clic aquí.
*If you need legal advice, please consult an attorney. The notary public is prohibited from helping you to prepare, complete, or understand legal documents.
Notarizations at Benbrook Library are by appointment only. This is to ensure that we have a notary available for you that can perform the requested service.
To schedule your notary appointment, you can email us at notary@benbrooklibrary.org or you can call us at (817) 249-6632.
*If you need legal advice, please consult an attorney. The notary public is prohibited from helping you to prepare, complete, or understand legal documents.
We are excited to share our new collection, our seed library! It has a variety of fruit, vegetable, and flower seeds that can be "checked out."
To become a member of the seed library, simply fill out a membership card, which can be found next to our seed cart.
Donations are welcome! If you save seeds or have extra to donate, please feel free to share them with our seed library.
New Fiction
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My Friends
A Most Anticipated Book of 2025: Goodreads • USA TODAY • Marie Claire • BookPage • Literary Lifestyle • Book Riot • Sunset Magazine • Totally Booked with Zibby Owens
#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger’s life twenty-five years later.
Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise, and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures.
Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier, telling silly jokes, sharing secrets, and committing small acts of rebellion. These lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream, a reason to love.
Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be placed into eighteen-year-old Louisa’s care. She embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn how the painting came to be and to decide what to do with it. The closer she gets to the painting’s birthplace, the more nervous she becomes about what she’ll find. Louisa is proof that happy endings don’t always take the form we expect in this stunning testament to the transformative, timeless power of friendship and art. -
The Sirens
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • #1 LibraryReads Pick • Indie Next Pick
A spellbinding novel about sisters separated by centuries, but bound together by the sea, from the author of the runaway New York Times bestseller Weyward
2019: Lucy awakens from a dream to find her hands around her ex-lover’s throat. Horrified, she flees to her older sister’s house on the Australian coast, hoping she can help explain the strangely vivid nightmare that preceded the attack—but Jess is nowhere to be found.
As Lucy awaits her return, the rumors surrounding Jess’s strange small town start to emerge. Numerous men have gone missing at sea, spread over decades. A tiny baby was found hidden in a cave. And sailors tell of hearing women’s voices on the waves. Desperate for answers, Lucy finds and begins to read her sister’s adolescent diary.
1999: Jess is a lonely sixteen-year-old in a rural town in the middle of the continent. Diagnosed with a rare allergy to water, she has always felt different, until her young, charming art teacher takes an interest in her drawings, seeing a power and maturity in them—and in her—that no one else has.
1800: Twin sisters Mary and Eliza have been torn from their loving father in Ireland and forced onto a convict ship bound for Australia. For their entire lives, they’ve feared the ocean, as their mother tragically drowned when they were just girls. Yet as the boat bears them further and further from all they know, they begin to notice changes in their bodies that they can’t explain, and they feel the sea beginning to call to them...
A breathtaking tale of female resilience and the bonds of sisterhood across time and space, The Sirens captures the power of dreams, and the mystery and magic of the sea.