Ahoy-Mateys! What better way to bring in the summer season than with Pirates? Visit the reference desk to pick up your pirate-themed scavenger hunt! The scavenger hunt will be available through August 31st. Search high and low throughout the...
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Celebrate LGBTQIA+ Pride Month with this mix of history, memoirs, resources, romances, and stories where we can see ourselves reflected. You can also browse the Stonewall Book Awards List to find more exceptional books about the LGBTQIA+...
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The Board of Trustees of the Town of Pelham Library is happy to announce the appointment of Matthew Kane to the Board. Kane is a marketing and advertising professional currently working for Digitas in New York. He previously worked at Penguin...
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The Town of Pelham Public Library is pleased to announce the hiring of two new librarians: Colette Storti-Roberts as adult services librarian, and Kathy Palovich as youth services librarian. Colette Storti-Roberts (pictured on the right) grew up...
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Take a virtual visit to Manzanar, California, where more than 120,000 Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans were incarcerated during World War II. Manzanar is now a National Historic Site and this tour will be hosted by a ranger/educator...
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The Library has a new display of a collection of pysanky, or Ukrainian Easter eggs, loaned to us from a private collector. Pysanky are hand-decorated with intricate colorful patterns using a complicated wax and dying technique and feature a...
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Did you know that Jan Brett’s famous children’s picture book, The Mitten, was inspired by a Ukrainian folk tale? Here we’ve collected a list of books and movies for adults and children interested in learning more about the...
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In honor of the National Day of Racial Healing, CURE will be hosting its second annual 5 Towns 1 Book event in partnership with the Harrison, Larchmont, Mamaroneck, New Rochelle and Rye libraries, LMC Media and many other county-wide sponsors...
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From queens to anarchists, and from dancers to astronauts (and at least one who was both,) women have been making history since history began. Celebrate Women’s History Month with some of your favorite heroines (both real and fictional), and...
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The Pelham Library is thrilled to be partnering with the Junior League of Pelham to bring a series of seven Saturday morning outdoor story times to the community through the JLP Reads program. The program is designed for children aged 4 to 6, but...
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Pelhamites love their library, and they love reading about love. The Friends of the Town of Pelham Public Library put out the call to the community for favorite books for Valentine’s Day, and the recommendations came rolling in, ranging...
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Author David Mills will be discussing his new poetry collection Boneyarn, about New York’s African Burial Ground. “Whether speaking about or through the voices of nameless servants or chimney sweeps, Mills combines a novelist’s love of character...
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