The Library Trustees will be holding a focus group on Monday, October 29 from 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. to gain insights from Library patrons and residents what the Library provides, and to help the Library prepare its operating plan for the future...
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The Library Trustees will be holding a focus group on Thursday, September 13 from 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. to gain insights from Library patrons and residents what the Library provides, and to help the Library prepare its operating plan for the...
Read moreFourth-Grade Book Club: The Homework Machine
At its September meeting, the Fourth-Grade Book Club will discuss The Homework Machine by Dan Gutman. What happens when four fifth graders start having their homework done by Belch, a homework machine? Maybe not what you expect! At its October 18...
Read moreSecond-Grade Book Club: Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot
The September session of the second grade book club will focus on the series Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot by Dav Pilkey. Follow the adventures of Ricky and his robot as they battle Mercurian Mosquitoes, Vultures from Venus, Martian Mecha-Monkeys...
Read morePlay With Clay for Grades 3 and Up
The Library will be holding this fun polymer clay activity once a month, in two half-hour sessions — one for children in grades K-2, and the other for grades 3 and up. Registration is not required. This program is made possible by a gift in...
Read morePlay With Clay for Grades K – 2
The Library will be holding this fun polymer clay activity once a month, in two half-hour sessions — one for children in grades K-2, and the other for grades 3 and up. Registration is not required. This program is made possible by a gift in...
Read more2nd-Friday Book Club: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
The 2nd-Friday Book Club will be discussing American Pastoral by Philip Roth. This novel, originally published in 1997, takes place in the turbulent late 1960s, when: “An ordinary man finds that his life has been made extraordinary by the...
Read more2nd-Friday Book Club: Everything I Never Told You
This month’s selection is Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. Named Best Book of the Year by multiple publications, this book follows what happens to the Chinese American Lee family after the body of their favorite child, Lydia, is...
Read more2nd-Friday Book Club: Anything Is Possible
The club will discuss Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout. This series of separate, but linked, stories examines how people from difficult circumstances overcome their challenges to find grace, showing us, according to NPR, “that a little...
Read more2nd-Friday Book Club: Manhattan Beach
The club will discuss Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan. This historical novel, which takes place in and around World War II, was named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR, Esquire and Vogue, among others. It centers around Anne Kerrigan, and the...
Read more2nd-Friday Book Club: The Milk Lady of Bangalore: An Unexpected Adventure by Shoba Narayan
This work of non-fiction focuses on the relationship between the author and the “milk lady” Sarala. Upon returning to India after years in the U.S. with her husband and two daughters, Narayan first encounters Sarala as she is taking a cow up...
Read more2nd-Friday Book Club — Hag-Seed: William Shakespeare’s The Tempest Retold by Margaret Atwood
Those already well-acquainted with Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, will enjoy this retelling of The Tempest, Shakespeare’s play of repentance, revenge, forgiveness and the pursuit of power. Hag Seed features a character, Felix, who restages The...
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