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Pembroke Public Library Newsletter August 2026 |
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Book Bedazzling (ages 12-18)Thursday, August 6th from 2:00-3:30 p.m. Ages 12 - 18 can join us for a sparkly, hands-on craft where you’ll transform a book into a stunning work of art! You bring a book and your creativity, we'll provide the rhinestones and tools to bedazzle. Registration required; call 781-293-6771 to sign up OR click/tap this link to sign up.
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Book Bedazzling (ages 8-12)Thursday, August 6th from 4:00-5:30 p.m. Ages 8 - 12 can join us for a sparkly, hands-on craft where you’ll transform a book into a stunning work of art! You bring a book and your creativity, we'll provide the rhinestones and tools to bedazzle. Registration required; call 781-293-6771 to sign up OR click/tap this link to sign up. |
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Chalk the WalkSaturday, August 8th from 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. We'll bring the chalk, you bring the creativity! Ages 1 - 101 are welcom to decorate our sidewalk with chalk art. This is a drop-in event; no registration is needed. |
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Seed Art and Mosaics (ages 4-8)Tuesday, August 18th from 1:00-2:00 p.m. Ages 4-8 will explore the life cycle of a plant, then create mosaics with beautiful seeds! This is a drop-in event; no registration is needed. |
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Sand Art Central Tuesday, August 25th from 1:30-3:00 p.m. Youth and families are invited to fill mini sand art bottles, craft sand art collages, and create cardboard-tube sand castles! This is a drop-in event; no registration is needed. |
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Totally Tomato Wednesday, August 5th at 6:30 p.m. For backyard gardeners, tomatoes are some of the most popular plants to grow. Get started with gardening tips and tomato variety suggestions, as well as tips on preservation and delicious recipes. |
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Craft Night: Hanging Bead Plants Wednesday, August 12th at 6:00 p.m. Join the Library's own Sarah Nelson as she teaches you how to make beautiful decorative plants out of vibrantly colored beads! All materials will be provided by the library for this craft. Registration is required, call the library or click here to sign-up. |
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Starting Seeds
Wednesday, August 19th at 6:30 p.m. Get a jump on the season by starting your plants from seeds! Doing so is cheaper than buying transplants and offers a much broader variety of plants. Whatever you’re interested in growing, this lecture will give you the information you need for starting a seed from scratch. |
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Teen Take-And-Make: Penguin Magnets Available beginning August 3rd, while supplies last Pick up a craft kit in the teen lounge and craft it there, home, or anywhere! This month's craft is a summer penguin magnet. These crafts are kindly sponsored by the Friends of the Pembroke Library. |
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Storytime Mondays at 10:30 a.m. Ages 2 to 5 and their caregivers can enjoy an interactive storytime with songs, dances, and a story that encourages language development and social skills. Each themed storytime is followed by a craft. This is a drop-in event; no registration is needed. |
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PlaytimeTuesdays at 10:30 a.m. Ages 2 to 5 will enjoy playtime. Sharing in play is an excellent way to help children build social skills, promote learning, and discover that the library is a destination for fun. Children can build with blocks, explore magnets, dance with ribbons, and more! This is a drop-in event; no registration is needed.
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Baby Playtime Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. Babies and toddlers, from 6 to 24 months, will enjoy playtime. Sharing in play is an excellent way to help children build social skills, promote learning, and discover that the library is a destination for fun. Babies can build with blocks, explore shapes and colors, pretend with animal toys, and more! This is a drop-in event; no registration is needed. |
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LEGO Club Tuesday, August 11th from 4:00-5:00 p.m. Kids ages 4 and up are welcome to visit and build with the library LEGOs. This month's theme is “I've Been Framed!" Bring your neighbors, big siblings, and school friends! LEGO Club is a STEM-based program designed to give kids a safe, creative environment in which they can solve problems, interact with peers, and express themselves. This is a drop-in event; no registration is needed. |
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T(w)een NightThursday, August 13th from 4:30-6:00 p.m. Ages 11 -16 are welcomed to a night all about THEM! Choose to play a Switch game or a classic board game; craft with buttons, beads, paper, or slime; snack on something sweet or salty; or do a little of everything. Suggestions from our attendees are always welcome. This is a drop-in event; no registration is needed.
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Puppy Dog Tales Thursday, August 20th from 4:15-5:00 p.m. Readers of all ages may read to a certified therapy dog to develop their literacy and presentation skills, as well as build confidence and self-esteem. Our dogs and trainers provide a supportive environment to practice reading aloud. This is a drop-in event; no registration is needed. |
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Saturday Storytime (ages 4-8) Saturday, August 29th from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Ages 4-8 can join Miss Kiki for a delicious storytime! We'll read Quill Soup by Alan Durant, create a Q-Tip porcupine, and try a soup-y word search. This is a drop-in event; no registration is needed. |
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Monday Movie Matinee: Growing Through COVID-19 Monday, August 3rd at 1:30 p.m. During the 2020 pandemic, one small family-run Garden Center fights to stay in business and witnesses thousands of new customers discover the healing powers of gardening for the first time. Starring: Dan Russell Skehan and Elizabeth Russell-Skehan. 90 minutes. Rated: G. Monday Movie Matinees are generously sponsored by the Friends of the Pembroke Public Library. |
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Pembroke Public Library Book Club Tuesday, August 4th from 6:30-7:30 p.m. For our August meeting, the PPL Book Club is reading Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy, a novel of breathtaking twists and ferocious love, about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us disappears. New members are always welcome! For more information or to request a copy of the book, call the library at 781-293-6771. |
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Monday Movie Matinee: This Beautiful FantasticMonday, August 10th at 1:30 p.m. A young woman who dreams of becoming a children's book author makes an unlikely friendship with a cantankerous, rich old widower. Starring: Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott, and Jeremy Irvine. 92 minutes. Rated: PG. Monday Movie Matinees are generously sponsored by the Friends of the Pembroke Public Library.
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PPL Mystery Book Club Thursday, August 20th from 1:30-2:30 p.m. This month, we're reading Forget Me Not by Stacy Willingham: Twenty-two years ago, Claire Campbell’s older sister, Natalie, disappeared shortly after her eighteenth birthday. A supposed killer was found, mere days later, and the case was swiftly closed. In the decades since, Claire has attempted to forget her traumatic past. But when she stumbles across an old diary, Claire finds herself becoming more and more secluded in her obsession with the diary's contents… and the lingering feeling that her own sister's disappearance may be tied to it all. Join us every month to read and discuss a different book in the Mystery Genre; new members are always welcome! For more information or to request a copy of the book, call the library at 781-293-6771. |
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Monday Movie Matinee: A Year in Burgundy Monday, August 17th at 1:30 p.m. This film follows seven wine-making families in the Burgundy region of France through the course of a full year, and delves into the cultural and creative process of making wine, as well as its deep ties to the land. Starring: Martine Saunier. 91 minutes. Unrated. Monday Movie Matinees are generously sponsored by the Friends of the Pembroke Public Library. |
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Monday Movie Matinee: Rosemead Monday, August 24th at 1:30 p.m. An ailing Chinese-American mother discovers her teenage son's violent obsessions. In a race against time, she must go to great lengths to protect him and potentially others. Starring: Lucy Liu, Lawrence Shou, and Orion Lee. 97 minutes. Rated: R. Monday Movie Matinees are generously sponsored by the Friends of the Pembroke Public Library. |
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Monday Movie Matinee: Tow Monday, August 31st at 1:30 p.m. Based on a true story: Amanda Ogle, a homeless Seattle woman, fights her way out of tow-company hell to reclaim her life and car after receiving an impossibly expensive tow bill. Starring: Rose Byrne, Jason Cottle, and Elsie Fisher. 105 minutes. Rated: R. Monday Movie Matinees are generously sponsored by the Friends of the Pembroke Public Library. |
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Pembroke Public Library Book Club Tuesday, September 1st from 6:30-7:30 p.m. For our September meeting, the PPL Book Club is reading The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, an intimate novel about the transformative power of the written word and the beauty of slowing down to reconnect with the people we love. New members are always welcome! For more information or to request a copy of the book, call the library at 781-293-6771. |
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Stuck on what to read next? We're here to help! Fill out our online reading suggestion form to get recommendations personalized just for you based on your favorite books, genres, authors, or styles. You can choose to have books selected from our collection for pickup at the library or to get a list of suggestions delivered to your email. |
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Beartooth by Callan WinkIn an aging, timber house hand-built into the Absaroka-Beartooth mountains, two brothers are struggling to keep up with their debts. They live off the grid, on the fringe of Yellowstone, surviving off the wild after the death of their father. Thad, the elder, is more capable of engaging with things like the truck registration, or the medical bills they can't afford from their father's fatal illness, or the tax lien on the cabin their grandfather built, while Hazen is... different, more instinctual, deeply in tune with the natural world. Desperate for money, they are approached by a shadowy out-of-towner with a dangerous proposition that will change both of their lives forever.
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When Pepper McKay, one of the most hated men in Absaroka County, is found murdered on his ranch in Crazy Woman Canyon, suspects aren't in short supply. But Sheriff Walt Longmire's attention is on those who had gathered for a family meeting that evening before his body is discovered, McKay's very different sons: a smooth-talking charmer, a cosmopolitan journalist, a reclusive monk, and a half-Native ranch hand who keeps things running at their family's lodge. Each had a motive. Each claims he's innocent. As Walt investigates what happened on the ranch, he's pulled into a tangle of old grudges and long-buried secrets. Then the case takes a sharp turn: a second body surfaces, and a wildfire tears through the canyon, trapping Walt and forcing him into a fight for his life as both the killer and the elements close in. |
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Ten Sleep by Nicholas BelardesWhen Greta Molina's old friend, Tiller, offered her the job, a 10-day cattle drive across the Wyoming prairie to the ranching town of Ten Sleep, it sounded like a well-paid break. A few long days on an ATV with 320 cows and calves, alongside two guys she's known since college, will give her time to sort out the mess in her head. What Greta doesn't know is the legacy of murder and rot that runs deep into the rocks of this land. As each night passes on the prairie, the trio faces mounting supernatural dangers: a ghost train of the damned, wild animals walking alongside dead ones--and evidence of a gigantic creature in the skies, one that's supposedly been extinct for eons. And Tiller may be hiding even darker secrets the further they go. Safety is only ten sleeps away, but Greta soon realizes that may be too long for all of them to survive.
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Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves. Travis is Death in the modern world. He lives with his cat in a small, gray town. His job is to offer people comfort in their final hours of life, which he does without complaint or judgement. He's stoic, gentle, and a little naive, despite who he is, but he never tries to change anyone's fate. He is responsible for maintaining the balance of nature, and every life must eventually end. Then Travis meets Dalia, a midwife, and her boisterous eight-year-old daughter Layla, who live across the hall, and despite his best attempts to keep his distance, he finds himself wholeheartedly embraced by other people for the first time. So it is with this seemingly unremarkable family that Travis begins to understand what it means to be truly alive--and what might be irrevocably lost in death. |
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Every Version of You by Natalie Messier. Joey Vasquez's life is the definition of good on paper. At thirty-two, she's a lawyer on the cusp of making partner, she owns her house in Los Angeles, and she almost keeps pace with her doctor sister in her parents' eyes. When she reluctantly arrives at the very couple-y dinner party hosted by Elijah Aarons, the best friend she's secretly pined after for fourteen years, she's dismayed to find that the last person on earth she'd ever want to see again is also there: Alex Aquino. Your basic rich Silicon Beach bro asshole. The night couldn't possibly get worse--and then she dies. When Joey is given a second chance at life, she finds herself eighteen again, the year she first met both Elijah and Alex. Armed with memories from her first life, Joey is certain she's come back to finally convince the one man she ever loved to love her back--so why does she find herself strangely drawn to the man she thought she hated? |
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