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Pembroke Public Library Newsletter January 2026 |
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Icy Story TimeSaturday, January 17th from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Ages 4-8 can join Miss Kiki for an icy storytime with a reading of "Immi’s Gift" by Karin Littlewood followed by a painting with ice craft and a chilly memory match game! This is a drop-in event; no registration is needed.
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Tech Literacy: Introduction to Computers Wednesday, January 14th at 1:30 p.m.Do you describe yourself as "not being good with computers"? Are you interested in getting more comfortable with them? Join the Pembroke Public Library for an Introduction to Computers! Attendees will learn how to identify the basic parts of a computer, turn a computer off/on, differentiate between software and hardware, use a mouse, and the basics of using a keyboard. Registration is required, call the library or click here to sign-up. |
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Estate Planning WorkshopWednesday, January 21st at 6:30 p.m.Join Banessa Llombart, Esq. – Attorney and Founder of Llombart Law, LLC – and other representatives as they keep it real, and dive into the nuances, loopholes, and details that can make or break your family's future, especially in uncertain times. Registration is required, call the library or click here to sign-up.
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Secrets and Second Chances with Liz Moore Wednesday, January 28th at 7:00 p.m.
We are thrilled to welcome Liz Moore to discuss her latest work, The God of the Woods, an instant New York Times bestseller and one of NPR’s 2024 “Books We Love” highlights, in this virtual author talk! Join us in conversation with Liz as we embark on a tale of thrilling twists and disturbing disappearances. Register today to “enter the woods,” if you dare! Registration is required, call the library or click here to sign-up. |
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Crafternoon: Winter Sea-Glass Workshop Saturday, January 31st at 2 p.m.Come join the library’s very own Sarah Nelson to make beautiful sea-glass art, in celebration of Winter! All supplies included. Registration is required, call the library or click here to sign-up. |
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Teen Take-And-Make: Origami Animals Available beginning Jan. 5th, while supplies last. This month's craft is origami animals; colorful paper with instructions to make a fox, whale, penguin, or rabbit will be available. These crafts are kindly sponsored by the Friends of the Pembroke Library. |
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Storytime Mondays and Tuesdays 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. There will be no Storytime on January 19th. |
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Baby Lapsit Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. Babies and toddlers, from 6 to 24 months, and a caregiver can enjoy stretches, songs, and rhymes followed by an open play time that allows little ones to play and grown-ups to chat. There will be no Lapsit January on 1st. |
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T(w)een NightThursday, January 8th from 4:15-5:45 p.m. Ages 11 -16 are welcome 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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LEGO Club Tuesday, January 13th 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 “Island Adventure." 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. |
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Puppy Dog Tales Thursday, January 15th from 4:15-5:00pm
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. |
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Monday Movie Matinee: Maybe I Do Monday, January 5th at 1:30 p.m. When Michelle and Allen's relationship is at a crossroads, they invite their parents to finally meet. Turns out, the parents already know each other. maybe a little too well. Starring: Diane Keaton, William H. Macy, and Richard Gere. 95 minutes. Rated: PG-13. Monday Movie Matinees are generously sponsored by the Friends of the Pembroke Public Library. |
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Pembroke Public Library Book Club Tuesday, January 6th from 6:30-7:30 p.m. For our January meeting, the PPL Book Club is reading The Jackal's Mistress by Chris Bohjalian, historical fiction inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines in which the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she’s willing to risk for the life of a stranger. 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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Yoga Every Wednesday at 10 a.m. Led by Kim Norton and other instructors from the YogaConnection in Plymouth.
Open to all levels! A single-class drop-in is $12 and a four-class registration is $45 ($35 for Friends members). Friends members can purchase an eight-class punch ticket for $80, which is valid for three months. Feel free to reach out to Kim at 781-588-5545 if you have any questions! |
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Monday Movie Matinee: Good FortuneMonday, January 12th at 1:30 p.m. A well-meaning but rather inept angel named Gabriel meddles in the lives of a struggling gig worker and a wealthy venture capitalist. Starring: Seth Rogen, Aziz Ansari, and Keanu Reeves. 97 minutes. Rated: R. Monday Movie Matinees are generously sponsored by the Friends of the Pembroke Public Library.
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PPL Mystery Book Club Thursday, January 15th from 1:30-2:30 p.m. This month's selection is Head Cases by John McMahon: FBI Agent Gardner Camden is an analytical genius with an affinity for puzzles, but blind spots on the human side of investigations. He and his squad make up the Patterns and Recognition (PAR) unit, the FBI’s hidden edge, brought in for cases that no one else can solve. When DNA links a murder victim to a serial killer long presumed dead, the team is brought onto the case. As more bodies turn up, it seems the murder knows about Gardner, and is leaving clues for him. The PAR team is usually relegated to working cold cases from behind a desk, but this investigation puts them on the road and into the public eye, following in the footsteps of a killer. But as they learn more about the killer, the perpetrator is learning about them, too. 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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Baking Club Saturday, January 24th at 2:00 p.m. Please join us for Pembroke Library’s Baking Club! Bake a sweet or savory treat of your choosing and bring it to the library. Meet other bakers and enjoy a delicious treat made by other members in your community. This month's theme is Citrus. Bring in any sweet or savory baked good that you made with Citrus to share with other bakers! |
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Monday Movie Matinee: Splitsville Monday, January 26th at 1:30 p.m. When his wife asks for a divorce, a man runs to his friends for support, only to learn that the secret to their happiness is an open marriage. Starring: Dakota Johnson, Adria Arjona, and Kyle Marvin. 104 minutes. Rated: R. Monday Movie Matinees are generously sponsored by the Friends of the Pembroke Public Library. |
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Genealogy Club Thursday, January 29th at 1:30 p.m. Are you interested in finding out more about your genealogy? Do you have a cool story about one of your ancestors you want to share? Join in our monthly Genealogy Club to chat with other family history buffs! All are welcome to attend, from experienced researchers who would like to share tips or stories about great finds, to beginners who want to learn more about the research process and online resources. Library laptops will be available to explore Ancestry Library Edition. |
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Pembroke Public Library Book Club Tuesday, February 3rd from 6:30-7:30 p.m. For our February meeting the PPL Book Club is reading Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson, in which the daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom. 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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I, Medusa by Ayana GrayMeddy has spent her whole life as a footnote in someone else's story. Out of place next to her beautiful, immortal sisters and her parents--both gods, albeit minor ones--she dreams of leaving her family's island for a life of adventure. So when she catches the eye of the goddess Athena, who invites her to train as an esteemed priestess in her temple, Meddy leaps at the chance to see the world beyond her home. In the colorful market streets of Athens and the clandestine chambers of the temple, Meddy flourishes in her role as Athena's favored acolyte, getting her first tastes of purpose and power. But when she is noticed by another Olympian, Poseidon, the course of Meddy's promising future is suddenly and irrevocably altered. When her locs are transformed into snakes as punishment for a crime she did not commit, Medusa must embrace a new identity--not as a victim, but as a vigilante--and with it, the chance to write her own story as mortal, martyr, and myth.
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Fallen City by Adrienne YoungLuca Matius has one purpose: to carry on the family name, maintaining its presence in the Forum once his powerful and cruel uncle dies. But his noviceship with the city's Philosopher places him in the middle of a catastrophe that will alter the destiny of his people. Maris Casperia was raised amidst the strategic maneuvers of the Citadel's inner workings, and she knows what her future holds--a lifetime of service to a corrupt city. But her years of serving as a novice to the last Priestess who possesses the stolen magic of the Old War has made her envision a different kind of future for the city. When she meets Luca, a fated chain of events is set into motion that will divinely entangle their lives. As a secret comes to light and throws the city into chaos, Luca and Maris hatch a plot to create a calculated alliance that could tip the scales of power--
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Krero lives on a remote and isolated island, left alone for so long her people have forgotten the word for stranger. They’re desperate, and on the brink of starvation, when a mysterious visitor arrives on the island and offers them an impossible choice: remain in the only home they’ve ever known and wait for what’s to come, or join him and venture into unfamiliar waters to seek a future in the Kingdom of Tonga. What Krero and her people don't know is that the promised refuge is no utopia--instead, Tonga is an empire at war and on the verge of collapse, a place where brains are regularly liberated from skulls and souls get trapped in coconuts with some frequency. The perils of Tonga are compounded by a royal feud: loyalties are shifting, graves are being opened, and everyone lives in fear of a jellyfish tattoo. Here, survival can rest on a perfectly performed dance or the acceptance of a cup of kava. Together, the stranger and Krero embark upon an epic voyage--one that will deliver them either to salvation or to the depths of the Pacific. |
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Remain by Nicholas Sparks. While designing his best friend’s summer home in Cape Cod, New York architect Tate Donovan hopes to make a fresh start -- now that he’s out of a psychiatric facility for his acute depression and the loss of his sister, Sylvia. On her deathbed, she claimed to be able to see spirits still tethered to the living world, and that this gift runs in their family. He doesn’t believe her until he takes up residence in a historic bed-and-breakfast on the Cape, and encounters a young woman who challenges every assumption he has about the world. As the two grow closer, Tate realizes that her small-town life isn’t as idyllic as he believed, and to free her from an increasingly desperate fate, he will need to uncover the truth about her past. |
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The King's Ransom by Janet Evanovich. Gabriela Rose can find just about anything, but can't seem to lose her gorgeous-but-infuriating ex-husband, Rafer Jones. And now, he needs her help. His cousin, Harley, is in big trouble. As the president of a too-big-to-fail bank, Harley invested an astronomical amount of money in insuring some of the world's most priceless artifacts at the urging of his board. But these pieces have started going missing, and there’s no paper trail that he was told to insure any of them. Unless the artwork can be found, and soon, Harley is going to jail. Gabriela knows that she’ll need to travel around the world with Rafer to find the art and keep Harley out of jail. And in her way stands a villain seeking to bring the world to the brink of ruin. |
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