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Pembroke Public Library Newsletter November 2025 |
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Crafternoon: Button Art Piece
Saturday, November 1st, at 1:30 p.m. Come join the library’s very own Sarah Nelson as she teaches you how to make your beautiful works of art using multi-colored buttons on plain or painted canvas. All supplies included. Registration is required, call the library or click here to sign-up. |
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Concert at the Library: RIDE
Saturday, November 8th at 12 p.m. Join us for a concert with Marc Berger! He's going to playing songs from his critically acclaimed album RIDE, and sharing some unforgettable stories about his experiences as an easterner in remote parts of the mountain and desert West. With echos of classic and alt-country music, RIDE is a collection of songs all having to do with the romance of the West that has received national airplay and been licensed by Starbucks for worldwide in-store airplay. |
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Poems for Autumn Evenings
Wednesday, November 12th from 3:00-4:30 p.m. Who says fall can’t be full of light? Join popular presenter Roz Kubek to celebrate the change of seasons once again with a fun and lively webinar of reading, enjoying, and discussing some classic and modern poems. From Japan, Europe, the Americas arm chair travel to get into the spirit of the harvest season with poetry chosen as perfect for reading by the fire. No experience necessary. Re-discover some beloved poems and discover some new ones! Registration is required, call the library or click here to sign-up. |
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Teen Take-And-Make: Pumpkin Pie Turkey Available beginning Nov. 3rd while supplies last. We know teens are busy with school, work, chores, and more so we're giving you an opportunity to craft on your own time. This month's craft is a pumpkin pie turkey. 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. |
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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. |
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T(w)een NightThursday, November 13th from 4:15-5:45 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.
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LEGO Club Tuesday, November 18th 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 “Eat or Be Eaten." 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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Chess Club Wednesday, November 19th from 4:00-5:00 p.m. Youth and families can learn and play chess at the Library. Whether you've been playing for years or want to start playing for the first time, you’re welcome to join us! |
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Puppy Dog Tales Thursday, November 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. |
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Monday Movie Matinee: Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning Monday, November 3rd at 1:30 p.m. Entity, a dangerous AI that’s infiltrated global intelligence, is capable of ending the world, and only Ethan Hunt and the IMF can stop it. But with governments and a figure from his past in pursuit, how far will Ethan go to put an end to it? Starring: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, and Ving Rhames. 169 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, November 4th from 6:30-7:30 p.m. For our November meeting the PPL Book Club is reading The God of the Woods by Liz Moore, a multi-threaded story that invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. New members are always welcome! 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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Acoustic Music NightWednesday, November 5th and 19th at 6 p.m. Come join like-minded musicians to share and play music together at Pembroke Public Library's Acoustic Music Night. All acoustic string and wind instruments are welcome and others will be considered, but please no electronics. The genre focus will be on Folk, Pop, Americana, Soft Rock, R&B, and Blues. Please bring some songs you like to play with sheet music so others can join in, everyone will have a chance to play a few songs.
Acoustic Music Night meets the first and third Wednesday of each month, we hope you'll stop by!
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Monday Movie Matinee: The Fantastic Four - First StepsMonday, November 10th at 1:30 p.m. Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, the Fantastic Four must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his enigmatic herald, the Silver Surfer. Starring: Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. 115 minutes. Rated: PG-13. Monday Movie Matinees are generously sponsored by the Friends of the Pembroke Public Library.
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Bring Your Own Book Club!Wednesday, November 12th from 6:30-7:30 p.m.Always wanted to join a book club, but couldn't commit or tired of assigned books? Then this casual book club is for you! In this book group with a twist, readers are invited to discuss books, old and new, and share recommendations with other book lovers. Each attendee can share 1 - 3 books with the group. Just show up with the book(s) you want to share! After each meeting you will be emailed a list of the books that were discussed. Each month, there is a suggested "theme" for those who would like some guidance: November: Family Dramas
December: Austen-Esque
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Monday Movie Matinee: She Rides ShotgunMonday, November 17th at 1:30 p.m. A girl marked for death must fight and steal to stay alive, learning from the most frightening man she knows: her father. An adaptation of Jordan Harper's award-winning novel. Starring: Ana Sophia Heger, Jamie Bernadette, and Goldie Tom. 120 minutes. Rated: R. Monday Movie Matinees are generously sponsored by the Friends of the Pembroke Public Library.
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Board Game Night
Monday, November 17th from 5:30-7:30 p.m. The Pembroke Public Library is thrilled to announce it's first monthly Board Game Night! Come play a game or two in good company at the library. Games from the library’s collection will be available for all comers, but feel free to bring in your own to share. |
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PPL Mystery Book Club Thursday, November 20th from 1:30-2:30 p.m. This month's selection is An Insignificant Case by Phillip Margolin: Charlie Webb, a third-rate lawyer from a third-rate law school, has an unremarkable life, personally and professionally. Things change when he’s appointed to be the attorney for a crackpot artist called Guido Sabatini, who broke into a restaurant to steal back a painting he sold them. At first the case goes well, and Webb negotiates the charges getting dropped for return of the painting and ‘other items’, one of which is a flash drive that threatens a very powerful figure. And as the minor theft case turns into a double homicide, Webb realizes that this will become the most important, and deadliest, case of his life. 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, November 22nd from 2:00-3:00 p.m. Please join us for Pembroke Library’s monthly 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. Please bring a list of ingredients used to make your dish! For this meeting, we are baking with Maple. Bring in any sweet or savory treat made with maple! |
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Monday Movie Matinee: The Naked Gun (2025) Monday, November 24th at 1:30 p.m. Lieutenant Frank Drebin Jr becomes a police officer like his legendary father and must save the police department from shutting down by solving a case. Starring: Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, and Paul Walter Hauser. 85 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, December 2nd from 6:30-7:30 p.m. For our December meeting the PPL Book Club is reading Time of the Child by Niall Williams, a compassionate, life-affirming novel about the Christmas season that transforms the small Irish town of Faha. 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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Genealogy Club Thursday, January 29th, at 1:30 p.m. Thank you to everyone who has attended our monthly Genealogy Night! We will be taking a brief break and starting back up again on the last Thursday of January, 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 Night 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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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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The Book of Records by Madeleine ThienLina and her father have arrived at an enclave called The Sea, a staging-post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape-shifting place, a building made of time, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her neighbors: Bento, a Jewish scholar in seventeenth-century Amsterdam; Blucher, a philosopher in 1930s Germany fleeing Nazi persecution; and Jupiter, a poet of Tang Dynasty China. Under the tutelage of these great thinkers, Lina equips herself to face her ailing father’s troubling admissions about his role in their family’s tragic past. Lina’s encounters with her intellectual and personal forebearers force her to reckon with difficult questions of guilt, responsibility, and the possibility of redemption.
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Kitty St. Clair's Last Dance by Kate RobbJules is stunned when eccentric and glamorous retiree Kitty St. Clair passes away and leaves her a dilapidated dance hall in their quaint lakeside community. That is until Reeve, a charming, successful developer, returns to town, intent on turning the dance hall into luxury vacation condos. Suddenly Jules has a way to make her lifelong dream of going to medical school a reality. But selling the dance hall will only add to the steadily rising real estate prices, making it harder for the residents of her tiny vacation town to live there, not to mention Reeve also happens to be the man who Jules shared a magical night with two summers ago... and never heard from again. Reeve wants a second chance with Jules and is determined to earn back her trust. But can she let herself fall for him again? Does he want her, or a guaranteed sale? Jules wishes she could talk to Kitty, who always seemed to have the best advice, so she turns to the diary she left her. But as Jules falls asleep reading, she wakes up in the world of the diary, fifty years ago, accompanying a young Kitty to the dance hall in all its glory. Her dream visits to Kitty's past begin to parallel the questions plaguing her in her own world. Will Kitty's past hold the keys to unlocking Jules's future?
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Time's Agent by Brenda PeynadoFollowing the discovery of pocket worlds, geographically small, hidden offshoots of our own reality, sped up or slowed down by time, teams of academics embarked on groundbreaking exploratory missions, eager to study this new technology and harness the potential of a seemingly limitless horizon. Once, srcheologist Raquel and her wife Marlena once dreamed the poacket worlds held the key to solving the universe's mysteries. But forty years later, pocket worlds are now controlled by corporations squeezing every penny out of all colonizable space and time, Raquel herself is in disgrace, and Marlena lives in her own pocket universe (that Raquel wears around her neck) and refuses to speak to her. Standing in the ruins of her dream and her failed ideals, Raquel seizes one last chance to redeem herself and confront what it means to save something - or someone - from time. |
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The Unraveling of Julia by Lisa Scottoline. After losing everything, and beginning to spiral, Julia Pritzker begins to fear she's cursed, and has no control over her fate. When she is informed she's inherited a Tuscan villa and vineyard from a stranger named Emilia Rossi, she is bewildered, and heads to Tuscany for answers. There, Julia discovered Rossi was a paranoid recluse, who believed herself to be related to a legendary Renaissance ruler. Stunned by her uncanny resemblance to both, Julia is unnerved to find eerie parallels between them. Soon, strange and dangerous things begin to happen, and Julia’s harrowing struggle becomes a search for her identity, a race to save her sanity, and ultimately, a question of her very survival. |
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The Widow by John Grisham. Simon Latch is a lawyer in rural Virginia, making just enough to pay his bills while his marriage slowly falls apart, when the richest client of his career walks into his office. Eleanor Barnett is an elderly widow in need of a new will, having been left a small fortune she's kept hidden. Simon works to keep her wealth under the radar, but when she is hospitalized after a car accident, Simon realizes nothing is as it seems. And he finds himself on trial for murder. Simon knows he’s innocent, but the evidence is against him, and to save himself, he must find the real killer. |
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