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Pembroke Public Library Newsletter October 2026 |
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Storytime Guest: Music at the BlissfulMonday, October 5th from 10:30-11:30 a.m.National touring children's musician Music at the Blissful (Evan Haller) brings an energetic, interactive music experience to the library! Families will sing, dance, jump, shake, laugh, and move together through original songs designed to spark imagination, encourage movement, and create lasting memories. Featuring favorites along with songs from his newest album, Agozu, this high-energy concert is perfect for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and the grown-ups who love making music with them! This is a drop-in event; no registration is needed.
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Witch's Storytime (ages 4-8) Saturday, October 24th from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Ages 4-8 can join Miss Kiki for her annual Witch's Storytime featuring the book Bob the Vampire Snail by Andrea Zuill, followed by making coffee filter ghosts and a pumpkin toss game! Join us each month this year for a storytime based on Maurice Sendak's poetry from Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months. This month, our theme is from the verse, “In October I’ll be host To witches, goblins and a ghost" This is a drop-in event; no registration is needed. |
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Courage, Choice, and What Comes Next with Veronica Roth. Thursday, October 1st at 7:00 p.m. Join us for an online conversation with #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth as we celebrate the enduring legacy of her Divergent series, one of the most iconic young adult series of a generation, and get an exclusive sneak peek into her highly anticipated upcoming novel, The Sixth Faction! Registration is required; call the library or click here to sign up, or to watch a recording of the presentation if you cannot attend live. |
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Let's Make Pickles
Monday, October 5th at 6:30 p.m.
Fermented pickles are loaded with vitamins and minerals. They also help with digestion, relieve muscle cramps, and taste great! Learn how to make your own old-fashioned fermented pickles using water, salt, and spices. We'll also discuss a variety of additional pickling techniques. Registration is required; call the library or click here to sign up. |
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Art in Flight with Carolyn Russo
Tuesday, October 8th at 2:00 p.m. Join us for a captivating online conversation with acclaimed author and Smithsonian curator Carolyn Russo as we dive into her fascinating book, The Ascent of Rauschenberg: Reinventing the Art of Flight. Explore the towering legacy, unexpected inspirations, and creative heights of one of America's most influential artistic icons. Registration is required; call the library or click here to sign up, or to watch a recording of the presentation if you cannot attend live. |
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Intro to Tarot
Wednesday, October 14th at 6:00 p.m. Join tarot teacher, Laura Campagna, for a fun workshop to learn how to read tarot. No experience necessary. Participants will connect with their intuition and gain confidence in reading for themselves or friends. Decks will be provided by Laura, but you're encouraged to bring your own as well! Registration is required; call the library or click here to sign up. |
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Craft Night: Book Pumpkins Wednesday, October 21st at 6:00 p.m. Join the Library's own Sarah Nelson as she teaches to make these delightful seasonal decorations, using old books! All materials will be provided by the library for this craft but feel free to bring in your own for something a little more personal! Registration is required; call the library or click here to sign up. |
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Teen Take-And-Make: Seasonal Shaker Available beginning October 1st, 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 Halloween-themed shaker ornament. These crafts are kindly sponsored by the Friends of the Pembroke Library. |
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Storytime Mondays at 10:30 a.m. Children 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. There will be a special storytime guest on Monday, October 5th, and no storytime on Monday, October 12th. |
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PlaytimeTuesdays at 10:30 a.m. Children 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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T(w)een NightThursday, October 8th from 4:30-6:00 p.m. Tweens and teens 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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LEGO Club Tuesday, October 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 “Mini FIGure it out!” 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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Puppy Dog Tales Thursday, October 15th 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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Monday Movie Matinee: Punch Drunk LoveMonday, October 5th at 1:30 p.m. Barry Egan, an anxious entrepreneur with a susceptibility to violent outbursts, finds his one chance and romance threatened after he falls victim to a blackmailing scheme. Starring: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. 95 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, October 6th from 6:30-7:30 p.m. For our October meeting, the PPL Book Club is reading I, Medusa by Ayana Gray, a reimagining one of the most iconic monsters in Greek mythology as a provocative and powerful young heroine. 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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PPL Mystery Book Club Thursday, October 15th from 1:30-2:30 p.m. This month we’re reading 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. But his fortune seems to change when he hooks the richest client of his career: Eleanor Barnett, an elderly widow in need of a new will, and Simon’s discretion. Her husband left her a small fortune that no one knows about, and she wants to keep it under the radar. But it’s not long before her story begins to crack, and when she’s hospitalized after a car accident, Simon finds himself on trial for a murder he swears he didn’t commit. But the circumstantial evidence is against him, and the only way to save himself is to find the real killer. 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: The Isle Monday, October 19th at 1:30 p.m. When three shipwrecked sailors land on an abandoned island that has four sole residents, one of the men starts to question what happened. He soon finds himself in a fight to save his own life while trying to uncover the truth and escape. Starring: Conleth Hill, Alex Hassell, and Fisayo Akinade. 96 minutes. Rated: PG-13. Monday Movie Matinees are generously sponsored by the Friends of the Pembroke Public Library. |
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Monday Movie Matinee: A Ghost Story Monday, October 26th at 1:30 p.m. A recently deceased man returns as a ghost to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state, he has become stuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away. Starring: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, and McColm Cephas Jr. 92 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, November 3rd from 6:30-7:30 p.m. For our November meeting the PPL Book Club is reading The Women of Wild Hill by Kirsten Miller, a witty, spectacular, and timely tale of modern-day witches waging war on the patriarchy. 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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An Immaculate Deception by Isabela Livino1877, Pernambuco, Brazil. Raised in a deeply religious household, Madalena knows Dante's Inferno by heart and fears her mother's reaction as much as she fears God. When she falls pregnant with a child conceived in sin, her mother issues a threat: marry or surrender the baby. Madalena is confident that the father, the dashing Leandro Neves, will do right by her and propose. But when she is about to tell him about the baby, a violent storm sends their carriage careening off the road. Madalena awakens in Leandro's sprawling, secluded home, under the care of the mysterious Doctor Lobo. Leandro is there... but he is no longer the charming poet she knew. He's silent. Obsessed. Always watching. Strange perfume haunts a locked room. Pages vanish from books. Jewels lie untouched in a forgotten wardrobe. And mirrors begin disappearing after Madalena sees something--or someone--ghastly in the reflection. Leandro is unraveling. Doctor Lobo may be hiding something even darker. Trapped in a decaying house of secrets, Madalena must uncover the truth before the men around her destroy her, and before the hell she fears becomes the one she's living in.
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In present day, or near enough, Etsy Beaucarne is translating a manuscript that was recently discovered, written by her ancestor and Lutheran pastor Arthur Beaucarne. It details how in 1912, in the wake of a skinned corpse turning up in Miles City, Montana, Arthur's church is visited by native man from out of town, by the name of Good Stab, who wishes for Arthur to take his confession. He is, he claims, just shy of a hundred years old, despite looking like a man in his thirties, and over the following weeks, shares the narrative, and brutality, of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. |
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King Sorrow by Joe HillArthur Oakes is a reader, a dreamer, and a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters, exceptional library, and beautiful buildings. But his idyll is shattered when a local drug dealer and her partner corner him into one of the worst crimes he can imagine: stealing rare books from the college library. Trapped and desperate, Arthur turns to his closest friends for comfort and help. Together they dream up a wild, fantastical scheme to free Arthur from the cruel trap in which he finds himself. Wealthy, irrepressible Colin Wren suggests using the unnerving Crane journal (bound in the skin of its author) to summon a dragon to do their bidding. The others don't hesitate to join Colin in an effort to smash reality and bring a creature of the impossible into our world. But there's nothing simple about dealing with dragons, and their pact to save Arthur becomes a terrifying bargain in which the six must choose a new sacrifice for King Sorrow every year -- or become his next meal.
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by Ariel Lawhon. Grace O'Malley was born to be a sea captain. But despite her natural skill on the water, the expectations of her noble family won't let her pursue that dream. As the only daughter of a powerful chieftain, her role is to secure a strong alliance and bear children. Married off against her will to a brutal warrior, Grace performs her duty, all the while gathering followers loyal to her, and consolidating her husband's power, only to be ousted from his lands. But this betrayal offers Grace the opportunity to return to sea, finally leading clan O'Malley's mighty fleet. Just as she finds true independence, Queen Elizabeth's incursions into Ireland grow bolder and Grace must fight to defend her land, her ships, and the people she loves most against the cruel and power-hungry English deputies, who will stop at nothing to check her influence. |
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by Chloe Benjamin. At the edge of the world, biologist Laurel Salter is hiding from everything she's ever known. For ten hours a day, six days per week, she works as a dishwasher at McMurdo Station, an isolated research base in Antarctica. She tells no one why she left her career, or why her marriage ended. But even in this remote outpost, Laurel can't escape her past. When a strange light appears across the ice, and draws a group of physicists to McMurdo, her former husband, Eli, won't be far behind. Laurel is captivated by the Arc: its surreal glow; the way it seems almost alive. And though Eli is reluctant to test her wildest theory, Laurel is convinced that the Arc leads down a rabbit hole and into a world they can barely imagine. Can she persuade him to risk everything to fix the burden that hangs between them--to turn back the clock and live their story a second time? |
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