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In this Issue
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Bruins Pajama Drive The Boston Bruins in partnership with Massachusetts Libraries and Cradle to Crayons are collecting NEW pajamas sizes 2T - Adult Medium for Massachusetts children in need. Drop off your donations of new pajamas at the Library through February 27. Ongoing Holiday Hours: The Library will be closed Monday, February 15 for Presiden't Day. |
Walk-in Hours Monday – Thursday 10:00am – 12:00pm and 1:00pm – 3:00pm Wednesday night 4:00-7:00pm Friday 2:00-5:00pm Vulnerable population (and those over 60) hours: Thursday 10:00am – 12:00pm, Thank you for honoring these special hours. |
Contactless Takeout Available Monday - Thursday 9-3pm Wednesday 9-7pm Friday 1-5pm **Saturday 9-1pm** ReturnsPlease note that any items returned to us will be quarantined for 72 hours as recommended by the CDC before our staff handle them for checkin. Book Drops are located at the Library and in the Wood School Parking lot on Messenger St. |
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Free Qigong Classes online
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Calm your Mind
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Mondays and Wednesdays 10:30 - 11:30am Free weekly online Community Qigong classes. All ages and levels of ability are welcome and you can join anytime. We are finding that with Zoom it is very easy to offer these classes to a larger group, so the more the merrier. To Join virtually: |
The Ames Free Library presents this program for anyone in our area.
Have you always wanted to research your family tree? Did you have your DNA tested and want help understanding the results or how to use the DNA results in your family search? Would you like support from others who are also working on their genealogy? Get help understanding the basics of DNA and genealogy. Join us on Zoom every Friday at 11 am for basic information, help and support from others who enjoy genealogy. Hosted by Chris Murphy Delano. Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 996 9246 4076 Passcode: 179506 |
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The Book with the Most Holds is...
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Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
Two half-sisters, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in 18th-century Ghana and experience profoundly different lives and legacies throughout subsequent generations marked by wealth, slavery, war, coal mining, the Great Migration and the realities of 20th-century Harlem.
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A kind of freedom : a novel
by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Explores the legacy of racial disparity in the South through the story of three generations of an African American family in New Orleans
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Just us : an American conversation
by Claudia Rankine
A collection of essays, poems, and images examine the power of whiteness in everyday interactions and urges readers to begin the conversation and discover what it takes to breach the silence and violence
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We cast a shadow : a novel
by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
In a near-future South where an increasing number of people with dark skin endure cosmetic procedures to pass as white, a father embarks on an obsessive quest to protect his son, who bears a dark, spreading birthmark. A first novel.
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Detective Jeppe Korner and his colleagues (plus Detective Anette Werner, on maternity leave but doing casework on the sly) must find the killer before they can strike again. They work through a large number of plausible suspects connected to a psychiatric facility for teens called The Butterfly House, unearthing terrible secrets and raising more questions along the way. We talked with author Katrine Engberg about her inspirations and motivations, and how she changed careers from a dancer and choreographer to a creator of the darkest of murder mysteries. |
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The butterfly house
by Katrine Engberg
A sequel to The Tenant finds detectives Jeppe Kørner and Anette Werner racing to solve a series of brutal murders targeting vulnerable patients in a Danish hospital. 100,000 first printing.
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Muffins may be one of the great breakfast foods. Make a batch and it's breakfast all week. We couldn't let February 20 slip by unnoted for being National Muffin Day. So we thought we would share a recipe from "There's a Chef in my Soup" cookbook from Emeril Lagasse for a Blueberry Muffin that I have personally made and tastes great. It has yogurt and milk but feel free to change that to almond milk and yogurt for the non-dairy folk. |
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A note from Laura about a special gift to the library
I just wanted to take a moment and share a wonderful story that happened in the Children's Room last month. We have a new book in our collection and I would like to send a special thanks to two of our younger patrons, twins Zoey and Sophie. They both recently had a visit from the Tooth Fairy and were surprised with a monetary gift in exchange for their teeth. Well, these sisters had a selfless and generous idea - they decided to donate their Tooth Fairy money to the library so we could buy a book for everyone to enjoy! Well, I would like to announce that I have used their gift to purchase a new picture book, and I thought that in keeping with the theme, I would find a book about the Tooth Fairy...so here it is, the newest addition to our collection: |
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The tooth fairy wars
by Kate Coombs
A determined young boy and a no-nonsense Tooth Fairy tussle over who gets to keep his baby teeth.
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10 Step Storytime at Home
Register on our calendar for the week you wish to participate to ensure there is a bag of materials for you to pick up for our 30 Minute Story Time at Home for ages 3-6. Miss Laura provides you with a 10 step plan for a 30 minute interactive and fun storytime using an online book readily availble to anyone with a Plainville Public Library card. |
Book Bundles Please remember the Library still prefers one family member to come inside the library if possible. Which is why our librarians have been working hard to make perfect selections for our Book Bundles. Picture Book Bundles have 4 books on a theme. We do try to do many seasonal themes as well as some basic themes, like dinosaurs, drawing, elephants, and Fairy Tale Fun. Baby Bundles have 2 board books and 2 simple picture books that are perfect for reading aloud to children ages 3 and under. |
Free from Home |
TumbleBooksHere is a GREAT IDEA: Get on Facetime or Zoom or however the Grandparents are talking to the kids these days. Get both parties to log into the same book online and we have an instant Read-Aloud session to create special memories. Tumblebooks has EVERYTHING - graphic novels, ebooks, read-alongs, videos, puzzles and games, language learning and more for kids. This is available from our website for free with your Plainville Library Card so take advantage of these resources for your at- home learning and enjoyment! |
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The four winds
by Kristin Hannah
A Depression-era woman confronts a wrenching choice between fighting for the Dust Bowl-ravaged land she loves in Texas or pursuing an uncertain future in California. By the best-selling author of The Nightingale. 1.5 million first printing. Illustrations.
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Ink and shadows
by Ellery Adams
When her bookstore is targeted by a family-values group during the Halloween season, Nora Pennington and her fellow readers investigate a suspicious death that occurs at the same time Nora discovers an ominous message under her doormat.
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Enjoy the view
by Sarah Morgenthaler
"CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE River Lane's acting career is tanking fast. Determined to start fresh behind the camera, she'll take whatever job she can get, including filming a documentary about the picturesque town of Moose Springs. When mountaineer and Moose Springs local Easton Lockett sees what looks like a woman on her own in the wilderness, of course he offers to help. The last thing he expects is to interrupt a film shoot and earn River's wrath. But Easton has an idea: he can take River's crew up the local hidden gem, Mount Veil, to make it up to her. When bad weather strikes, putting the film crew at risk, it takes all of Easton's skill to get them back down safely...and to keep River in his arms"
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Beneath the keep : a novel of the Tearling
by Erika Johansen
A prequel to the best-selling Queen of the Tearling trilogy finds an underworld assassin, a farm girl-turned-rebel and a manipulated crown princess struggling to save their feudal Tearling world, while local rumors prophesize the rise of a great queen. Maps.
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