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Happy New Year! Food for Fines is continuing through January 2021. 1 nonperishable food item equals the fine on 1 library item. So far, we have collected over 215 items for the Living Bread Food Pantry, which all goes to Plainville residents. Ongoing Book Sale during walk in hours every day. We have added MORE with a tables by the circulation desk, in addition to the Friends' Hallway. Great selection of books for adults and kids, and puzzles! Benefits the Friends of the Plainville Public Library, Inc. Holiday Hours: The Library will be closed Monday January 18 for Martin Luther King 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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Crafts-to-Go for Adults & Teens One per person, please. There is an assortment of crafts to take home. Many are leftover Pinterest Can't Fail Class crafts, so you might remember some of them. Just cleaning out the crafts area and thought - people may need something to do inside |
Art Share Because We Care Do you or your kids like to color, paint or draw? All ages are welcome to participate.
We are soliciting artwork drawn on our special handouts for our new Art Share Because We Care initiative. Turn in your artwork to us and we will send it to a Senior in need of a pick-me-up in Plainville. Many Seniors in this time of COVID are struggling with feeling alone and this is just one way we, as a community, can let them know we are thinking about them. You can even nominate people you know (not just Seniors) who might need an Art Share Because We Care envelope in the mail to brighten their day. Nominations are accepted at the Plainville Public Library circulation desk.
Please turn in your artwork on our special handout available online or at the library, or your own paper no bigger than 8 ½ x 11”, so we can fit it in a regular envelope. |
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The Book with the Most Holds is...
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Rainwater
by Sandra Brown
In a time of drought and economic depression in 1934, Ella Barron runs her boardinghouse in Texas while caring for her son, Solly, and responds to the calm influence of one of her boarders, David Rainwater, while facing the tension and uncertainty aroundher
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I will send rain : a novel
by Rae Meadows
In 1934, as the earliest storms of the Dust Bowl descend on the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma, Annie Bell and her husband and children struggle against hardship as the wheat harvest dries out and people around them pack up to leave
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Some luck
by Jane Smiley
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres follows the triumphs and tragedies of a farm family from post-World War I America through the early 1950s. Reading group guide. 75,000 first printing.
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The promise of dawn
by Lauraine Snelling
"In 1910, Signe, her husband, and their boys emigrate from Norway to Minnesota, dreaming of one day owning a farm of their own. But the relatives they've come to stay with are harsh and demanding. As Signe's family is worked to the bone to repay the costof their voyage, can she learn to trust God through this trial and hold on to hope for a better future?"
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Comedian, screenwriter, actor and showrunner Rachel Bloom adds “author” to her list of credentials with I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are, a collection of personal essays and hilarious tidbits from her life and career. We asked Rachel a few questions about theater, mental health and the difference between writing a book and writing for her hit TV show, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.” |
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I want to be where the normal people are
by Rachel Bloom
A laugh-out-loud anthology by the star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend collects essays, poems and other personal creations to explore such subjects as her perceptions of “normal,” struggles with depression and life-shaping female friendships. 200,000 first printing. Media tie-in. Tour.
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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. Book Bundles for Adults have 2 fiction tites which go out for 4 weeks based around a similar theme. We do hope you like our quirky titles like: Love that Dirty Water, City of Lights, Murder, eh?, Sassy Cats, Jane Says and more. 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, princesses and trucks. Baby Bundles have 2 board books and 2 simple picutre books that are perfect for reading aloud to children ages 3 and under. |
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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. |
Blizzard of Books Winter Reading Challenge
Goes through January!
For every minute you read, we will add a "snowflake" to our library's windows. Each week I will post a total of all minutes read, (how "deep our "snow" is), and then I will add a "snowflake" for each minute.
How long will it take until we've covered all the windows in the children's room? Will we cover every window in the library with "snowflakes?" You can help us do it!
Let's show EVERYONE in Plainville how much our patrons read! Sign up and log your reading - Each week I will post the minutes read in the Children's Room window and add a new "snowflake" for each minute too.
Can we reach 3,000 minutes in 2 months? Who knows how "deep" the "snow" will go! |
Free from Home |
BookFlixScholastic BookFlix is an online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction eBooks from Scholastic to build a love of reading and learning. Includes puzzlers with fun games and questions to answers, as well as opportunities to learn more with safe links to related topics online and information about the author and illustrators. Log in through our website with your Plainville Public Library Card.
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Devil has a name /
A widowed and broke farmer fights a multinational oil company that has been polluting his water
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Summerland /
When a reclusive writer living in southern England during World War II agrees to take in an evacuee from London, she finds herself opening her heart to him
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Honest Thief
They call him the In and Out Bandit because meticulous thief Tom Carter (Liam Neeson) has stolen $9 million from small-town banks while managing to keep his identity a secret. But after he falls in love with the bubbly Annie (Kate Walsh), Tom decides to make a fresh start by coming clean about his criminal past, only to be double-crossed by two ruthless FBI agents. 00056053
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Antebellum /
Follows an African-American woman as a successful present-day author and advocate for social justice and as her double living in the South during the times of slavery
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