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CONTINUOUS BOOK SALE The Friends of the Plainville Library are selling books and puzzles for kids and adults every day the library is open for Walk In Service. For sale items are located at the front entrance and as you follow the arrows towards the main desk. Adult fiction and non-fiction are also located in the Friends Hallway. Did you know selling the items you donate to us is the main fundraiser for the Friends of the Library? The Friends purchase copies of the Book Page for you to take each month as a way to find out about new books and authors. The April issue will be available April 1. As the weather gets nicer watch for Friends Yard Sales outside on Saturdays. |
Walk-in Hours Monday: 10:00am - 3:00pm Tuesday: 10:00am - 3:00pm Wednesday: 10:00am - 3:00pm and 4:00-7:00pm Thursday: 10:00am - 3:00pm and 4:00-7:00pm Friday: 1:00-5:00pm Yes, they have expanded! |
Contactless Takeout Available Monday, Tuesday 9-3pm Wednesday and Thursday 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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While they last...
We have a limited number of special bunny sand kits recommended for ages 6 and up available at the front desk. Once per child please.
Happy Spring!
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Art Share Because We Care
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We need more artwork!We just wanted to let you know that from our latest batch of mailings for our Art Share, we have heard back from the people who received them. "It brightened my day" "Can you send one to my brother in a nursing home? He needs a smile" "It has a place on my refrigerator" "What a sweet surprise" So keep that art work coming and we'll mail out more smiles. And yes, we'll send one to whomever may need a smile, even if they don't live in Plainville. If you'd like to nominate a person just fill out the slip at the front desk. |
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The Book with the Most Holds is...
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Family reunion : a novel
by Nancy Thayer
"A grandmother-granddaughter duo are eager to spend their summer together on peaceful Nantucket, but the season that unfolds brings about unforgettable surprises in New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer's magical, multigenerational novel. Eleanor Sunderland loves living on the Nantucket cliffside, in a charming home that has been in her family for decades. Now widowed, she looks forward to the arrival of her children and grandchildren for an annual family reunion, eager for the life and laughterthat will soon fill the air. But Eleanor's island idyll is shattered when her money-driven children suggest she sell the house and move to a retirement community. She finds a lone ally in her twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, Ari, who moves in with her for the summer. Ari longs for a change of scenery, to stray from the path her parents have set for her. What she does not expect is an electric romantic spark with a Nantucket local, Cal, whose kind heart and charisma have her absolutely smitten. With plenty of her signature Nantucket magic, Nancy Thayer brings both Eleanor and Ari on a summer beyond their wildest imaginations, filled with exciting connections, old and new"
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Friends and strangers
by J. Courtney Sullivan
Struggling to adjust to small-town life after having a baby, an accomplished New York City journalist immerses herself in social media before bonding with a babysitter from a very different walk of life. By the best-selling author of Maine. Tour.
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The lies that bind : a novel
by Emily Giffin
Forging an unlikely connection with a stranger at a bar who warns her against resuming a dysfunctional relationship, an aspiring reporter investigates when the man goes missing on September 11, 2001. By the best-selling author of Something Borrowed. Simultaneous. Tour.
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The friends we keep
by Jane Green
Reconciling thirty years after college, three friends reunite at their college reunion and have a second chance at happiness, until a dark secret changes everything
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Guess who finally has book of his own from Harlan Coban? There’s a line in Harlan Coben’s new novel, Win, that’s sure to evoke a frisson of anticipatory delight in the hearts of thriller readers everywhere: “We always knew this day would come.” |
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Win
by Harlan Coben
A high-suspense follow-up to the best-selling The Boy from the Woods is presented from the viewpoint of Myron Bolitar’s fan-favorite sidekick, Windsor Horne Lockwood III. 750,000 first printing. TV tie-in. Tour.
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April 22 is Earth Day. As we all think about something we can do to help the planet, may I introduce you to a relatively new idea of Plogging or Plalking? We can thank the Swedish for the combination of their word for "to pick up" combined with jogging or walking. I do it as I walk my dog each morning. I pick up trash along the my route to clean up my neighborhood. And the best day for me is Trash day, so I can put my finds right into everyone's trash and recycling can that are out for pick up. So let's all make Plainville a little cleaner and us maybe a little healthier as we do squats and bends to pick up trash while we walk or jog. And check out these books from the library. |
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How to give up plastic : a guide to changing the world, one plastic bottle at a time
by Will McCallum
"An accessible guide to the changes we can all make--small and large--to rid our lives of disposable plastic and clean up the world's oceans. It takes 450 years for a plastic bottle to fully biodegrade, and there are around 12.7 million tons of plastic entering the ocean each year. At our current pace, in the year 2050 there could be more plastic in the oceans than fish, by weight. These are alarming figures, but plastic pollution is an environmental crisis with a solution we can all contribute to. How to Give Up Plastic is a straightforward guide to eliminating plastic from your life. Going room by room through your home and workplace, Greenpeace activist Will McCallum teaches you how to spot disposable plastic items and find plastic-free, sustainable alternatives to each one. From carrying a reusable straw, to catching microfibers when you wash your clothes, to throwing plastic-free parties, you'll learn new and intuitive ways to reduce plastic waste. And by arming you with a wealth of facts about global plastic consumption and anecdotes from activists fighting plastic around the world, you'll also learn how to advocate to businesses and leaders in your community and across the country to commit to eliminating disposable plastics for good"
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The last straw : kids vs. plastics
by Susan Hood
A nonfiction STEM picture book about the threat of plastic and how kids are combating environmental challenges presents accessible poems that are perfectly paired with vibrant and dynamic artwork, making it a book that will inspire readers to change the way they think about plastic and their part in caring for the planet. Illustrations.
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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. |
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Eternal
by Lisa Scottoline
An aspiring writer, an athlete from a professional cyclist family and a mathematics prodigy find their bond tested by a love triangle and the spread of anti-Semitism and fascism in 1937 Italy. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Someone Knows.
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The bounty
by Janet Evanovich
Straitlaced FBI agent Kate O’Hare and international con man Nick Fox reluctantly team up with the fathers who taught them everything they know to prevent a shadowy international organization from claiming a fortune in Nazi gold. 250,000 first printing.
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Nothin' but a good time : the uncensored history of the '80s hard rock explosion
by Tom Beaujour
"The definitive, no-holds-barred oral history of 1980s hard rock and hair metal. 1980s hard rock was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that perfectly encapsulated-and maybe even helped to define-a spectacularly over-the-topdecade. Indeed, fist-pumping hits like Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It," Mötley Crüe's "Girls, Girls, Girls," and Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" are as inextricably linked to the era as Reaganomics, Pac-Man, and E.T. From the do-or-die early days of self-financed recordings and D.I.Y. concert productions that were as flashy as they were foolhardy, to the multi-Platinum, MTV-powered glory years of stadium-shaking anthems and chart-topping power ballads, to the ultimate crash when grunge bands like Nirvana forever altered the entire climate of the business, Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock's Nothin' But a Good Time captures the energy and excess of the hair metal years in the words of the musicians, managers, producers, engineers, label executives, publicists, stylists, costume designers, photographers, journalists, magazine publishers, video directors, club bookers, roadies, groupies, and hangers-on who lived it. Featuring an impassioned foreword by Slipknot and Stone Sour vocalist and avowed glam metal fanatic Corey Taylor, and drawn from over 200 new interviews with members of Van Halen, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Guns N' Roses, Skid Row, Bon Jovi, Ratt, Twisted Sister, Winger, Warrant, Cinderella, Quiet Riot and others, as well as Ozzy Osbourne, Lita Ford and many more, this is the ultimate, uncensored, and often unhinged chronicle of a time where excess and success walked hand in hand, told by the men and women who created a sound and style that came to define a musical era-one in which the bands and their fans went looking for nothin' but a good time...and found it"
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The queen's secret : sequel to The queen's assassin
by Melissa De la Cruz
Separated by Lilac’s arranged royal marriage and by devastating attacks that threaten her sovereignty, Lilac and the assassin Caledon Holt find the limits of their solo abilities tested in their respective battles against dark magical forces. Simultaneous eBook.
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Plainville Public Library plainvillepubliclibrary.org/
198 South Street
Plainville, Massachusetts 02762
(508) 695-1784
Walk in Hours: Monday & Tuesday 10:00am-3:00pm, Wednesday & Thursday: 10:00am - 3:00pm and 4:00-7:00pm and Fridays: 1:00-5:00pm. Saturdays are Contactless Takeout ONLY (no walk in) from 9:00-1:00pm |
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