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Summer Reading ends August 8 Thursday August 7 if the last day to turn in raffle tickets and Bingo sheets for kids. Summer Reading will end August 8. Thursday August 8 will be the last day to turn in your reading log to earn beads for ages 5-12. It will also be the last day for teens and adults to check something out for themselves and play Plinko for Prizes. We will be picking winners to our End of Summer Raffle for Adults & Teens and winners of the big raffle baskets for kids on Thursday, August 8. Do you know where your library card is? OR do you have the SAILS Mobile App? If you wish to visit neighboring libraries they will require you to have your library card with you. The Plainville Library will be closed September 1 - 30 as they replace our broken heating and air conditioning system. We will be sending out more detailed information at the beginning of August. But for now, Start Stocking up! Did you know that you can have 100 items checked out on your library card? 4 week items checked out after August 4 will be due October 7 2 week items checked out after August 18 will be due October 7 1 week items checked out after August 25 will be due back, yes, you guessed it, October 7 |
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Thu, Aug 8, 2024 -- Magician Awesome Robb
Thu, 08 Aug 2024 14:00:00 EST
Magician Awesome Robb uses loads of audience participation and hilarious antics to get everyone laughing out loud! Fast and fun, this show includes fifteen different tricks, ranging from "The Hilarious Soda Bottle of Doom" to "The Underwear Cannon." This program is best suited for ages 4+ and no registration is required.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Plainville Public Library, Inc.
Location: Children's Room
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Mon, Aug 12, 2024 -- Poop Museum
Mon, 12 Aug 2024 10:30:00 EST
This program with the Poop Museum covers the serious science of poop and pooping, and is delivered with all the silliness you might imagine! It is the perfect combination of fun and fascinating facts so that kids (and parents) never forget what they learned. This program is best for ages 5-10 and will take place in the Community Room at Town Hall. Registration will open closer to event date.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Plainville Public Library, Inc.
Location: Community Room Town Hall
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Wed, Aug 7, 2024 -- Kindness Rocks
Wed, 07 Aug 2024 12:00:00 EST
We're finishing off our Summer Reading Program with "Community Week," and celebrating with a drop-in rock painting event for all ages! Paint a kindness rock in the Children's Department and leave it around the community to spread joy.
Location: Children's Room
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Buy or Borrow in August to use anytime
You can purchase tickets to The Butterfly Place ($9 ea), Showcase Movie Tickets ($9.75 ea), and Southwick's Zoo ($20 ea) in August and you can use them anytime, including September. You can also get the following coupons from the library that are NOT DATED and can be used at anytime this year for discounted admission: The Ecotarium, Harvard Museums, and Zoo New England Get these in August - just in case you want to go when we are closed in September. |
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Wed, August 14, 2024 -- Senior Book Club
Wed, 2024 13:15:00 EST
Melissa Campbell leads a book discussion at the Plainville Senior Center once a month. All are welcome to attend. Books in large print and regular format are available at the Library to checkout.
This month's title: The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
Location: Senior Center
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Universal Class
Online courses FREE for Plainville Public Library card. Click for web use
Through the library’s website, patrons can access more than 600 courses in 35 subject areas, many of which offer Continuing Education Units (CEUs) accredited by International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). Patrons have unlimited access and can complete courses at their own pace, anytime on any device. Real human instructors grade assignments and provide feedback to build deeper understanding and mastery of subject matter.
The wide range of subject areas serves both professionals looking to upskill and lifelong learners exploring new topics for fun. Subject areas include Arts and Music, Cooking, Computers and Technology, Exercise and Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Health and Medicine, Home and Garden Care, Homeschooling, Job Assistance, Law and Legal, Parenting and Family, Pet and Animal Care, and many more.
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Thursdays 5:00 - 7:45pm and Fridays 2:00 - 4:00pm -- Free Technology drop-in help with Ben in August
Is your computer not working right? Do you have questions about your phone or Apps? Bring your tech and get free IT help from Ben, volunteer IT person.
He can help with your Tech Support questions.
*Diagnosing and finding solutions to any and all issues like slow speeds, unwanted pop-ups, security concerns, computer not booting, can’t connect to Wifi, etc
*PC tune ups and maintenance, Virus removal/prevention
*Password resets for locked Computers
*Recovering deleted files (Luck may required here)
*General tech questions, what works best for certain things and why
*Migrating to a new phone/computer, help with apps, how to store and print photos, etc.
AND MORE! Privacy is, of course, maintained. Please see more info at the library.
Location: Plainville Library
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Breaking the dark
by Lisa Jewell
Retired superhero Jessica Jones helps a distraught mother search for her missing teenage twins who disappeared while visiting their father in the UK in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of None of This is True.
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The cliffs
by J. Courtney Sullivan
A Harvard archivist, returning to Maine after a terrible mistake, Jane is hired to research the history of a Victorian house and the women who lived there, uncovering a story of lost lovers, romantic longing, shattering loss and the long shadow of colonialism that is even older than Maine itself.
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Dog day afternoon
by David Rosenfelt
A retired lawyer and dog rescue operator investigates after one of his recent adopters is implicated in a mass shooting at his workplace in the latest addition to the series following‘Twas the Bite Before Christmas. Simultaneous.
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What we hide
by Colleen Coble
Returning to Tupelo Grove University to teach history, Savannah Webster finds herself under suspicion for murder and turns to her estranged husband, Hez, the best attorney she knows, for help staying alive long enough to find out who's selling the university's pre-Columbia artifacts and clear her name.
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The Briar Club : a novel
by Kate Quinn
In 1950 Washington, DC, at an all-female boardinghouse called Briarwood, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, drawing her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship, but when a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the women must expose the true enemy in their midst.
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A death in Cornwall ; : a novel
by Daniel Silva
The #1 New York Times best-selling author returns with the year's most anticipated new thriller in which a brutal murder, a missing masterpiece and mystery can only be solved by Gabriel Allon. Simultaneous.
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Finding you
by Amy Clipston
Despite emotional baggage and hidden burdens, a chance encounter sparks an undeniable connection between mechanic Carter Donavan and grief-stricken Darcy Larsen, but each must confront their pasts to build a future together. Original.
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The game changer
by Lana Ferguson
The“darling of baking” on TV, Delilah Baker, with her numbers dwindling and her producers turning up the heat, teams up with Ian Chase, a pro-hockey star in need of a PR makeover, to boost both their careers, but when they take things up a notch, they might both get burned. Original.
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The spellshop
by Sarah Beth Durst
When the Great Library of Alyssium goes up in flames, introverted librarian Kiela and her sentient spider plant flee to the faraway island of her childhood where she opens a spell shop to restore the island's power, coming out of her shell to make a new life for herself.
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The Summer pact : a novel
by Emily Giffin
Ten years after they made a pact, promising to always be there for each other in their times of need, Hannah, when one of the happiest moments of her life is suddenly turned upside down, calls on her closest friends, and together, they embark on a shared journey of self-discovery, forgiveness and acceptance.
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Tiger, Tiger : his life, as it's never been told before
by James Patterson
This first full-scale biography chronicles the impossible life of Tiger Woods whose phenomenal success, despite potentially career-ending injuries and multiple public scandals, led to his induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame, becoming a lasting influence who continues to inspire every rising generation.
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The au pair affair : a novel
by Tessa Bailey
Jumping at the opportunity to be a live-in nanny for hockey veteran and newly single dad, Burgess, 26-year-old aspiring marine biologist Tallulah, while helping her tween charge fit in, helps Burgess get back on the dating scene, but when boundaries are crossed, they find their hearts on thin ice. Original.
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The body in the backyard
by Lucy Score
When her self-absorbed news anchor ex-husband arrives in a bullet-ridden car, begging for help, clairvoyant sleuth Riley Thorn must block out the chaos and focus on her psychic visions long enough to narrow down the list of suspects and wonders if her ex's karma will be the downfall of them all. Original.
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Cabaret Macabre
by Tom Mead
To expose a murderous secret at a grand English estate, a retired magician tackles impossible crimes while a sister fights for her wrongly imprisoned brother, in the new novel from the author of Death and the Conjuror.
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The lost story : a novel
by Meg Shaffer
Forced to return to the enchanted world they called home for six months 15 years ago to confront their shared past no matter how traumatic the memories, reclusive artist Rafe and famed missing persons' investigator Jeremy search for their friend Emilie's sister?—?and for everything they've lost.
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The wilds
by Sarah Pearse
After a young woman vanishes without a trace while on a trip to a Portuguese national park, leaving behind a disturbing map, Detective Elin Warner, as the park's wild beauty turns sinister, must untangle the clues, discovering when you follow a trail, you have to be careful to watch your back.
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Bad River
by Marc Cameron
While investigating his brother's mysterious death in South Dakota, Arliss Cutter returns to Alaska after the discovery of a woman's body in the permafrost indicates the two have things in common in the sixth novel of the series following Breakneck.
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The Morgan Men : Legends of the American Frontier
by William W. Johnstone
This groundbreaking saga of warriors and outlaws, lawmen and adventurers and innocents in need of a hero features three stories in which Frank Morgan and his prodigal son, Conrad Browning, the two deadliest gunfighters in the West, work together to serve justice and unleash vengeance. Original.
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Trouble Is Brewing
by Vicki Delany
When bride-to-be Hannah unwraps a gift containing a beheaded Raggedy Ann doll at her shower, which is already tense, Cape Cod tearoom owner Lily Roberts finds things going from bad to worse when the groom's father is found dead and must discover if all the family drama led to a fatality.
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Hard to Kill
by James Patterson
Attorney Jane Smith takes on the case of an unlucky man accused of killing a family of three in the Hamptons and potentially a second family in the third novel of the series following Jane Effing Smith. 300,000 first printing.
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Plainville Public Library plainvillepubliclibrary.org/
198 South Street
Plainville, Massachusetts 02762
(508) 695-1784
Regular: Monday & Tuesday: 9:00am-3:00pm | Wednesday & Thursday: 10:00am-8:00pm | Fridays: 1:00-5:00pm |Saturdays: 9:00am - 1:00pm | Sundays: Closed. Closed Saturdays June 3 through Labor Day.
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