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Costume SWAP! Our annual costume swap happens Saturday October 1 from 10:00am - 12:00pm! The children's room turns into a costume store. Stop by the desk on your way in, drop off a costume you want to swap and then shop for a new-to-you costume to take home. Couldn't find anything? No problem, you can take home your costume if want or you can donate it for us to put out for others. You can swap any costume for any other costume, makes no difference size.. This year we will be adding a Food for Costume swap - just bring a shelf stable food item and you can swap that for a costume of your choice. Books and Puzzles for Sale... We always have a selection of books in good condition and puzzles with ALL of their pieces for sale as you walk into the library. The funds raised go to the Friends of the Plainville Public Library, Inc to fund library programs, museum passes and wish lists.
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Do computers intimidate you? Do you know someone who might benefit from some one-on-one instruction? This is a great class for beginners. Register for one class or all of them by calling 508-695-1784 or by registering online. Limit of 4 people per class. October classes are on 3rd and 17th. Topics will include: Basic Mouse and Keyboard Skills, Internet Basics Saving Files to the Computer and Finding Them, and an Creating an Email Account. Held in the Library Conference Room. | | | |
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Thu, Oct 20, 2022 -- Crafting your College Application Essays at 7:00 PM
Thu, 20 Oct 2022 19:00:00 EST
Free in person program. College application essays are now, more than ever, a big part of your college application. In this presentation, we will discuss why these essays are important, what should go into your essay and how to write the best essay for your application. Presented by the Princeton Review. Students and parents are welcome! There will also be a raffle for a free College Admissions 101 (3rd Edition) book from The Princeton Review. Find out more about our college resources at http://www.plainvillepubliclibrary.org/college.html Online registration is below (minimum of 10 person registered by 1 week prior to hold the program)
Location: Community Room Public Safety Building, 194 South St.
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Universal Class
Online courses FREE for Plainville Public Library card holds through this link or the Libby APP (which you have for eBooks!) Click for web use
Look in the HOMESCHOOL section for classes for children
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Family Fun!
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Annual Book Character Pumpkin Decorating Contest to benefit the Living Bread Food Pantry in Plainville. Bring in your decorated pumpkin by Wednesday, October 12. Please do not cut real pumpkins. Using fake pumpkins is OK. Get your creative juices going! All ages can participate: adults, kids and teens! Not making a pumpkin? You can still VOTE! Voting with a canned good will take place between October 13 and 27 to benefit the Food Pantry. The winning pumpkin will take home a $20 Dunkin gift card and a Library tote bag from the Friends of the Plainville Public Library, Inc. |
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Do you enjoy painting with watercolors? This group is for adult and teen watercolor painters, all levels welcome, to gather together while painting your own projects. We will provide water jars and some brushes and pre-dried palettes at no cost. Join us on Wednesday afternoons for a relaxed painting session where we can share techniques, ideas, tips and projects. Feel free to bring with you your personal supplies and what you're currently working on. Or for a nominal donation watercolor paper is available. Please note that there will be no instruction given. This is drop in.
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Watercolors Meet Up Wednesdays October 5 through November 9 4:00 - 6:00pm
Drop in Held at the back of the Library
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Wed, Oct 5, 2022 -- Senior Book Club at 1:15 PM
Wed, 05 Oct 2022 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 Lost and Found Bookshop by Susan Wiggs
Location: Senior Center
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Starting Mon, Oct 3, 2022 -- Rhyme Time at 10:00 AM
Mondays and Tuesdays at 10:00am
Rhyme Time is a program intended for infants and toddlers. Each week we will share an interactive story, a Mother Goose rhyme and some fun music and movement. There may be an activity to build some pre-reading skills and it is hoped, but not initially expected, for the children to be engaged the entire circle time. Children are welcome to engage with the program, come and go from the circle as they want while they build their self regulation and attention skills, and when the music starts everyone usually comes rushing back! This is intended to be a comfortable, engaging activity to introduce story time expectations and early literacy skills in a low-key environment, to allow for social opportunities for children and parents and to expose infants and toddlers to an early learning environment.
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Tue, Oct 11, 2022 -- Dinosaur STEAM with Carol Carver of Self Help, Inc at 1:00 PM
Tue, 11 Oct 2022 13:00:00 EST
Dinosaur STEAM Series: This 3-week session is for families of children age 3-5 yrs. Each session will begin with a Dinosaur themed book. The children will engage in dinosaur related activities such as digging for dinosaurs, creating fossils with playdough, create a dinosaur out of shapes, dinosaur facts, dinosaur art, building and music and movement. REGISTER with Carol: ccarver@selfhelpinc.org 10/11, 10/18 and 10/25
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Wed, Oct 12, 2022 -- Dance Class with Emily Keller AGES 5 - 8 at 5:00 PM
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 17:00:00 EST
Register for this 6 week Free dance program for ages 5 – 8 Join teacher Emily Keller in an exploration of dance styles along with building body confidence with stretching, balance and expression through dance. For 6 Wednesday nights, from October 12 through November 16, Emily will be teaching 45 minutes classes in the Town Hall Community Room and each week will be a different dance style, from Ballet to Hip Hop and more! Classes will be divided: ages 5 – 8 will be 5:00 – 5:45 pm, ages 9 – 12 will be 5:45 – 6:30 pm. Registration is for the entire 6 weeks the program is running. The classes will be limited to 12 participants per class. Students should come to class dressed in comfortable clothing appropriate for physical activity along with sneakers and socks.
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Here's the Story : Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice
by Maureen Mccormick
A best-selling memoir by the actress best known for her portrayal of Marcia Brady describes the painful disparity between her on-screen persona and her real life, recounting the dark secret that overshadowed her relationship with her mother and siblings and her struggles with depression, addiction, and eating disorders. Reprint. 50,000 first printing
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Diary of a stage mother's daughter : A Memoir
by Melissa Francis
This memoir from the former child actress and veteran journalist describes the pride, pressure and cruelty she felt from her ambitious stage mother while working as part of the cast of Little House on the Prairie. 60,000 first printing
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In pieces : a memoir
by Sally Field
From Gidget's sweet-faced "girl next door" to the dazzling complexity of Sybil to the Academy Award-worthy ferocity and depth of Norma Rae and Mary Todd Lincoln, Sally Field has stunned audiences time and time again with her artistic range and emotional acuity. Yet there is one character who always remained hidden: the shy and anxious little girl within. With raw honesty, Field brings readers behind-the-scenes for not only the highs and lows of her star-studded early career in Hollywood, but deep into the truth of her lifelong relationships -- including her complicated love for her own mother
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Triple Cross
by James Patterson
On the trail of a serial killer who targets entire families, leaving behind no physical evidence, Detectives Alex Cross and Sampson team up with the worlds best-selling true crime author, who sees patterns everyone else misses, until the Family Man flips the script, hunting down Cross and his family. 500,000 first printing.
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The Black Hills Blood Hunt
by William W. Johnstone
When the daughter of his good friend, President Theodore Roosevelt, is kidnapped by a corrupt policeman who plans to control the commander-in-chief before killing him, legendary former lawman Seth Bullock gathers together a deadly posse of rough riders to take down the gang in a hail of bullets. Original.
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Livid
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
When the sister of the judge presiding over a sensational murder case is found dead, chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, the reluctant star witness in the trial, investigates and recognizes telltale signs of the unthinkable, pitting her against a powerful force that returns her to the past. 400,000 first printing.
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No plan B
by Lee Child
Witnessing a woman pushed to her death in front of a bus, Jack Reacher, following the killer on foot, is unaware that this is part of a secret conspiracy with many moving parts with no room for error and any threats will be permanently removed, including Reacher. Simultaneous.
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The Passenger
by Cormac McCarthy
In 1980 Pass Christian, Mississippi, salvage diver Bobby Western, after a plane crash, discovers that the pilots flight bag, the planes black box and the 10th passenger are missing, submerging him in a conspiracy beyond his understanding as he is shadowed in body and spirit by the past and present.
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The boys from Biloxi : a novel
by John Grisham
The #1New York Times best-selling author sets the stage for his most gripping thriller yet as he returns to Mississippi where his page-turning twists and turns lead to a stunning conclusion.
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The Christmas spirit : a novel
by Debbie Macomber
When Pete, a local pastor, and his best friend, Hank, a bartender, decide to switch jobs until Christmas Eve, they begin to see each others lives in a new light as they each discover a new love to cherish, forever changing their lives.
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The favor
by Nicci French
When she agrees to pick up an ex-boyfriend at the train station, Jude is shocked when the police show up instead of him and, realizing she knows nothing about the man hes become, becomes entangled in his life as she tries to uncover the truth. 30,000 first printing.
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A Heart Full of Headstones
by Ian Rankin
Fresh off of helping his daughter, Samantha, find her missing husband, Inspector John Rebus investigates another surprising crime, in the latest addition to the long-running thriller series following A Song for the Dark Times. 60,000 first printing.
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It starts with us : a novel
by Colleen Hoover
Atlas Corrigan, Lilys first love and the person who returned suddenly and interrupted her romance with neurosurgeon Ryan Kincaid, tells his side of the story in the sequel toIt Ends with Us. Original.
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The last chairlift
by John Irving
Growing up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past, Adam goes to Aspen, where he was conceived, to learn the truth about his mother, a former slalom skier and ski instructor, and meets some ghosts, which arent the first or the last ones he sees.
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1989
by Val McDermid
Ten years later Allie Burns is running the northern news operation of The Sunday Globe where she covers the memorial service of Pan Am Flight 103 and stumbles upon a shocking story about HIV/AIDS, in the sequel to1979.
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Before I do
by Sophie Cousens
On the eve of her wedding, Audrey begins questioning whether or not Josh really is the one, especially after his sister shows up at the rehearsal dinner with one of her exes and everything that could go wrong, does. Original.
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The Belle of Belgrave Square
by Mimi Matthews
Cursed with a crippling social anxiety, heiress Julia Wychwood, to escape the ton, proposes to notorious Captain Jasper Blunt, offering her dowry in exchange for the freedom to do as she pleases, which gets her into trouble when her curiosity about this mysterious man gets the better of her. Original.
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Distant thunder
by Stuart Woods
After a strange storm deposits a dead man on his doorstep, Stone Barrington is determined to uncover who he was and how he got there, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Black Dog.
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Little Eve
by Catriona Ward
When Chief Inspector Black arrives on the wind-battered isle of Altnaharra, off the coast of Scotland, to investigate a brutal murder, interrupting their sacred ceremony, young Eve and her clan, preparing to bring about the end of the world, are faced with a reckoning beyond their imagination. 250,000 first printing.
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Long shadows
by David Baldacci
The latest edge-of-your-seat thriller in the #1New York Times best-selling series. One million first printing.
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The maze : a John Corey novel
by Nelson DeMille
Called out of retirement by his former lover to investigate a serial killer targeting prostitutes, former NYPD Homicide Detective John Corey, as he digs deeper into these killings, which have garnered national attention, discovers that there are sinister forces at work that dont want this case solved.
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The plot and the pendulum
by Jenn McKinlay
When library director Lindsey Norris arrives at the Dorchester familys estate to collect books left to the library, she instead finds a skeleton linked to a missing persons case from 1989, and sets out to solve this mystery and throw the book at a killer who thought they got away with murder.
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Santa's little yelpers
by David Rosenfelt
Relieved when his co-worker Chris Meyers, the newest employee at the Tara Foundation, agrees to foster eight puppies, lawyer Andy Carpenter tries to overturn Chris wrongful conviction that he did time for. 50,000 first printing.
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The story of love
by Beth Wiseman
"In the second novel of Beth Wiseman's new Amish Bookstore series, wounds from the past must be healed to make way for a promising future"
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Voice of fear
by Heather Graham
When a botched undercover mission is semi-salvaged by criminal psychologist Patrick Law, FBI agent Jordan Wallace, who was close to cracking a human trafficking case, must partner with this man whose innate ability to get inside a criminals head may be the only thing keeping them alive. 10,000 first printing.
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Bad girl reputation : an Avalon Bay novel
by Elle Kennedy
"When former bad girl Genevieve West returns home for her mother's funeral, she's prepared to keep her distance from her ex-boyfriend, Evan Hartley. Their history is rife with turbulence. And passion. A heck of a lot of passion...which she's trying desperately to forget. But it's impossible not to run into Evan in the small coastal town where they once ran wild. And the moment she sees her gorgeous ex again, it's clear to Gen that Evan is still as unruly, sexy, and irresistible as ever. This time around,however, she's resolved to walk a new path. No more partying. No more foolish mistakes. Her plan is to temporarily remain in town to help her father run his business, but the second he finds somebody else, she's out of there. Evan has other ideas. He knows they can be good together, but he just has to convince Genevieve of that, even if it means turning over a new leaf himself. But can a bad reputation ever truly be shed? Do second chances really work? Genevieve and Evan are about to find out"
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Endless summer : stories
by Elin Hilderbrand
Nine stories set in the universe of the best-selling authors previous romance novels includes a visit with friends of Mallory Blessing three years after her death and Margot Carmichael encouraging her husband to reunite with his ex. 375,000 first printing.
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The Ghost and the Stolen Tears
by Cleo Coyle
When her part-time employee, Norma??a modern-day nomad whos become an uplifting presence in Quindicott, Rhode Island??is accused of stealing priceless jewels, bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure calls upon her paranormal P.I. to find the real culprit. Original.
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Mad honey : a novel
by Jodi Picoult
Her life upended when her husband revealed a darker side, Olivia MacAfee and her teenage son Asher move back to her New Hampshire hometown for a new beginning until Asher is implicated in the death of his girlfriend and she realizes hes hidden more than hes shared with her.
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Our missing hearts : a novel
by Celeste Ng
In a society consumed by fear, 12-year-old Bird Gardner, after receiving a mysterious letter, sets out on a quest to find his mother??a Chinese-American poet who left when he was 9 years old??leading him to NYC where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.
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Righteous prey
by John Sandford
When a mysterious vigilante group known only as The Five starts targeting the very worst of society, using their unlimited resources to offset the damage done by those theyve killed, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are called in to investigate??and destroy??this virtually untraceable group.
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Secrets of the Nile : a Lady Emily mystery
by Tasha Alexander
When, while on a lavish cruise up the Nile, their host, a renowned amateur British collector of antiquities, is poisoned to death, Lady Emily and her husband follow the clues to several 3,000-year-old sculptures in an attempt to unmask a killer whose motive is both shocking and brilliant. 40,000 first printing.
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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 6 through Labor Day.
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