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Summer is halfway over?? Have you checked out an item at the Library? Did you get your scratch ticket at checkout? That's right. Scratch off to see if you an an instant winner of a free book, free puzzle, free tote bag or something from our Treasure Cart. Otherwise enter your ticket to try to win 1 of 6 prizes given away on August 19. Gift cards to Tasty's , An Unlikely Story, and 2 free Climbs from TreeTop Adventures. For adults & teens. For Kids the last day to get beads in our Read and Bead program or turn in Early Literacy Activity Sheets is Friday, August 19. We hope you all had fun! End of the Summer Bubble and Popsicle Party... Friday, August 19 from 2:00 - 4:00pm ![](https://www.libraryaware.com/2391/Files/AnonymousDisplayWithCrop/131d543b-1b6d-46b7-b4bf-feadc3cbae5e?containerHeight=187&containerWidth=389&scaledHeight=187&scaledWidth=388&verticalOffset=0&horizontalOffset=0&quality=95&dpi=120) Join us for some End of Summer Reading FUN! We'll have popsicles, music and bubbles to celebrate the AWESOME SUMMER we just shared! Families can just drop in for some summer fun. And our Lego Room will be open all day from 1:00pm - 4:45pm for some great Lego Building fun!
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Our Summer Book Sale will be held during normal library hours in the conference room. Prices range from 50 cents to $1. Library discards will be included. Cash only. August 1-5 - Romance, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Young Adults August 8-12 - Non-Fiction There will be a $5 bag sale on the last day of each sale August 5 & 12 ONLY. DVDs and CDs will also be included.
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PebbleGo
PebbleGo is a curricular content hub specifically designed for K-2 students. Packed with informational articles, ready-made activities, and literacy supports for students of all abilities, it boosts engagement and fosters independent learning in core subject areas.
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Thu, Aug 18, 2022 -- Summer Family Concert Night at Telford Park - Cool Banana Wig Band
Thu, 18 Aug 2022 18:00:00 EST
Summer Concert Series - Come to Telford Park for a night of family music fun! - A concert each month for the 3 months of Summer 2022 August's concert features: COOL BANANA WIG BAND !! Cool Banan Wig's live concerts focus on kids coming up and jamming with the band, playing a variety of homemade or unusual instruments. This program made possible with support form the Plainville office of the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Friends of the Plainville Public Library.
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All August -- Donate Crafting Supplies to SWAP
August
Donate during the month of August: Bring your craft supplies at the front desk of the Library, during regular library hours. Be sure to pick up your swap ticket when you donate. Swap tickets gain early entry to the swap on Saturday September 17 at 9:00am Nothing to donate? Stop by Saturday, September 17 from 10:00 - 1:00pm and help yourself. Donations will be accepted to fund craft programs for adults and children at the Plainville Public Library. NOTE: We cannot accept open liquids such as paints, chemicals and glues. All supplies not taken by public will be used by the library for programs, donated to charity, or recycled.
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Wed, Aug 3, 2022 -- Senior Book Club at 1:15 PM
Wed, 03 Aug 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 Roses by Martha Hall Kelly
Location: Senior Center
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How to kill your best friend
by Lexie Elliott
When their close friend and former swim teammate, Lissa, drowns while on vacation with her husband, Georgie and Bronwyn attend a celebration of her life at Kanu Cove and discover danger lurking in the water and beyond.
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The girls are all so nice here
by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
Receiving ominous threats during a 10-year college reunion, Ambrosia and her best friend discover that they are being targeted by an unknown adversary who would exact revenge for a dangerous secret from their past. 150,000 first printing.
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Such a quiet place : a novel
by Megan Miranda
When the woman implicated in the murder of a couple in their formerly idyllic and close-knit neighborhood returns to Hollow’s Edge, suspicion spreads like a virus and it soon becomes apparent to Harper Nash that not everyone told the truth about the night of the murder.
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Carrie Soto is back : a novel
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A retired tennis champion comes out of retirement at age 37 after watching a young phenom beat her long-standing record at the 1994 US Open in the new novel from the New York Time best-selling author of Malibu Rising.
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Daisy Darker
by Alice Feeney
A family gathering for their matriarchs 80th birthday in her crumbling, gothic house on a tiny island begin disappearing one by one, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Rock Paper Scissors. 250,000 first printing.
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The Florence Legacy
by Lauraine Snelling
After their best friend dies, leaving a legacy behind, three women take a dream trip to Florence, Italy, in her memory, in this novel of friendship, grief and travel gone awryas well as the sweet discovery of unexpected romance. Original. 35,000 first printing.
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The ink black heart
by Robert Galbraith
This sixth novel in the highly acclaimed, internationally best-selling series finds Cormoran and Robin ensnared in yet another case filled with twists and turns. 500,000 first printing.
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The lost ticket
by Freya Sampson
Arriving in London, brokenhearted Libby Nichols meets elderly Frank who has been riding the bus for 60 years, hoping to find a girl he met in 1962, and decides to help him search, finding her tightly controlled world expanding as she opens her heart to new friendships and romance. Original.
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Other birds
by Sarah Addison Allen
Arriving on Mallow Island, right off the coast of South Carolina, to claim her late mothers apartment, Zoey meets her eccentric and secretive neighbors, including a girl on the run, a lonely chef, a legendary writer and three ghosts, each with their own stories whose endings havent been written yet. 200,000 first printing.
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Peg and Rose Solve a Murder
by Laurien Berenson
Polar opposites and bridge partners, 60-something former nun Rose and her sister-in-law Peg, who knows how to push all of Roses buttons, are drawn into a mysteryone they must work together to solvewhen the bridge clubs most accomplished player is murdered, and they fall under suspicion.
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Tick tock
by Fern Michaels
With Myras adopted daughter in a coma after a brutal attack, and signs that the organizations online security has been breached, the women of the Sisterhood have never been more vulnerable as a vicious felon bent on revenge stalks their every move.
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Afterlives
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
A young man returns home years after being kidnapped to find his parents gone and his sister basically a slave in a multi-generational saga set during the colonization of east Africa that won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Babysitter
by Joyce Carol Oates
The lives of three individuals, including the wife of a prominent businessman who is having an affair, a street hustler seeking to right an injustice and a serial killer called Babysitter, intersect in a Detroit suburb in the 1970s.
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Fox Creek : a novel
by William Kent Krueger
Cork OConner tries to find his wife who had accompanied a mysterious stranger on a visit the ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux before a group of mercenaries can, in the latest novel of the series following Desolation Mountain.
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Girl, forgotten
by Karin Slaughter
Forty years after Emily Vaughn was murdered on her prom night, U.S. Marshal Andrea Oliver picks up the cold case to find justice in the follow-up to the New York Times best-selling novel Pieces of Her. 250,000 first printing.
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Haven : a novel
by Emma Donoghue
Two monks leave seventh-century Ireland in a boat searching for an isolated spot to found a new monastery, but instead drift out to sea and wind up on a bare, steep island inhabited by thousands of birds. 100,000 first printing.
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Heartbreaker
by Sarah MacLean
The Matchbreaker, a woman trained to help brides avoid the altar, finds herself racing across London with the Duke of Clayborn, who is harboring secrets of his own, in the second novel of the series following Bombshell. 30,000 first printing.
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Love on the Brain
by Ali Hazelwood
While co-leading a NASA neuroengineering project with her archenemyLevi Ward, scientist Bee K�nigswasser meets her match in this brilliant man who suddenly turns into an ally when her career starts floundering, causing things to heat up between them and forcing her to make a difficult choice. Original.
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The ninth month
by James Patterson
Landing in the hospital where it is revealed she is pregnant, successful marketing executive Emily Atkinson, as women in her wealthy social circles go missing, finds her pregnancy becoming decidedly high-risk as a faceless enemy follows her every move. 40,000 first printing.
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Peanut Butter Panic
by Amanda Flower
When former judge Zaran Beven, whos famous for actively harming the Amish community, attends Harvest, Ohios first village-wide Thanksgiving celebration with her young boyfriend, chocolatier Baily King, after the boyfriend in a suspicious death-by-peanut allergy, must serve the killer their just desserts. Original.
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Rules at the school by the sea / : The Second School by the Sea Novel
by Jenny Colgan
Engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Maggie Adair, a teacher at Downey House the sea in Cornwall, must stop thinking about her colleague at the boys school down the road, while her boss, headmistress Veronica Deveral, must confront a scandalous secret she thought shed buried forever. 30,000 first printing.
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Small Town, Big Magic
by Hazel Beck
When an ancient evil awakens in her hometown of St. Cyprian, Missouri, witch Emerson, coming into her powers, has little time to explore these powers or her blossoming relationship with a childhood friend since she is tasked with saving the town and everything she loves.
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To Catch a Raven
by Beverly Jenkins
When the Declaration of Independence is stolen by a former Confederate official, fearless grifter Raven Moreaux, forced by the government to get it back, finds both her life and heart on the line when she falls for her partner who is posing as her husband. 30,000 first printing.
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All good people here
by Ashley Flowers
Twenty years after a fellow 6-year-old was abducted and murdered, Margot returns to Wakarusa, Indiana, and is shocked when another child similarly goes missing, in the debut novel from the host of the popular true crime podcast, Crime Junky.
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The blame game
by Sandie Jones
A psychologist specializing in domestic abuse, Naomi, after her clients file goes missing, wonders if her own dark past is coming back to haunt her and if her clients arent the only ones in danger.
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Firestorm : a novel
by Taylor Moore
A powerful energy consortium begins an aggressive mining operation that threatens to destroy special agent Garrett Kohls Texas ranch and his familys way of life in the new novel from the author of Down Range. 200,000 first printing.
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Love in the time of serial killers
by Alicia Thompson
Obsessed with true crime, Phoebe Walsh, while spending the summer in Florida, is convinced her new neighbor is a serial killer, but its not long before she realizes he could something scariera genuinely nice guy who can break down the walls around her heart. Original.
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A dark and stormy tea
by Laura Childs
After witnessing the murder of her friend Lois daughter, tea shop owner and amateur sleuth Theodosia Browning investigates and is surprised when so many suspects turn up, in the latest addition to the long-running series, following Twisted Tea Christmas.
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The family remains
by Lisa Jewell
In this sequel to the best-selling The Family Upstairs, two women are faced with complicated mysteries that are linked to a cold case that left three people dead in a Chelsea mansion 30 years ago.
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I remember you : a thriller
by Brian Freeman
After dying at a rooftop party in Las Vegas on the Fourth of July, Hallie Evers wakes up in the hospital, disoriented, but alive, with memories that are not fully her own and embarks on a cross-country search for answers.
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Luck and last resorts
by Sarah Grunder Ruiz
A chief stewardess on the super yacht Serendipity, commitment-phobic Nina Lejeune is content with her life until her ex-coworker and old flame, Irish chef Ollie Dunne, returns to the yacht with an ultimatum that draws them together amidst chaotic guests and crew drama. Original.
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Stay awake
by Megan Goldin
Liv Reese, waking up holding a bloodstained knife and her hands covered in scribbled messages, remembers nothing from the past two years and goes on the run for a crime she doesnt remember committing, followed by someone who will do anything to stop her from rememberingpermanently.
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All in good time : an Amish romance
by Linda Byler
"As May settles into family life, she has so much to be grateful for. Yes, there are plenty of challenges as she continues to heal from the demons of her past, but her loving husband and sweet children are the greatest earthly gift she could ask for. Andhaving Oba in their home is almost more precious than she could have imagined . . . at least, if it weren't for his ongoing anger and hardness of heart. May's children are steadily growing older, and eventually they begin to face relationship struggles of their own. Can May help them navigate the turbulent waters of young love? And will Oba's heart ever soften enough to find love, or will he always face loneliness and despair?"
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Black dog
by Stuart Woods
Introduced to a glamorous Manhattan socialite, Stone Barrington discovers his new companion has ties to a nefarious enemy who will stop at nothing to get what he wants, in the latest addition to the series following A Safe House.
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The book eaters
by Sunyi Dean
Part of The Family, a secret line of people for whom books are food, Devon, raised on a carefully curated diet of fairytales and cautionary stories, discovers that real life doesnt always come with happy endings when her son is born with an insatiable hunger for human minds.
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The codebreaker's secret / : A Wwii Novel
by Sara Ackerman
In this dual-timeline historical novel of codebreaking, secrets, murder and romance, set in both 1943 Honolulu and 1965 Muana Kea Beach Hotel, follows two womena cryptanalyist working to defeat the Japanese Army, and a rookie journalist investigating the disappearance of a high-profile guest during the hotels grand opening. 10,000 first printing.
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Dirt Creek
by Hayley Scrivenor
Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels investigates the disappearance of a 12-year-old girl from a small town in rural Australia, who was last seen with a strange man by a schoolfriend who refuses to speak to the police. 150,000 first printing.
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The many daughters of Afong Moy : a novel
by Jamie Ford
The New York Times best-selling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet returns with a powerful exploration of the love that binds one family across the generations.
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Mercury Pictures presents : a novel
by Anthony Marra
After Americas entry into WWII, Maria Lagana, an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties and jockeying positions until a man from her imprisoned fathers past threatens her carefully constructed facade.
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Reckoning : an FBI thriller
by Catherine Coulter
Agent Savich is called in to help a commonwealth attorney put the big-time criminal responsible for her parents deaths behind bars, while Agent Sherlock is assigned to protect a 12-year-old piano prodigyand granddaughter of a powerful crime boss from would-be kidnappers. 200,000 first printing.
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Where the sky begins : a novel
by Rhys Bowen
In 1940 London, during World War II, Josie, with nothing left and nowhere to go, ends up at the estate of the aristocratic Miss Harcourt, a reluctant host of the survivors of the Blitz, and convinces her to open a tea shop, seeing it as a chance for everyone to begin again.
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Wrong place wrong time : a novel
by Gillian McAllister
After witnessing her teenage son kill a man, a mother falls asleep in despair, wakes up and it is yesterday, and wakes up again and it is the day before yesterday, getting chance after chance to stop the murder and save her son. 150,000 first printing.
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