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Annual Book Character Pumpkin Decorating Contest to Benefit Living Bread Food Pantry Bring in your decorated pumpkin by Friday October 13. Please do not cut real pumpkins. Using fake pumpkins is OK! Get your creative juices going! All ages can participate: adults, kids and teens! Voting with a canned good will take place between October 14 and 28 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. ------- The Library will be closed Monday October 9 for the holiday. |
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Donate in October for our November 4 Craft Swap 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 November 4 at 9:00am Nothing to donate? Stop by Saturday, November 4 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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 Qigong is an ancient Chinese health care system benefiting the body and mind, similar to Tai Chi. It integrates slow movements, breathing techniques and focused intention. Qigong practice is suitable for all levels of ability, and any age, and one is welcome to join classes any time. Offered by Dvora Eisenstein. Dvora has been a Tai Chi and Qigong student of Master Yang Jwing-Ming for over 33 years and has been teaching for more than 20. Her practice is focused on softness and centeredness. |
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Wed, Oct 4, 2023 -- Senior Book Club
Wed, 04 Oct 2023 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: Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Location: Senior Center
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The Massachusetts Library Collaborative's 50+ Job Seekers Group meets on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month, from 9:30am to 11:30am, and on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month at 6:00pm via Zoom. Register via the links on our website. If you are unemployed and actively looking, underemployed, seeking a new career direction, re-entering the job market after a long employment gap, or recently retired and looking for your "Encore Career", this networking group program is perfect for you! Remember, 85% of jobs are found through networking! |
Register once on our library calendar for either or both the morning and evening session and get the Zoom Link. |
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CreativeBug
Online arts and crafts projects. Painting and drawing instruction and daily practice.
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Tuesdays -- Rhyme Time at 10:00 AM
Tue, 2023 10:00:00 EST
Rhyme Time is a drop-in program intended for infants and toddlers. Each week we will share an interactive story, finger plays, music and movement activities, and more. Children are welcome to engage with the program as much as they feel comfortable. Our intention is to introduce early literacy skills in a low-key environment, followed by social play time (for both children and caregivers!).
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Fri, Oct 13, 2023 -- Lego Club at 2:00 PM
Fri, 13 Oct 2023 14:00:00 EST
For ages 5 and up - Come build and create with our 1000's of library legos. Meet new friends who like Legos, too. We will display your creations
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Sat, Oct 14, 2023 -- Lego Club at 9:00 AM
Sat, 14 Oct 2023 09:00:00 EST
For ages 5 and up - Come build and create with our 1000's of library legos. Meet new friends who like Legos, too. We will display your creations
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Thu, Oct 19, 2023 -- Spooky Pajama Storytime
Thu, 19 Oct 2023 18:00:00 EST
Wear your coziest pajamas and bring a stuffed, snuggly friend for a few spooky stories with Ms. Cailin! Storytime will be followed by Halloween-themed "Minute to Win It" games and a craft. All are welcome for stories, but the games and craft are best suited for ages 4+.
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Being Henry : the Fonz . . . and beyond
by Henry Winkler
With profound heart, charm and self-deprecating humor, the Emmy award-winning actor, producer and director, who has endeared himself to a new generation, shares the disheartening truth of his childhood, the pressures of a role that takes on a life of its own and the path forward once your wildest dream seems behind you. Illustrations.
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Dirty Thirty
by Janet Evanovich
Trenton, New Jersey's most underappreciated bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, while taking care of her boyfriend's giant orange dog, tracks the former security guard of a local jeweler who supposedly stole a fortune of diamonds, and must keep herself clean when everyone else is playing dirty.
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Nestlings
by Nat Cassidy
"Ana and Reid needed a lucky break. The horrifically complicated birth of their first child has left Ana paralyzed, bitter, and struggling: with mobility, with her relationship with Reid, with resentment for her baby. That's about to change with the words any New Yorker would love to hear--affordable housing lottery. They've won an apartment in the Deptford, one of Manhattan's most revered buildings with beautiful vistas of Central Park and stunning architecture. Reid dismisses disturbing events and Ana's deep unease and paranoia as the price of living in New York--people are odd--but he can't explain the needle-like bite marks on the baby."
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America Fantastica
by Tim O'Brien
The author of The Things They Carried delivers his first new novel in two decades, a rollicking odyssey, in which a bank robbery by a disgraced journalist sparks a cross-country chase through a nation corroded by delusion.
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If You Would Have Told Me
by John Stamos
A noted star of the beloved sitcom Full House chronicles the ups and downs of his life. Illustrations.
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Iris Kelly doesn't date
by Ashley Herring Blake
"Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partners that are perfect for them, and her parents are still blissfully married. And she's happy for all of them, truly. Iris doesn't want any of that-dating,love, romance. She'll stick to her commitment-free hookups, thanks very much, except no one in her life will just let her be. Everyone wants to see her settled down, but she holds firmly to her no dating rule. There's only one problem-Iris is a romance author facing an imminent deadline for her second book, and she's completely out of ideas. Perfectly happy to ignore her problems as per usual, Iris goes to a bar in Portland and meets a sexy stranger, Stefania, and a night of dancing and making out turns into the worst one-night stand Iris has had in her life. To get her mind off everything, Iris tries out for the lead role in a local play, a queer retelling of Much Ado About Nothing, but comes face-to-face with Stefania, whose real name turns out to be Stevie. Desperate to save face in front of her friends, Stevie asks Iris to play along as her girlfriend. Iris is shocked, but when she realizes the arrangement might provide her with some much-needed romantic content for her book, she agrees. As the two women play the part of a happy couple, lines start to blur, and they're left wondering who will make the real first move..."
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Let Us Descend
by Jesmyn Ward
In the years before the Civil War, Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, struggles through the miles-long march, seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother, opening herself to a world beyond this world.
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Sisters under the rising sun
by Heather Morris
Prisoners of war in 1942, Australian nurse Nesta James and Norah Chambers, held in the notorious Camp Palembang, deep in the jungle of Sumatra, battle disease, starvation and unimaginable brutality meted out by Japanese soldiers, but found, in themselves and in each other, the courage and resourcefulness to survive.
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The Exchange : After the Firm
by John Grisham
In this explosive sequel to The Firm, Mitch, a partner at the largest law firm in the world, is asked for a favor by a mentor in Rome that plunges him into a sinister plot that has global implications and once against places everyone he holds dear in danger.
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Lilith
by Nikki Marmery
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The twelve dogs of Christmas : a novel
by Susan Wiggs
Arriving in Avalon, New York, to drop rescue puppies off at their forever homes, Brenda Malloy is trapped in the town by a blinding snowstorm, an escaped mutt and a life-saving encounter with a single dad and paramedic who restores her faith in Christmas—and love.
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Worthy
by Jada Pinkett Smith
Pulling no punches, a noted actress chronicles lessons of her storied life—from her rebellious youth running the Baltimore streets in the heyday of drug trafficking, to in-demand actress, outspoken activist, to wife and mother in a seeming dream-come-true of Hollywood success.
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Blood lines : a novel
by Nelson DeMille
Reunited and tasked with investigating the murder of CID Special Agent Harry Vance, an accomplished counterterrorism agent, Army Criminal Investigation Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor are immersed in many conflicts and contradictions of modern Germany as they discover Vance's murder is a prelude to a much more sinister event.
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The burnout : a novel
by Sophie Kinsella
Retreating to the British seaside resort she loved as a child, burned out professional Sasha meets Finn, who's just as stressed a she is, and forced together by curious messages addressed to them, talk about everything, including the simmering attraction between them.
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Geneva
by Richard Armitage
A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who is suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's is invite to a prestigious conference in Geneva to meet a enigmatic neuroscientist who has developed technology that could change medicine forever and also save her life.
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The leftover woman : a novel
by Jean Kwok
Arriving in New York City from her rural Chinese village without money or family support, Jasmine Young, on the run from her abusive husband, desperately searches for the daughter taken away from her at birth, which forces her to make increasingly risky decisions.
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Obsession
by Stuart Woods
Brought in to recover a young Croatian billionaire's wife, who was kidnapped while her husband was making a deal with Centurion Studios, Teddy Fay quickly comes to realize dark forces are at play, while dealing with an obsessive fan with deadly intentions who weasels his way onto the film set.
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Sword catcher
by Cassandra Clare
The body double of Castellane's Prince Conor Aurelian, Kei knows he has one destiny: to die for Conor, but when he meets Lin, a physician searching for forbidden knowledge to heal her friend, they are drawn into the underworld of a criminal ruler who offers them each what they want most.
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Brooklyn Crime Novel
by Jonathan Lethem
In 1970s Brooklyn, with the promise of violence everywhere, a currency itself, this story of community, crime and gentrification chronicles more than fifty years of life in one neighborhood where the players write the headlines, the histories and the laws of the streets.
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The intern
by Michele Campbell
A young Harvard law student falls under the spell of a charismatic professor.
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My darling girl
by Jennifer McMahon
Taking in her estranged mother who only has weeks to live, Alison, with memories of her violent abuse coming back to haunt her, discovers her mother is not quite who she seems as strange things start happening, forcing her to decide how far she's willing to go to protect her family.
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The night house
by Jo Nesbø
When he is sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne, 14-year-old Richard Elauved, when he is suspected in the disappearances of two classmates, must prove his innocence and preserve his sanity as he grapples with the dark magic that is possessing the town.
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The Roaring Days of Zora Lily
by Noelle Salazar
A museum curator finds a hidden label on a famous gown, unearthing the forgotten story of a talented young seamstress and her journey from the smoke-filled speakeasies of Jazz Age Seattle to the glittering costume houses of Hollywood.
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Second Act
by Danielle Steel
Out of a job and humiliated, Andy Westfield, the head of a prestigious movie studio, flees to a tiny, forgotten coastal town in England where he hires a former journalist to help get his affairs in order and in a surprising turn of events, finds a miracle that could change both their lives.
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A traitor in Whitehall
by Julia Kelly
In 1940, Evelyne Redfern, a secretary for Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the cabinet war rooms, uses all of her amateur sleuthing expertise garnered from years of reading mysteries to solve a murder, teaming up with a cagey minister's aide to expose a traitor in their midst.
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Wildfire
by Hannah Grace
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A winter in New York : a novel
by Josie Silver
Moving to New York, young chef Iris offers her services to save a struggling gelato shop in Little Italy where she finds herself falling for the owner's nephew Gio and his family until all the secrets she's been keeping threaten to ruin the new life—and new love—she's been building.
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Wreck the Halls
by Tessa Bailey
Stepping out of her comfort zone with her former best friend Beat Dawkins to convince their mothers to perform one last concert on Christmas Eve, Melody Gallard, the daughter of music royalty, discovers a decades-old scandal threatens to wreck everything—the reunion, their relationships with their mothers and their newfound love.
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Yumi and the nightmare painter / : A Cosmere Novel
by Brandon Sanderson
When their lives suddenly become intertwined in strange ways, Yumi, who comes from a land of gardens, meditation and spirits, and Painter, who lives in a world of darkness, technology and nightmares, must learn to compromise and work together to save their worlds from ruin.
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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 6 through Labor Day.
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