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Scituate Town Library Newsletter
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April 2026 Volume 7, Issue 4
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"The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also." -Harriet Jacobs Please feel free to contact Jessi Finnie, Library Director, if you have any questions or comments! Jessi Finnie, Library Director
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Library Hours Monday 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. Tuesday 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. Wednesday 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. Thursday 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. Friday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sunday October through April 1:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
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Python's Kiss: Stories
by Louise Erdrich
From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich, a captivating collection of short stories. Written over the past two decades, Louise Erdrich's magnificent story collection features a range of characters--a tribal newsletter editor whose son tells her a story that nothing in her experience can encompass, immigrant farmers whose tenuous hold on the earth, and sanity, is challenged, and ordinary people, bird lovers, artists, grade-school teachers, and romantics. A man is confronted with a folk-singing thief. A woman enters a corporately owned afterlife to seek revenge on her father. Accompanied by specially commissioned artwork by Aza Erdrich Abe--an intimate and revelatory creative collaboration between mother and daughter--these stories offer an opportunity to celebrate the wisdom and brilliant, wide-ranging imagination of one of America's most important writers.
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Snowshoe Kate and the Hospital Built for Pennies
by Margi Preus
Newbery Honor winner Margi Preus and illustrator Jaime Zollars shed light on a trailblazing doctor known as the Angel on Snowshoes in this inspiring picture book biography. Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb (or Dr. Kate, as she was known to her patients) was a doctor in rural northern Wisconsin during the early 1900s, a time when very few women practiced medicine. Because the nearest hospital was over two hours away and the snowy roads were often impassable, Dr. Kate frequently traveled many miles by snowmobile or snowplow to reach her patients. Sometimes she even went by snowshoes, which lead to her nickname, the Angel on Snowshoes. In her years as a doctor, she delivered an astonishing 4,000 babies, and those same children later played a key role in the Million Penny Parade, a massive grassroots fundraiser inspired by Dr. Kate's lifelong efforts to build a hospital in her community.
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The Joy of Snacking: A Graphic Memoir about Food, Love & Family
by Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell
From standup comedian, New Yorker cartoonist, and the author of Murder Book comes this fresh comics memoir about being a snacker in a world of foodies. With equal parts humor and unflinching honesty, Hilary traces her life story through food: from her childhood as the ultimate picky eater, her teenage and young adult years of disordered eating, and finally learning to love herself again. Punctuated throughout with ridiculous (but very real! and important!) snack recipes like a baggie of goldfish and burnt toast, Campbell captures the reality of growing up in a woman's body in the '90s and '00s in how it shaped her life in work, friendship, and dating.
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BOOK PACKS FOR ADULTS Can't decide what you want to read? No time to put items on hold? Want to be surprised when you open your bag? Request a "pack" of 5 thematic books chosen for you by the Scituate Town Library staff. We will call you when the pack is ready for pick up! Please allow at least 48 hours for processing.
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BOOK BITES FOR TEENSGet up to three personally picked library books and a yummy snack of your choice! Fill out the form today. Please allow at least 48 hours for processing.
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BOOK BUNDLES FOR KIDSRequest a "bundle" of 5-7 thematic titles, chosen for you by the Scituate Town Library Children's Staff. We call you when the bundle is ready for pick up! Picture books, chapter books... you decide! Please allow at least 48 hours for processing.
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- All of our electronic resources are highlighted on our home page under the dropdown menus of Reading & Entertainment and Research. Look for Overdrive (Libby), Hoopla, Kanopy, and more for downloadable and streaming books, movies, audiobooks and magazines.
- Need a card or having trouble with an existing or lost card? Please call or email the Circulation Staff.
- Need research assistance? Please call or email our Reference Staff.
- Need help with children's or teens services? Please call or email our Youth Services Staff.
- Many of our library apps require a PIN. If you have never changed your PIN, the default is "OCLN". If you encounter problems, please call us or email Circulation Staff.
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Have questions? Send us an email at any of the contacts listed above, or contact Library Director Jessi Finnie with questions.
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Scituate Town Library Teen PageSee what the Teen Room has going on here!
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