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Annual Holiday Basket Raffle
Thank you to all of our wonderful donors for the holiday gift baskets. The raffle has begun and will continue until December 17th. Baskets are on display on the main floor of the library. Winners will be drawn at noon on December 17th.
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Tickets
Available at the Information Desk until December 17th $2 per ticket $10 for 6 tickets
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Buck-A-Bag Book Sale
Just in time for holiday giving, our patrons can fill a bag with books and only pay $1! Bags will be provided from December 1 to December 31.
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$1 Per Bag
Book Sale runs from December 1st to December 31st
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Agawam Public Library Community Room Join guest speaker Rachelle Hannoush of Jump Start Preschool to learn how to keep children safe from sexual abuse without scaring them. This workshop will teach best practices to use when talking to children to prevent sexual abuse, and will provide parents with skills, language and tools to help keep their children safe in all situations. Videos designed for parents on this topic will be shown and there will be time for questions. There is no child care at this event.
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Join us for an exciting virtual chat with the highly-acclaimed and award winning novelist, Geraldine Brooks in conversation about her most recent New York Times Bestselling novel Horse. Brooks braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history.
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Join us for an online chat with bestselling author Fredrik Backman as we discuss his outstanding body of work, including his breathtaking new novel, The Winners, the third installment of the Beartown series.
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Monday, December 12th at 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Agawam Public Library Community Room Make sure you have your Ugly Holiday Apparel ready for the season! Bring along your own piece of apparel that you would like to decorate and we'll provide all the things you need to make it ugly.
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Saturday, December 17th at 9:30AM - 11:30AM Agawam Public Library Community Room Need a private spot to wrap those special gifts this year? Let us help! The Agawam Library will be holding two gift-wrapping sessions so that you can come and wrap gifts away from curious eyes and sneaky hands! We will have some supplies on hand: wrapping paper, bows and tags. Feel free to bring your own supplies as well as scissors and tape. Participants from our November craft night can bring the paper and tags they created then!
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You’re invited to explore early-American history during an online afternoon conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning historian Nicole Eustace as she discusses her 2022 award winning book Covered With Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America.
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Tuesday, December 6th at 7:00PM - 8:00PM Peirce Conference Room Join us to discuss the novel Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva! New members are always welcome. Regular print and large print copies of the book are available at the library's circulation desk.
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Monday, December 19th at 7:00PM - 8:00PM Peirce Conference Room Join us to discuss the remarkable nonfiction book Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom! New members are always welcome. Regular print and large print copies of the book are available at the library's circulation desk.
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Mondays, December 5th, 12th, and 19th 9:30AM - 10:30AM in the Community Room Join instructor Mary Ellen More for our free beginner ChairFit & ChairYoga classes! She will alternate weeks, teaching a ChairFit class (cardio, weights, stretch bands, balls balance) and a ChairYoga class. For the ChairFit class please bring a set of free weights (bands and balls will be provided). Registration is not required; we hope to see you there!
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1:00PM - 3:00PM in the Community Room This weekly drop-in event is for all crafters to have a place to work on projects and meet up with others who share their interests. Grab your craft supplies and join the fun!
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Wednesdays, December 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th 6:00PM - 7:30PM in the Peirce Conference Room This free class is open to all adult learners who are looking to improve their English in the areas of listening, speaking, reading and writing. This course will cover grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and various aspects of conversational English. Giselle Rose-Burroughs, the instructor, is a former Berlitz Languages Instructor, with extensive experience as an American English Language Coach. For more information or to register, please email Nancy at nsiegel@agawamlibrary.org! Thank you to the Friends of the Agawam Library for sponsoring these classes!
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Tuesday, December 27th 6:30PM in the Peirce Conference Room Hosted by award-winning author Katherine Anderson, this in-person workshop is open to writers of all levels and genres. There will be opportunities for peer and host feedback, learning the basics of self-publishing, finding opportunities for submission to magazines, literary journals and presses, assembling a portfolio and the basics of a qeury package for submissions and publications. These workshops are sponsored by the Agawam Center Library Association.
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The Little Book of Hygge : Danish Secrets to Happy Livingby Meik WikingA guide to the Danish philosophy of well-being shares advice and ideas for taking healthy breaks, living in the moment, creating positive atmospheres, building relationships and finding the richness of life in everyday small comforts.
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Spinning Silverby Naomi NovikDeciding to collect on the outstanding debts owed her family of moneylenders, a young woman is overheard boasting about being able to turn silver into gold by the winter creatures who haunt the wood, in this magical reimagining of the Rumpelstiltskin story.
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold : A Novelby Toshikazu KawaguchiIf you could go back, who would you want to meet? In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee - the chance to travel back in time. Four customers visit the café in the hopes of making that journey. But time travel isn't so simple, and there are rules that must be followed. Most important, the trip can last only as long asit takes for the coffee to get cold. Heartwarming, wistful, mysterious and delightfully quirky, Toshikazu Kawaguchi's internationally bestselling novel explores the age-old question: What would you change if you could travel back in time?
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The Bear and the Nightingaleby Katherine ArdenA debut novel inspired by Russian fairy tales follows the experiences of a wild young girl who taps the mysterious powers of a precious necklace given to her father years earlier to save her village from dark and dangerous forces.
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Still Lifeby Louise PennyThe first novel in the highly acclaimed Inspector Gamache mystery series, Still Life follows Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of Canada's Sûreté du Quebec is called to the tiny hamlet of Three Pines to investigate the suspicious hunting "accident" that claimed the life of Jane Neal, a local fixture in the village.
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Legends & Lattes : A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakesby Travis BaldreeWorn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv, the orc barbarian, cashes out of the warrior's life with one final score. A forgotten legend, a fabled artifact, and an unreasonable amount of hope lead her to the streets of Thune, where she plans to open the first coffee shop the city has ever seen. However, her dreams of a fresh start filling mugs instead of swinging swords are hardly a sure bet. Old frenemies and Thune's shady underbelly may just upset her plans. To finally build something that will last, Viv will need some new partners, and a different kind of resolve. "Take a break from epic battles and saving the world. Legends & Lattes is a wholesome, cozy novel that feels like a warm hug. This is my new comfort read." -Genevieve Gornichec, author of The Witch's Heart.
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