Coming Up At The Library
See MLS Calendar to register.
Staff mtg.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
This December, we will be reading "The Silent Wife" by A.S.A. Harrison. Reminiscent of Gone Girl and Girl on the Train, this thriller is rumored to soon become a motion picture starring Nicole Kidman.
Jodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including the affluent life they lead in their beautiful waterfront condo in Chicago, as she, the killer, and he, the victim, rush haplessly toward the main event. He is a committed cheater. She lives and breathes denial. He exists in dual worlds. She likes to settle scores. He decides to play for keeps. She has nothing left to lose. Told in alternating voices, "The Silent Wife" is about a marriage in the throes of dissolution, a couple headed for catastrophe, concessions that can’t be made, and promises that won’t be kept. Expertly plotted and reminiscent of "Gone Girl" and "These Things Hidden," "The Silent Wife" ensnares the reader from page one and does not let go.
Featuring Chris Roberts, Director - We are the Men hail from Cape Cod and beyond. Their voices fill the room while accompanied by our beautiful baby grand piano. You will definitely be in the holiday spirit after this show!
Plymouth Special Education Parents Advisory Council
Tots & Tales is presented on Wednesdays at 11:00am at the Main Library beginning September 12 through December 12 . Tots & Tales is a lap-sit storytime for children age three and under, accompanied by a caregiver, and is an opportunity for the youngest library users to enjoy all that the library has to offer: books, CDs, DVDs, puzzles, puppets, new friends, and fun! The storytime consists of age-appropriate rhymes, stories, songs, and other fun literacy building activities. No registration is required.
Pajama Story Time is presented on Wednesday nights at 6:30pm at the Main Library beginning September 12 through December 12. Children of all ages are invited. This will offer a great opportunity for working parents and caregivers to attend a fun story time at the library with their children. Feel free to wear your pajamas! No registration is necessary.
Meravelha will present, Midwinter Light, an evening in celebration of the winter solstice, featuring music, readings and imagery from the Medieval era. Our program includes pieces from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, Dufay and Hildegard Von Bingen, as well as settings of Middle English texts by local favorite John Fleagle, the evening will surely leave you in a spirit to settle in and enjoy the long dark nights as we approach midwinter. With harp, percussion, vielle and voice, the eight member Meravelha ensemble will provide an educational, theatrical and festive holiday concert for Seniors and friends. Using music, poetry, and movement, the ensemble tells stories that reflect themes illustrated within the songs and cultures of the 11th-15th centuries. The name “Meravelha,” which translates as “marvel” or “wonder” was taken from the song “Non es meravelha s’eu chan” (It is no wonder that I sing) by Bernard de Ventadorn, a 12th-century troubadour.
Refreshments provided by Plymouth Senior Living by Sunrise. 7:00 PM, Fehlow Room.
Workshop for enrolled Literacy Program GED/HiSET students
Family Story Time is presented on Thursdays at 11:00am at the Main Library beginning September 13 through December 13. This half-hour story program gives parents, caregivers and children ages 6 and under the opportunity to enjoy books, songs, rhymes and movement activities together. It also reinforces important early literacy skills to help children get ready to read. No registration is necessary.
homeschool brownie troop
Habitat will be holding an information session on how to obtain an application.
Information session for girls and parents wanting to know more about female BSA Scouts Troop 1920 and how to join.
If you are interested in stamp collecting, stop in at one of our club meetings. Follow the library calendar for our schedule. We usually meet on a Monday evening6-8pm. Our meeting place is upstairs in the boardroom. We meet monthly to look at stamps for sale from other stamp clubs across America. Meetings are always open to visitors. We are always looking to meet new stamp collectors! See the world- Collect stamps.
Kareem Sanjaghi is a stellar drummer along with his talented musicians who will perform a collection of their take on the season’s music.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
We will be holding an information session regarding how to obtain an application.
Bill Petrillo and instructor will teach the basics of the chess game, begining moves, middle game and end game strategies.
Plymouth First Board Meeting
Sponsored by Salem State University, the Massachusetts Children's Book Award Program is a statewide reading program for children in grades 4-6. Each year, a master list of 25 titles is released and a winner is chosen each April. Students are encouraged to read at least 5 books in order to place a vote for their favorite book in February of 2019. Discuss the books you've read and find out what you may want to read next! All of the books are available in the Children's Room! Snacks will be provided. Intended for children in grades 4-6. Registration is required.November meeting will be held on Thursday, November 29. Future meetings will be on January 31, February 28, and March 28.
Starting July 12, 2018 free Buti Flow Yoga classes will be offered thursday nights at 6:00 PM in the Fehlow Room of the Plymouth Public Library.
Join us!
Buti® classes utilize spiral structure technique® to facilitate the release + toning of the body - physical, emotional and energetic.
Through primal movement, dynamic asana and cardio-sprints, students breakdown the emotional barriers that hold them back from achieving self-love and true human connection.
Monthly Board Meeting
Join us Wednesday, December 26 at 11am for Wonder ( Rated PG)! Based on the bestselling book by R.J. Palacio, Wonder tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
This program is open to all ages and does not require registration. For more information, please contact the Youth Services Department at(508) 830-4250 or visit the library home page at www.plymouthpubliclibrary.org for a full list of events. The library is fully accessible; please let us know if you need special accommodation to attend.
Join us Thursday, December 27 at 11am for The Little Mermaid ( Rated G)! The Little Mermaid tells us the tale of a headstrong young mermaid who yearns to "spend a day, warm on the sand," Ariel trades her voice to Ursula, the Sea Witch, for a pair of legs. Ariel can only succeed if she receives true love's kiss in a few day's time and she needs all the help she can from a singing crab named Sebastian, a loudmouth seagull, and a flounder.
This program is open to all ages and does not require registration. For more information, please contact the Youth Services Department at(508) 830-4250 or visit the library home page at www.plymouthpubliclibrary.org for a full list of events. The library is fully accessible; please let us know if you need special accommodation to attend.
Mr. Vinny is back! Join him for an interactive shadow puppet show on Friday, December 28 at 11am. Mr. Vinny will entertain us with silly and surprising stories such as the “12 Lil’ Pigs and the Big Bad Pineapple”. For families with children ages 3 and up. No registration is required.
Piano and voice recital by the students of Kate Mills.
Ring in 2019 with us! Join us Monday, December 31 at 11:30am for crafts, music, dancing, refreshments, and fun. You don’t want to miss out on the balloon drop at 12! Entertainment will be provided by DJ Keith Hamlin of Just Dance Music Productions. For families with children ages 3 and up. No registration is required.
Monthly Board of Directors Meeting
homeschool brownie troop
52 Liberty Street Condo Association Annual Owners Annual Meeting
Poetry Reading
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Join us the first Tuesday of every month for an entertaining film. This month, come enjoy the newly released comedy hit, "Crazy Rich Asians".
2 hours
Description: Based on the best-selling novels by Kevin Kwan, "Crazy Rich Asians" follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu as she accompanies her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young, to his best friend's wedding in Singapore. Excited about visiting Asia for the first time but nervous about meeting Nick's family, Rachel is unprepared to learn that Nick has neglected to mention a few key details about his life. It turns out that he is not only the scion of one of the country's wealthiest families but also one of its most sought-after bachelors. Being on Nick's arm puts a target on Rachel's back, with jealous socialites and, worse, Nick's own disapproving mother taking aim. And it soon becomes clear that while money can't buy love, it can definitely complicate things. Starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, and Michelle Yeoh.
Come enjoy the movie with free popcorn!
Join us for a discussion of Kevin Kwan's "Crasy Rich Asians."
When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and quality time with the man she hopes to marry. But Nick has failed to give his girlfriend a few key details. One, that his childhood home looks like a palace; two, that he grew up riding in more private planes than cars; and three, that he just happens to be the country’s most eligible bachelor.
On Nick’s arm, Rachel may as well have a target on her back the second she steps off the plane, and soon, her relaxed vacation turns into an obstacle course of old money, new money, nosy relatives, and scheming social climbers.
This is a reptile program through The Thornton Burgess/Green Briar Nature Center.
Confused by the array of planners available? Start here with the basics of each planner system and how it can help you! Learn how to get organized, keep track of appointments, and make goals for the future. We'll have some freebies to get you started on your planner journey; no previous experience necessary to attend.
Book title to be determined
Amateur Photography Exhibit - Submit your own photograph of Boston and environs, historic, natural beauty, scenic, architectural etc.
Submit up to three works per Plymouth Public Library cardholder.
- No larger than 12" x 16"
- Mounted on Foam-core or similar sturdy backing
- Color or Black and White
- Submissions Due by January 7th, 2019 (Complete submission form at Reference Desk)
Exhibit will be held in Public Reference Computer area until March 30th, 2019
Did you know that Paul Revere was a metalsmith? Try this historic craft yourself on Saturday,January 12 at 2pm with Heather Beck, a Massachusetts-based metalsmith and jewelry maker. Participants will learn about the technical aspects of metalsmithing and will create their own copper bookmarks! Program is for teens ages 12 to 18. Registration is required.
This event has been developed with a donation from the Jen Kane Scholarship and Charitable Trust which provides scholarships, endowments and donations to charitable foundations in memory of Jen Kane, a Plymouth native who lost her life in the World Trade Center on September 11th.
Are you interested in learning about stamp collecting? Our club meets monthly at the Plymouth Library. We are looking for new collectors. Our meetings are open to visitors so just stop . Follow the Library calendar of events to see our meeting dates. We meet upstairs in the library boardroom usually on Monday evenings. We are members of the American Philatelic Society and the United Stamp Society. We have stamps for sale from other stamp clubs across the U.S. .Stop by and see us!
The year is 1944. The United States is entering it's third year in World War II, tensions are high at home, but the movies provide a break from the everyday emotions of the day. We will feature films that are celebrating their 75th Anniversary. Our first film is GASLIGHT, an American mystery-thriller.
After the death of her famous opera-singing aunt, Paula (Ingrid Bergman) is sent to study in Italy to become a great opera singer as well. While there, she falls in love with the charming Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer). The two return to London, and Paula begins to notice strange goings-on: missing pictures, strange footsteps in the night and gaslights that dim without being touched. As she fights to retain her sanity, her new husband's intentions come into question. Also stars Angela Lansbury in her cinematic debut.
Refreshments provided by Plymouth Senior Living by Sunrise.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
The January meeting of the PPL Cookbook Club will explore recipes from Bring It! Tried and True Recipes for Potlucks and Casual Entertaining by Ali Rosen.
Bring It! is the ultimate source for potluck, picnic, or dinner party-worthy dishes that combine simple prep with big taste! This cookbook features dozens of impressive-looking recipes that come together easily, and are perfect for carrying to any occasion.
Author Ali Rosen has put a long career in the food world to use, drawing on chef and restaurant secrets for easy dishes that will have friends begging for the recipe. Tantalizing dishes include: Pimento Cheese and Crab Dip, Snap Pea Salad with Parmesan and Bacon, Pistachio and Anchovy Pasta, Short Ribs with Quick Pickled Shallots, and S'mores Bars. Each recipe includes a note called "How to Bring It," for make-ahead, reheating, and transport instructions.
Copies will be available to check out at the circulation desk. There are also copies available to view at the Reference Desk. Registration is requested, sign up by clicking on the button to register. Please let us know what you're bringing to avoid duplications! Fill out the form below when you register. Not sure what you want to make yet? Contact Liz at edube@ocln.org, phone 508-830-4250, ext. 208 when you've decided.
A sales person will be present with information and applications.
To reserve a seat, call us at 1-800-890-6600 (TTY: 711)
2019 Annual Meeting of Unit Owners of the Summer Hill Condominium
Workshop for enrolled Literacy Program GED/HiSET students
Come spend an afternoon using your imagination to design and build with Lego bricks! Program is for children 8-11 and registration is required.
Join us for a discussion on Kevin Kwan's "Crazy Rich Asians."
When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and quality time with the man she hopes to marry. But Nick has failed to give his girlfriend a few key details. One, that his childhood home looks like a palace; two, that he grew up riding in more private planes than cars; and three, that he just happens to be the country’s most eligible bachelor.
On Nick’s arm, Rachel may as well have a target on her back the second she steps off the plane, and soon, her relaxed vacation turns into an obstacle course of old money, new money, nosy relatives, and scheming social climbers.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Sponsored by Salem State University, the Massachusetts Children's Book Award Program is a statewide reading program for children in grades 4-6. Each year, a master list of 25 titles is released and a winner is chosen each April. Students are encouraged to read at least 5 books in order to place a vote for their favorite book in February of 2019. Discuss the books you've read and find out what you may want to read next! All of the books are available in the Children's Room! Snacks will be provided. Intended for children in grades 4-6. Registration is required. January meeting will be held on January 24. Last meeting will be held on February 28.
Set up for Annual Winterfest Book Sale
Plymouth Public Library Corporation Members Only Viewing -pre-sale for Winterfest Book Sale.
Annual Winterfest Book Sale
Private Piano Teacher - Shu-hui Chen and her students
John Kennedy Toole - "A Confederacy of Dunces"
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Dr. Michael Harvey, Ph.D., who's written over 45 articles and books on hearing loss and mental health issues, will be presenting.
He's a Clinical Psychologist with a private practice in Framingham, MA. He writes a regular column, "What's on Your Mind?" in Hearing Life, the journal for the Hearing Loss Association of America.
His books include: Listen with the Heart: Relationships and Hearing Loss, The Odyssey of Hearing Loss: Tales and Triumph; Psychology with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons, A Systematic Model, and co-edited a book entitled: Culturally Affirmative Psychotherapy with Deaf Persons.
SNOW DATE from 1/18/19
Febuary 2 is World Ukelele Day! Join us for a Family Ukulele Program with special guest Julie Stepanek at 11am. Julie will teach children and caregivers how to play the ukulele. Come learn more about this classic Hawaiian instrument! For families with children ages 5-8.
The year is 1944. The United States is entering it's third year in World War II, tensions are high at home, but the movies provide a break from the everyday emotions of the day. We will feature films that are celebrating their 75th Anniversary. Our second film is the American musical comedy-drama film, Going My Way.
Directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald, the film is based on a story by Leo McCarey and is about a new young priest taking over a parish from an established old veteran. Crosby sings five songs in the film, with other songs performed onscreen by Metropolitan Opera's star mezzo-soprano, Risë Stevens (in the role of a famous Metropolitan Opera performer) as well as the Robert Mitchell Boys Choir (in the role of juvenile deliquents turned into a choir.)
Refreshments provided by Plymouth Senior Living by Sunrise.
Poetry Reading
The year is 1944. The United States is entering it's third year in World War II, tensions are high at home, but the movies provide a break from the everyday emotions of the day. We will feature films that are celebrating their 75th Anniversary. Our third film is, To Have and Have Not.
An American romance-war-adventure film directed by Howard Hawks, loosely based on Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel of the same name; however, the story was altered for the film. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan and Lauren Bacall in her film debut; it also features Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael, Sheldon Leonard, Dan Seymour, and Marcel Dalio. The plot centers on the romance between a freelancing fisherman in Martinique and a beautiful American drifter which is complicated by the growing French resistance in Vichy France.
Refreshments provided by Plymouth Senior Living by Sunrise.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Join us the first Tuesday of every month for an entertaining film. In observance of Black History month, this month's film is "Marshall", a dramatization of a trial from early in the career of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
1 hour, 58 minutes
Description: "Marshall" follows the young NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall (Chadwick Boseman) to conservative Connecticut to defend a black chauffeur (Sterling K. Brown) charged with sexual assault and attempted murder of his white socialite employer (Kate Hudson). Muzzled by a segregationist court, Marshall partners with a courageous young Jewish lawyer, Samuel Friedman (Josh Gad). Together they mount the defense in an environment of racism and Anti-Semitism. The high profile case and the partnership with Friedman served as a template for Marshall's creation of the NAACP legal defense fund. What better way to celebrate Black History Month than by viewing this incredible story? Based on "Young Thurgood: The Making of a Supreme Court Justice", researched and written by Larry S. Gibson.
Enjoy the film with free popcorn!
Presenter Tim Wiesberg will examine ghost stories related to the presidents and the White House, Lincoln's psychic life, and UFO interactions with Eisenhower, Carter and others.
All girls and their families/caregivers are invited to join us for flurries of fun with hands on activities to explore the world of Girl Scouts. Learn more about troops, programs, camp and additional member benefits.
Questions? Contact Ginger Hook at ghook@gsema.org or 617-352-0143. To request more info, go to www.gsema.org/moreinfo
Pianist Clare Longendyke performs Beethoven, Ravel, Rachmaninoff - SNOW DATE 2/17)
Staff mtg.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
This December, we will be reading "The Silent Wife" by A.S.A. Harrison. Reminiscent of Gone Girl and Girl on the Train, this thriller is rumored to soon become a motion picture starring Nicole Kidman.
Jodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including the affluent life they lead in their beautiful waterfront condo in Chicago, as she, the killer, and he, the victim, rush haplessly toward the main event. He is a committed cheater. She lives and breathes denial. He exists in dual worlds. She likes to settle scores. He decides to play for keeps. She has nothing left to lose. Told in alternating voices, "The Silent Wife" is about a marriage in the throes of dissolution, a couple headed for catastrophe, concessions that can’t be made, and promises that won’t be kept. Expertly plotted and reminiscent of "Gone Girl" and "These Things Hidden," "The Silent Wife" ensnares the reader from page one and does not let go.
Book title to be determined
Pianist Clare Longendyke performs Beethoven, Ravel, Rachmaninoff - SNOW DATE
Join us to discuss Tayari Jones's "An American Marriage."
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. As Roy’s time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. After five years, Roy’s conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together.
This stirring love story is a profoundly insightful look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. An American Marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look deep into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward—with hope and pain—into the future.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Each month we will have a light brunch and talk about a nonfiction book that is highly recommended or award winning. A list of books will be posted in advance, by January 1st. For more information, contact Assistant Library Director Jennifer Jones.
George Eliot's "Silas Marner"
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Peter Motyka - powerpoint presentation - Southwest Pacific Campaign 1941-42
Workshop for enrolled Literacy Program GED/HiSET students
Sponsored by Salem State University, the Massachusetts Children's Book Award Program is a statewide reading program for children in grades 4-6. Each year, a master list of 25 titles is released and a winner is chosen each April. Students are encouraged to read at least 5 books in order to place a vote for their favorite book in February of 2019. Discuss the books you've read and find out what you may want to read next! All of the books are available in the Children's Room! Snacks will be provided. Intended for children in grades 4-6. Registration is required. This will be out last meeting for the current list and we will be placing our votes!
The year is 1944. The United States is entering it's third year in World War II, tensions are high at home, but the movies provide a break from the everyday emotions of the day. We will feature films that are celebrating their 75th Anniversary. Our fourth film is National Velvet--a film for the whole family to enjoy!
An American technicolor sports film directed by Clarence Brown and based on the novel of the same name by Enid Bagnold, published in 1935. It stars Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Angela Lansbury and a young Elizabeth Taylor. In 2003, National Velvet was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
When Velvet Brown (Elizabeth Taylor), an equine-loving 12-year-old living in rural Sussex, becomes the owner of a rambunctious horse, she decides to train it for England's Grand National race. Aided by former jockey Mi Taylor (Mickey Rooney) and encouraged by her family, the determined Velvet gets her steed, affectionately called "The Pie," ready for the big day. However, a last-minute problem arises with the jockey and an unexpected rider must step in as a replacement.
Refreshments provided by Plymouth Senior Living by Sunrise.
Poetry Reading
Irish programming
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Join us the first Tuesday of every month for an entertaining film. With St. Patrick’s Day on the horizon, this month's move is John Ford’s classic masterpiece "The Quiet Man".
2 hours, 9 minutes
Description: Sean Thornton (John Wayne) has returned to Ireland from America to reclaim his homestead and escape his past. Sean's eye is caught by beautiful but poor Mary Kate Danaher (Maureen O’Hara), the younger sister of ill-tempered "Red" Will Danaher (Victor McLaglen). The riotous relationship that forms between Sean and Mary Kate, punctuated by Will's pugnacious attempts to keep them apart, form the main plot, with Sean's past as the dark undercurrent. Filmed on location in Ireland, the movie was nominated for 7 Academy Awards and won Oscars for best cinematography and director. Based on a story written by Kerry author Maurice Walsh (1879-1964) in his collection "Green Rushes." In the United States, “The Quiet Man” was initially published in the Saturday Evening Post on February 11, 1933. This was where the American film director John Ford first read it – and the rest, as they say, is cinema history. He secured the film rights shortly after reading it, but it was 1952 before his famous film was released.
Enjoy the movie with free popcorn!
Hello
Plymouth County 4-H would like to offer one of our well attended 4-H Babysitting classes at your South St. branch on March 9, 2019. We would like to use the board room if still available.
Get ready for the new growing season with our seed swap and garden planning event. Check out what's new in our seed lending library, get some ideas from our many gardening books, and have some light refreshements. All levels of gardening experience welcome.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
This December, we will be reading "The Silent Wife" by A.S.A. Harrison. Reminiscent of Gone Girl and Girl on the Train, this thriller is rumored to soon become a motion picture starring Nicole Kidman.
Jodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including the affluent life they lead in their beautiful waterfront condo in Chicago, as she, the killer, and he, the victim, rush haplessly toward the main event. He is a committed cheater. She lives and breathes denial. He exists in dual worlds. She likes to settle scores. He decides to play for keeps. She has nothing left to lose. Told in alternating voices, "The Silent Wife" is about a marriage in the throes of dissolution, a couple headed for catastrophe, concessions that can’t be made, and promises that won’t be kept. Expertly plotted and reminiscent of "Gone Girl" and "These Things Hidden," "The Silent Wife" ensnares the reader from page one and does not let go.
Boston Memories: The Hometown Team: Four Decades of Boston Red Sox Photography, by Mike Shalin with photography by Steve Babineau. Buffet, Book Signing, Reading and Discussion.
Register today for a Boston Memories Finale, a-la-Fenway--Dublin Style!!
"Take Me Out to the Ballgame Buffet" Hot-dogs, popcorn, chips and a little Irish stew! We'll have some baseball food and then an exciting talk with the one and only Mike Shalin.
Author, Mike Shalin is a veteran of more than four decades in sports journalism, working for the Boston Herald and the New York Post. He spent much of his early career covering hockey before moving on to baseball and college sports. He is now a freelancer in the Boston area and has spent the past fifteen years as an official scorer at Fenway Park. Shalin is the author of Donnie Baseball: The Definitive Biography of Don Mattingly, as well as several books for young readers. He is also the coauthor of Out by a Step: The 100 Best Players Not in the Baseball Hall of Fame and Tales from the New York Rangers Locker Room.
Meet Mike Shalin, an author and sports journalist with more than 44 years of experience covering teams from the Boston area. His latest release, "The Hometown Team: Four Decades of Boston Red Sox Photography" is a scrap-book style book featuring fun and insightful commentary along with images captured by longtime sports photographer Steve Babineau.
Featured BoSox legends include: Carlton Fisk, Carl Yastrzemski, Jim Rice, Wade Boggs, Jonathan Papelbon, Dustin Pedroia, Curt Schilling, Kevin Youkilis, Jon Lester, Manny Ramirez, Pedro Martinez, Jason Varitek, Johnny Damon, Mookie Betts, and many more.
The book will be available for purchase and signing by the author. It's a great gift for Red Sox Fans eager to relive the glory days of their favorite players. Registration is required.
Join us to discuss Emma Donoghue's "The Wonder."
In the latest masterpiece by Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room, an English nurse brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle-a girl said to have survived without food for months-soon finds herself fighting to save the child's life.
Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who believes herself to be living off manna from heaven, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl.
Written with all the propulsive tension that made Room a huge bestseller, THE WONDER works beautifully on many levels--a tale of two strangers who transform each other's lives, a powerful psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil.
Sail Away on the Craft of pastel painting
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Workshop for enrolled Literacy Program GED/HiSET students
Each month we will have a light brunch and talk about a nonfiction book that is highly recommended or award winning. A list of books will be posted in advance, by January 1st. For more information, contact Assistant Library Director Jennifer Jones.
Come spend an afternoon using your imagination to design and build with Lego bricks! Program is for children 8-11 and registration is required.
James Joyces's "The Dubliners"
The year is 1944. The United States is entering it's third year in World War II, tensions are high at home, but the movies provide a break from the everyday emotions of the day. We will feature films that are celebrating their 75th Anniversary. Our final film in the series is the hilarious romp by Preston Sturges, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.
A classic screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton, and featuring Diana Lynn, William Demarest and Porter Hall. Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff reprise their roles from Sturges' 1940 film The Great McGinty. In this wacky comedy, the soldier-smitten Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) discovers that she is both married and pregnant after a raucous troop send-off party. While she has no idea who her new husband is, her longtime admirer, Norval Jones (Eddie Bracken), seizes the opportunity to help. When Trudy's cop father (William Demarest) catches wind of the situation, however, wacky misunderstandings follow, with the well-meaning Norval on the wrong side of the law.
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, which was filmed in 1942 and early 1943, but not released until 1944, was nominated for a 1945 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and, in 2001, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film ranks #54 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Laughs list of the top 100 funniest films in movie history.
Refreshments provided by Plymouth Senior Living by Sunrise.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Celtic Celebration of song and stories with Jay and Abby Michaels.
Paul Speidel Blues Band
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Join us the first Tuesday of every month for an entertaining film. This month we will show "The Finest Hours" based on Casey Sherman and Michael J. Tougias' book detailing a daring Coast Guard rescue off the New England seaboard.
1 hour, 57 minutes
Description: Starring Chris Pine and Casey Affleck, "The Finest Hours" is set in February of 1952, when one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Wellfleet, literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel. Praised for its special effects and gripping storm sequences as well as attention to period detail.
Enjoy the movie with free popcorn!
Come spend an afternoon using your imagination to design and build with Lego bricks! Program is for children 8-11 and registration is required.
Poetry Reading
Staff mtg.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Celebrate Patron Appreciation Day during National Library Week with the Staff of the Plymouth Public Library. We will be serving coffee and light refreshments while patron have an opportunity to visit with Staff and enjoy the displays that the individual Departments have organized. It is a chance to learn about a variety of services that the Library provides beyond books!!! No registration required, just stop on by.
Trio
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Each month we will have a light brunch and talk about a nonfiction book that is highly recommended or award winning. A list of books will be posted in advance, by January 1st. For more information, contact Assistant Library Director Jennifer Jones.
John Knowles "A Separate Peace"
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Fun Activity/Party for Seniors in conjunction with CAL
Workshop for enrolled Literacy Program GED/HiSET students
Acclaimed pianist, Jacqueline Schwab brings her new program to the library: Building Bridges—Vintage Music of Latin America
Jacqueline celebrates the sensual spirit, expressive melodies and pulsing dance rhythms of vintage habaneras, tangos, and waltzes, from Cuba, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and Mexico. These styles were the forerunners of samba, salsa, and other Latin music of today. Familiar and less well known melodies by composers Ernesto Nazareth, Ernesto Lecuona (made famous by I Love Lucy’s Desi Arnaz), Ignacio Cervantes, Juan Jose Castro and more, in classical and folk arrangements.
Pianist Jacqueline Schwab spins heartfelt musical stories, connecting listeners to the rich, multicultural strands of America’s musical tapestry. Her signature style—described by the New England Folk Almanac as “the jazz/classical improvisational spirit of Keith Jarrett and the touch of George Winston”—is hard to categorize but easy to recognize. In turns flowing or percussive, nuanced or primal, spare or embellished, reflective or passionate, elegiac or joyous, Jacqueline’s soulful playing speaks directly to the spirit. Her entwined classical and folk sensibilities arose from her childhood in Pittsburgh’s “melting pot” and further developed in Boston’s vibrant music scene. Her work with documentary film maker Ken Burns reacquainted her with Pittsburgh’s musical hero Stephen Foster and led to her folksy-yet-formal concerts of a diverse array of vintage American music.
In Ken Burns’ words: “Jacqueline Schwab brings more feeling and intensity to music than anyone I know. Her playing is insistent, physical, heartfelt and ... unusually moving.” Her distinctive playing infuses the sound tracks of Burns’ Grammy-winning Civil War, Baseball, Lewis and Clark, Mark Twain, The War, and The National Parks, among others. Critic Scott Alarik wrote she has “… an uncanny sensitivity to the moods and proprieties from other eras.” One listener wrote: “Your music, the touch you have, entwines the heart.”
She has also performed on The Irish in America, Ric Burns’ New York: A Documentary Film and others and has been composer for documentaries on the painter Mary Cassatt and on Mennonites. She has performed at the White House for President Clinton, and, with Scottish singer Jean Redpath, on public radio’s A Prairie Home Companion and on CBS’ Late Show with David Letterman. Jacqueline graduated from the New England Conservatory in Boston, majoring in piano improvisation in the Third Stream Department (renamed to Contemporary Improvisation). She has long played for English country dancing with the Bare Necessities quartet, whose flowing, group improvisational style and nationwide performances have inspired new generations of dancers and musicians. She has released four solo recordings and has played on over 50 other studio recordings, including with Scottish singer Jean Redpath, Scottish fiddlers Alasdair Fraser and Laura Risk, and Irish singer Aoife Clancy. She has performed concerts of vintage American music in almost every state of the Union. She lives on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts.
Title to be determined
Enjoy the annual poetry reading by the Tidepool Poets.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Poetry Reading
Heman Melville
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Join us for the first Tuesday of every month for an entertaining film. This month we will show "Bridge of Spies", based on the book "Bridge of Spies: A true story of the Cold War" by Giles Whittell.
2 hours, 22 minutes
Description: Stephen Spielberg's highly regarded drama relates the story of how, in the cold war, a lawyer, James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks) is recruited by the CIA and involved in an intense negotiation mission to release and exchange a CIA U-2 spy-plane pilot, Francis G. Powers. The pilot was arrested alive after his plane was shot down by the Soviet Union during a mission. Donovan had represented Rudolf Abel, a KGB officer arrested and tried for espionage in the United States, a role played by Mark Rylance who won the Oscar for Best Male Supporting Actor for his performance.
Enjoy the movie with free popcorn!
Chamber music with vocalist. And piano
Chamber music with vocalist. And piano
A panel presentation by 5 or more local authors with book selling and signing after.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
This December, we will be reading "The Silent Wife" by A.S.A. Harrison. Reminiscent of Gone Girl and Girl on the Train, this thriller is rumored to soon become a motion picture starring Nicole Kidman.
Jodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including the affluent life they lead in their beautiful waterfront condo in Chicago, as she, the killer, and he, the victim, rush haplessly toward the main event. He is a committed cheater. She lives and breathes denial. He exists in dual worlds. She likes to settle scores. He decides to play for keeps. She has nothing left to lose. Told in alternating voices, "The Silent Wife" is about a marriage in the throes of dissolution, a couple headed for catastrophe, concessions that can’t be made, and promises that won’t be kept. Expertly plotted and reminiscent of "Gone Girl" and "These Things Hidden," "The Silent Wife" ensnares the reader from page one and does not let go.
Each month we will have a light brunch and talk about a nonfiction book that is highly recommended or award winning. A list of books will be posted in advance, by January 1st. For more information, contact Assistant Library Director Jennifer Jones.
New England Chamber Players
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Workshop for enrolled Literacy Program GED/HiSET students
Title to be determined
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Jane Austin's "Pride and Prejudice"
Jen Kane Adventure Series
Poetry Reading
Trio Mirable will make a return visit to perform chamber music featuring Danby Cho.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Join us for the first Tuesday of every month for an entertaining film. This month we will show "The Walk", the true story of a young dreamer, Philippe Petit, based on his autobiographical memoir "To Reach the Clouds."
2 hours, 3 minutes
Description: "The Walk" recounts how Philippe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and a band of unlikely recruits together achieve the impossible: an illegal wire walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. With little more than nerve and blind ambition, Petit and his ragtag crew overcome daunting physical obstacles, betrayals, countless close calls and overwhelming odds to beat the system and execute their mad plan. Director Robert Zemeckis, whose previous credits include "Back to the Future" and "Forrest Gump", received critical praise for his dazzling direction. Gorgeous cinematography and gripping spectacle ultimately drive home this biopic. "The Walk" is an artful and cleverly planned story of its climatic sequence, paying homage to the artists and the structures it was executed upon.
Enjoy the movie with free popcorn!
Staff mtg.
Workshop with the Cape Cod Writers Center
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Title to be determined
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Title to be determined.
Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City"
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Each month we will have a light brunch and talk about a nonfiction book that is highly recommended or award winning. A list of books will be posted in advance, by January 1st. For more information, contact Assistant Library Director Jennifer Jones.
Teens ages 13-18 are invited to join us and Wicked Fun Games for an escape room challenge! Do you have what it takes to escape from the wizard's tower? Participants will gather ingredients, cast spells, and assemble a wizard's staff to ultimately teleport( and escape) from the wizard's tower. Registration required.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
George Capaccio, as Albert Einstein, physicist and humanitarian, invites you to enter the boundary-breaking universe that is the mind of Albert Einstein. You will discover that time and space are inseparable, that time actually slows down the faster you go, and that if you could travel at the speed of light, time would actually stop!
As part of the show, you’ll time travel with George on the trajectory of Einstein’s life — from lowly patent clerk in a Swiss office to world-class physicist. And you’ll gain insight into two of his greatest scientific achievements: the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity, both of which overturned long-held views about the very nature of reality and pointed the way to the computer revolution of the 21st century.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Circle your calendars for a fun night out - our annual Drive-In Movie Night! for families.
Plan to arrive at 5:00 to work on the creation of your child's "car" - bring your imagination and a large cardboard box and we will provide the rest of the supplies needed to put together an appropriate vehicle for watching our feature film, which will start at 6:00.
Turn a box into a car and join us at the Drive - In! Decorating starts at 5:00 followed by our feature film.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Herman Hesse's "Siddartha"
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Staff mtg.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Poetry Reading
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Albert Camus's "The Stranger" & "The Plague"
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Poetry Reading
Staff mtg.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Departmental Meeting of Technical Services Department
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Poetry Reading
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Bring your memories
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Poetry Reading
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Staff mtg.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
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