Library Board of Trustees Monthly Meeting -- virtual

"Rocket to Outer Space" is the theme today. Join us for live, online Storytime, by clicking on this link:

http://bit.ly/RocketStorytime

  In this Virtual program, Ms. Elisabeth will read picture books and sing songs, for you to participate in.  In May we hope to start up outdoor storytime that would be more frequent in the summer. Tomorrow, Wednesday April 14, come get a "Take and Make" Rocket and Moon craft, available 10:00 am - 7:00 pm, while supplies last.

781 848-0405 ext 4425 for Children's Room or estrachan@OCLN.org.

Kit pickups at Thayer Public Library will run Tuesday April 13th @10am-7pm.

Program for grades 5-12.  Registration required. Please allow 2 hours after registering to pick up your kit(s).

Flowers for spring!  Learn to make curled paper hyacinth flowers.  Grab your free kit, then enjoy these activities on your own time this month.  Need visual instructions?  Head over to Facebook or Instagram for a brief video tutorial.   

Kits Include:

• multi-colored paper
• instructions

Questions? Please email ccastle@braintreema.gov

This month's discussion book is The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katrina Bivald: 

"Once you let a book into your life, the most unexpected things can happen...

Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her book-loving pen pal, Amy. When she arrives, however, she finds Amy's funeral guests just leaving. The residents of Broken Wheel are happy to look after their bewildered visitor-there's not much else to do in a dying small town that's almost beyond repair.

You certainly wouldn't open a bookstore. And definitely not with the tourist in charge. You'd need a vacant storefront (Main Street is full of them), books (Amy's house is full of them), and...customers.

The bookstore might be a little quirky. Then again, so is Sara. But Broken Wheel's own story might be more eccentric and surprising than she thought.

A heartwarming reminder of why we are booklovers, this is a sweet, smart story about how books find us, change us, and connect us."

Book club books are available for pick up at the circulation desk about one month before the and are due back on the Friday following the Tuesday meeting date.

This discussion will be held on Zoom. Please register so that you will receive the Zoom invitation with meeting access. Invitations will be sent out the day before the meeting.

All readers are always welcome!

Click here to subscribe to the Thayer Public Library e-newletters!

Today, there's a Rocket and Moon craft for children to "Take & Make". Come to the Children's Room today 10:00 am - 7:00 pm, while supplies last.

 "Take & Make" crafts for children will continue on Wednesdays through April. Best for ages 2- 5.

     We're open for visits up to 30 minutes: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 10:00 am - 7:00 pm and Fridays 10:00 am - 5:00 pm.

Call the Children's Room  with any questions 781 848-0405 ext 4425.

This month's selection is The Flight Girls by Noelle Salazar. The Virtual Brown Bag Book Club meeting will be held via Zoom, 12:00-1:00 p.m. on April 14th, the second Wednesday of the month. The virtual meeting room will open at 11:50 a.m. for anyone who would like to arrive early and get settled with audio and video up and running.

This virtual meeting is open to new members and guests, but advance registration is required by Tuesday, April 13th. The Zoom invite will be mailed only to registered participants, one day before the meeting date.

Shining a light on a little-known piece of history The Flight Girls is a sweeping portrayal of women's fearlessness, love, and the power of friendship to make us soar.

1941. Audrey Coltrane has always wanted to fly. It's why she implored her father to teach her at the little airfield back home in Texas. It's why she signed up to train military pilots in Hawaii when the war in Europe began. And it's why she insists she is not interested in any dream-derailing romantic involvements, even with the disarming Lieutenant James Hart, who fast becomes a friend as treasured as the women she flies with. Then one fateful day, she gets caught in the air over Pearl Harbor just as the bombs begin to fall, and suddenly, nowhere feels safe.

The monthly selection is available as a downloadable e-book in the library's Hoopla collection: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13520332. You must have a Thayer Public Library card to access the Thayer Public Library's Hoopla collection, but if you have a library card from a different library that offers Hoopla, you can also find it in your library's Hoopla collection. Hoopla has no holds, no waiting, so you will be able to borrow the book right away.

Copies of the print edition in regular and large-print will be available at the library one month ahead of the meeting. Just ask for the Brown Bag Book Club selection at the Circulation Desk on the Main Level.

A seedling for planting and a "Good to Grow" activity bag for children is available . For School Vacation Week, bags for three age levels are offered: ages 3 - 5, ages 6 - 8, ages 9 - 11. The theme is  Earth Day.

Pick up times:     Friday, April 16 from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm (the day School Vacation starts) 

                           Tuesday April 20 from 10:00 am - 7:00 pm

                            Wednesday April 21 10:00 am - 7:00 pm, while supplies last.

   We're open for visits up to 30 minutes: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 10:00 am - 7:00 pm and Fridays 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Call the Children's Room  with any questions 781 848-0405 ext 4425. 

A seedling for planting and a "Good to Grow" activity bag for children is available . For School Vacation Week, bags for three age levels are offered: ages 3 - 5, ages 6 - 8, ages 9 - 11. The theme is Plants & Earth Day.

Pick up times:     Friday, April 16 from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm (the day School Vacation starts) 

                           Tuesday April 20 from 10:00 am - 7:00 pm

                            Wednesday April 21 10:00 am - 7:00 pm, while supplies last.

 We're open for visits up to 30 minutes: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 10:00 am - 7:00 pm and Fridays 10:00 am - 5:00 pm.   

Call the Children's Room  with any questions 781 848-0405 ext 4425. 

South Shore Book Buzz - tune in once a month for a teen book share livecast on Instagram. Learn about new YA books from South Shore Young Adult Librarians. Comment  in our live stream to recommend a recent book you read (or an old favorite you love) and hear what other South Shore teens are reading. Optionally, participants can share a book in the commentat that fits the monthly theme.  Dates and Instagram channels are below!

• February 16th @3:30-4:00pm - "Because We Love It" - hosted by @ventressteenlib
• March 16th @3:30-4:00pm - "Sports!" - hosted by @thayerpubliclib
• April 20th @3:30-4:00pm - "Humor/Poetry" - hosted by @duxburyfreelibrary
• May 18th @3:30-4:00pm - "Mystery" - hosted by @holbrooklibma

A seedling for planting and a "Good to Grow" activity bag for children is available . For School Vacation Week, bags for three age levels are offered: ages 3 - 5, ages 6 - 8, ages 9 - 11. The theme is Plants & Earth Day.

Pick up times:     Friday, April 16 from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm (the day School Vacation starts) 

                           Tuesday April 20 from 10:00 am - 7:00 pm

                            Wednesday April 21 10:00 am - 7:00 pm, while supplies last.

 We're open for visits up to 30 minutes: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 10:00 am - 7:00 pm and Fridays 10:00 am - 5:00 pm.

Call the Children's Room  with any questions 781 848-0405 ext 4425. 

Meet Robots Jack, and Cubetto in this Virtual presentation! During School Vacation, Ms. Elisabeth will show what they can do, and how to program these easy-to-use robots. Best for ages 5 - 11, it is open to all ages. The Robot Demo will be aired on Thayer Public Library's Facebook Live.  This virtual program may be viewed for several weeks on Facebook. Holds may be placed on Jack ("Code and Go Robot Mouse" is title in catalog)and Cubetto ("Cubetto Playset"), so the family can try them.

We're open for visits up to 30 minutes: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 10:00 am - 7:00 pm and Fridays 10:00 am - 5:00 pm.

Children's Room 781 848-0405 ext 4425

Let's Keep Braintree StormWater Clean! Celebrate Earth Day by learning from Madeline G. from the  Braintree Water Dept. Full of info for kids on where rain goes after it falls, and how we all can keep Braintree's StormWater drains clean.She has a cool model of a neighborhood.  It's really fun to see the water whoosh through the model!  Best for ages 5 - 11, it is open to all ages. This kid's level StormWater program will be virtual on Thayer Public Library's Facebook.  This program may be viewed for several weeks on Facebook. 

Children's Room 781 848-0405 ext 4425

This month's book is: Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy O. Frost

Fans of the A&E series Hoarders will be the ideal (but not the only) audience for this very intriguing book. The authors approach the subject, which they have studied for more than 10 years, from an analytic point of view. What makes people believe they shouldn't throw anything away? What causes otherwise ordinary men and women to fill their lives, and their homes, with detritus because they are unable to differentiate between useful items and waste? How is it possible for someone to live in a house full of trash and simply not know it is there (a phenomenon the authors call clutter blindness )? Hoarding isn't new Dante wrote about hoarders, and so did Dickens and most readers will recognize some aspects of themselves in the people the authors discuss. We may not be hoarders exactly, but the authors make us take a closer look at our own lives, wondering (for example) about that very fine line that divides a collector from a hoarder. Fascinating stuff that could generate some off-the-book-pages interest.— Booklist.

Book club books will be available for pick up at the circulation desk about one month before the discussion date and are due back on the night of the discussion.  

This meeting will be held on Zoom.  Registration is required and the Zoom invitation will be sent out the day before the meeting. 

All readers are always welcome.

"Tuesday Tunes" Sing-along program is when kids can sing and jump. Ms. Ashley joins us on keyboard. Ms. Elisabeth will lead children in singing traditional and favorite songs and rhymes. Best for ages 2 - 5, it is open to anyone who wants to sing. Tuesday Tunes will be held on Thayer Public Library's Facebook Live.  This virtual program may be viewed for several weeks on Facebook. 

We're open for visits up to 30 minutes: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 10:00 am - 7:00 pm and Fridays 10:00 am - 5:00 pm.

781 848-0405 ext 4425 Children's Room

New episode of "You Should Read This," available on @ 3pm on Instagram and Facebook!

"You Should Read This" is a 5 minute book recommendation video produced by Christina, the Young Adult Librarian. It features 2 books and an audiobook you should read

Are you interested in tracing your family's history?  Are you working on your genealogy and want to meet up with others who are working on their family trees?  Then join us at the Thayer Public Library's Genealogy Club!  All are welcome from novice to expert.  Come learn abut the resources that the library has to offer. We can compare notes and stories a well as help each other with research. 

Registration is required to receive the Zoom invitation by email.  Register online through the link below or over the phone at 781-848-0405, ext. 4417.

Today, there's a Butterfly craft for children to "Take & Make". Come to the Children's Room today 10:00 am - 7:00 pm, while supplies last.

 "Take & Make" crafts for children will take a break after today until mid-June, when the Summer Reading Program starts.

     We're open for visits up to 30 minutes: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 10:00 am - 7:00 pm and Fridays 10:00 am - 5:00 pm.

Call the Children's Room  with any questions 781 848-0405 ext 4425. 

Tonight we will be discussing Beantown Girls by Jean Healey. Book club books are available at the Circulation Desk on the Main Level about a month before the meeting and are due back on the Monday following the discussion.

This discussion will be held on Zoom. Please register so that you will receive the Zoom invitation with meeting access. Invitations will be sent out the day before the meeting.

All readers are always welcome!

Click here to subscribe to the Thayer Public Library e-newletters!

The TPL Writers Group meeting will be held virtually, via Zoom, on Tuesday, May 4, 3:00-4:00 p.m. Advance registration by noon on Tuesday, May 4, is required to receive the Zoom meeting invite. Register here on the event calendar, or email Laurie to register. If you have any questions on the writers group or how to attend virtually via Zoom, please email Laurie at lcavanaugh@braintreema.gov. 

Meet others who love to write! Share tips of the trade, and get/give encouragement and support to other area writers. The TPL Writers Group meets monthly to talk about works in progress and the writing and publishing process. Meetings will eventually return to Saturday morning, once the library schedule permits.

Reading briefly from your own work is optional. Meetings are sponsored by the Thayer Public Library; group meetings are facilitated by a librarian.

• mystery items
• instructions

This month's discussion book is The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson, the bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand. A breathtaking novel of love on the eve of World War I that reaches far beyond the small English town in which it is set. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND NPR

          "East Sussex, 1914. It is the end of England’s brief Edwardian summer, and everyone agrees that the weather has never been so beautiful. Hugh Grange, down from his medical studies, is visiting his Aunt Agatha, who lives with her husband in the small, idyllic coastal town of Rye. Agatha’s husband works in the Foreign Office, and she is certain he will ensure that the recent saber rattling over the Balkans won’t come to anything. And Agatha has more immediate concerns; she has just risked her carefully built reputation by pushing for the appointment of a woman to replace the Latin master.
            When Beatrice Nash arrives with one trunk and several large crates of books, it is clear she is significantly more freethinking—and attractive—than anyone believes a Latin teacher should be. For her part, mourning the death of her beloved father, who has left her penniless, Beatrice simply wants to be left alone to pursue her teaching and writing.
           But just as Beatrice comes alive to the beauty of the Sussex landscape and the colorful characters who populate Rye, the perfect summer is about to end. For despite Agatha’s reassurances, the unimaginable is coming. Soon the limits of progress, and the old ways, will be tested as this small Sussex town and its inhabitants go to war."

Book club books are available for pick up at the circulation desk about one month before the and are due back on the Friday following the Tuesday meeting date. This title is also vailable in Overdrive.

This discussion will be held on Zoom. Please register so that you will receive the Zoom invitation with meeting access. Invitations will be sent out the day before the meeting.

All readers are always welcome!

Click here to subscribe to the Thayer Public Library e-newletters!

This month's selection is Little Gods by Meng Jin. The Virtual Brown Bag Book Club meeting will be held via Zoom, 12:00-1:00 p.m. on May 12th, the second Wednesday of the month. The virtual meeting room will open at 11:50 a.m. for anyone who would like to arrive early and get settled with audio and video up and running.

This virtual meeting is open to new members and guests, but advance registration is required by 7pm on Tuesday, May 11th. The Zoom invite will be mailed only to registered participants one day before the meeting date.

"Jin's stunning debut follows 17-year-old Liya on her journey to China with the ashes of her recently deceased mother, a mysterious and mercurial woman whom Liya both loved and resented. Su Lan, her mother, was a former physicist from China who died in America, where she had lived and worked for nearly two decades. Intertwined with Liya's grief-stricken quest is the voice of Zhu Wen, Su Lan's former neighbor in Shanghai, whose memory of Su Lan as a beautiful, charismatic, and fiercely brilliant physics student in a happy marriage to a handsome doctor does not square with the woman Liya knows. The third narrative strand belongs to Yongzong, Su Lan's husband and Liya's father, who has long lost touch with Su Lan and has never known Liya. Liya arrives in China with only her mother's last known address, in Shanghai, where Su Lan had once lived with Yongzong. On first meeting Zhu Wen there, Liya realizes just how little she knew about her mother. 

Artfully composed and emotionally searing, Jin's debut about lost girls, bottomless ambition, and the myriad ways family members can hurt and betray one another is gripping from beginning to end." -- Publishers Weekly

The monthly selection is available as a downloadable e-book in the library's Hoopla collection: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12456861. You must have a Thayer Public Library card to access the Thayer Public Library's Hoopla collection, but if you have a library card from a different library that offers Hoopla, you can also find it in your library's Hoopla collection. Hoopla has no holds, no waiting, so you will be able to borrow the book right away. Copies of the print edition in regular and large-print will be available at the library one month ahead of the meeting. 

Library Board of Trustees Monthly Meeting

South Shore Book Buzz - tune in once a month for a teen book share livecast on Instagram. Learn about new YA books from South Shore Young Adult Librarians. Comment  in our live stream to recommend a recent book you read (or an old favorite you love) and hear what other South Shore teens are reading. Optionally, participants can share a book in the commentat that fits the monthly theme.  Dates and Instagram channels are below!

• February 16th @3:30-4:00pm - "Because We Love It" - hosted by @ventressteenlib
• March 16th @3:30-4:00pm - "Sports!" - hosted by @thayerpubliclib
• April 20th @3:30-4:00pm - "Humor/Poetry" - hosted by @duxburyfreelibrary
• May 18th @3:30-4:00pm - "Mystery" - hosted by @holbrooklibma

Are you interested in tracing your family's history?  Are you working on your genealogy and want to meet up with others who are working on their family trees?  Then join us at the Thayer Public Library's Genealogy Club!  All are welcome from novice to expert.  Come learn abut the resources that the library has to offer. We can compare notes and stories a well as help each other with research. 

Registration is required to receive the Zoom invitation by email.  Register online through the link below or over the phone at 781-848-0405, ext. 4417.

4 suspects, 1 murder- whodunnit?  Can you solve the mystery?  Play along with us over Zoom this Thursday evening.  

Play alone or as a team (you're playing for sleuth credit).  Registration required.

Once you register, you will be emailed game details and your 2021 Murder.  

This month's book is: A Woman of No Importance  by Sonia Purnell

The large cast of characters and nuanced detail in this exceptional true story require close attention, but the payoff for readers is tenfold. Purnell shines a spotlight on Virginia Hall, an American woman, by recounting her unprecedented heroism in WWII. An accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound cost Hall her leg. Even so, she hiked through the Pyrenees with a wooden prosthetic to escape Nazis who considered her a dangerous spy and top target for capture. Stories like this one layer on top of each other in a seemingly endless display of bravery. As part of the Resistance in France, Hall masterminded the prison escape of 12 agents, developed the tactics that would bloom into successful guerilla warfare, and cultivated a network of spies so effective that her superiors said progress in France would have been impossible without her. During her lifetime, Virginia's gender and her wooden leg were used as excuses to dismiss and undervalue her. Purnell's writing is as precise and engaging as her research, and this book restores overdue attention to one of the world's great war heroes. It's a joy to read, and it will swell readers' hearts with pride.—Booklist  

Book club books will be available for pick up at the circulation desk about one month before the discussion date and are due back on the night of the discussion.  This title is also available on Overdrive.

This meeting will be held on Zoom.  Registration is required and the Zoom invitation will be sent out the day before the meeting. 

All readers are always welcome.

New episode of "You Should Read This," available on @ 3pm on Instagram and Facebook!

"You Should Read This" is a 5 minute book recommendation video produced by Christina, the Young Adult Librarian. It features 2 books and an audiobook you should read

Join the Good Taste Cookbook Club at a virtual meeting on Tuesday, May 25, 6:30-7:30 p.m., to share your thoughts on cookbooks. Try out a recipe in advance of the meeting and take pictures; make a dish to share virtually at the meeting, or just browse through thre recipes and tell us which ones you might try in the future. It's up to you!

Main Selection: TBA
Available in print and on Hoopla: 

Alternate Selection: TBA
Available in print and on Hoopla:

For privacy and security on Zoom, advance registration is required by 12pm on Tuesday, May 25, but early registration is much appreciated. Register here (through the library calendar) or by phone (leave voicemail at 781-848-0405 x4430) or email (see contact info below) in order to receive the invitation to the Zoom meeting.

The cookbooks in e-book format are available through the library's Hoopla collection. You must have a Thayer Public Library card to access our Hoopla collection. Please check your own library's Hoopla collection, if you have a card from a different library. Hoopla has no holds, no waiting, so you will be able to borrow the book right away. Print copies are also available from the Circulation Desk or via curbside pickup, one selection per person. Please check library hours before visiting, as they are subject to change!

Please email Laurie at lcavanaugh@braintreema.gov if you are having trouble registering for the meeting or borrowing a copy of the book. If you'd like to, let Laurie know what recipe you’ll be trying. Modifications to recipes to use ingredients that are on hand or easily available are not only acceptable, but expected.

The Good Taste Cookbook Club is a bi-monthly book club, sponsored by the Thayer Public Library, which (usually) meets September through May.

Tonight's discussion is on Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam. Book club books are available at the Circulation Desk on the Main Level about a month before the meeting and are due back on the Monday following the discussion. This title is also available through Overdrive.

This discussion will be held on Zoom. Please register so that you will receive the Zoom invitation with meeting access. Invitations will be sent out the day before the meeting.

All readers are always welcome!

Click here to subscribe to the Thayer Public Library e-newletters!

Join a virtual Zoom webinar to hear three indie authors talk about their writing and publishing experience on Monday, June 7, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Registration through the library's event calendar or by email is required by the afternoon of the event. Coffee with Local Authors is a virtual event, so we have to ask you to provide your own coffee. We will provide the panel of interesting area authors!

This event is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required to receive the Zoom meeting details. The Zoom meeting will be set up in presentation format, with only the featured speakers on video. Audience members will not be on video, and will be able to ask questions through the chat during the Q&A portions of the program.

Please support our local authors by attending this free virtual event!

This month's discussion book has not yet been chosen

Book club books are available for pick up at the circulation desk about one month before the and are due back on the Friday following the Tuesday meeting date.

This discussion will be held on Zoom. Please register so that you will receive the Zoom invitation with meeting access. Invitations will be sent out the day before the meeting.

All readers are always welcome!

Click here to subscribe to the Thayer Public Library e-newletters!

This month's selection is Last Train to London by Meg Waite Clayton. The Virtual Brown Bag Book Club meeting will be held via Zoom, 12-1 pm on Wednesday, June 9th, the second Wednesday of the month. The virtual meeting room will open at 11:50 a.m. for anyone who would like to arrive early and get settled with audio and video up and running.

This virtual meeting is open to new members and guests, but advance registration is required by 8 pm on Tuesday, June 8th. The Zoom invite will be mailed only to registered participants one day before the meeting date.

A Historical Novels Review Editors' Choice

A Jewish Book Award Finalist

The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World War II-era story with the emotional resonance of Orphan Train and All the Light We Cannot See, centering on the Kindertransports that carried thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe--and one brave woman who helped them escape to safety.

The monthly selection is available as a downloadable e-book in the library's Hoopla collection: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13217844. You must have a Thayer Public Library card to access the Thayer Public Library's Hoopla collection, but if you have a library card from a different library that offers Hoopla, you can also find it in your library's Hoopla collection. Hoopla has no holds, no waiting, so you will be able to borrow the book right away. Copies of the print edition in regular and large-print will be available at the library one month ahead of the meeting. 

hold date, details TBD (photo contest, passive)

Library Board of Trustees Monthly Meeting

Book club books are available at the Circulation Desk on the Main Level about a month before the meeting and are due back on the Monday following the discussion.

This discussion will be held on Zoom. Please register so that you will receive the Zoom invitation with meeting access. Invitations will be sent out the day before the meeting.

All readers are always welcome!

Click here to subscribe to the Thayer Public Library e-newletters!

hold for date, event details TBD (Animal Sketchbook Project, outside on the green weather providing)

A virtual book hangout with tweens & teens from Thayer Public Library & Groton Public Library!

Swing by, show off your pets, and stay for a check in about The One and Only Ivan!

Meeting dates Monday 6/28, 7/12, 7/19, 7/26, & 8/2 @ 6:00pm.

Program Meets on zoom- make sure to rsvp!

This month's book is: Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger

We're all familiar with the idea of something a video clip, for example going viral. But how does it happen? Berger identifies six principles that operate, either singly or in combination, when anything goes viral, including social currency (a restaurant makes itself so hard to find that it becomes famous); emotion (the clip of Susan Boyle's first appearance on Britain's Got Talent exploded on YouTube because people reacted to it emotionally); triggers (more people search online for the song Friday on Friday than on any other day of the week); and practical value (a man's video showing how to cleanly shuck a cob of corn exploded due to its useful application). Some of what the author talks about here will seem utterly obvious, but there is plenty of insider stuff as well (for example, the brain trust at Apple debated which way the logo should face on the cover of its laptops: rightside up to the user, or rightside up to someone looking at the laptop's open lid?). On such decisions are fortunes made. An engaging and often surprising book. – Booklist

Book club books will be available for pick up at the circulation desk about one month before the discussion date and are due back on the night of the discussion.  This title is also available as an ebook on Hoopla.

This meeting will be held on Zoom.  Registration is required and the Zoom invitation will be sent out the day before the meeting. 

All readers are always welcome.

A virtual book hangout with tweens & teens from Thayer Public Library & Groton Public Library!

Swing by, show off your pets, and stay for a check in about The One and Only Ivan!

Meeting dates Monday 6/28, 7/12, 7/19, 7/26, & 8/2 @ 6:00pm.

Program Meets on zoom- make sure to rsvp!

This month's discussion book has not yet been chosen

Book club books are available for pick up at the circulation desk about one month before the and are due back on the Friday following the Tuesday meeting date.

This discussion will be held on Zoom. Please register so that you will receive the Zoom invitation with meeting access. Invitations will be sent out the day before the meeting.

All readers are always welcome!

Click here to subscribe to the Thayer Public Library e-newletters!

This month's selection is The Baker's Secret by Stephen P. Kiernan. The Virtual Brown Bag Book Club meeting will be held via Zoom, 12:00-1:00 p.m. on May 12th, the second Wednesday of the month. The virtual meeting room will open at 11:50 a.m. for anyone who would like to arrive early and get settled with audio and video up and running.

This virtual meeting is open to new members and guests, but advance registration is required by 7pm on Tuesday, May 11th. The Zoom invite will be mailed only to registered participants one day before the meeting date.

From the multiple-award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Hummingbird and The Curiosity comes a dazzling novel of World War II -- a shimmering tale of courage, determination, optimism, and the resilience of the human spirit, set in a small Normandy village on the eve of D-Day.

"This many-faceted, thought-provoking story prompts soul-searching about life, war, and death." - Booklist

The monthly selection is available as a downloadable e-book in the library's Hoopla collection: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12456861. You must have a Thayer Public Library card to access the Thayer Public Library's Hoopla collection, but if you have a library card from a different library that offers Hoopla, you can also find it in your library's Hoopla collection. Hoopla has no holds, no waiting, so you will be able to borrow the book right away. Copies of the print edition in regular and large-print will be available at the library one month ahead of the meeting. 

A virtual book hangout with tweens & teens from Thayer Public Library & Groton Public Library!

Swing by, show off your pets, and stay for a check in about The One and Only Ivan!

Meeting dates Monday 6/28, 7/12, 7/19, 7/26, & 8/2 @ 6:00pm.

Program Meets on zoom- make sure to rsvp!

Library Board of Trustees Monthly Meeting

This month's book is: TBA

Book club books will be available for pick up at the circulation desk about one month before the discussion date and are due back on the night of the discussion.  This title is also available as an ebook on Hoopla.

This meeting will be held on Zoom.  Registration is required and the Zoom invitation will be sent out the day before the meeting. 

All readers are always welcome.

hold for PopUp Art School (3/9/2021, awaiting confirmation from performer)

A virtual book hangout with tweens & teens from Thayer Public Library & Groton Public Library!

Swing by, show off your pets, and stay for a check in about The One and Only Ivan!

Meeting dates Monday 6/28, 7/12, 7/19, 7/26, & 8/2 @ 6:00pm.

Program Meets on zoom- make sure to rsvp!

Hold for South Shore YA Yoga

Book club books are available at the Circulation Desk on the Main Level about a month before the meeting and are due back on the Monday following the discussion.

This discussion will be held on Zoom. Please register so that you will receive the Zoom invitation with meeting access. Invitations will be sent out the day before the meeting.

All readers are always welcome!

Click here to subscribe to the Thayer Public Library e-newletters!

A virtual book hangout with tweens & teens from Thayer Public Library & Groton Public Library!

Swing by, show off your pets, and stay for a check in about The One and Only Ivan!

Meeting dates Monday 6/28, 7/12, 7/19, 7/26, & 8/2 @ 6:00pm.

Program Meets on zoom- make sure to rsvp!

Hold for South Shore YA Yoga

This month's discussion book has not yet been chosen

Book club books are available for pick up at the circulation desk about one month before the and are due back on the Friday following the Tuesday meeting date.

This discussion will be held on Zoom. Please register so that you will receive the Zoom invitation with meeting access. Invitations will be sent out the day before the meeting.

All readers are always welcome!

Click here to subscribe to the Thayer Public Library e-newletters!

This month's selection is Be Frank with Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson. The Virtual Brown Bag Book Club meeting will be held via Zoom, 12:00-1:00 p.m. on August 11th, the second Wednesday of the month. The virtual meeting room will open at 11:50 a.m. for anyone who would like to arrive early and get settled with audio and video up and running.

This virtual meeting is open to new members and guests, but advance registration is required by Tuesday, August 10th. The Zoom invite will be mailed only to registered participants, one day before the meeting date.

A sparkling talent makes her fiction debut with this infectious novel that combines the charming pluck of Eloise, the poignant psychological quirks of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and the page-turning spirit of Where’d You Go, Bernadette.

Reclusive literary legend M. M. “Mimi” Banning has been holed up in her Bel Air mansion for years. But after falling prey to a Bernie Madoff-style ponzi scheme, she’s flat broke. Now Mimi must write a new book for the first time in decades, and to ensure the timely delivery of her manuscript, her New York publisher sends an assistant to monitor her progress. The prickly Mimi reluctantly complies—with a few stipulations: No Ivy-Leaguers or English majors. Must drive, cook, tidy. Computer whiz. Good with kids. Quiet, discreet, sane.

When Alice Whitley arrives at the Banning mansion, she’s put to work right away—as a full-time companion to Frank, the writer’s eccentric nine-year-old, a boy with the wit of Noel Coward, the wardrobe of a 1930s movie star, and very little in common with his fellow fourth-graders.

The monthly selection is available as a downloadable e-book in the library's Hoopla collection: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12308961. You must have a Thayer Public Library card to access the Thayer Public Library's Hoopla collection, but if you have a library card from a different library that offers Hoopla, you can also find it in your library's Hoopla collection. Hoopla has no holds, no waiting, so you will be able to borrow the book right away.

Copies of the print edition in regular and large-print will be available at the library one month ahead of the meeting. Just ask for the Brown Bag Book Club selection at the Circulation Desk on the Main Level.

This month's book is: TBA

Book club books will be available for pick up at the circulation desk about one month before the discussion date and are due back on the night of the discussion.  This title is also available as an ebook on Hoopla.

This meeting will be held on Zoom.  Registration is required and the Zoom invitation will be sent out the day before the meeting. 

All readers are always welcome.

Book club books are available at the Circulation Desk on the Main Level about a month before the meeting and are due back on the Monday following the discussion.

This discussion will be held on Zoom. Please register so that you will receive the Zoom invitation with meeting access. Invitations will be sent out the day before the meeting.

All readers are always welcome!

Click here to subscribe to the Thayer Public Library e-newletters!

This month's selection is Hieroglyphics by Jill McCorkle. The Virtual Brown Bag Book Club meeting will be held via Zoom, 12-1 pm on Wednesday, September 8th, the second Wednesday of the month. The virtual meeting room will open at 11:50 a.m. for anyone who would like to arrive early and get settled with audio and video up and running.

This virtual meeting is open to new members and guests, but advance registration is required by 8 pm on Tuesday, September 7th. The Zoom invite will be mailed only to registered participants one day before the meeting date.

A mesmerizing novel about the burden of secrets carried across generations.

Lil and Frank married young, launched into courtship when they bonded over how they both—suddenly, tragically— lost a parent when they were children. Over time, their marriage grew and strengthened, with each still wishing for so much more understanding of the parents they’d lost prematurely.

Now, after many years in Boston, they’ve retired to North Carolina. There, Lil, determined to leave a history for their children, sifts through letters and notes and diary entries—perhaps revealing more secrets than Frank wants their children to know. Meanwhile, Frank has become obsessed with what might have been left behind at the house he lived in as a boy on the outskirts of town, where a young single mother, Shelley, is just trying to raise her son with some sense of normalcy. Frank’s repeated visits to Shelley’s house begin to trigger memories of her own family, memories that she’d hoped to keep buried. Because, after all, not all parents are ones you wish to remember.

Hieroglyphics reveals the difficulty of ever really knowing the intentions and dreams and secrets of the people who raised you. In her deeply layered and masterful novel, Jill McCorkle deconstructs and reconstructs what it means to be a father or a mother, and what it means to be a child piecing together the world around us, a child learning to make sense of the hieroglyphics of history and memory.

The monthly selection is available as a downloadable e-book in the library's Hoopla collection: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12468977. You must have a Thayer Public Library card to access the Thayer Public Library's Hoopla collection, but if you have a library card from a different library that offers Hoopla, you can also find it in your library's Hoopla collection. Hoopla has no holds, no waiting, so you will be able to borrow the book right away. Copies of the print edition in regular and large-print will be available at the library one month ahead of the meeting. 

This month's discussion book has not yet been chosen

Book club books are available for pick up at the circulation desk about one month before the and are due back on the Friday following the Tuesday meeting date.

This discussion will be held on Zoom. Please register so that you will receive the Zoom invitation with meeting access. Invitations will be sent out the day before the meeting.

All readers are always welcome!

Click here to subscribe to the Thayer Public Library e-newletters!

Library Board of Trustees Monthly Meeting

This month's book is: TBA

Book club books will be available for pick up at the circulation desk about one month before the discussion date and are due back on the night of the discussion.  This title is also available as an ebook on Hoopla.

This meeting will be held on Zoom.  Registration is required and the Zoom invitation will be sent out the day before the meeting. 

All readers are always welcome.

Book club books are available at the Circulation Desk on the Main Level about a month before the meeting and are due back on the Monday following the discussion.

This discussion will be held on Zoom. Please register so that you will receive the Zoom invitation with meeting access. Invitations will be sent out the day before the meeting.

All readers are always welcome!

Click here to subscribe to the Thayer Public Library e-newletters!

This month's discussion book has not yet been chosen

Book club books are available for pick up at the circulation desk about one month before the and are due back on the Friday following the Tuesday meeting date.

This discussion will be held on Zoom. Please register so that you will receive the Zoom invitation with meeting access. Invitations will be sent out the day before the meeting.

All readers are always welcome!

Click here to subscribe to the Thayer Public Library e-newletters!

This month's selection is The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson. Please be aware that monthly selections are subject to change. The Virtual Brown Bag Book Club meeting will be held via Zoom, 12-1 pm on October 13th (the second Wednesday of the month.) The virtual meeting room will open at 11:50 a.m. for anyone who would like to arrive early and get settled with audio and video up and running.

This virtual meeting is open to new members and guests, but advance registration is required by 8 pm on Tuesday, October 12th. The Zoom invite will be mailed only to registered participants one day before the meeting date.

Named a Most Anticipated book by O Magazine * GMA * Elle * Marie Claire * Good Housekeeping * NBC News * Shondaland * Chicago Tribune * Woman's Day * Refinery 29 * Bustle * The Millions * New York Post * Parade * Hello! Magazine * PopSugar * and more!

"The Kindest Lie is a deep dive into how we define family, what it means to be a mother, and what it means to grow up Black...beautifully crafted." -- Jodi Picoult

"A fantastic story...well-written, timely, and oh-so-memorable."-- Good Morning America

"The Kindest Lie is a layered, complex exploration of race and class." -- The Washington Post

The monthly selection is available as a downloadable e-book in the library's Hoopla collection: _____________. You must have a Thayer Public Library card to access the Thayer Public Library's Hoopla collection, but if you have a library card from a different library that offers Hoopla, you can also find it in your library's Hoopla collection. Hoopla has no holds, no waiting, so you will be able to borrow the book right away. Copies of the print edition in regular and large-print will be available at the library one month ahead of the meeting. 

Library Board of Trustees Monthly Meeting

Book club books are available at the Circulation Desk on the Main Level about a month before the meeting and are due back on the Monday following the discussion.

This discussion will be held on Zoom. Please register so that you will receive the Zoom invitation with meeting access. Invitations will be sent out the day before the meeting.

All readers are always welcome!

Click here to subscribe to the Thayer Public Library e-newletters!

This month's discussion book has not yet been chosen

Book club books are available for pick up at the circulation desk about one month before the and are due back on the Friday following the Tuesday meeting date.

This discussion will be held on Zoom. Please register so that you will receive the Zoom invitation with meeting access. Invitations will be sent out the day before the meeting.

All readers are always welcome!

Click here to subscribe to the Thayer Public Library e-newletters!

This month's selection is TBD . The Virtual Brown Bag Book Club meeting will be held via Zoom, 12:00-1:00 p.m. on July 14th, the second Wednesday of the month. The virtual meeting room will open at 11:50 a.m. for anyone who would like to arrive early and get settled with audio and video up and running.

This virtual meeting is open to new members and guests, but advance registration is required by 7pm on Tuesday, July 13th. The Zoom invite will be mailed only to registered participants one day before the meeting date.

 

The monthly selection is available as a downloadable e-book in the library's Hoopla collection: _____________. You must have a Thayer Public Library card to access the Thayer Public Library's Hoopla collection, but if you have a library card from a different library that offers Hoopla, you can also find it in your library's Hoopla collection. Hoopla has no holds, no waiting, so you will be able to borrow the book right away. Copies of the print edition in regular and large-print will be available at the library one month ahead of the meeting. 

Library Board of Trustees Monthly Meeting

Book club books are available at the Circulation Desk on the Main Level about a month before the meeting and are due back on the Monday following the discussion.

This discussion will be held on Zoom. Please register so that you will receive the Zoom invitation with meeting access. Invitations will be sent out the day before the meeting.

All readers are always welcome!

Click here to subscribe to the Thayer Public Library e-newletters!

Book club books are available at the Circulation Desk on the Main Level about a month before the meeting and are due back on the Monday following the discussion.

This discussion will be held on Zoom. Please register so that you will receive the Zoom invitation with meeting access. Invitations will be sent out the day before the meeting.

All readers are always welcome!

Click here to subscribe to the Thayer Public Library e-newletters!

This month's selection is TBD . The Virtual Brown Bag Book Club meeting will be held via Zoom, 12:00-1:00 p.m. on July 14th, the second Wednesday of the month. The virtual meeting room will open at 11:50 a.m. for anyone who would like to arrive early and get settled with audio and video up and running.

This virtual meeting is open to new members and guests, but advance registration is required by 7pm on Tuesday, July 13th. The Zoom invite will be mailed only to registered participants one day before the meeting date.

 

The monthly selection is available as a downloadable e-book in the library's Hoopla collection: _____________. You must have a Thayer Public Library card to access the Thayer Public Library's Hoopla collection, but if you have a library card from a different library that offers Hoopla, you can also find it in your library's Hoopla collection. Hoopla has no holds, no waiting, so you will be able to borrow the book right away. Copies of the print edition in regular and large-print will be available at the library one month ahead of the meeting. 

This month's discussion book has not yet been chosen

Book club books are available for pick up at the circulation desk about one month before the and are due back on the Friday following the Tuesday meeting date.

This discussion will be held on Zoom. Please register so that you will receive the Zoom invitation with meeting access. Invitations will be sent out the day before the meeting.

All readers are always welcome!

Click here to subscribe to the Thayer Public Library e-newletters!

Library Board of Trustees Monthly Meeting

The Reader's Group does not meet in December. See you in January!

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