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Ferdinand is a peaceful bull, content to live on a farm after his escape from bull fighting training camp. But when the authorities return him to his captors, this existence is threatened. He needs help from his animal friends to break loose before facing off against El Primero. Loosely based on the book Ferdinand the Bull by Munro Leaf.
Are you worried about leaving your child home alone for the first time? We’ve got you covered. On Tuesday, August 21 we will be hosting South Shore Safety for Home Alone, Staying Safe, a course for kids in 4th-6th grade. Course cost is $35.
Topics covered in this class include:
- Safety to and from school
- Basic self-defense moves and verbal assertiveness
- Food/cooking safety
- Choking prevention and Heimlich maneuver
- Basic first aid and handling emergencies
- Handling fears
You must register for this course in advance and drop off a check ($35) to the Children’s Desk by August 10 or we will offer the space to the next waitlisted person.
Bring your imagination and have fun creating! The library supplies lots of LEGOs to build with.
Attention Wordsmiths: Join us for a fun night of Scrabble. All competition levels welcome and refreshments will be served. No sign up required.
The Nevins Library invites the community to help us make crocheted, knitted, and felt poppies for a large scale art project to remember those lost in World War I. The final project will be on display in November, coninciding with the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War I.
We are having drop in times all summer and through the fall where we provide the supplies and you provide the talent.
If you prefer to help with the project at home or with your own crafty group, we will have patterns available! Please drop off completed poppies to Sarah at the Main Desk at any time through November 1.
**Note: If you would like to support the project, but do not have time to make poppies or do not enjoy crafts like this - we will be accepting donations of red and black yarn. Also, you may donate $1 at the Main Desk and let us know the name of a Vet you'd like to honor. We will include your Vet's name on a ribbon with the poppies in the final display. Thank you!
This language enrichment program features songs, movement, books, and bubbles followed by a parent meet-and-greet time. No registration is required and big brothers and sisters can come as helpers.
THIS PROGRAM IS HELD OFF SITE @ MSPCA AT NEVINS FARM, 400 BROADWAY
The goal of this program is to foster a sense of responsibility and compassion. Animal lovers will listen to stories, sing songs, and meet animal friends.
Where: MSPCA at Nevins Farm, 400 Broadway
When: Friday, July 27
Time: 11 am-11:30 am
No registration necessary
In 1994 Dennis A. DiZoglio became Methuen’s first modern Mayor. Now he has written a book “The Value of Political Capital” chock full of his stories, experiences, and insights.
Join us as Mr. DiZoglio talks about his book and his time in public service in Methuen and beyond.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing, and refreshments will be served.
THIS PROGRAM IS HELD OFF SITE @ MSPCA AT NEVINS FARM, 400 BROADWAY
The goal of this program is to foster a sense of responsibility and compassion. Animal lovers will listen to stories, sing songs, and meet animal friends.
Where: MSPCA at Nevins Farm, 400 Broadway
When: Friday, July 27
Time: 11 am-11:30 am
No registration necessary
Come join the Bestseller Book Club as we read through the Bestsellers you may have missed. We meet the 1st Tuesday of each Month at 7pm, and every month we will have a different Genre of Bestseller to read and discuss!
September's Title is The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
A menacing psychological thriller that starts out like Rear Window and then veers off into unexpected places. An agoraphobic recluse languishes in her New York City home, drinking wine and spying on her neighbors. One day she witnesses a crime that threatens to expose her secrets.
Books are available to pick up at the Main Desk for one month prior to this meeting.
New members are always welcome! For more Information contact: Pat Graham 978-686-4080 x16
Attention Wordsmiths. Join us for a fun night of Scrabble. All competition levels welcome and refreshments will be served.
The Nevins Library invites the community to help us make crocheted, knitted, and felt poppies for a large scale art project to remember those lost in World War I. The final project will be on display in November, coninciding with the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War I.
We are having drop in times all summer and through the fall where we provide the supplies and you provide the talent.
If you prefer to help with the project at home or with your own crafty group, we will have patterns available! Please drop off completed poppies to Sarah at the Main Desk at any time through November 1.
**Note: If you would like to support the project, but do not have time to make poppies or do not enjoy crafts like this - we will be accepting donations of red and black yarn. Also, you may donate $1 at the Main Desk and let us know the name of a Vet you'd like to honor. We will include your Vet's name on a ribbon with the poppies in the final display. Thank you!
You've heard about the cloud and you know that it can change your life. But how? Find out in this free, informative session. We'll cover what a cloud is and what it can do for you.
Participants will listen to stories and play a game or make a craft. The theme this session is The Deep Blue Sea.
Participants will listen to stories, sing songs, play games, and make a craft. The theme this session is Superheroes!
Participants will listen to stories, play games, and make a craft. The theme this session is Hot Air Balloons.
Join us every second Thursday for our LGBT Book Group! This literary gathering focuses on books with themes, characters, and authors that are part of the LGBTQ community. All are welcome!
This month's book is The Two Hotel Francforts by David Leavitt. Stop by the library to pick up your copy!
This language enrichment program features songs, movement, books, and bubbles followed by a parent meet-and-greet time. No registration is required and big brothers and sisters can come as helpers.
Participants will listen to stories, sing songs, and play a game. The theme this session is Dinosaurs!
Drop-in anytime between 10am and 3pm to learn how to weave on a loom.
This language enrichment program features songs, movement, books, and bubbles followed by a parent meet-and-greet time. No registration is required and big brothers and sisters can come as helpers.
Participants will listen to stories, sing songs, and play a game. The theme this session is Nursery Rhymes!
Calling All Cooks!
Come join the Nevin's Library's Cookbook Book Club with Pat Graham.
Check out a copy of the selected book or books at the Main Desk, pick a recipe, (email it to me to avoid duplicates) and prepare it for the program.
We'll sample lots of good, interesting foods, talk about what worked, what didn't and how to make it easier and healthier.
We will also discuss Restaurants we visited and critique them.
September's Selection will be Favorite Cookbook of Your Choice - Make Your Favorite Recipe!
Participants will listen to stories, sing songs, play games, and make a craft. The theme this session is "It's Still Summer!"
We are ready to kick off another great year of book discussions! This group meets on the third Wednesday of the month at 
1pm.
New members are always welcome!
At this meeting, we will chat about the books we read this summer. Fall in love with a new book? Tell us all about it. Read a book that you hated? Tell us about that one too!
Refreshments will be served.
Attention Wordsmiths: Join us for a fun night of Scrabble. All competition levels welcome and refreshments will be served. No sign up required.
The Nevins Library invites the community to help us make crocheted, knitted, and felt poppies for a large scale art project to remember those lost in World War I. The final project will be on display in November, coninciding with the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War I.
We are having drop in times all summer and through the fall where we provide the supplies and you provide the talent.
If you prefer to help with the project at home or with your own crafty group, we will have patterns available! Please drop off completed poppies to Sarah at the Main Desk at any time through November 1.
**Note: If you would like to support the project, but do not have time to make poppies or do not enjoy crafts like this - we will be accepting donations of red and black yarn. Also, you may donate $1 at the Main Desk and let us know the name of a Vet you'd like to honor. We will include your Vet's name on a ribbon with the poppies in the final display. Thank you!
Participants will pair up with a friend and play Minecraft in creative mode. Space is limited so be sure to register early.
(A Teen Fiction for Adults Book Group)
While teen fiction has a specific audience in mind, adults have come to love all that there is to read there. This is your chance to read and discuss teen fiction with likeminded adults. Whether you actively read teen fiction already, or are curious to dip your toes into the water, this is the group for you! We meet on the 3rd Thursday of every month.
This month we will be discussing what everyone has read over the summer, and you'll be able to pick up the first book!
Participants must be 18 or older. If you are a teen, check out Book Babble!
Join us for a high energy storytime featuring our favorite stories, songs, games, and dancing!
Bring your imagination and have fun creating! The library supplies lots of LEGOs to build with. We will take pictures of what you build to put on our Facebook page.
This language enrichment program features songs, movement, books, and bubbles followed by a parent meet-and-greet time. No registration is required and big brothers and sisters can come as helpers.
This language enrichment program features songs, movement, books, and bubbles followed by a parent meet-and-greet time. No registration is required and big brothers and sisters can come as helpers.
Participants will listen to stories, sing songs, and play a game. The theme this session is Counting!
Participants will listen to stories and play a game or make a craft. The theme this session is Sunshine and Moonbeams.
Participants will listen to stories, sing songs, play games, and make a craft. The theme this session is Autumn Leaves.
Envision yourself block style! Create your very own Minecraft Selfie Portrait to take home.
Children and their fathers, grandfathers, or uncles are invited to this fun story and activity time with the added bonus of yummy donuts and juice. The theme this session is Apple Season.
Best-selling author Carla Neggers will be visiting the Nevins Library to talk about her new book, IMPOSTOR'S LURE, the latest in the popular series featuring FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan.
About the book:
Newlyweds Emma and Colin are suspicious when prosecutor Tamara McDermott is a no-show at a Boston dinner party. Matt Yankowski, head of HIT, Emma and Colin's small, elite Boston-based team, is a friend of Tamara's, and he needs them to find her. In London, a woman who was supposed to meet Emma's art-detective grandfather to talk about forgeries is discovered near death. Her husband, who stayed behind in Boston, has vanished. The couple's connection to Tamara adds to the puzzle. As the search for Tamara intensifies, a seemingly unrelated murder leads Emma, Colin and HIT deep into a maze of misdirection created by a clever, lethal criminal who stays one step ahead of them. As Emma draws on her expertise in art crimes and Colin on his experience as a deep-cover agent, the investigation takes a devastating turn that tests the strengths of their families and friendships as well as their FBI colleagues as never before. Impostor's Lure is full of clever twists that will keep readers guessing right to the stunning conclusion!
Carla is the author of more than 75 novels, which have been translated into dozens of languages and sold in over 35 countries. Copies of this book and others will be available for purchase and signing. Refreshments will be served.
The Who Was Series are biographies designed just for kids about important people, famous places, and historical events. This Book Club will meet once a month and lets kids use technology, crafts, and imagination to share what they learned in every book in the Who Was Series. Our first "Who Was" Book Club will be reading Who was Milton Hershey and learning all about how chocolate is made and of course taste testing different types of chocolate!
Come join the Bestseller Book Club as we read through the Bestsellers you may have missed. We meet the 1st Tuesday of each Month at 7pm, and every month we will have a different Bestseller to read and discuss!
October's Title is Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Ugliness seethes under a placid suburban surface in this multilayered novel, in which two families grow too close for comfort. Itinerant artist Mia and her teenage daughter Pearl rent a Shaker Heights, Ohio, house from the Richardsons, who have four kids around Pearl's age. Three of the four become Pearl's constant companions; the fourth becomes Mia's. A custody suit elsewhere in the community threatens everything -- and calls into being the "little fires everywhere." Told backwards through time via multiple narrators, this insightful book will appeal to fans of complex family dramas
Books are available to pick up at the Main Desk for one month prior to this meeting.
New members are always welcome! For more Information contact: Pat Graham 978-686-4080 x16
Attention Wordsmiths. Join us for a fun night of Scrabble. All competition levels welcome and refreshments will be served.
The Nevins Library invites the community to help us make crocheted, knitted, and felt poppies for a large scale art project to remember those lost in World War I. The final project will be on display in November, coninciding with the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War I.
We are having drop in times all summer and through the fall where we provide the supplies and you provide the talent.
If you prefer to help with the project at home or with your own crafty group, we will have patterns available! Please drop off completed poppies to Sarah at the Main Desk at any time through November 1.
**Note: If you would like to support the project, but do not have time to make poppies or do not enjoy crafts like this - we will be accepting donations of red and black yarn. Also, you may donate $1 at the Main Desk and let us know the name of a Vet you'd like to honor. We will include your Vet's name on a ribbon with the poppies in the final display. Thank you!
Join us every second Thursday for our LGBT Book Group! This literary gathering focuses on books with themes, characters, and authors that are part of the LGBTQ community. All are welcome!
This month's book is They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera. Stop by the library to pick up your copy!
It's no secret that the Internet is full of scams. Whether you encounter a suspicious email or a fraudulent webpage, be ready to react. This easy one-hour program will cover the most common Internet cons and how to counter them.
Join us on Methuen Day to walk through history! This self-guided tour of Methuen's past includes a map and brochure that will guide you through the heart of downtown, over the Spicket River, up to the Searles Building, and back! Learn all about the industrial roots of Methuen and its many hidden treasures. Perfect for families with children. Start in the Fireplace Room at the library and enjoy refreshments and fun along the way!
Calling All Cooks!
Come join the Nevin's Library's Cookbook Book Club with Pat Graham.
Check out a copy of the selected book or books at the Main Desk, pick a recipe, (email it to me to avoid duplicates) and prepare it for the program.
We'll sample lots of good, interesting foods, talk about what worked, what didn't and how to make it easier and healthier.
We will also discuss Restaurants we visited and critique them.
October's Selection will be The Greatest Cookbooks of All Time, According to Chefs: The Provence of Alain Ducasse, The Last Course by Claudia Fleming, El Bulli 1998-2002, La Technique by Jacques Pepin, Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer, Ma Gastronomie by Ferdinand Point, Simple Italian Food by Mario Batali
This month, we will be discussing THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY by Rachel Joyce.
About the book:
Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning a letter arrives, addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl, from a woman he hasn't heard from in twenty years. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye. Harold is convinced he must walk 600 miles to deliver a letter to Queenie in order to save her.
Please join us! Books are available at the main desk a month before we meet. New members are always welcome!
Refreshments will be served.
Attention Wordsmiths: Join us for a fun night of Scrabble. All competition levels welcome and refreshments will be served. No sign up required.
The Nevins Library invites the community to help us make crocheted, knitted, and felt poppies for a large scale art project to remember those lost in World War I. The final project will be on display in November, coninciding with the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War I.
We are having drop in times all summer and through the fall where we provide the supplies and you provide the talent.
If you prefer to help with the project at home or with your own crafty group, we will have patterns available! Please drop off completed poppies to Sarah at the Main Desk at any time through November 1.
**Note: If you would like to support the project, but do not have time to make poppies or do not enjoy crafts like this - we will be accepting donations of red and black yarn. Also, you may donate $1 at the Main Desk and let us know the name of a Vet you'd like to honor. We will include your Vet's name on a ribbon with the poppies in the final display. Thank you!
(A Teen Fiction for Adults Book Group)
While teen fiction has a specific audience in mind, adults have come to love all that there is to read there. This is your chance to read and discuss teen fiction with likeminded adults. Whether you actively read teen fiction already, or are curious to dip your toes into the water, this is the group for you! We meet on the 3rd Thursday of every month.
This month we will be discussing Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Participants must be 18 or older. If you are a teen, check out Book Babble!
Attention Wordsmiths. Join us for a fun night of Scrabble. All competition levels welcome and refreshments will be served.
The Nevins Library invites the community to help us make crocheted, knitted, and felt poppies for a large scale art project to remember those lost in World War I. The final project will be on display in November, coninciding with the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War I.
We are having drop in times all summer and through the fall where we provide the supplies and you provide the talent.
If you prefer to help with the project at home or with your own crafty group, we will have patterns available! Please drop off completed poppies to Sarah at the Main Desk at any time through November 1.
**Note: If you would like to support the project, but do not have time to make poppies or do not enjoy crafts like this - we will be accepting donations of red and black yarn. Also, you may donate $1 at the Main Desk and let us know the name of a Vet you'd like to honor. We will include your Vet's name on a ribbon with the poppies in the final display. Thank you!
Come join the Bestseller Book Club as we read through the Bestsellers you may have missed. We meet the 1st Tuesday of each Month at 7pm, and every month we will have a different Bestseller to read and discuss!
November's Title is A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
There is something about Ove. At first sight, he is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots - neighbors who can't reverse a trailer properly, joggers, shop assistants who talk in code, and the perpetrators of the vicious coup d’état that ousted him as Chairman of the Residents' Association. He will persist in making his daily inspection rounds of the local streets. But isn't it rare, these days, to find such old-fashioned clarity of belief and deed? Such unswerving conviction about what the world should be, and a lifelong dedication to making it just so?
Books are available to pick up at the Main Desk for one month prior to this meeting.
New members are always welcome! For more Information contact: Pat Graham 978-686-4080 x16
Join us every second Thursday for our LGBT Book Group! This literary gathering focuses on books with themes, characters, and authors that are part of the LGBTQ community. All are welcome!
This month's book is Zami: a new spelling of my name by Audre Lorde. Stop by the library to pick up your copy!
Has that broken toaster or lamp been bothering you? Bring it to the library! Our first repair cafe will host a variety of volunteers who will try to fix your gadget for free. Stop by for fun, friendly conversation, refreshments, and, of course, to save that beloved fixture from the trash.
**Please note that we will be meeting this week so as we will be closed next Wednesday afternoon in advance of Thanksgiving**
This month we are discussing THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead.
About the book:
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood - where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned and, though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.
Please join us! New members are always welcome. Books are available at the Main Desk for the month before we meet.
Attention Wordsmiths: Join us for a fun night of Scrabble. All competition levels welcome and refreshments will be served. No sign up required.
(A Teen Fiction for Adults Book Group)
While teen fiction has a specific audience in mind, adults have come to love all that there is to read there. This is your chance to read and discuss teen fiction with likeminded adults. Whether you actively read teen fiction already, or are curious to dip your toes into the water, this is the group for you! We meet on the 3rd Thursday of every month.
This month we will be discussing Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley
Participants must be 18 or older. If you are a teen, check out Book Babble!
Calling All Cooks!
Come join the Nevin's Library's Cookbook Book Club with Pat Graham.
Check out a copy of the selected book or books at the Main Desk, pick a recipe, (email it to me to avoid duplicates) and prepare it for the program.
We'll sample lots of good, interesting foods, talk about what worked, what didn't and how to make it easier and healthier.
We will also discuss Restaurants we visited and critique them.
November's Selection will be Favorite Family Thanksgiving Recipe that could be served to company!
Attention Wordsmiths. Join us for a fun night of Scrabble. All competition levels welcome and refreshments will be served.
Come join the Bestseller Book Club as we read through the Bestsellers you may have missed. We meet the 1st Tuesday of each Month at 7pm, and every month we will have a different Bestseller to read and discuss!
December's Title is The Rooster Bar by John Grisham
Three students who have borrowed heavily to attend a third-rate law school realize they have been caught in a scam when they discover that the school's owner also owns a bank specializing in student loans, and plot to expose the scam.
Books are available to pick up at the Main Desk for one month prior to this meeting.
New members are always welcome! For more Information contact: Pat Graham 978-686-4080 x16
Attention Wordsmiths: Join us for a fun night of Scrabble. All competition levels welcome and refreshments will be served. No sign up required.
Join us every second Thursday for our LGBT Book Group! This literary gathering focuses on books with themes, characters, and authors that are part of the LGBTQ community. All are welcome!
This month's book is Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawler. Stop by the library to pick up your copy!
Calling All Cooks!
Come join the Nevin's Library's Cookbook Book Club with Pat Graham.
Check out a copy of the selected book or books at the Main Desk, pick a recipe, (email it to me to avoid duplicates) and prepare it for the program.
We'll sample lots of good, interesting foods, talk about what worked, what didn't and how to make it easier and healthier.
We will also discuss Restaurants we visited and critique them.
December's Selection will be Festive Looking Christmas Dish or Dessert!
This month we are discussing THE STORY OF ARTHUR TRULUV by Elizabeth Berg.
About the book:
A moving novel about three people who find their way back from loss and loneliness to a different kind of happiness. Arthur, a widow, meets Maddy, a troubled teenage girl who is avoiding school by hiding out at the cemetery. The same cemetery where Arthur goes every day for lunch to have imaginary conversations with his late wife and think about the lives of others. The two strike up a friendship that draws them out of isolation. With Arthur's nosy neighbor Lucille, they create a loving and unconventional family, proving that life's most precious moments are sweeter when shared.
Please join us! Books are available at the Main Desk for the month before we meet. New members are always welcome.
(A Teen Fiction for Adults Book Group)
While teen fiction has a specific audience in mind, adults have come to love all that there is to read there. This is your chance to read and discuss teen fiction with likeminded adults. Whether you actively read teen fiction already, or are curious to dip your toes into the water, this is the group for you! We meet on the 3rd Thursday of every month.
This month we will be discussing The Radical Element by Jessica Spotswood
Participants must be 18 or older. If you are a teen, check out Book Babble!
Attention Wordsmiths. Join us for a fun night of Scrabble. All competition levels welcome and refreshments will be served.
Come join the Bestseller Book Club as we read through the Bestsellers you may have missed. We meet the 1st Tuesday of each Month at 7pm, and every month we will have a different Bestseller to read and discuss!
January's Title is The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian
Cassie Bowden is a flight attendant with a drinking problem. Rock bottom comes when she wakes up in a hotel room in Dubai with a dead man next to her. Warning: do not read this on a plane!
Books are available to pick up at the Main Desk for one month prior to this meeting.
New members are always welcome! For more Information contact: Pat Graham 978-686-4080 x6
Join us every second Thursday for our LGBT Book Group! This literary gathering focuses on books with themes, characters, and authors that are part of the LGBTQ community. All are welcome!
This month's play is The Boys in the Band by Mart Crowley. Stop by the library to pick up your copy!
Calling All Cooks!
Come join the Nevin's Library's Cookbook Book Club with Pat Graham.
Check out a copy of the selected book or books at the Main Desk, pick a recipe, (email it to me to avoid duplicates) and prepare it for the program.
We'll sample lots of good, interesting foods, talk about what worked, what didn't and how to make it easier and healthier.
We will also discuss Restaurants we visited and critique them.
January's Selection will be 9 Restaurant Cookbooks We Can Actually Use: The Mozza Cook Book by Nancy Silverton, Buvette: The Pleasure of Good Food by Judy Williams, The Frankies Spuntino Kitchen Companion & Cooking Manual by Frank Falcinelli, Roberta's Cookbook by Carlo Mirarchi, I love NY: Ingredients & Recipes by Danul Humm, Ad Hoc at Home by Thomas Keller, Urban Italian by Andrew Carmellini, The Zuni Cafe Cookbook by Judy Rodgers
This month we are discussing NEWS OF THE WORLD by Paulette Jiles.
About the book:
In the aftermath of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, an elderly widower and itinerant news reader, is offered fifty dollars to bring an orphan girl, who was kidnapped and raised by Kiowa raiders, from Witchita Falls back to her family in San Antonio. Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act "civilized". Yet, as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forming a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land.
Please join us! New members are always welcome. Books are available at the Main Desk for the month before we meet.
(A Teen Fiction for Adults Book Group)
While teen fiction has a specific audience in mind, adults have come to love all that there is to read there. This is your chance to read and discuss teen fiction with likeminded adults. Whether you actively read teen fiction already, or are curious to dip your toes into the water, this is the group for you! We meet on the 3rd Thursday of every month.
This month we will be discussing Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
Participants must be 18 or older. If you are a teen, check out Book Babble!
Come join the Bestseller Book Club as we read through the Bestsellers you may have missed. We meet the 1st Tuesday of each Month at 7pm, and every month we will have a different
Bestseller to read and discuss!
February's Title is House of Spies by Daniel Silva
Gabriel Allon heads to France in search of the shadowy ISIS mastermind known as Saladin and finds unlikely partners in his pursuit in former fashion model Olivia Watson and wealthy drug lord Jean-Luc Martel.
Books are available to pick up at the Main Desk for one month prior to this meeting.
New members are always welcome! For more Information contact: Pat Graham 978-686-4080 x16
Join us every second Thursday for our LGBT Book Group! This literary gathering focuses on books with themes, characters, and authors that are part of the LGBTQ community. All are welcome!
This month's book is White Houses by Amy Bloom. Stop by the library to pick up your copy!
Calling All Cooks!
Come join the Nevin's Library's Cookbook Book Club with Pat Graham.
Check out a copy of the selected book or books at the Main Desk, pick a recipe, (email it to me to avoid duplicates) and prepare it for the program.
We'll sample lots of good, interesting foods, talk about what worked, what didn't and how to make it easier and healthier.
We will also discuss Restaurants we visited and critique them.
February's Selection will be Soup, Stew, or Chowda: Saveur Soups & Stews, The Best Recipe: Soups & Stews, Main Course Soups & Stews, Soups & Stews for Fall & Winter Days, Soups, Chowderland, Chowder, Soup & Comfort, The Soup Bible, Soup Classics
This month we will be discussing WHITE HOUSES by Amy Bloom.
About the book:
Lorena Hickock meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. As her connection with the future first lady deepens into intimacy, what begins as a powerful passion matures into a lasting love, and a life that Hick never expected to have. She moves into the White House, where her status as first friend is an open secret, as are FDR's own lovers. After she takes a job in the Roosevelt administration, promoting and protecting both Roosevelts, she comes to know Franklin not only as a great President, but as a complicated rival and an irresistible friend, capable of changing lives even after his death.
Please join us! Books are available at the Main Desk the month before we meet. New members are always welcome!
(A Teen Fiction for Adults Book Group)
While teen fiction has a specific audience in mind, adults have come to love all that there is to read there. This is your chance to read and discuss teen fiction with likeminded adults. Whether you actively read teen fiction already, or are curious to dip your toes into the water, this is the group for you! We meet on the 3rd Thursday of every month.
This month we will be discussing The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Participants must be 18 or older. If you are a teen, check out Book Babble!
Come join the Bestseller Book Club as we read through the Bestsellers you may have missed. We meet the 1st Tuesday of each Month at 7pm, and every month we will have a different Bestseller to read and discuss!
March's Title is Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
A black neonatal nurse is charged with causing the death of a white supremacist’s newborn baby. The story is told from the points of view of the nurse, her attorney, and the baby’s heartbroken father. As always, Picoult’s attention to legal, organizational, and medical details help the tale ring true. What sets this book apart, though, are the uncomfortable points it makes about racism. The novel is both absorbing and thought-provoking, and will surely spark conversations among friends, families and book clubs.
Books are available to pick up at the Main Desk for one month prior to this meeting.
New members are always welcome! For more Information contact: Pat Graham 978-686-4080 x16
Join us every second Thursday for our LGBT Book Group! This literary gathering focuses on books with themes, characters, and authors that are part of the LGBTQ community. All are welcome!
This month's book is Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado. Stop by the library to pick up your copy!
Ever wonder how a computer really works? What's the difference between a motherboard and a memory card? Find out in this fun, hands-on introduction, where participants will get to open a real computer and handle its componants!
Calling All Cooks!
Come join the Nevin's Library's Cookbook Book Club with Pat Graham.
Check out a copy of the selected book or books at the Main Desk, pick a recipe, (email it to me to avoid duplicates) and prepare it for the program.
We'll sample lots of good, interesting foods, talk about what worked, what didn't and how to make it easier and healthier.
We will also discuss Restaurants we visited and critique them.
March's Selection will be 10 Cookbooks Everyone Should Own by Epicurious: Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child, The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating by Fergus Henderson, Larousse Gastronomique by Prosper Montagne, The French Laundry Cookbook by Thomas Keller, White Heart by Marco Pierre White, Roast Chicken and other stories by Simon Hopkinson, Essential of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazen, Tai Food by David Thompson, The Zuni Cafe by Judy Rodgers, The Kitchen Diaries by Nigel Slater, Moro the Cookbook by Samantha Clark, Plenty or Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghl
This month we are discussing THE LIFE SHE WAS GIVEN by Ellen Marie Wiseman.
About the book:
On a summer evening in 1931, Lilly Blackwood glimpses circus lights from the grimy window of her attic bedroom. On this unforgettable night, Lilly is taken outside for the first time - and sold to the circus sideshow. More than two decades later, nineteen-year-old Julia Blackwood has inherited her parent's estate and horse farm. For Julia, home was an unhappy place full of strict rules and forbidden rooms, and she hopes that returning might erase those painful memories. Instead, she becomes immersed in a mystery involving a hidden attic room and photos of circus scenes featuring a striking young girl.
Please join us! Books are available at the Main Desk the month before we meet. New members are always welcome!
(A Teen Fiction for Adults Book Group)
While teen fiction has a specific audience in mind, adults have come to love all that there is to read there. This is your chance to read and discuss teen fiction with likeminded adults. Whether you actively read teen fiction already, or are curious to dip your toes into the water, this is the group for you! We meet on the 3rd Thursday of every month.
This month we will be discussing Bluescreen by Dan Wells
Participants must be 18 or older. If you are a teen, check out Book Babble!
Come join the Bestseller Book Club as we read through the Bestsellers you may have missed. We meet the 1st Tuesday of each Month at 7pm, and every month we will have a different Bestseller to read and discuss!
April's Title is The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
An intruder in the middle of the night leaves Lo Blacklock feeling vulnerable. Trying to shake off her fears, she hopes her big break of covering the maiden voyage of the luxury cruise ship, the Aurora, will help. The first night of the voyage changes everything. What did she really see in the water and who was the woman in the cabin next door? The claustrophobic feeling of being on a ship and the twists and turns of who, and what, to believe keep you on the edge of your seat
Books are available to pick up at the Main Desk for one month prior to this meeting.
New members are always welcome! For more Information contact: Pat Graham 978-686-4080 x16
Join us every second Thursday for our LGBT Book Group! This literary gathering focuses on books with themes, characters, and authors that are part of the LGBTQ community. All are welcome!
This month's book is Surpassing Certainty by Janet Mock. Stop by the library to pick up your copy!
Calling All Cooks!
Come join the Nevin's Library's Cookbook Book Club with Pat Graham.
Check out a copy of the selected book or books at the Main Desk, pick a recipe, (email it to me to avoid duplicates) and prepare it for the program.
We'll sample lots of good, interesting foods, talk about what worked, what didn't and how to make it easier and healthier.
We will also discuss Restaurants we visited and critique them.
April's Selection will be Chefs with Michelin Stars: Joel Robuchon, Alain Ducasse, Goron Ramsay, Thomas Keller, Yosihiro Murata, Heston Blumenthal, Ferran Adria, Bjorn Frantzen, Alain Passard
This month we will be discussing BLUEBIRD, BLUEBIRD by Attica Locke.
About the book:
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules - a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders - a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman - have stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes - and save himself in the process - before Lark's long-simmering racial fault lines erupt.
Please join us! Books are available at the Main Desk the month before we meet. New members are always welcome.
(A Teen Fiction for Adults Book Group)
While teen fiction has a specific audience in mind, adults have come to love all that there is to read there. This is your chance to read and discuss teen fiction with likeminded adults. Whether you actively read teen fiction already, or are curious to dip your toes into the water, this is the group for you! We meet on the 3rd Thursday of every month.
This month we will be discussing Velvet Undercover by Teri Brown
Participants must be 18 or older. If you are a teen, check out Book Babble!
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Come join the Bestseller Book Club as we read through the Bestsellers you may have missed. We meet the 1st Tuesday of each Month at 7pm, and every month we will have a different Bestseller to read and discuss!
May's Title is The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Leni and her troubled family embark on a new way of life in Alaska’s wilderness in 1974 – hoping this is finally the solution for her troubled, POW father. In Alaska, Leni and her family are tested and when change comes to their small community her father’s anger threatens to explode and divide the town. This is a beautifully written novel, descriptive and engaging with well-developed characters and a strong sense of place.
Books are available to pick up at the Main Desk for one month prior to this meeting.
New members are always welcome! For more Information contact: Pat Graham 978-686-4080 x16
Join us every second Thursday for our LGBT Book Group! This literary gathering focuses on books with themes, characters, and authors that are part of the LGBTQ community. All are welcome!
This month's book is Find a Way by Diana Nyad. Stop by the library to pick up your copy!
This month we will be discussing THE ATOMIC CITY GIRLS by Janet Beard.
About the book:
In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked bus, destined for a city that doesn't officially exist. Oak Ridge, Tennessee has sprung up in a matter of months - a town of trailers and segregated houses, 24-hour cafeterias, and constant security checks. There, June joins hundreds of other young girls operating massive machines whose purpose is never explained. They know they are helping to win the war, but must ask no questions and reveal nothing to outsiders. When the bombing of Hiroshima brings the truth about Oak Ridge into devastating focus, June must confront her ideals about loyalty, patriotism, and war itself in this riveting novel of the everyday women who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II.
Please join us! Books are available at the Main Desk for the month before we meet. New members are always welcome!
(A Teen Fiction for Adults Book Group)
While teen fiction has a specific audience in mind, adults have come to love all that there is to read there. This is your chance to read and discuss teen fiction with likeminded adults. Whether you actively read teen fiction already, or are curious to dip your toes into the water, this is the group for you! We meet on the 3rd Thursday of every month.
This month we will be discussing A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena
Participants must be 18 or older. If you are a teen, check out Book Babble!
Learn how to make your presentations shine! We'll go over the basics of constructing a presentation as well as some neat ways to spice up a meeting with transitions, effects, and pictures.
Calling All Cooks!
Come join the Nevin's Library's Cookbook Book Club with Pat Graham.
Check out a copy of the selected book or books at the Main Desk, pick a recipe, (email it to me to avoid duplicates) and prepare it for the program.
We'll sample lots of good, interesting foods, talk about what worked, what didn't and how to make it easier and healthier.
We will also discuss Restaurants we visited and critique them.
May's Selection will be Picnic at the Nevins - Picnic Recipes: The Outdoor Table by April Mckinney, The Picnic Cookbook by Annie Bell, Paris Picnic Club by Shaheen Peerhabi, A Moveable Feast: Delicious Picnic Food by Katy Holder, The Picnic: Recipes & Inspiration from Basket to Blanket by Marnie Hanel, Picnic in Provence by Elizabeth Bard, 200 Picnic & Tailgate Recipes by Carol Beckerman
Come join the Bestseller Book Club as we read through the Bestsellers you may have missed. We meet the 1st Tuesday of each Month at 7pm, and every month we will have a different Bestseller to read and discuss!
June's Title is A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Deemed unrepentant by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he lives in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold.
Books are available to pick up at the Main Desk for one month prior to this meeting.
New members are always welcome! For more Information contact: Pat Graham 978-686-4080 x16
This month we will be discussing GREEN by Sam Graham-Felsen.
About the book:
Boston, 1992. David Greenfeld is one of the few white kids at the Martin Luther King Middle School. Unless he tests into the city's best public high school - which, if practice tests are any indication, isn't likely - he'll be friendless for the foreseeable future. Nobody's more surprised than Dave when Marlon Wellings sticks up for him in the school cafeteria. Mar's a loner from the public housing project on the corner of Dave's own gentrifying block, and he confound's Dave's assumption about black culture: He's nerdy and neurotic, a Celtics obsessive whose favorite player is the gawky, white Larry Bird. Together, the two boys are able to resist the contradictory personas forced on them by the outside world. But as Dave welcomes his new best friend into his world, he realizes how little he knows about Mar's. Cracks gradually form in their relationship, and Dave starts to become aware of the breaks he's been given - and that Mar has not.
Please join us! Books are available for the month before we meet. New members are always welcome! Be aware that this is our last meeting until September 2019. Have a great summer!
(A Teen Fiction for Adults Book Group)
While teen fiction has a specific audience in mind, adults have come to love all that there is to read there. This is your chance to read and discuss teen fiction with likeminded adults. Whether you actively read teen fiction already, or are curious to dip your toes into the water, this is the group for you! We meet on the 3rd Thursday of every month.
This month we will be discussing The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Participants must be 18 or older. If you are a teen, check out Book Babble!
