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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!
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 Fall.
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 A Fox in the Fall.
Families bring their own materials to assemble fairy houses with instructor Judy Burns Mullins. The Library will supply the space, glue guns, and glue sticks. Participants take their creations home and can bring them to the Fairy House Walk event at the 2018 Fall Festival at Greycourt on October 27th. You can read more about this event here https://thumbelinafairycraft.wixsite.com/methuenfairywalk
Here’s a list of things you should collect:
You Need A Base to Build On - find one of these: 5-7” diameter dried wood slice, 5-7” cardboard box, 5-7” flat rock, a frisbee, a 5-7” plant saucer, a 5-7” plate, a small tin or wood tray… can you think of anything else?
Your Base Needs A Lawn - gather enough to cover your base: whole broad leaves, sheet moss, felt, burlap, sandpaper…, if your base is wood or stone, you may want to leave it bare.
You Need A Frame For Your House - find one of these: a clean and empty tin can, small milk carton, soda bottle or small jar, a 4-5” square cardboard box, small balsa wood birdhouse, 3-4” clay or plastic planter pot.
Your House Needs Siding - collect enough to cover all (four) walls of your house: sticks .5” diameter or less, popsicle sticks, whole broad leaves, small to medium size flat rocks, felt, thick fabric, pieces of medium to thin bark.
Your House Needs A Roof - collect enough to create/cover your roof: thin sticks, thin to medium bark, flat rocks, pine needles, sheet moss, felt, thick fabric, shells, pinecone scales.
Your New Home Needs Decoration and Landscaping - collect as much or as little as you like of these: dried/fabric flowers, acorns, acorn caps, small rocks, pinecones, sticks, marbles, shells, bottle caps, feathers, crystals, loose moss.
NOTE TO PARENTS: While we will have hot glue sticks, hot glue guns, scissors, and various tools and craft materials on hand. ONLY ADULTS will be allowed to handle hot glue guns. Please bring your own tools from home if you have any. Thank you in advance!
Families bring their own materials to assemble fairy houses with instructor Judy Burns Mullins. The Library will supply the space, glue guns, and glue sticks. Participants take their creations home and can bring them to the Fairy House Walk event at the 2018 Fall Festival at Greycourt on October 27th. You can read more about this event here https://thumbelinafairycraft.wixsite.com/methuenfairywalk
Here’s a list of things you collect:
You Need A Base to Build On - find one of these: 5-7” diameter dried wood slice, 5-7” cardboard box, 5-7” flat rock, a frisbee, a 5-7” plant saucer, a 5-7” plate, a small tin or wood tray… can you think of anything else?
Your Base Needs A Lawn - gather enough to cover your base: whole broad leaves, sheet moss, felt, burlap, sandpaper…, if your base is wood or stone, you may want to leave it bare.
You Need A Frame For Your House - find one of these: a clean and empty tin can, small milk carton, soda bottle or small jar, a 4-5” square cardboard box, small balsa wood birdhouse, 3-4” clay or plastic planter pot.
Your House Needs Siding - collect enough to cover all (four) walls of your house: sticks .5” diameter or less, popsicle sticks, whole broad leaves, small to medium size flat rocks, felt, thick fabric, pieces of medium to thin bark.
Your House Needs A Roof - collect enough to create/cover your roof: thin sticks, thin to medium bark, flat rocks, pine needles, sheet moss, felt, thick fabric, shells, pinecone scales.
Your New Home Needs Decoration and Landscaping - collect as much or as little as you like of these: dried/fabric flowers, acorns, acorn caps, small rocks, pinecones, sticks, marbles, shells, bottle caps, feathers, crystals, loose moss.
NOTE TO PARENTS: While we will have hot glue sticks, hot glue guns, scissors, and various tools and craft materials on hand. ONLY ADULTS will be allowed to handle hot glue guns. Please bring your own tools from home if you have any. Thank you in advance!
Decorate a real pumpkin as your favorite book character and then enter it into our Pumpkinpalooza Contest if you would like.
Participants will listen to stories, sing songs, play games, and make a craft. The theme this session is Monsters.
If you
are a fan of Japanese animation, or even if you’re just curious about a new sort of storytelling, then join us for our monthly anime group. Once a month the club meets and watches a few episodes over snacks and talks about their favorite shows. It’s a great way to explore new shows.
No need to register. Just drop in!
DUE TO A SCHEDULE CHANGE ANIME CLUB WILL MEET ON OCTOBER 23RD INSTEAD OF THE 10TH. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE CHANGE.
Read for the Record brings together over 2 million people each year to read the same book. This year we'll be reading Maybe Something Beautiful by F. Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell.
Are you ready for Halloween? If you need help getting into the Halloween mood or love New England History, come hear about the spooky and Haunted History of New England with Chris Daley.
From the cursed Freetown State Forest here in Massachusetts, evidence of ghosts at the John Alden House in Duxbury, to the horrors of the Lizzie Borden House, and so much more.
Whet
her you like to write, draw, knit, build, code – basically just create – this is the club for you! Bring your supplies to the library and work among other creative teens. We’ll chat about what we’re working on, share advice and work on our projects together.
No need to register. Just drop in!
DUE TO A SCHEDULE CHANGE, TEEN CREATOR CLUB HAS BEEN MOVED FROM IT'S ORIGINAL DATE OF OCTOBER 11TH TO OCTOBER 25TH. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE CHANGE
You went to dinner with your new neighbors (they may be ghosts) and they’ve locked you in the parlor. Luckily, there's a phone in here somewhere...if you can find it in time. The neighbors are coming back in thirty minutes, and you don't want to find out what they're going to do if they are ghosts.
Do you like puzzles? Brain Teasers? Come and test your wits in our escape room.
The room can take half an hour to finish and we ask if you can to sign up beforehand.
When you sign up, please fill in your preferred time of day (Morning/Afternoon/Either) And please include a phone number or email so that we can contact you with your assigned time.
Families and All Ages Welcome!
THIS SESSION IS FULL - We do hope to be able to do another Escape Room Session in the Spring. Stay Tuned to our Website and Social Media for updates!
THIS PROGRAM IS HELD OFF-SITE @ Fall Festival in Greycourt Park
Join us for some spooky stories for all ages at the 2018 Fall Festival in Greycourt Park on October 27th. No Registration Necessary
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. The theme this session is Halloween.
Participants will listen to stories and play a game or make a craft. The theme this session is Goofy Ghosts.
All summer we’ve asked you to help us with the community Poppy Project.
Now we welcome Lawrence City Councilor Marc LaPlante as he talks about some of those veterans from Methuen and the Merrimack Valley who fought in World War I.
For more information and to see some of the Tribute Video segments go to the Project's Facebook Page HERE.
Participants will listen to stories, sing songs, and play a game. The theme this session is Halloween.
Participants will listen to stories, sing songs, play games, and make a craft. The theme this session is Halloween.
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!
This Month's Book Is: Victoria: A Novel by Daisy Goodwin
Drawing on Victoria's own diaries, which she first started reading when she was a student at Cambridge University, Daisy Goodwin brings us the brilliantly imagined life of a young woman about to make her mark on her nation--and the world. The PBS series just finished its second season…
Book discussions are held at the Library on Thursday evenings 7-9pm. Books are available one month prior to the discussion. You may pick up books at the previous meeting, or you may get them at the Main Desk any time the Library is open. Please bring your library card to the meeting to check books out. In the case of cancellation for bad weather or any other reason, the meeting will be rescheduled as time and space permit. Cancellation information is posted on the Library’s website. Additional Book Discussion information is available on our website at www.nevinslibrary.org.All books announced in this flyer are tentative, based on the availability of multiple copies. To confirm dates, book selections, or for more information call the Library at 978-686-4080 x10.?
If you’re a fan of books and just can’t stop talking about the last one you read, then this is the group for you! Join us as we discuss a new book each month over some fresh, hot pizza.
We will be discussing One Was Lost by Natalie D. Richardson. Copies are available at the front desk of the library! No need to register. Just drop in!
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 for this session is Cats and Dogs.
Participants will celebrate friendship by creating holiday cards for veterans and active military, as well as a Thanksgiving craft to share with their families!
Bring your imagination and have fun creating! The library supplies lots of LEGOs to build with, and we will put photos of what you create on our Facebook page.
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 their imaginations to share what they learned in that month's selection from the Who Was series. This month we will discuss Who Was Sacagawea?, learning about her wilderness exploration with Lewis and Clark -- plus we'll learn to use a compass!
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 for this session is Bears.
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 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 x16
Participants will listen to stories, sing songs, play games, and make a craft. The theme for this session is Morning Merriness.
Attention all kids in third through seventh grade! If you like computers, you'll love Scratch, the kid-friendly programming game where you make the rules. Want to generate your own movie, game, or program? This is where to do it! Join us to tinker with Scratch and impress your friends with your awesome creations.
Please bring a laptop if you can. We also have a few laptops here that you can use. If you're not comfortable with a computer, that's OK! We'll show you how to use one.
Whether you like to write, draw, knit, build, code – basically just create – this is the club for you! Bring your supplies to the library and work among other creative teens. We’ll chat about what we’re working on, share advice and work on our projects together.
No need to register. Just drop in!
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.
For more information on what can be brought in, contact us at the Reference Desk. 978-686-4080x12
Children and their fathers, grandfathers, or uncles are invited to this fun story and activity time that also features donuts and juice! The theme for this session is Friendship.
This Veterans Day, Sunday November 11, marks the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War I. To honor those Veterans, and all of our country's Veterans, members of our Methuen Community (and beyond!) have volunteered their time and creativity in making this display of poppies. Please join us as we officially open the Poppy Project Art Installation at the Nevins Library to the public for viewing.
We would like to thank the many, many people and organizations who helped support this project in different ways, including the VFW Post 8349 Auxiliary, the Lawrence Ladies Lodge of the Sons of Italy, the Essex Art Center, and the Methuen Senior Activity Center.
Refreshments will be available. The Art Installation will be available for viewing until Thanksgiving.
Participants will listen to stories,sing songs, play a game, and make a craft.
The theme for this session is Pies.
Participants will listen to stories, play a game, and make a craft. The theme for this session is Kindness.
Enjoy this new playgroup run by our CFCE community partner, including stories, games, songs, and a craft.
**Please note that we will be meeting this week 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.
If you ever feel like your opinions about current events aren’t taken serious, then you should come and visit our Current Events Cafe! Every month we’ll share some snacks and chat about the latest events in the news. We’ll talk everything from local to global news. Everything is up for discussion here.
No need to register. Just drop in!
Attention Wordsmiths: Join us for a fun night of Scrabble. All competition levels welcome and refreshments will be served. No sign up required.
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 Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley
Participants must be 18 or older. If you are a teen, check out Book Babble!
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 for this session is Happy Thanksgiving!
We are a Non-Fiction Book Group that usually meets at the library on the 2nd Monday of the month. We’ll read across all topics within nonfiction (ex. Biographies, True Crime, Travelogues) except for religion and politics. Some months we’ll be discussing a single title, other months there will be a theme and a list of suggested books on that topic from which participants can choose.
This Month the Theme is: Popular Non-Fiction Authors
This Month's Book is: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
If you have any questions please call Tatjana Saccio at 978-686-4080 x12 or email her at tsaccio@nevinslibrary.org
Or visit the Book Group's webpage: Stranger Than Fiction
Participants will listen to stories, sing songs, play games, and make a craft. The theme for this session is Turkeys.
If you are a fan of Japanese animation, or even if you’re just curious about a new sort of storytelling, then join us for our monthly anime group. Once a month the club meets and watches a few episodes over snacks and talks about their favorite shows. It’s a great way to explore new shows.
No need to register. Just drop in!
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!
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, and we will put photos of what you create on our Facebook page.
Once again, the Children's Room will be sponsoring a Giving Tree to provide Christmas gifts to Merrimack Valley homeless children who are served by Emmaus, Inc. Last year our wonderful patrons were able to meet every child's wish, and we hope to match that success this year! If you'd like to help, please stop by the Children's Room after Thanksgiving and choose a Wish List item to purchase and put under our Giving Tree, and we'll wrap and deliver them to Emmaus -- thank you!!!!
Participants will listen to stories, play a game, and make a craft.
The theme for this session is Always Thankful.
Participants will listen to stories, sing songs, play games, and make a craft. The theme for this session is Breakfast Books!
Attention Wordsmiths. Join us for a fun night of Scrabble. All competition levels welcome and refreshments will be served.
Science Explorers uses children's picture books to explore the worlds of science and math, and parent and child pairs work together as "lab partners" to do several hands-on activities. This month's topic is Shadows.
Participants will create a holiday ornament to give to a family member or friend. Bring your imagination--- we'll build a seasonal scene in a clear ornament ball. The library will provide all the materials.
Participants will listen to stories, play a game, and make a craft. This month's theme is Ornaments.
This is a special story time that is lots of fun! There is a surprise at the end of this 25 minute program. Everyone present will get to pose with the literary character. So bring your camera to take a keepsake picture alongside Elmo. Don't delay in signing up to attend this very popular event!
The Start U. Reading Series is one of the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority's (MEFA) statewide early college planning initiatives. It's designed to introduce young students’ to the joy of reading and literacy through interdisciplinary activities. It's a good idea to start financial planning for higher education when your children are young. Parents will receive information about the U.Fund college savings plan to assist you in this process.
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 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 x6
Attention all kids in third through seventh grade! If you like computers, you'll love Scratch, the kid-friendly programming game where you make the rules. Want to generate your own movie, game or program? This is where to do it! Join us to tinker with Scratch and impress your friends with your awesome creations.
Please bring a laptop if you can. We also have a few laptops here that you can use. If you're not comfortable with a computer, that's OK! We'll show you how to use one.
This Month's Book Is: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
This stylized novel of Tudor England follows the complex machinations and backroom dealings of Lord Thomas Cromwell, the pragmatic, accomplished and low-born power broker who served his king and country while dealing with deadly political intrigue, Henry VIII's tempestuous relationship with Anne Boleyn, and the religious upheavals of the Protestant Reformation. The atmospheric television adaptation was very faithful to the book.
Book discussions are held at the Library on Thursday evenings 7-9pm. Books are available one month prior to the discussion. You may pick up books at the previous meeting, or you may get them at the Main Desk any time the Library is open. Please bring your library card to the meeting to check books out. In the case of cancellation for bad weather or any other reason, the meeting will be rescheduled as time and space permit. Cancellation information is posted on the Library’s website. Additional Book Discussion information is available on our website at www.nevinslibrary.org.All books announced in this flyer are tentative, based on the availability of multiple copies. To confirm dates, book selections, or for more information call the Library at 978-686-4080 x10.?
If you’re a fan of books and just can’t stop talking about the last one you read, then this is the group for you. Join us as we discuss a book each month over some fresh, hot pizza.
We will be discussing Solitaire by Alice Oseman. Copies are available at the front desk of the library!
We are a Non-Fiction Book Group that usually meets at the library on the 2nd Monday of the month. We’ll read across all topics within nonfiction (ex. Biographies, True Crime, Travelogues) except for religion and politics. Some months we’ll be discussing a single title, other months there will be a theme and a list of suggested books on that topic from which participants can choose.
This Month the Theme is: Native American History/Memoir
This Month's Book is -- How the World Moves: The Odyssey of an American Indian Family by Peter Nabokov
If you have any questions please call Tatjana Saccio at 978-686-4080 x12 or email her at tsaccio@nevinslibrary.org
Or visit the Book Group's webpage: Stranger Than Fiction
Elin Hilderbrand is coming back once again! 
We are excited to welcome Elin HIlderbrand back to the Nevins Library where she will tell us all about her latest book - WINTER IN PARADISE. This book kicks off a new series, set in the Caribbean.
About this book:
Irene Steele shares her idyllic life in a beautiful Iowa City Victorian house with a husband who loves her to sky-writing, sentimental extremes. But as she rings in the new year one cold and snowy night, everything she thought she knew falls to pieces with a shocking phone call: her beloved husband, away on business, has been killed in a plane crash. Before Irene can even process the news, she must first confront the perplexing details of her husband’s death on the distant Caribbean island of St. John. After Irene and her sons arrive at this faraway paradise, they make yet another shocking discovery: her husband had been living a secret life. As Irene untangles a web of intrigue and deceit, and as she and her sons find themselves drawn into the vibrant island culture, they have to face the truth about their family, and about their own futures.
As anytime Elin comes to the Nevins, we are expecting a large crowd. Please carpool if possible.
Books will be available for purchase and signing. Refreshments will be served.
If you ever feel like your opinions about current events aren’t taken serious, then you should come and visit our Current Events Cafe! Every month we’ll share some snacks and chat about the latest events in the news. We’ll talk everything from local to global news. Everything is up for discussion here.
No need to register. Just drop in!
Attention Wordsmiths: Join us for a fun night of Scrabble. All competition levels welcome and refreshments will be served. No sign up required.
Whether you like to write, draw, knit, build, code – basically just create – this is the club for you! Bring your supplies to the library and work among other creative teens. We’ll chat about what we’re working on, share advice and work on our projects together.
No need to register. Just drop in!
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!
If you are a fan of Japanese animation, or even if you’re just curious about a new sort of storytelling, then join us for our monthly anime group. Once a month the club meets and watches a few episodes over snacks and talks about their favorite shows. It’s a great way to explore new shows.
No need to register. Just drop in!
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.
This Month's Book Is: Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
Going into its 8th season on PBS, this beloved series is based on a memoir trilogy that fewer people have actually read. We shall read the original book in the trilogy and see what started this phenomena.
Book discussions are held at the Library on Thursday evenings 7-9pm. Books are available one month prior to the discussion. You may pick up books at the previous meeting, or you may get them at the Main Desk any time the Library is open. Please bring your library card to the meeting to check books out. In the case of cancellation for bad weather or any other reason, the meeting will be rescheduled as time and space permit. Cancellation information is posted on the Library’s website. Additional Book Discussion information is available on our website at www.nevinslibrary.org.All books announced in this flyer are tentative, based on the availability of multiple copies. To confirm dates, book selections, or for more information call the Library at 978-686-4080 x10.?
If you’re a fan of books and just can’t stop talking about the last one you read, then this is the group for you. Join us as we discuss a book each month over some fresh, hot pizza.
We will be discussing Dear Martin by Nic Stone. Copies are available at the front desk of the library!
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 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.
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
If you ever feel like your opinions about current events aren’t taken serious, then you should come and visit our Current Events Cafe! Every month we’ll share some snacks and chat about the latest events in the news. We’ll talk everything from local to global news. Everything is up for discussion here.
No need to register. Just drop in!
Whether you like to write, draw, knit, build, code – basically just create – this is the club for you! Bring your supplies to the library and work among other creative teens. We’ll chat about what we’re working on, share advice and work on our projects together.
No need to register. Just drop in!
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!
We are a Non-Fiction Book Group that usually meets at the library on the 2nd Monday of the month. We’ll read across all topics within nonfiction (ex. Biographies, True Crime, Travelogues) except for religion and politics. Some months we’ll be discussing a single title, other months there will be a theme and a list of suggested books on that topic from which participants can choose.
This Month the Theme is: Performing Arts
If you have any questions please call Tatjana Saccio at 978-686-4080 x12 or email her at tsaccio@nevinslibrary.org
Or visit the Book Group's webpage: Stranger Than Fiction
If you are a fan of Japanese animation, or even if you’re just curious about a new sort of storytelling, then join us for our monthly anime group. Once a month the club meets and watches a few episodes over snacks and talks about their favorite shows. It’s a great way to explore new shows.
No need to register. Just drop in!
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 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
Spring Series : Memory
Is memory what makes us human? What happens when memories are taken away…or perhaps worse, when they are never made in the first place? How reliable are memories, anyhow, can we trust people to recall events accurately? And what is an “accurate” recollection…just our version? This spring we will try to answer these questions and more as we explore a series of novels about memory
This Month's Book Is: Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
This is the suspenseful story of an amnesiac who, following a mysterious accident, cannot remember her past or form new memories, who desperately tries to uncover the truth about who she is – and who she can trust.
Book discussions are held at the Library on Thursday evenings 7-9pm. Books are available one month prior to the discussion. You may pick up books at the previous meeting, or you may get them at the Main Desk any time the Library is open. Please bring your library card to the meeting to check books out. In the case of cancellation for bad weather or any other reason, the meeting will be rescheduled as time and space permit. Cancellation information is posted on the Library’s website. Additional Book Discussion information is available on our website at www.nevinslibrary.org.All books announced in this flyer are tentative, based on the availability of multiple copies. To confirm dates, book selections, or for more information call the Library at 978-686-4080 x10.?
If you’re a fan of books and just can’t stop talking about the last one you read, then this is the group for you. Join us as we discuss a book each month over some fresh, hot pizza.
We will be discussing Beauty Queens by Libba Bray. Copies are available at the front desk of the library!
We are a Non-Fiction Book Group that usually meets at the library on the 2nd Monday of the month. We’ll read across all topics within nonfiction (ex. Biographies, True Crime, Travelogues) except for religion and politics. Some months we’ll be discussing a single title, other months there will be a theme and a list of suggested books on that topic from which participants can choose.
This Month the Theme is: Race Relations
If you have any questions please call Tatjana Saccio at 978-686-4080 x12 or email her at tsaccio@nevinslibrary.org
Or visit the Book Group's webpage: Stranger Than Fiction
If you ever feel like your opinions about current events aren’t taken serious, then you should come and visit our Current Events Cafe! Every month we’ll share some snacks and chat about the latest events in the news. We’ll talk everything from local to global news. Everything is up for discussion here.
No need to register. Just drop in!
Whether you like to write, draw, knit, build, code – basically just create – this is the club for you! Bring your supplies to the library and work among other creative teens. We’ll chat about what we’re working on, share advice and work on our projects together.
No need to register. Just drop in!
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!
If you are a fan of Japanese animation, or even if you’re just curious about a new sort of storytelling, then join us for our monthly anime group. Once a month the club meets and watches a few episodes over snacks and talks about their favorite shows. It’s a great way to explore new shows.
No need to register. Just drop in!
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!
Attention all kids in third through seventh grade! If you like computers, you'll love Scratch, the kid-friendly programming game where you make the rules. Want to generate your own movie, game or program? This is where to do it! Join us to tinker with Scratch and impress your friends with your awesome creations.
Please bring a laptop if you can. We also have a few laptops here that you can use. If you're not comfortable with a computer, that's OK! We'll show you how to use one.
(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 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
This Month's Book Is: Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize, this modern classic follows Stevens, a retired butler at a great British estate as he embarks on a journey through his past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving his master, Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about his service, and about the nature of his own life.
Book discussions are held at the Library on Thursday evenings 7-9pm. Books are available one month prior to the discussion. You may pick up books at the previous meeting, or you may get them at the Main Desk any time the Library is open. Please bring your library card to the meeting to check books out. In the case of cancellation for bad weather or any other reason, the meeting will be rescheduled as time and space permit. Cancellation information is posted on the Library’s website. Additional Book Discussion information is available on our website at www.nevinslibrary.org.All books announced in this flyer are tentative, based on the availability of multiple copies. To confirm dates, book selections, or for more information call the Library at 978-686-4080 x10.?
If you’re a fan of books and just can’t stop talking about the last one you read, then this is the group for you. Join us as we discuss a book each month over some fresh, hot pizza.
We will be discussing Devils Within by S. F. Henson. Copies are available at the front desk of the library!
We are a Non-Fiction Book Group that usually meets at the library on the 2nd Monday of the month. We’ll read across all topics within nonfiction (ex. Biographies, True Crime, Travelogues) except for religion and politics. Some months we’ll be discussing a single title, other months there will be a theme and a list of suggested books on that topic from which participants can choose.
This Month the Theme is: Invention, Discovery, and Exploration
If you have any questions please call Tatjana Saccio at 978-686-4080 x12 or email her at tsaccio@nevinslibrary.org
Or visit the Book Group's webpage: Stranger Than Fiction
If you ever feel like your opinions about current events aren’t taken serious, then you should come and visit our Current Events Cafe! Every month we’ll share some snacks and chat about the latest events in the news. We’ll talk everything from local to global news. Everything is up for discussion here.
No need to register. Just drop in!
Whether you like to write, draw, knit, build, code – basically just create – this is the club for you! Bring your supplies to the library and work among other creative teens. We’ll chat about what we’re working on, share advice and work on our projects together.
No need to register. Just drop in!
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!
If you are a fan of Japanese animation, or even if you’re just curious about a new sort of storytelling, then join us for our monthly anime group. Once a month the club meets and watches a few episodes over snacks and talks about their favorite shows. It’s a great way to explore new shows.
No need to register. Just drop in!
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 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's Book Is: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Eleanor is a quirky person, whose routine is everything to her. When that routine is broken and she begins to build friendships and rebuild a life, memories recovered from a traumatic past begin to emerge.
Book discussions are held at the Library on Thursday evenings 7-9pm. Books are available one month prior to the discussion. You may pick up books at the previous meeting, or you may get them at the Main Desk any time the Library is open. Please bring your library card to the meeting to check books out. In the case of cancellation for bad weather or any other reason, the meeting will be rescheduled as time and space permit. Cancellation information is posted on the Library’s website. Additional Book Discussion information is available on our website at www.nevinslibrary.org.All books announced in this flyer are tentative, based on the availability of multiple copies. To confirm dates, book selections, or for more information call the Library at 978-686-4080 x10.?
If you’re a fan of books and just can’t stop talking about the last one you read, then this is the group for you. Join us as we discuss a book each month over some fresh, hot pizza.
We will be discussing The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten. Copies are available at the front desk of the library!
We are a Non-Fiction Book Group that usually meets at the library on the 2nd Monday of the month. We’ll read across all topics within nonfiction (ex. Biographies, True Crime, Travelogues) except for religion and politics. Some months we’ll be discussing a single title, other months there will be a theme and a list of suggested books on that topic from which participants can choose.
This Month the Theme is: Micro-Histories
If you have any questions please call Tatjana Saccio at 978-686-4080 x12 or email her at tsaccio@nevinslibrary.org
Or visit the Book Group's webpage: Stranger Than Fiction
If you ever feel like your opinions about current events aren’t taken serious, then you should come and visit our Current Events Cafe! Every month we’ll share some snacks and chat about the latest events in the news. We’ll talk everything from local to global news. Everything is up for discussion here.
No need to register. Just drop in!
Whether you like to write, draw, knit, build, code – basically just create – this is the club for you! Bring your supplies to the library and work among other creative teens. We’ll chat about what we’re working on, share advice and work on our projects together.
No need to register. Just drop in!
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!
If you are a fan of Japanese animation, or even if you’re just curious about a new sort of storytelling, then join us for our monthly anime group. Once a month the club meets and watches a few episodes over snacks and talks about their favorite shows. It’s a great way to explore new shows.
No need to register. Just drop in!
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.
Attention all kids in third through seventh grade! If you like computers, you'll love Scratch, the kid-friendly programming game where you make the rules. Want to generate your own movie, game or program? This is where to do it! Join us to tinker with Scratch and impress your friends with your awesome creations.
Please bring a laptop if you can. We also have a few laptops here that you can use. If you're not comfortable with a computer, that's OK! We'll show you how to use one.
(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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This Month's Book Is: Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty years old, she’s a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis changes her life—and her relationship with her family and the world—forever.
Book discussions are held at the Library on Thursday evenings 7-9pm. Books are available one month prior to the discussion. You may pick up books at the previous meeting, or you may get them at the Main Desk any time the Library is open. Please bring your library card to the meeting to check books out. In the case of cancellation for bad weather or any other reason, the meeting will be rescheduled as time and space permit. Cancellation information is posted on the Library’s website. Additional Book Discussion information is available on our website at www.nevinslibrary.org.All books announced in this flyer are tentative, based on the availability of multiple copies. To confirm dates, book selections, or for more information call the Library at 978-686-4080 x10.?
If you’re a fan of books and just can’t stop talking about the last one you read, then this is the group for you. Join us as we discuss a book each month over some fresh, hot pizza.
We will be discussing Saving Montgomery Sole by Mariko Tamaki. Copies are available at the front desk of the library!
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 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
If you ever feel like your opinions about current events aren’t taken serious, then you should come and visit our Current Events Cafe! Every month we’ll share some snacks and chat about the latest events in the news. We’ll talk everything from local to global news. Everything is up for discussion here.
No need to register. Just drop in!
Whether you like to write, draw, knit, build, code – basically just create – this is the club for you! Bring your supplies to the library and work among other creative teens. We’ll chat about what we’re working on, share advice and work on our projects together.
No need to register. Just drop in!
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!
We are a Non-Fiction Book Group that usually meets at the library on the 2nd Monday of the month. We’ll read across all topics within nonfiction (ex. Biographies, True Crime, Travelogues) except for religion and politics. Some months we’ll be discussing a single title, other months there will be a theme and a list of suggested books on that topic from which participants can choose.
This Month the Theme is: Top Secret -- Spies, Espionage, and Heists
If you have any questions please call Tatjana Saccio at 978-686-4080 x12 or email her at tsaccio@nevinslibrary.org
Or visit the Book Group's webpage: Stranger Than Fiction
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.
If you are a fan of Japanese animation, or even if you’re just curious about a new sort of storytelling, then join us for our monthly anime group. Once a month the club meets and watches a few episodes over snacks and talks about their favorite shows. It’s a great way to explore new shows.
No need to register. Just drop in!
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 The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
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's Book Is: The Giver by Lois Lowry
The 1994 Newbery Medal winner, The Giver has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community.
Book discussions are held at the Library on Thursday evenings 7-9pm. Books are available one month prior to the discussion. You may pick up books at the previous meeting, or you may get them at the Main Desk any time the Library is open. Please bring your library card to the meeting to check books out. In the case of cancellation for bad weather or any other reason, the meeting will be rescheduled as time and space permit. Cancellation information is posted on the Library’s website. Additional Book Discussion information is available on our website at www.nevinslibrary.org.All books announced in this flyer are tentative, based on the availability of multiple copies. To confirm dates, book selections, or for more information call the Library at 978-686-4080 x10.?
If you’re a fan of books and just can’t stop talking about the last one you read, then this is the group for you. Join us as we discuss a book each month over some fresh, hot pizza.
We will be discussing The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson. Copies are available at the front desk of the library!
We are a Non-Fiction Book Group that usually meets at the library on the 2nd Monday of the month. We’ll read across all topics within nonfiction (ex. Biographies, True Crime, Travelogues) except for religion and politics. Some months we’ll be discussing a single title, other months there will be a theme and a list of suggested books on that topic from which participants can choose.
This Month the Theme is: Natural Science/Animals
If you have any questions please call Tatjana Saccio at 978-686-4080 x12 or email her at tsaccio@nevinslibrary.org
Or visit the Book Group's webpage: Stranger Than Fiction
If you ever feel like your opinions about current events aren’t taken serious, then you should come and visit our Current Events Cafe! Every month we’ll share some snacks and chat about the latest events in the news. We’ll talk everything from local to global news. Everything is up for discussion here.
No need to register. Just drop in!
Whether you like to write, draw, knit, build, code – basically just create – this is the club for you! Bring your supplies to the library and work among other creative teens. We’ll chat about what we’re working on, share advice and work on our projects together.
No need to register. Just drop in!
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 Calling Dr. Laura by Nicole Georges. Stop by the library to pick up your copy!
If you are a fan of Japanese animation, or even if you’re just curious about a new sort of storytelling, then join us for our monthly anime group. Once a month the club meets and watches a few episodes over snacks and talks about their favorite shows. It’s a great way to explore new shows.
No need to register. Just drop in!
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!
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