Welcome to storytime! * Note location & time!* Join Christy for a morning of stories, songs, rhymes, bubbles & fun with friends! During the construction phase of the library, storytime will be held inside Brown's Mall at Movement Arts Gloucester MA on the top floor of the Brown Building. Enter at 186 Main Street or 11 Pleasant Street & take the elevator to the 5th floor.

You’re invited to tune in as we chat with New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10 and The It Girl as she talks about her newest book, Zero Days. 

In the adrenaline fueled thriller, Zero Days, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, and their best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their suspect—her. Suddenly on the run and quickly running out of options, Jack must decide who she can trust as she circles closer to the real killer. 

Stop the suspense and register for the thrill now!

About the Author: Ruth Ware worked as a waitress, a bookseller, a teacher of English as a foreign language, and a press officer before settling down as a full-time writer. She now lives with her family in Sussex, on the south coast of England. She is the #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail (Toronto) bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood; The Woman in Cabin 10; The Lying Game; The Death of Mrs. Westaway; The Turn of the Key; One by One; The It Girl; and Zero Days. Visit her at RuthWare.com or follow her on Twitter @RuthWareWriter.

Drop in for Open Play at the Library at 21 Main Street in the children's area. This unstructured open play for little ones and caregivers is an opportunity for social interaction and a nice way to introduce the very young to the library. Babies can even be signed up for a first library card! Books and toys will be provided for caregivers to interact with their little ones and are best suited for ages 0-2. No registration needed.  

Join us for an engaging talk with local author Karin Gertsch, who will discuss her debut novel Five Wishes, a heartwarming Massachusetts-based story about history, love, and lore.

Five Wishes is about the MacInnes family, who live in a small New England town called Hamlet. Husband, Delbert MacInnes, was born and raised in Hamlet and is content to remain grounded, while his wife, Matilda, has been itching to make her dreams come true. Over the years her wish list was amended several times—her patience is wearing thin. When an unexpected event happens, Matilda learns that Delbert has kept a secret from her for decades. But, then, she’s never shared her precious secret with him. Five Wishes takes the reader on journeys from Hamlet to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, then overseas to an ancient castle in Scotland, before venturing back to the cozy Cape Cod-style home at Five Cedar Street, where a freshly-brewed cup of Darjeeling tea is waiting at the breakfast table.

About the author:  Karin Gertsch is the author of Cape Ann & Vicinity: A Guide for Residents and Visitors, as well as Flora Has an Adventure, a children’s book for ages 3-8. The author is currently working on her second novel as well as a series of Flora stories for children. Karin will share about the research process for her novel, as well as the processes for researching and creating a travel guide and a children's book.

No registration required.

Welcome to storytime! * Note location & time!* Join Christy for a morning of stories, songs, rhymes, bubbles & fun with friends! During the construction phase of the library, storytime will be held inside Brown's Mall at Movement Arts Gloucester MA on the top floor of the Brown Building. Enter at 186 Main Street or 11 Pleasant Street & take the elevator to the 5th floor.

Drop in for Open Play at the Library at 21 Main Street in the children's area. This unstructured open play for little ones and caregivers is an opportunity for social interaction and a nice way to introduce the very young to the library. Babies can even be signed up for a first library card! Books and toys will be provided for caregivers to interact with their little ones and are best suited for ages 0-2. No registration needed.  

You are in for a treat when you join us for an intimate conversation with John Irving as he chats about not only his most recent novel, The Last Chairlift, but also about his prolific body of work and a lifetime spent writing. Irving’s first novel was published when he was just twenty-six years old. He has gone on to be nominated for a National Book Award three times and won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

The Last Chairlift, Irving’s self-proclaimed final long novel, begins in Aspen, Colorado in 1941, when Rachel Brewster, a slalom skier, competes at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; they aren’t the first or the last ghosts he sees. 

You don’t want to miss this hour online with internationally bestselling author John Irving. Register now! 

About the Author: John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. 

Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times, winning in 1980 for The World According to Garp. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for In One Person. Internationally renowned, his books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. A Prayer for Owen Meany is his best-selling novel, in every language.

John Irving is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. He lives in Toronto.

Halloween Musical Storytime @ 21 Main Street. Join Ruthanne Paulson for some musical Halloween fun at the library (our 21 Main Street location!) A festive morning of fun, stories, singing, dancing & playing music, no registration needed. Costumes are welcome!

Welcome to storytime! * Note location & time!* Join Christy for a morning of stories, songs, rhymes, bubbles & fun with friends! During the construction phase of the library, storytime will be held inside Brown's Mall at Movement Arts Gloucester MA on the top floor of the Brown Building. Enter at 186 Main Street or 11 Pleasant Street & take the elevator to the 5th floor.

Join us for an intimate conversation with Full House star, John Stamos, as he leads us through his incredibly moving and vulnerable memoir, If You Would Have Told Me. 

If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad’s fast-food joint that one day he’d be a household name and that, at the height of his success, he’d be living alone, divorced, with no kids, high on a cocktail of forgetting, he might’ve asked, “You want fries with that?”

John burst onto the scene in General Hospital, propelling him into the teen idol stratosphere, a place that’s often a point of no return. But Stamos beat the odds and over the past four decades has proved himself to be one of his generation’s most successful and beloved actors. Whether showing off his comedic chops on Full House or his dramatic skills on ER, pushing the boundaries on Broadway or living out his youthful dreams as an honorary Beach Boy, John has surprised everyone, most of all himself.

A universal story about friendship, love, loss, and the courage to embrace love once more, John Stamos’s memoir is filled with some of the most memorable names in Hollywood, both old and new. Funny, deeply poignant, and brutally honest, If You Would Have Told Me is a portrait of a boy who went from believing in Disney magic to a man who learns that we have to create our own magical moments in life.

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About the Author: John Stamos, a three-time Emmy nominee, has earned his reputation as a highly regarded actor and producer throughout his over forty-year career in television, film, and on Broadway. His rise to fame began with his role in General Hospital and he has since captivated viewers with his diverse performances in Big Shot, You, ER, Grandfathered, Full House, and Fuller House and on stage in Cabaret, Bye Bye Birdie, and Gore Vidal’s The Best Man. Beyond acting, Stamos is a skilled musician, collaborating with The Beach Boys since 1985. He also serves as an ambassador for Childhelp.

Drop in for Open Play at the Library at 21 Main Street in the children's area. This unstructured open play for little ones and caregivers is an opportunity for social interaction and a nice way to introduce the very young to the library. Babies can even be signed up for a first library card! Books and toys will be provided for caregivers to interact with their little ones and are best suited for ages 0-2. No registration needed.  

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Welcome to storytime! * Note location & time!* Join Christy for a morning of stories, songs, rhymes, bubbles & fun with friends! During the construction phase of the library, storytime will be held inside Brown's Mall at Movement Arts Gloucester MA on the top floor of the Brown Building. Enter at 186 Main Street or 11 Pleasant Street & take the elevator to the 5th floor.

Drop in for Open Play at the Library at 21 Main Street in the children's area. This unstructured open play for little ones and caregivers is an opportunity for social interaction and a nice way to introduce the very young to the library. Babies can even be signed up for a first library card! Books and toys will be provided for caregivers to interact with their little ones and are best suited for ages 0-2. No registration needed.  

Tiffany Aliche was a successful preschool teacher with a healthy nest egg when a recession and advice from a shady advisor put her out of a job and into a huge financial hole. As she began to chart the path to her own financial rescue, the outline of her ten-step formula for attaining both financial security and peace of mind began to take shape. These principles have now helped more than one million women worldwide save and pay off millions in debt, and begin planning for a richer life.

Her New York Times bestseller, Get Good with Money introduced the powerful concept of building wealth through financial wholeness: a realistic, achievable, and energizing alternative to get-rich-quick and over-complicated money management systems.

We all want to live within our means, save for retirement, invest a little, and yet still have some left over each month for fun. But as most people know, real life can get in the way of even our best intentions! To help us set realistic goals and keep us on track to meeting them, Tiffany “The Budgetnista” Aliche has another invaluable 10-step action plan: Made Whole. With her signature down-to-earth style, her new workbook offers worksheets, checklists, clear explanations of intimidating financial terminology, Simple instruction on calculating our present situation and future needs, and handy hacks for increasing your credit score, making savings "hard to access," and finding support to stay on track to your goals

In this webinar, she will introduce action items for ten important building blocks, including advice on: 

• The ins and outs of budgeting,
• Investing, 
• Credit rating, 
• Estate planning, 
• Getting insurance, and 
• Getting the flow of our money automated

A masterclass in taking charge of your money, “The Budgetnista” has what every reader needs to achieve financial savvy, stability, and security.

About the Author: Tiffany Aliche, aka “The Budgetnista,” co-hosts the award-winning Brown Ambition podcast, appears as a financial expert on The Real, and runs an online school, the Live Richer Academy, through which she has taught thousands of women how to create, implement, and automate their financial plans. She has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Black Enterprise, Reader’s Digest, USA Today, Ebony, Forbes, Redbook, The New York Times, Fast Company, and U.S. News & World Report and has been on the Today Show, Good Morning America, and CNN. A repeat speaker at EssenceFest and The Watermark/Women’s Conference, she has also taped a series of financial tips for CNBC that reaches eighty million unique viewers each month.

Welcome to storytime! * Note location & time!* Join Christy for a morning of stories, songs, rhymes, bubbles & fun with friends! During the construction phase of the library, storytime will be held inside Brown's Mall at Movement Arts Gloucester MA on the top floor of the Brown Building. Enter at 186 Main Street or 11 Pleasant Street & take the elevator to the 5th floor.

Drop in for Open Play at the Library at 21 Main Street in the children's area. This unstructured open play for little ones and caregivers is an opportunity for social interaction and a nice way to introduce the very young to the library. Babies can even be signed up for a first library card! Books and toys will be provided for caregivers to interact with their little ones and are best suited for ages 0-2. No registration needed.  

United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award, Joy Harjo, joins us for a chat about her most recent memoir, Catching the Light and to discuss her rewarding lifetime as a writer and poet. 

In Catching the Light, Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing.

In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author’s life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry functions as an expression of purpose, spirit, community, and memory.

Harjo insists the most meaningful poetry is birthed through cracks in history from what is broken and unseen. At the crossroads of this brokenness, she calls us to watch and listen for the songs of justice for all those America has denied. This is an homage to the power of words to defy erasure—to inscribe the story, again and again, of who we have been, who we are, and who we can be.

About the Author: In 2019, Joy Harjo was appointed the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold the position and only the second person to serve three terms in the role. Harjo’s nine books of poetry include Weaving Sundown in a Scarlett Light, An American Sunrise, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses. She is also the author of two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior, which invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her “poet-warrior” road. She has edited several anthologies of Native American writing including When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through — A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, and Living Nations, Living Words, the companion anthology to her signature poet laureate project. Her many writing awards include the 2022 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2019 Jackson Prize from Poets & Writers, the Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Board of Directors Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and is artist-in-residence for the Bob Dylan Center. A renowned musician, Harjo performs with her saxophone nationally and internationally; her most recent album is I Pray For My Enemies. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Welcome to storytime! * Note location & time!* Join Christy for a morning of stories, songs, rhymes, bubbles & fun with friends! During the construction phase of the library, storytime will be held inside Brown's Mall at Movement Arts Gloucester MA on the top floor of the Brown Building. Enter at 186 Main Street or 11 Pleasant Street & take the elevator to the 5th floor.

Welcome to storytime! * Note location & time!* Join Christy for a morning of stories, songs, rhymes, bubbles & fun with friends! During the construction phase of the library, storytime will be held inside Brown's Mall at Movement Arts Gloucester MA on the top floor of the Brown Building. Enter at 186 Main Street or 11 Pleasant Street & take the elevator to the 5th floor.

Drop in for Open Play at the Library at 21 Main Street in the children's area. This unstructured open play for little ones and caregivers is an opportunity for social interaction and a nice way to introduce the very young to the library. Babies can even be signed up for a first library card! Books and toys will be provided for caregivers to interact with their little ones and are best suited for ages 0-2. No registration needed.  

Bestselling and award-winning author, Naomi Alderman will join us to talk about her new book, The Future. This new novel delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.

When Martha Einkorn fled her father’s isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she’s surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private weather, predictive analytics, and covert weaponry, while spouting technological prophecy. Martha may have left the cult, but if the apocalyptic warnings in her father’s fox and rabbit sermon—once a parable to her—are starting to come true, how much future is actually left?

Across the world, in a mall in Singapore, Lai Zhen, an internet-famous survivalist, flees from an assassin. She’s cornered, desperate and—worst of all—might die without ever knowing what's going on. Suddenly, a remarkable piece of software appears on her phone telling her exactly how to escape. Who made it? What is it really for? And if those behind it can save her from danger, what do they want from her, and what else do they know about the future?

Martha and Zhen’s worlds are about to collide. An explosive chain of events is set in motion. While a few billionaires assured of their own safety lead the world to destruction, Martha’s relentless drive and Zhen’s insatiable curiosity could lead to something beautiful or the cataclysmic end of civilization.

By turns thrilling, hilarious, tender, and always piercingly brilliant, The Future unfolds at a breakneck speed, highlighting how power corrupts the few who have it and what it means to stand up to them. The future is coming. The Future is here. What are you waiting for? Register now! 

About the Author: Naomi Alderman is the bestselling author of The Power, which was the winner of the 2017 Baileys’ Women’s Prize for Fiction. It was longlisted for the 2017 Orwell Prize and chosen as one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, NPR, Entertainment Weekly and the San Francisco Chronicle. The Power topped Barack Obama’s list of his favorite books from 2017 and has been translated into more than thirty languages. Naomi grew up in London and attended Oxford University and UEA.

Welcome to storytime! * Note location & time!* Join Christy for a morning of stories, songs, rhymes, bubbles & fun with friends! During the construction phase of the library, storytime will be held inside Brown's Mall at Movement Arts Gloucester MA on the top floor of the Brown Building. Enter at 186 Main Street or 11 Pleasant Street & take the elevator to the 5th floor.

Drop in for Open Play at the Library at 21 Main Street in the children's area. This unstructured open play for little ones and caregivers is an opportunity for social interaction and a nice way to introduce the very young to the library. Babies can even be signed up for a first library card! Books and toys will be provided for caregivers to interact with their little ones and are best suited for ages 0-2. No registration needed.  

Welcome to storytime! * Note location & time!* Join Christy for a morning of stories, songs, rhymes, bubbles & fun with friends! During the construction phase of the library, storytime will be held inside Brown's Mall at Movement Arts Gloucester MA on the top floor of the Brown Building. Enter at 186 Main Street or 11 Pleasant Street & take the elevator to the 5th floor.

Drop in for Open Play at the Library at 21 Main Street in the children's area. This unstructured open play for little ones and caregivers is an opportunity for social interaction and a nice way to introduce the very young to the library. Babies can even be signed up for a first library card! Books and toys will be provided for caregivers to interact with their little ones and are best suited for ages 0-2. No registration needed.  

Welcome to storytime! * Note location & time!* Join Christy for a morning of stories, songs, rhymes, bubbles & fun with friends! During the construction phase of the library, storytime will be held inside Brown's Mall at Movement Arts Gloucester MA on the top floor of the Brown Building. Enter at 186 Main Street or 11 Pleasant Street & take the elevator to the 5th floor.

Drop in for Open Play at the Library at 21 Main Street in the children's area. This unstructured open play for little ones and caregivers is an opportunity for social interaction and a nice way to introduce the very young to the library. Babies can even be signed up for a first library card! Books and toys will be provided for caregivers to interact with their little ones and are best suited for ages 0-2. No registration needed.  

Welcome to storytime! * Note location & time!* Join Christy for a morning of stories, songs, rhymes, bubbles & fun with friends! During the construction phase of the library, storytime will be held inside Brown's Mall at Movement Arts Gloucester MA on the top floor of the Brown Building. Enter at 186 Main Street or 11 Pleasant Street & take the elevator to the 5th floor.

Drop in for Open Play at the Library at 21 Main Street in the children's area. This unstructured open play for little ones and caregivers is an opportunity for social interaction and a nice way to introduce the very young to the library. Babies can even be signed up for a first library card! Books and toys will be provided for caregivers to interact with their little ones and are best suited for ages 0-2. No registration needed.