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Blind Date with a Book is Back!
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 Feeling adventurous this Valentine's Day? Why not try a blind date with a book! We've selected books from a variety of genres in our adult fiction and nonfiction collections. Choose a wrapped book from our display based on its "pick-up line", check it out at the front desk, unwrap it at home, and enjoy your "date"! |
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Eating for a Healthy Heart |
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Tuesday, February 14, 11:00am What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than to join ShopRite of Greenwich Registered Dietitian, Kaysha, to review nutrition tips and tricks that keep your heart healthy! Call the library for more information, or register online! |
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 Monday, February 20 at 6:00pm Are you currently enrolled in Medicare? Will you be turning 65 over the next year or two? Learn about eligibility, how and when to enroll, when you can make changes, and the insurance options available to you. Review and compare what services are covered/not covered under Medicare Parts A, B, C and D. Detail the costs associated with medical and drug insurance. Explore and evaluate Original Medicare, Medicare Supplement Insurance, Prescription Drug Plans and Medicare Advantage Plans. This program will simplify the choices you need to make, help you make more well-informed decisions and explain what Medicare means for you! Call the library for more information, or register online! |
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 Wednesday, February 8 at 6:30pm Join us for some snacks as we talk about the first book we will be reading, naming our book club, and making a bookmark! For grades 2-5. Registration is recommended so we bring enough snacks!
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 Wednesday, February 15 at 6:30pm New Tween Club coming each month! Join friends at the library, where each month will be something different planned by you. Come join us for our first meeting and make some homemade rock candy and watch it grow! Registration is recommended. |
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Ongoing Events for Children |
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 Yoga & MindfulnessWednesday, Feb 1, 8, 15, & 22 @ 4pm Join Miss Kim for the Winter Yoga and Mindfulness session! This 6 week program will meet on Wednesdays at 4pm from January 18th - February 22nd. This program allows children ages 3-8 the opportunity to experience yoga and mindfulness in a fun environment. Each class will introduce tools and practices that help strengthen attention and focus, emotional regulation, build self-confidence, and help children discover the power they have within their own mind and body. Through breath work, movement, music, mindful art, team building, and story book adventures, we will explore techniques to feel our best! Hope to see you on our next adventure!  StorytimeThursday, Feb 2, 9, 16, & 23 @ 10am Our Storytime programs are filled with stories, flannel boards, songs, and fun! For ages 2-5.  Homeschool HangoutTuesday, Feb 7 @ 10am - LEGO CLUB Tuesday, Feb 21 @ 10am - Coffee Filter Flower Craft Homeschool Hangout: join us for the same After School Club and LEGO Club programs held in the morning for our Homeschool families. The programs were designed for grades 1-5, but younger children are welcome with assistance from their grown up. LEGO Club Tuesday, Feb 7 & 21 @ 4pm Any day with LEGOs is a good day! We alternate free play days with Challenge days, so come show off your building skills! For grades 1-5. Pajama Storytime Wednesday, February 22 @ 6:30pm Our Pajama Storytime programs are filled with stories, songs, breathwork, and fun! Come in your pajamas, bring your favorite stuffed animal, and enjoy a snack with your friends a the library! For children of all ages and their families.  After School Club Tuesday, Feb 28 @ 4pm Our favorite activities mix science and art! We'll be making flowers using coffee filters, washable markers, and water! Since we have to wait for our flowers to dry before assembling, we will just be coloring and "painting" our flowers in this session. Then come back starting Thursday, March 2nd to pick up your dried filters and instructions for finishing your flowers at home. For grades 1-5. Take & Make CraftAvailable beginning Monday, February 6 We think you are out of this world! Our Valentines gift to you is this month's straw-powered rocket craft. |
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Ongoing Events for Adults |
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Classic Book Club: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Wednesday, February 8, 7:00pm “Classic” books are classic for a reason – their literary excellence transcends passing fads, and they continue to engage readers generation after generation. If there are classics you have always meant to read “someday,” or if you read them in school before you were ready to appreciate them, now is the time to enjoy them with other adult readers. |
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PFPL Writers Group
Monday, February 13 & 27, 6:00pm D o you have a story to tell? Join the PFPL Writers Group! We welcome all levels of writers from beginner to published professionals. We'll discuss fiction, poetry, nonfiction (including memoir), and more. Bring your ideas, a notebook, and your magic pen! This event will be held on Zoom. Call the library for more information, or register online! |
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Happy Bookers Discussion Group: When Breath Becomes Air Wednesday, February 22, 7:00pm
At the age of 36, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. |
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 I came across a Valentine’s version of churros, which I thought was too cute to not try. However, I am not a fan of frying foods, so I baked mine instead. They puffed up nicely and were crispy and delicious. And it is such a quick dessert. The second time I made them, it took less than an hour from start to finish. The recipe is just the basic recipe. The only thing I did differently was to divide the dough into two parts and dye one half red. And instead of piping the dough in strips I made X’s and O’s and hearts. They were a fun dessert and I will be making them again. Soon. these recipes! |
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Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacyby Nathaniel PhilbrickWritten at a moment when America's founding figures are under increasing scrutiny, the author, retracing George Washington's journey as a new president through all thirteen former colonies, paints a picture of 18th-century America as divided and fraught as it is today. Selected by Rosemary, Library Assistant
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The Bitterrootsby C. J. BoxPrivate investigator Cassie Dewell agrees to take a case involving the assault of a young woman, but as she tries to uncover the truth, Cassie finds herself fighting an influential family as well as ghosts from her own past. Selected by Cindy, Library Assistant
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The Book Haters' Book Clubby Gretchen AnthonyWhen Elliot, the co-owner of Over the Rainbow bookstore, suddenly passes away, his former business partner, reeling from grief, decides to sell the store to a giant developer, but her daughters and Elliots romantic partner conspire to save the store by any means necessary with surprising results. Selected by Lori, Library Assistant
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Girly Drinks: A Women's History of Drinking Through the Agesby by Mallory O'MearaProvides a tour through the feminist history of women drinking, revealing the untold female distillers, drinkers, and brewers that played vital roles in potent potable history, from ancient Sumerian beer goddess Ninkasi to 1920s bartender Ada Coleman. Selected by Stephanie, Reference Librarian
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