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RAYNHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY 760 South Main Street 508.823.1344
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Automatic Renewals Starting with materials due June 1st. One less thing to worry about. Physical materials will automatically renew and you will be notified of the new due dates by e-mail or text. Materials not eligible for renewal include items on hold for others or if the maximum number of renewals has been reached.
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BOOK SALE! The Friends of the Library Book Sale is May 6, 7, & 9. If you would like to donate books in good condition, bring them to the library starting May 2.
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Memorial Day The Library will be closed on Monday, May 30, in observance of Memorial Day
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TumbleBooks are animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they’ll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you. You’ll also find National Geographic videos, language learning and puzzles and games. Get the Tumblebooks app to read animated picture books on your mobile device. Download the free app from your app store.
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Little souls by Sandra DallasIn 1918 Colorado, as the Spanish Influenza runs rampant, sisters Helen and Lutie, after their tenant dies, must care for her daughter, which leads to murder, placing them both in danger from the ensuing investigation and the flu.
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The gates of Europe : a history of Ukraine by Serhii PlokhyPresents a history of Ukraine, discussing how the country's position as a gateway between the East and the West have led to numerous conflicts in the past and its constant struggle to defend against rival powers and maintain its independence.
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Yerba Buena by Nina LaCourWhen much sought-after bartender Sara Foster meets Emilie Dubois at the Yerba Buena restaurant, their connection is instant, but the damage they both carry, and the choices they made, keep pulling them apart.
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First Wednesday Book Club Wednesday, May 4, 1 PM
This month we are reading Rose Code by Kate Quinn 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything—beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses—but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious self-made Mab, product of East-End London poverty, works the legendary code-breaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park’s few female cryptanalysts. But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart.
1947. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever, three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter—the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum. A mysterious traitor has emerged from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past, and now Osla, Mab, and Beth must resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code together. But each petal they remove from the rose code brings danger—and their true enemy—closer.. New members welcome. |
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Second Wednesday Book Club Wednesday, May 11, 1 PM When George Washington became president in 1798, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative political experiment. Washington undertook a tour of the ex-colonies to talk to ordinary citizens about their lives and their feelings about his new government, and to imbue in them the idea of being one thing--Americans. Weaving history and personal reflection into one narrative, Nathaniel Philbrick embarked on his own journey into what Washington called "the infant woody country"--and to see for himself what it had become in the 230 years since. Writing in a thoughtful first person about his own adventures with his travel companions (wife and puppy), Philbrick follows the tour of America that Washington went on after becoming President--an almost 2,000-mile journey from Mount Vernon to the new capital in New York, a tour of New England, a venture out across Long Island, and into the hinterlands of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The narrative moves smoothly back and forth from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries, so we see the country through Washington's eyes as well as Philbrick's. Written at a moment when America's foundational ideals--or claims to them--are under scrutiny, this book grapples bluntly and honestly with George Washington's legacy as a man of the people, a mythical figure of the early republic, a reluctant President, and a plantation owner who held people in slavery. At historic houses and landmarks, Philbrick reports on the reinterpretations at work, as well as meeting reenactors and other keepers of the flame. He paints a picture of 18th century America as divided and fraught as it is today, and he comes to understand how Washington entranced, compelled, enticed, and stood up to the many different kinds of citizens he met on this journey--and how through belief, vision, and sheer will he convinced them that they were now all Americans, creating a sense of national solidarity that had never existed before. New members welcome.
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Tuesday Night Book Club Tuesday, May 17, 6-7 Traumatized by the sudden death of his wife, thirty-four year old Harry Crane leaves his old life and heads for the remote forests of northeastern Pennsylvania, where he meets a young girl who sets him on a feverish road to redemption New members welcome.
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Summer Planning Pizza Party Monday, May 23, 5:30 PM Learn about the volunteer opportunities happening at the library this summer, help us plan, and eat pizza! Attending this meeting counts towards your volunteer hours. 5:30-6:30 PM.
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Spring Storytime Wednesdays at 10:30 Storytime is back! We are having a wonderful time meeting in Judy's Garden, our beautiful new amphitheater. Join us for stories, songs, and movement. Everyone is welcome.
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