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• Fall River Public Library Newsletter July/August 2022 •
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Welcome Summer! Summer Reading The summer reading theme for 2021 is "Get Up! Get Out! Get Reading!," and we'll be celebrating with a full roster of outdoor-themed storytimes, crafts, performances, and special events. Summer Hours Our summer hours are: Monday through Thursday: 8 am - 8 pm Friday: 9 am - 3 pm Closed Saturdays mid-June through Labor Day Programs and EventsWe offer programs for all age groups: kids, teens, and adults! Follow our Facebook page and online calendar for updates.
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Take-Home Crafts New Craft Each Week! Each week, we will feature a different take-home craft for kids. All crafts are fun, easy to make, and can be picked up at the Tuesday storytime or in the children's room.
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Stories on the Lawn Tuesdays at 11 Join us every Tuesday morning at 11 am for storytimes in our new Story Tent on the Elm Street lawn! The tent will provide shade from the sun and protection from the rain, so events will happen, rain or shine!
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Disney Day Friday, July 22 at 11 am Meet and greet many of your favorite Disney characters right on the library's front lawn! Take your picture with Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Donald and Daisy Duck, Goofy, and more!
Rain date: July 29 at 11:00 a.m.
Generously sponsored by Rockland Trust Bank.
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Harry Potter Birthday Party Monday, August 1 at 11 am Waiting for your Hogwarts letter? Fans of the ever-popular Harry Potter series are welcome to join us for this activity in celebration of his birthday! (July 31) Build your own Golden Snitch using LEGO bricks. We will also have a raffle and costume contest as well as other surprises!
Pick up your official invitation in the Children's Room beginning July 8th! Refreshments will be served.
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Rock Painting with RivaRocks Thursday, August 11 at 1 pm Chances are you have already found one of their beautifully painted rocks hidden throughout the city--often bearing cheerful messages that brighten the day of whoever discovers them! Today children can join the creators of these rocks to design their own little painted masterpieces! Children will have plenty of rocks of all shapes and sizes to choose from, as well as a rainbow assortment of paints.
Sponsored by RivaRocks.
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Wingmasters Wednesday, August 17 at 11 am Wingmasters is an exciting and educational live animal show featuring raptors from all over New England! The program will feature hawks, falcons, owls, and even an eagle! Children will have the unique experience of learning about these magnificent creatures up-close and personal. Parents are invited to spread a blanket and bring snacks. In case of rain, the event will be held in the Meeting Room.
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Teen Game Night Tuesday, August 2 at 6 pm Join us on the first Tuesday of the month for our ongoing Teen Game Night! Consoles and multiplayer games such as Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and Super Mario Party will be available. We have a Nintendo Switch. Bringing your own handheld devices and controllers is encouraged, the more the merrier!
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Teen Board Game Day Every Friday at 2 pm Join us at the library this summer every Friday afternoon and try some new board games! We'll have a variety of games on hand for you to try. This program is intended for ages 12-18. Registration not required!
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Kanopy Movies Available at kanopy.com//fallriverlibrary and through the Libby app. Stream up to 10 free movies each month, plus unlimited children's and educational videos.
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Kovel's Antiques Available through the free LIBBY app. Free access to trusted, continuously updated antique price guides. Go to the Libby app and look under the "Extras" tab.
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Ghost story by Peter StraubWhat was the worst thing you've ever done? In the sleepy town of Milburn, New York, four old men gather to tell each other stories--some true, some made-up, all of them frightening. A simple pastime to divert themselves from their quiet lives. But one story is coming back to haunt them and their small town. A tale of something they did long ago. A wicked mistake. A horrifying accident. And they are about to learn that no one can bury the past forever...
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Ice / : 50th Anniversary Editionby Anna KavanIn a frozen, apocalyptic landscape, destruction abounds: great walls of ice overrun the world and secretive governments vie for control. Against this surreal, yet eerily familiar broken world, an unnamed narrator embarks on a hallucinatory quest for a strange and elusive "glass-girl" with silver hair. A novel unlike any other, Ice is at once a dystopian adventure shattering the conventions of science fiction, a prescient warning of climate change and totalitarianism, a feminist exploration of violence and trauma, a Kafkaesque literary dreamscape, and a brilliant allegory for its author's struggles with addiction--all crystallized in prose as glittering as the piling snow.
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The snow child by Eowyn IveyA childless couple working a farm in the brutal landscape of 1920 Alaska discover a little girl living in the wilderness, with a red fox as a companion, and begin to love the strange, almost-supernatural child as their own.
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The shiningby Stephen KingJack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, his wife sees it as a chance to preserve their family, and their five-year-old son sees the evil waiting just for them. The claustrophobia of the family trapped in the snowbound, haunted Overlook Hotel inspired a classic Stanley Kubrick movie and a novel sequel, Doctor Sleep, but there's nothing quite as chilling as the icy spell of the original novel.
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Fargo [videorecording] / written and directed by Joel Coen, Ethan CoenA persistent, pregnant police chief (Frances McDormand) tries to solve the disappearance of a wife and mother from Fargo, North Dakota. This classic Coen Brothers film uses the barren, snow-covered setting to haunting effect and received two Academy Awards: one for McDormand's performance and one for best screenplay.
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Road of bones by Christopher GoldenWhile preparing to film a story about the Kolyma Highway, a Siberian road built on top of the bones of prisoners of Stalins gulag, a documentary producer and his crew must fight for their survival when they are pursued down this road paved with angry ghosts. Set in one of the coldest places on earth, where running out of gas can mean a frozen death, this book will lend a chill to the hottest days.
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Rupture by Ragnar JónassonAfter Ari Thór reopens an unsolved fifty-year old murder case, he teams up with Ísrún, a news reporter from Reykjavik, but the case proves difficult in a town with secrets and no one wants to know the truth. Hailed for combining the darkness of Nordic Noir with classic mystery writing, author Ragnar Jonasson's books are haunting, atmospheric, and complex.
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Spinning silverby Naomi NovikDeciding to collect on the outstanding debts owed her family of moneylenders, a young woman is overheard boasting about being able to turn silver into gold by the cold creatures who haunt the wood. This creative reimagining of the Rumpelstiltskin tale captures the dark magic of the fairy tale with a more layered, complex story.
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The terror : a novel by Dan SimmonsTheir captain's insane vision of a Northwest Passage has kept the crewmen of HMS Terror trapped in Arctic ice for two years without a thaw. But the real threat to their survival isn't the ever-shifting landscape of white, the provisions that have turned to poison, or the ship slowly buckling in the grip of the frozen ocean. The real threat is whatever is out in the frigid darkness, stalking their ship, snatching and brutally killing their fellow seamen.
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At the mountains of madnessby Ian Culbard and H.P. LovecraftThis is a tale of terror. The barren, windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless, or so the expedition from Miskatonic University thought. Then they found strange fossils of unheard-of-creatures, carved stones tens of millions of years old and, finally, the unspeakable, mind-twisting terror of the City of the Old Ones. This graphic novel is based on the creepy, atmospheric novella by H.P. Lovecraft.
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Alaskan holiday : a novel by Debbie MacomberTaking a job in a remote Alaskan town, a talented young chef bonds with a crotchety baker and a master swordsmith who complicate her career ambitions on the mainland. By the best-selling author of Merry and Bright.
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