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Henna Afternoon Wednesday, July 6 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Meeting Room / Staff Parking Lot Get a FREE henna tattoo from Wicked Henna. This event is geared toward kids and teens. No registration is required. First come, first served.
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Storywalk: The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear July 11-16 Library Lawn Read page by page while walking the library grounds. This storywalk is on loan from South Shore Community Action Council.
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Summer Reading June - August 13 All ages including adults are welcome to participate in our summer reading program for a chance to win prizes from the Friends of the Norwell Public Library.
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Tai Chi at the Library Classes are held on Tuesdays from 11am - 12 noon in the Meeting Room. Beginners are welcome. Wear loose comfortable clothing. Registration is required and opens two weeks before each class. Funded by the Friends of the Norwell Public Library. Donations to the Friends are greatly appreciated.
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NPL Movie Discussion Group Wednesday, July 6 6:30pm - 7:30pm Meeting Room The Norwell Public Library Movie Discussion Group will be discussing the classic 1972 epic gangster and family saga film, The Godfather Part I.
Synopsis: Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, this mob drama, based on Mario Puzo's novel of the same name, focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando). When the don's youngest son, Michael (Al Pacino), reluctantly joins the Mafia, he becomes involved in the inevitable cycle of violence and betrayal.
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How to Make Your Own Rain Barrel Tuesday, July 12 6:30pm - 7:30pm Meeting Room The library is hosting a presentation by sustainability expert Casey Doyle on the steps for making a rain barrel. Funded by the Friends of the Norwell Public Library
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Les Sampou Concert Wednesday, July 27th 6:30pm - 7:30pm Meeting Room Join us for a wonderful evening of music with accomplished local Norwell songwriter and recording artist, Les Sampou. Les will be performing a solo acoustic set featuring a mix of Americana music covers and original songs. Funded by the Friends of the Norwell Public Library
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Reading Dangerously Book Group July discussion: Monday, July 11 6:30 - 7:30pm Meeting Room Reading Dangerously, a book group focusing on banned or challenged books, meets the first Monday of each month. Open to adult and teen readers. Copies of each month's book will be available for checkout at the library. July title: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury August title: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood September title: The Giver by Lois Lowry
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NPL Evening Book Discussion Group Wednesday, July 13 6:30pm - 7:30pm Meeting Room An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly-acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time—from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as The Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains—this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor's first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet. Sometimes terrifying, sometimes tender, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it.
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Literary Circle Book Discussion Group Thursday, July 21st 10:30pm - 11:30pm Meeting Room In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps create a world-class collection. But Belle has a secret, one she must protect at all costs. She was born not Belle da Costa Greene but Belle Marion Greener. She is the daughter of Richard Greener, the first Black graduate of Harvard and a well-known advocate for equality. Belle’s complexion isn’t dark because of her alleged Portuguese heritage that lets her pass as white—her complexion is dark because she is African American. The Personal Librarian tells the story of an extraordinary woman, famous for her intellect, style, and wit, and shares the lengths she must go to—for the protection of her family and her legacy—to preserve her carefully crafted white identity in the racist world in which she lives.
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Felted Hedgehog Craft Tuesday, July 19 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Workshop Learn how to needle felt wool with Pop up Art School. Use a barbed needle and merino wool roving to create a felted hedgehog. In this beginner’s class, you’ll learn how to sculpt basic shapes and attach them together. Needle felting is fun, easy and relaxing! Open to ages 13 and up.
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Teen Crafternoon Weekly on Wednesdays Starting on July 20 4:00 - 5:00pm Every Wednesday from 4:00-5:00 the library will have craft projects set out in the workshop. Please note, these are self directed crafts, this is not a class. No registration required, just drop in!
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Camp Scavenger Hunt All month long Children's Room In honor of our summer reading theme, camp icons are hidden all around the children's room. No registration required. Drop in anytime. Please note the children's room will be closed for repairs July 11-16.
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Music & Movement with Jessica Wednesdays 10:30-11:00am & 11:00-11:30am All ages Meeting Room Ages 0-5 are welcome to join Jessica for 30 minutes of participatory songs and fingerplays that support early literacy and get your body moving. We're moving back indoors in July. Registration is required for each session. No storytime on Wed July 13 due to Mama Steph concert.
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Storytime Thursdays 11:00-11:30am All Ages Meeting Room Songs and stories with Jessica for ages 0-5. Registration is required since we will be moving indoors.
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Clay Luminaries with Pop Up Art School Tuesday July 12 6:00-8:00pm Ages 8 and up Adult Studio Make a clay luminary with Pop Up Art School. Funded by the Friends of the Norwell Public Library
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Mama Steph Concert Wednesday July 13 10:30-11:15am Ages 0-5 Meeting Room Singer Stephanie Chase delights audiences with her original songs. Registration is required. Funded by the Friends of the Norwell Public Library
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Intro to Pokemon Trading Card Game Wednesday July 20 1:00-4:00pm Ages 8 and up Children's Studio You have the cards, now learn how to play the game with One Up Games. Registration required.
Funded by the Friends of the Norwell Public Library
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Take & Make Craft: Embrodiery Hoop Suncatchers PICK UP WEEK Monday July 25-30 All ages Children's Room Make a suncatcher with materials from outside. Registration is required to reserve your kit. Funded by the Friends of the Norwell Public Library
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Atomic Anna by Rachel BarenbaumDuring the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986, a renowned nuclear scientist is thrust through time to 1992 where her estranged daughter uses her dying breath to ask her mother to go back through time and prevent the disaster.
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Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel MonaghanA romance channel screenwriter, turning her disastrous marriage into the best script of her life, is shocked when the leading man, after shooting wraps, asks to stay with her for 7 days, $1,000 per day: just enough time to fall in love or just enough time to have her heart broken.
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Book Lovers by Emily HenryAgreeing to a holiday escape to the country, literary agent Nora keeps running into a bookish, hardheaded, arrogant editor she knows from Manhattan, and wishes she didn't, even as she discovers they have more in common than previously thought.
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Remarkably Bright Creatures : a Novel by Shelby Van PeltAfter her husband dies, widow Tova Sullivan starts working at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, where she forms a special bond with a giant Pacific octopus who holds the key to solving the mysterious disappearance of her 18-year-old son, Erik, over thirty years ago on the Puget Sound.
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Reconstructing Amelia : a Novel by Kimberly McCreightWhen her high-achieving 15-year-old daughter Amelia supposedly commits suicide after she is caught cheating, litigation lawyer and single mother Kate Baron, leveled by grief, must reconstruct the pieces of Amelia's life to find the truth and vindicate the memory of the daughter whose life she could not save.
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