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SHOW YOUR LIBRARY SOME LOVE. WRITE A SWEET VALENTINE TODAY! In recognition of Valentine’s Day, residents from across the Commonwealth have come together to show libraries some love! Join us in the MBLC’s #LibraryLovers Campaign and upload your digital valentine by clicking here. Your Valentine will help raise awareness about the value of libraries with local and state officials. |
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Before you make a trip to the Library to donate books, please call 781-659-2015 to find out if donations are currently being accepted.
Depending on the availability of volunteers, the Friends are not always able to accept book donations. If you would like to volunteer to help, attend the next Friends meeting or email them at friendsofnorwellpubliclibrary@gmail.com. |
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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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Movie Night Wednesday, February 9th
6:15pm - 8:00pm
Meeting Room Join us for a free evening screening of Dinner Rush. Synopsis: A tasty look at one action-packed night at a chic Italian restaurant in Manhattan. The film stars Danny Aiello as a restaurateur-bookmaker in New York City's Tribeca neighborhood and Edoardo Ballerini as his son, the restaurant's star chef. The film deals with converging pressures from the son and his gambling sous-chef who work in the kitchen, as well as organized crime. Additionally the film features an outstanding, highly talented, and diverse supporting ensemble cast. Registration is required. |
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Literary Circle Book Discussion Group Thursday, February 17th 10:30am-11:30am Meeting Room William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude. John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. |
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Author Talk with John Happ Sunday, February 20th 2:00pm-3:00pm Meeting Room & Zoom Join us for an afternoon author talk and book signing featuring local author, John Happ. John will be giving a talk on his new and exciting nonfiction World War II history book, The Navigation Case: Training, Flying and Fighting the 1942 to 1945 New Guinea War. |
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NPL Evening Book Discussion Group Wednesday, February 23 6:30pm-7:30pm Meeting Room As a girl, Zorrie Underwood’s modest and hardscrabble home county was the only constant in her young life. After losing both her parents, Zorrie moved in with her aunt, whose own death orphaned Zorrie all over again, casting her off into the perilous realities and sublime landscapes of rural, Depression-era Indiana. Drifting west, Zorrie survived on odd jobs, sleeping in barns and under the stars, before finding a position at a radium processing plant. At the end of each day, the girls at her factory glowed from the radioactive material. But when Indiana calls Zorrie home, she finally finds the love and community that have eluded her in and around the small town of Hillisburg. And yet, even as she tries to build a new life, Zorrie discovers that her trials have only begun. |
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Author Talk with Zachary Lamothe Sunday, February 27th 2:00pm-3:00pm Meeting Room & Zoom
Join us for an afternoon author talk featuring local author, blogger, and New England travel and lore expert Zachary Lamothe. Zack will be giving a talk on his two most recent books, A History Lover's Guide to the South Shore and Classic Restaurants of Boston, along with local Norwell area backyard travel and culture.
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Teen Advisory Group (TAG) Meetings every Third Thursday of the month Next Meeting: February 17 3pm-4pm NPL Workshop Are you interested in being involved with and making a difference in your community? Completing requirements for service and volunteer hours? Gaining experience for college applications and resumes? Having fun and meeting new people? If you answered yes to any of these questions, please consider joining TAG. TAG meets monthly with the teen librarian. Open to ages 13-18. New members are always welcome. Interested teens can contact teen librarian Emily Goodwin, egoodwin@ocln.org or fill out this google form. |
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Teen Drop-in Crafternoon Weekly on Wednesdays Beginning Wednesday, February 23 3pm-4:30pm NPL Workshop Beginning February 23, every Wednesday from 3:00pm - 4:30pm the library will have teen craft projects set out in the workshop. Please note, these are self directed craft projects, this is not a class. No registration required, just drop in! |
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ASL Scavenger Hunt
All month long Children's Room Search for American Sign Language vocabulary prompts hidden all around the children's room. No registration required. |
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Music & Movement with Jessica
Wednesdays at 10:30
All ages 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. For the safety of all participants, registration is required and will be limited. Please sign up for each week you are interested in attending. |
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World Read Aloud Day
Wednesday, February 2 Children's Room Stop by before February 14 to enter a raffle for a book bag featuring picture books: All Because You Matter by Tami Charles and Bryan Collier, Bright Brown Baby: A Treasury by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney, & Our Table by Peter Reynolds. This is in honor of World Read aloud Day. For more information and activities, click here. |
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Take Your Child to the Library Day
Saturday, February 5 Children's Studio It's National Take Your Child to the Library Day! In honor of the day, we're doing Perler Beads Open Studio from 10:30-11:30 for ages 8 and up. No registration required.
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All ages Learn the basics of American Sign Language and an introduction to Deaf culture with certified interpreter Marianne Molinari. This workshop is for all ages. Registration is required to receive your ZOOM link. To learn more about Marianne, click here. Funded by the Friends of the Norwell Public Library |
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Mario Kart Tournament Thursday, February 24, 10:00-12:00 Virtual Nintendo Online Library is hosting a Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Tournament for the Nintendo Switch. You can join us online for the event. You will need a copy of the game and a Nintendo Online account to play. Registration is required to receive your tournament link. Funded by the Friends of the Norwell Public Library |
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The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera"Había una vez...There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children--among them Petra and her family--have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet--and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinisterCollective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard--or purged them altogether. Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, anyhope for our future. Can she make them live again?"
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Five Tuesdays in Winter : Stories by Lily King"With Writers & Lovers and Euphoria, Lily King's books catapulted onto bestseller and best-of-the-year lists across the country, further cementing her reputation as one of the most "brilliant" (NYTBR), "wildly talented" (Chicago Tribune), and beloved authors in contemporary fiction. Now, for the first time, King collects ten of her finest short stories-half published in leading literary magazines and half brand new-opening fresh realms of discovery for fans and new readers alike. Told in the intimate voices of uniquely endearing characters of all ages, these tales explore desire and heartache, loss and discovery, moments of jolting violence and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A bookseller's unspoken love for his employee rises to the surface, a neglected teenage boy finds much-needed nurturing from an unlikely pair of college students hired to housesit, a girl's loss of innocence in her summer job becomes a catalyst for strength and confidence, and a proud nonagenarian rages helplessly in his granddaughter's hospital room. Romantic, hopeful, brutally raw, and unsparingly honest, some even slipping slyly into the surreal, these stories are, above all, about King's enduring subject of love."
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Ain't Burned All The Bright by Jason ReynoldsThis smash-up of art and text visually captures what it is to be Black in America—and what it means to REALLY breath.
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The Pull of the Stars : a Novel by Emma DonoghueA novel set in 1918 Dublin offers a three-day look at a maternity ward during the height of the Great Flu pandemic. By the best-selling author of Room.
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The Libby/OverDrive app makes it easier than ever to downloand e-books and e-audiobooks. New additions are continuously being made to NPL's OverDrive Collection. |
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Hoopla
Instantly borrow free e-audiobooks, e-books,
movies, music, and more, including content for children. No holds and no waiting. Enjoy up to 10 checkouts per month! |
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Kanopy, the popular on demand film streaming service. Free for NPL cardholders! |
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The world of music at your fingertips! Ad-free, and just free. All you need is your Norwell Public Library card.
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Consumer Reports: Expert reviews and ratings of consumer products, plus buying advice and comparisons.
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Language is an adventure! Try learning a new language using Mango Languages, free with your Norwell Library Card! |
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Enjoy a delightful selection of animated, talking picture books through the Norwell Public Library's subscription to TumbleBooks. |
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