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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. |
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Soaking in the Cinematic Sun: Summertime Films Wednesday, August 17 6:30—7:30 PM Meeting Room Join us for an evening talk by film expert Frank Mandosa on summertime films. After the long winter months, it's time to put away the overcoats and soak in some sun - the cinematic sun! The summer months have long been a boom season for the movies. You will hear about a wide array of different films - comedies, dramas, thrillers, and musicals - that are set during the summertime and provide us with laughs, tears, and thrills. There will be behind-the-scenes stories of the production of these films, interactive trivia questions, and movie-themed door prizes for a few lucky people! Generously sponsored by the Friends of the Library. |
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Wild Edible Plants Presentation and Walk Tuesday, August 30 6:00—8:00 PM Meeting Room and Library Grounds Join wilderness and survival expert, Matt "Animal Man" Gabriel for a 1 hour interactive slideshow presentation and Q&A all about local wild edible, medicinal, and utilitarian plants. After the slideshow, the group will venture outside for a 1 hour wild edibles plant walk on the library grounds! Don't be fooled if you live in the city or if your location is professionally landscaped; wild edibles are absolutely everywhere! |
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Reading Dangerously Book Group August discussion: Monday, August 1 6:30 - 7:30pm Workshop 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. August title: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood September title: The Giver by Lois Lowry |
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Wednesday, August 17 6:30pm - 7:30pm Workshop Join us in a discussion of The Authenticy Project by Clare Pooley. Copies of the book are available for checkout at the main desk; ebook and audiobook versions are available on Libby. |
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Thursday, August 18 10:30pm - 11:30pm Workshop Join us in a discussion of God Spare the Girls by Kelsey McKinney. Copies of the book are available for checkout at the main desk; ebook and audiobook versions are available on Libby and Hoopla. |
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Teen Crafternoon Wednesday, August 3, 2022 4:00 - 5:00pm Join us for 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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Teen Karaoke Pizza Party Celebrate the End of the Teen Summer Reading Challenge for 2022 Monday, August 15, 2022 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. In the Library Meeting Room The library has some exceptional readers this year. Now it's time to reward yourselves. Close out the summer right, with karaoke, FREE pizza, FREE ice cream, and friends! You don't have to be a participant in the Reading Challenge to attend. The library will be announcing the winners of our gift card raffles to Starbucks, Crumbl Cookies, and Target for those who did participate. The opportunity to sing is limited by the time available, and is on a first come, first served basis. This event is geared towards teens ages 12 and up. Online registration is required. Parents attending should also register. |
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Custom Popsockets (Special Edition Teen Crafternoon) Wednesday, August 10, 2022 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. In the Library Workshop Come get creative in the library Workshop. Make your own custom popsocket for your phone. You can draw your own design, and then watch it pop! Library staff will guide you in creating these useful phone accessories using FREE blank popsockets and crafting supplies. This crafting event is geared towards teens ages 12 and up. Space is limited and registration is required. |
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Squirt Gun Watercolor Painting Monday, August 22, 2022 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. On the Library Lawn Make art using squirt guns filled with watercolor paint. We will have an assortment of squirt guns filled with different colors. Each participant will get two large 18”x24” sheets of watercolor paper to express their creativity. You can make abstract splatter art, or draw and color using black permanent markers as well. This event is geared towards teens ages 12 and up. Space is limited and registration is required. |
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Birds of MA Scavenger Hunt
All month long Children's Room Identify local birds that are hidden all around the children's room. No registration required. Drop in anytime. |
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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. Registration is required for each session. No class on Aug 24 & 31. |
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Candy Bar Bingo
Tuesday August 2 & Friday August 5 2:00-3:00pm All Ages Meeting Room Play Bingo for a chance to win a candy bar. No registration required. Funded by the Friends of the Norwell Public Library |
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Puppet Storytime
Thursday Aug 4 & 18 10:30-11:00am All Ages Meeting Room Leigh and her puppets from Through Me To You Puppetry are back for 30 minutes of story time fun! Funded by the Friends of the Norwell Public Library |
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Ed the Wizard Monday August 8 10:30-11:15am Ages 3 and up with an adult Meeting Room My name is Ed Popielarczyk. I am a professional magician, balloon sculptor, flea circus ringmaster, and storyteller. I have been entertaining children and family audiences for over 35 years. I was interviewed in the November 2008 issue of Wondertime Magazine (a Disney Publication) on what makes children laugh. My magic show is a comedy show that uses a lot of audience participation. The kids are the stars because they make the magic happen. I usually have lots of trouble! I don’t just “do a trick” I tell a story that revolves around each trick. It may be a short story or a longer one, but each story helps to bring the trick together. Every child who comes on “stage” to be a helper receives a souvenir! The show is appropriate for ages 3 and up. This program is sponsored by UFUND Start U Reading series. www.mefa.org |
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Take & Make Craft: Sew a Woodland Creature PICK UP WEEK Monday August 8-13 Ages 5 and up
Children's Room Pick up a plastic needle, felt outline and embroidery thread to make your own woodland creature. Registration is required to reserve your kit. Funded by the Friends of the Norwell Public Library |
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Read to Spider Thursday August 11 10:30-11:30am Ages 5 and up with an adult
Children's Studio Read to Spider a certified therapy dog. No registration required. |
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Wildlife Encounters Monday August 15 10:30-11:30am Ages 4 and up with an adult Meeting Room Meet live animals and learn about their habitats with Wildlife Encounters Ecology and Wellness Center https://www.weecocenter.com/. Open to ages 4 and up and their caregivers. |
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Meet the Author: How to Bake A Universe Friday August 19 10:30-11:30am Ages 6 and up with an adult
Meeting Room Calling all cosmic chefs! Alec Carvlin will be reading his debut picture book, How to Bake a Universe, at storytime at the Norwell Public Library! Kids will love decorating their own cosmic sunglasses, hearing the book read aloud by the author, then asking questions and drawing their own universes at the end. Open to ages 6 and up. |
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Upgrade : a Novel by Blake CrouchWhen his DNA is rewritten with a genetic-engineering breakthrough beyond anything the world has seen, Logan Ramsey finds his transformation threatening everything around him as he is forced to take sides in a fight to save humankind.
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Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come : One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes by Jessica PanAn introvert spends a year trying to live like an extrovert with hilarious results and advice for readers along the way.
What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she'd normally avoid at all costs? Writer Jessica Pan intends to find out. With the help of various extrovert mentors, Jessica sets up a series of personal challenges (talk to strangers, perform stand-up comedy, host a dinner party, travel alone, make friends on the road, and much, much worse) to explore whether living like an extrovert can teach her lessons that might improve the quality of her life. Chronicling the author's hilarious and painful year of misadventures, this book explores what happens when one introvert fights her natural tendencies, takes the plunge, and tries (and sometimes fails) to be a little bit braver.
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The Messy Lives of Book People by Phaedra PatrickLanding her personal hero and mega-best-selling author Essie Starling as a client, housecleaner Liv Green forms an unlikely friendship with this infamous recluse, but when Essie suddenly dies, leaving her an astonishing last wish, Liv discovers a connection between them that changes Livs own life story forever.
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The House Across the Lake : a Novel by Riley SagerRecently widowed actress Casey Fletcher retreats to her family's lake house in Vermont where she passes the time watching the glamorous couple across the lake until the wife disappears and she discovers that the most shocking of secrets can lurk beneath the most placid of surfaces.
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The Book Woman's Daughter : a Novel by Kim Michele RichardsonWhen her parents are imprisoned, Honey, picking up her mothers old packhorse library route, brings books to those in need, but certain folks aren't keen to let a woman pave the way until she meets a group of extraordinary women who help her fight for her place. |
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Things to Look Forward to : 52 Large and Small Joys for Today and Every Day by Sophie Blackall"Everyone needs things to look forward to-big things and small things, on good days and on bad days; things that will buoy our spirits and make us laugh and help us feel alive. In these pages, beloved author and illustrator Sophie Blackall has gathered a collection of joyful things for all of us: things that are always there if we look for them, like the sun coming up; things we can do if the sun is behind a cloud, like baking for other people or drawing a face on an egg; and things that can happen when we least expect them, like falling in love. Funny, compassionate, and sometimes even wise, Blackall-through personal stories, paintings, and a list of 52 Things to Look Forward To-offers us a handbook on how to make the most of our time here on Earth. There is always something bright on the horizon, and sometimes the horizon is closer than we think"
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