Acushnet Public Library

Would you like to know how to download ebooks, audiobooks, and videos to your devices? Have you tried OverDrive, Libby, or Hoopla?A librarian will be available during this open session to help with your technology concerns. Bring your device or smartphone and your passwords.

Join us as we explore and learn during Winter Storytime for babies and toddlers at the Acushnet Public Library. Each week we focus on a different theme through books, songs, and a craft. This program is recommended for ages 0-5. No registration is required.

Would you like to know how to download ebooks, audiobooks, and videos to your devices? Have you tried OverDrive, Libby, or Hoopla?A librarian will be available during this open session to help with your technology concerns. Bring your device or smartphone and your passwords.

Drop by LEGO Club to show your skills, build with friends, and be creative! The LEGO Club has been partially funded by the United Way of Greater New Bedford Community Building MiniGrants Program and the Friends of the Acushnet Public Library.

Drop by LEGO Club to show your skills, build with friends, and be creative! The LEGO Club has been partially funded by the United Way of Greater New Bedford Community Building MiniGrants Program and the Friends of the Acushnet Public Library.

Would you like to know how to download ebooks, audiobooks, and videos to your devices? Have you tried OverDrive, Libby, or Hoopla?A librarian will be available during this open session to help with your technology concerns. Bring your device or smartphone and your passwords.

Join us as we welcome guest reader Junior Miss Apple Peach Aubrey Sousa to this Special Winter Storytime for babies and toddlers at the Acushnet Public Library. Today's theme is “The Winter Olympics: I Can Be Strong.” This program is recommended for ages 0-5. No registration is required.

Join us in the Community Room for a movie. Please bring a covered beverage and a snack if you wish. This Movie Matinee is for all ages with parental guidance. Rated PG, 2 hours, 17 minutes.This month, we will screen Wicked: For Good. As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together one final time. With their singular friendship now the fulcrum of their futures, they will need to truly see each other, with honesty and empathy, if they are to change themselves and all of Oz for good.

Join your local Coordinated Family and Community Engagement (CFCE) Program for a Play and Learn program with Miss Gloria in the Acushnet Public Library Community Room. Play and Learn is precisely what it sounds like: we play while we learn, and we learn while we play! This free parent-child event is scheduled for Thursday, February 19, at 11:00 a.m. for families with children from birth to age six. We encourage you to register. For more information, contact Gloria Cardona at gcardona@paceccw.org.

Brad Timm presents his book Wildlife Out Your Window: Fascinating Facts About 100 Animals Commonly Seen in the Northeastern U.S. Brad, a wildlife ecologist and the Founder and Executive Director of the Northeast Wildlife Team, will share some of his favorite interesting facts from the book, discuss simple actions each of us can take to help wildlife around us, answer your wildlife questions, and much more!Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Drop by the Young Adult area and create a unique button. You choose the paper and help create a button to wear or share. Ages 6 and up.

Learn the basic skills of knitting at this beginner's workshop. We'll provide the needles and yarn for making a small project. (Please note: Crochet will not be taught.) Space is limited.All ages are welcome. Registration is required (508-998-0270).

Would you like to know how to download ebooks, audiobooks, and videos to your devices? Have you tried OverDrive, Libby, or Hoopla?A librarian will be available during this open session to help with your technology concerns. Bring your device or smartphone and your passwords.

Join us as we share our favorite books and create a unique craft or piece of art. Recommended for ages 9-12. No registration is required.

Join us as we explore and learn during Winter Storytime for babies and toddlers at the Acushnet Public Library. Each week we focus on a different theme through books, songs, and a craft. This program is recommended for ages 0-5. No registration is required.

A new group is gathering to discuss Acushnet's history. Join the conversation and share stories or photos from the past. Bring your coffee and memories. We will supply historic documents, photos, newspaper clippings, and more!

Would you like to know how to download ebooks, audiobooks, and videos to your devices? Have you tried OverDrive, Libby, or Hoopla?A librarian will be available during this open session to help with your technology concerns. Bring your device or smartphone and your passwords.

Drop by LEGO Club to show your skills, build with friends, and be creative! The LEGO Club has been partially funded by the United Way of Greater New Bedford Community Building MiniGrants Program and the Friends of the Acushnet Public Library.

Would you like to know how to download ebooks, audiobooks, and videos to your devices? Have you tried OverDrive, Libby, or Hoopla?A librarian will be available during this open session to help with your technology concerns. Bring your device or smartphone and your passwords.

Reader's Group - Morning Edition: This month's selection is Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate.Join us for the morning edition of the Reader's Group! If you're looking for a place to meet new people and share your love of books, this is the perfect opportunity. We will be holding a book discussion in the community room. This event is for individuals 18 years of age and above. You can place a hold or ask a librarian to order a copy for you. We hope to see you there!"Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children's Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents--but they quickly realize the dark truth. At the mercy of the facility's cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together in a world of danger and uncertainty. Aiken, South Carolina, present day. Born into wealth and privilege, Avery Stafford seems to have it all: a successful career as a federal prosecutor, a handsome fiancé, and a lavish wedding on the horizon. But when Avery returns home to help her father weather a health crisis, a chance encounter leaves her with uncomfortable questions and compels her to take a journey through her family's long-hidden history, on a path that will ultimately lead to either devastation or redemption. Based on one of America's most notorious real-life scandals--in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country--Lisa Wingate's riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong"-- Provided by publisher.

Would you like to know how to download ebooks, audiobooks, and videos to your devices? Have you tried OverDrive, Libby, or Hoopla?A librarian will be available during this open session to help with your technology concerns. Bring your device or smartphone and your passwords.

Are you looking for a place to meet new people and share your love of books? Join us for the book discussion this month! The group will meet in the community room.This month's selection: The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters."A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years, July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister's disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren't telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret. For readers of The Vanishing Half and Woman of Light, this showstopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across"-- Provided by publisher.

Knitters and crocheters of all levels are welcome to join. Some guidance and instruction will be available.Join them in the Community Room on the second* Monday of each month @ 6 pm. *This group will meet on the third Monday of the month if the second Monday is a holiday.

Would you like to know how to download ebooks, audiobooks, and videos to your devices? Have you tried OverDrive, Libby, or Hoopla?A librarian will be available during this open session to help with your technology concerns. Bring your device or smartphone and your passwords.

Would you like to know how to download ebooks, audiobooks, and videos to your devices? Have you tried OverDrive, Libby, or Hoopla?A librarian will be available during this open session to help with your technology concerns. Bring your device or smartphone and your passwords.

Would you like to know how to download ebooks, audiobooks, and videos to your devices? Have you tried OverDrive, Libby, or Hoopla?A librarian will be available during this open session to help with your technology concerns. Bring your device or smartphone and your passwords.

Would you like to know how to download ebooks, audiobooks, and videos to your devices? Have you tried OverDrive, Libby, or Hoopla?A librarian will be available during this open session to help with your technology concerns. Bring your device or smartphone and your passwords.

Would you like to know how to download ebooks, audiobooks, and videos to your devices? Have you tried OverDrive, Libby, or Hoopla?A librarian will be available during this open session to help with your technology concerns. Bring your device or smartphone and your passwords.

Would you like to know how to download ebooks, audiobooks, and videos to your devices? Have you tried OverDrive, Libby, or Hoopla?A librarian will be available during this open session to help with your technology concerns. Bring your device or smartphone and your passwords.

Lana Quann returns to lead a class in watercolors. Details to follow soon.

From February 1 through March 15, Cradles to Crayons®, the Boston Bruins, the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, and Wonderfund are coming together with organizations in your community to collect new pajamas for local children living in low-income and homeless situations. Together, we are looking to collect 10,000 pairs of pajamas. By supporting the PJ Drive, you will directly provide new pajamas to the children who need them most, helping them stay warm for a good night’s sleep. Over the years, Acushnet Library patrons have donated more than 310 pairs of pajamas to children in the Greater New Bedford area. This year, we hope to collect 50 pairs. We will accept donations through March 31.

Would you like to know how to download ebooks, audiobooks, and videos to your devices? Have you tried OverDrive, Libby, or Hoopla?A librarian will be available during this open session to help with your technology concerns. Bring your device or smartphone and your passwords.

Reader's Group - Morning Edition: This month's selection is The Alice Network by Kate Quinn.Join us for the morning edition of the Reader's Group! If you're looking for a place to meet new people and share your love of books, this is the perfect opportunity. We will be holding a book discussion in the community room. This event is for individuals 18 years of age and above. You can place a hold or ask a librarian to order a copy for you. We hope to see you there!"It's 1947, and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive somewhere. So when Charlie's family banishes her to Europe to have her "little problem" taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London, determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister. In 1915, Eve Gardiner burns to join the fight against the Germans and unexpectedly gets her chance to serve when she's recruited to work as a spy for the English. Sent into enemy-occupied France during The Great War, she's trained by the mesmerizing Lili, the "Queen of Spies", who manages a vast network of secret agents, right under the enemy's nose. Thirty years later, haunted by the betrayal that ultimately tore apart the Alice Network, Eve spends her days drunk and secluded in her crumbling London house. Until a young American barges in, uttering a name Eve hasn't heard in decades, and launching them both on a mission to find the truth ...no matter where it leads"-- Provided by publisher.

Reader's Group : This month's selection is Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.Join us for the Reader's Group! If you're looking for a place to meet new people and share your love of books, this is the perfect opportunity. We will be holding a book discussion in the community room. This event is for individuals 18 years of age and above. You can place a hold or ask a librarian to order a copy for you. We hope to see you there!"An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation." As she explores these themes she circles toward a central argument: the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgement and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the world. Once we begin to listen for the languages of other beings, we can begin to understand the innumerable life-giving gifts the world provides us and learn to offer our thanks, our care, and our own gifts in return." "As a leading researcher in the field of biology, Robin Wall Kimmerer understands the delicate state of our world. But as an active member of the Potawatomi nation, she senses and relates to the world through a way of knowing far older than any science. In Braiding Sweetgrass, she intertwines these two modes of awareness--the analytic and the emotional, the scientific and the cultural--to ultimately reveal a path toward healing the rift that grows between people and nature. The woven essays that construct this book bring people back into conversation with all that is green and growing; a universe that never stopped speaking to us, even when we forgot how to listen"-- Provided by publisher.

Knitters and crocheters of all levels are welcome to join. Some guidance and instruction will be available.Join them in the Community Room on the second* Monday of each month @ 6 pm. *This group will meet on the third Monday of the month if the second Monday is a holiday.

Lana Quann returns to lead a class in watercolors. Details to follow soon.

Reader's Group - Morning Edition: This month's selection is Sisters of Auschwitz by Roxane van Iperen.Join us for the morning edition of the Reader's Group! If you're looking for a place to meet new people and share your love of books, this is the perfect opportunity. We will be holding a book discussion in the community room. This event is for individuals 18 years of age and above. You can place a hold or ask a librarian to order a copy for you. We hope to see you there!During the Second World War, two Jewish sisters -- Janny and Lien Brilleslijper -- ran one of the largest hideaways in the Netherlands: The High Nest, a villa in the Gooi area. While the last remaining Jews are being hunted in the Netherlands, the lives of dozens of hideaways kept going for better or for worse, right under the noses of their National Socialist neighbors. Eventually, the nest is exposed, and the Brilleslijper family is put on one of the last transports to Auschwitz, along with the (Anne) Frank family. Roxane's novelistic eye, combined with her rigorous research, results in a hugely compelling portrayal of courage, treason, and human resilience.

Reader's Group - This month's selection is Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur.Join the Reader's Group! If you're looking for a place to meet new people and share your love of books, this is the perfect opportunity. We will be holding a book discussion in the community room. This event is for individuals 18 years of age and above. You can place a hold or ask a librarian to order a copy for you. We hope to see you there!"From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families, and long-buried secrets-for fans of the New York Times bestsellers The Paper Palace and Ask Again, Yes. Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. Their father, Adam, a brilliant oceanographer, raised them mostly on his own in his remote home on Cape Cod, where the attachment between Ken and Abby deepened into something complicated-and as adults their relationship is strained. Now, years later, the siblings' lives are still deeply entwined. Ken is a successful businessman with political ambitions and a picture-perfect family and Abby is a talented visual artist who depends on her brother's goodwill, in part because he owns the studio where she lives and works. As the novel opens, Adam is approaching his seventieth birthday, staring down his mortality and fading relevance. He has always managed his bipolar disorder with medication, but he's determined to make one last scientific breakthrough and so he has secretly stopped taking his pills, which he knows will infuriate his children. Meanwhile, Abby and Ken are both harboring secrets of their own, and there is a new person on the periphery of the family-Steph, who doesn't make her connection known. As Adam grows more attuned to the frequencies of the deep sea and less so to the people around him, Ken and Abby each plan the elaborate gifts they will present to their father on his birthday, jostling for primacy in this small family unit. Set in the fraught summer of 2016, and drawing on the biblical tale of Cain and Abel, Little Monsters is an absorbing, sharply observed family story by a writer who knows Cape Cod inside and out-its Edenic lushness and its snakes"-- Provided by publisher.

Knitters and crocheters of all levels are welcome to join. Some guidance and instruction will be available.Join them in the Community Room on the second* Monday of each month @ 6 pm. *This group will meet on the third Monday of the month if the second Monday is a holiday.