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Library Closed on July 4
Happy Independence Day! The Library will be closed on Saturday, July 4th to observe the holiday.
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Book Club reads The Lioness of Boston for June
The Book Club will meet on Saturday, June 27 at 4 pm to discuss The Lioness of Boston by Emily Franklin — “a deeply evocative novel of the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a daring visionary who created an inimitable legacy in American art and transformed the city of Boston.” There are still copies available…
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Summer Reading has Started!
Summer Reading is June 20 to August 20. Come to the library and get a “Plant A Seed, Read” Reading Log (for kids) or Reading Bingo Sheet (for grown-ups). We have great reading rewards that want to be yours! There’s also a bumper crop of Summer Reading events. Please join us for: Alchemy Laboratory /…
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No D & D on June 2
Due to an awards ceremony (Congratulations to our dungeon master!), there will not be a D & D program on Tuesday, June 2nd.
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Author Event on May 30: Jedediah Berry, The Naming Song
Jedediah Berry will be coming on Saturday, May 30 at 4pm for a special author event. His book The Naming Song won the 2025 Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction. Mr. Berry will share a reading from the novel,discuss its imaginative world and central themes, and take questions from the audience in a Q&A to follow.…
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Book Club Books Are Here!
Our copies of The Naming Song, by Jedediah Berry, have arrived! The Library purchased twelve copies — come check one out! Mr. Berry will be coming on Saturday, May 30 at 4pm for a special author event. TheNaming Song won the 2025 Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction. As part of the library’s monthly book club…
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Pastel Painting Workshop: Vincent van Gogh’s Irises
Coming on Saturday, May 9, 2 – 4 pm, we’ll offer Pastel Painting Workshop: Vincent van Gogh’s Irises, taught by Gregory John Maichack. Learn to draw an iris inspired by Vincent van Gogh! Materials, templates, and photo references of various irises will be supplied. Participants will keep their 12 X 18 pastel painting of a…
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Books & Brews
Tonight’s the night for the spring meeting of Books & Brews — see you at Liston’s? We’ll meet in the back room at 6:30, Thursday, April 30, to talk about whatever people are reading (audiobooks, too)!
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Book Club 3/28: The Glassmaker
The Book Club will read Tracy Chevalier’s The Glassmaker for March!The Book Club will meet next at 4pm on March 28. We’ll start by talking about the end of The Sparrow, and then move on to discussing The Glassmaker. Stop by the library for your copy — they’re in!
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Speculation Session of the Book Club!
The Worthington Library Book Club, a monthly reading group that meets on the last Saturday of each month at 4 pm, will be introducing a new quarterly “speculative” discussion concept for fiction readers who wish they could wonder aloud among friends, “What will happen next?” before the end of the story. Our first speculative session…