This week’s staff pick is the debut novel Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez. The story of four slave women who meet each summer at a resort in Ohio, brought along by their vacationing masters as both servants and mistresses. Seeing free blacks for the first time and hearing of abolition, the […]
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Have you joined the Winter Reading Program? You still can! The last day to register is March 4. Read alone or together as a family for 15 minutes or longer every day. Whenever you do that, mark the Bingo Board (available in the library – or you can make your […]
Perhaps you weren’t able to spend a few months in the islands, or take an all-inclusive cruise, but you can still escape the bitter winter cold with an evening of Trinidadian steel pan drum music at your favorite library! Join the Steel Explosion Rhythm Band helmed by Freddy Harris for […]
This week’s staff pick is the multi-award winning Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson. Told in verse, Brown Girl Dreaming is Woodson’s autobiographical tale of growing up African American in the 1960’s and 70’s. Woodson is a masterful storyteller and gives the reader a real sense of time and place. […]
Held every February in the United States and Canada, Black History Month is both a celebration and a dedicated time to remember the role African Americans have played in our history. Created in 1926 as Negro History Week, it was expanded to a full month in 1976. In celebration of […]
Conackamack Toastmasters presents: Youth Leadership Program Every young person has the potential to become a good communicator and leader, but this potential needs to be developed. The program’s unique seven-session, workshop-style design enables participants to develop this potential through practical experience. The program is not in competition with school programs or […]
This week’s staff pick is the inspiring story of Misty Copeland, American Ballet Theater’s principal ballerina. In Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina, Copeland shares her story of discovering her natural talent for ballet at a community center through her rise to the top. Not a “typical” ballet dancer, Copeland […]
DIY Vintage Valentines Throughout February Love is in the air (or not)! Looking for something to give that special someone? Or maybe you’re just friends? Pick-up you vintage valentine and heart envelope kit this month in the teen area. Share your creations using #ftplhearts You can scour the internet to find […]
Live on the wild side and choose a date with a mystery book… Choose one of the many books from our display, wrapped and labeled with hints to their possible contents. What will you find when you unwrap the book? A mystery? A romance? Science Fiction? Fantasy? You won’t know […]
A powerful debut novel about a couple who find themselves trapped in the ultimate moral dilemma is this week’s staff pick. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman is the story of Tom and Isabel Sherbourne and their life on a remote island where Tom serves as the lighthouse keeper. […]