What's Happening at the Brookline Public Library?

Brookline artist, Nancy Zadravec will be displaying pastels upstairs in June and July.

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Treasure Hunt

Check out books, find the Golden Ticket!

Check out any children’s books from any category – between June 21 and July 30 and you could win one of ten Golden Tickets! Winners can redeem them at the Summer Reading Ice Cream Social on Tuesday, August 10 for a special prize!

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Wonders of Water Craft and Activity Night:

Tuesday, July 27 at 6 pm – All ages!
Come “Make a Splash!” and join us for a night of wet and colorful crafts! Make a rainbow fish, a shark hat, experiment with blowing bubbles, then enjoy some watermelon, followed by a seed-spitting contest (weather allowing)!

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Summer Reading Program Grand Finale Event:

Nationally Renowned Magician for Non-Believers Peter Boie!

Tuesday, August 3, 4pm at Upper Stage Town Hall

The show runs the gamut from audience members getting into the show and doing magic themselves, to award winning mind blowing magic, to side splitting comedy. Don’t miss it! Registration necessary.

Magic Workshop with Peter Boie!

Tuesday, August 3, 5:15 pm at the library. Ages 7 and up. Learn how to perform magic tricks by professional Magician for Non-Believers Peter Boie. Free! Registration necessary.

Return your reading log August 2-6

The winner in each reading level – Easy Picture, Early Reader, Juvenile, Young Adult – will receive gift certificates from the Toadstool Book Shop.

Family Ice Cream Social and Summer Reading Program Prizes and Awards!

Tuesday, August 10, 6pm. Come reward yourself for all your hard work this summer and belly up to our sundae bar. Reap your reading rewards and collect your reading certificate! Winners of each reading category (Most Books or Most Pages Read) – Easy Picture, Beginning Reader, Juvenile, and Young Adult – will receive Toadstool gift certificates. All attending will receive a door prize, and the lucky Golden Ticket winners will collect their special prize! No registration necessary.

Adult Book Group

August selection is:

Lamb : The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

by Christopher Moore

Monday, August 16th, at 7 p.m.

Knitters' Group

Ongoing

Mondays at 6 p.m.

Casual; drop-in

Baby Lapsit

Mondays

July 12 & 26

at 10:30 a.m.

Ages: 0 through 2, with caregiver.

No sign-up

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Preschool Story Time

No meetings July & August.

Returns in Fall!

Ages: 3 to 5. No sign-up.

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Music with Miss Karina

Wednesdays

June 2nd & 16th

10:30 a.m.

Ages 0 to 6.

Brookline Public Library

Book Bags

available at the library!

Large size, sturdy canvas bags: $15/each

All purchases allow the Friends to continue

supporting library programs and other needed items.

Thank you for your generous support!

Friends' Fundraiser

Spring Notecards available

at the library

Sales benefit the Friends of Library.

Available individually and in variety packs.

Many more images available

Make great gifts!

Learn a new language with a Playaway

Thanks to the generosity of the Hollis Brookline Rotary, the library has a language series available on Playaway -- MP3 format. The Rotary’s donation enabled the library to purchase ten different language programs including Arabic, French, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. The Pimsleur Language Programs are well-known and highly-regarded language courses offered by Recorded Books. Available on Playaway, a “lightweight, compact, easy-to-use player,” each comes with one language course already downloaded.

Downloadable Audio Books are here!!!

Explore the growing collection of audio books for adults and children. Use your library card to download the free software and browse through the collection of audio books at http://nh.lib.overdrive.com

Find the information you need - even in the middle of the night!

Many full-text magazine and newspaper articles, biographies and genealogy records are available to you through our online databases.

Click here for database details.

The New Hampshire State Library also offers an excellent list of web resources.

Click here for NHSL links.

Seeking Magazine Sponsors

In addition to sponsoring books, the library is now seeking patrons who are willing to donate the annual cost of one of our currently held magazines. The subscriptions range from about $12 to $20 per year, with a few costing more. Over twenty new titles just added!

If you’re interested in sponsoring a specific magazine, please stop by and peruse the library's current magazine selections or check out the list online. You may also call the library to set-up sponsorship. Magazine sponsors will receive recognition for his/her gift as well as the option of checking out the sponsored magazine first.

LIBRARY TRUSTEE MEETINGS

Next meeting: No meetings for July and August.

The Brookline Public Library Board of Trustees usually meet in the Library Community Room. Public welcome to attend.

Minutes of the Trustee Meetings