KIDS TEENS ADULTS ALL AGES
Mystery Book Group: Featuring Author Bruce Robert Coffin
FRIDAY, JUNE 30 AT 10:30—11:30 AM
Off Site: Masonic Lodge Hall
Special Meeting Notice! This month's author, Bruce Robert Coffin will be at our meeting, in person! We will meet at Masonic Lodge Hall, behind the Library: "10 Church Street" -- access from parking lot behind the Town Hall.
Bruce Robert Coffin is the award-winning author of the bestselling Detective Byron mystery series. A former detective sergeant with more than twenty-seven years in law enforcement, he supervised all homicide and violent crime investigations for Maine's largest city. Following the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, Bruce spent four years investigating counter-terrorism cases for the FBI, earning the Director's Award, the highest award a non-agent can receive.
The Manchester Mystery Book Group meets on the last Friday of the month at 10:30 AM. Email mwillwerth@manchesterpl.org with any questions or to get connected with the group. Physical copies of Among the Shadows will be available at the circulation desk in late May, or you can check out an ebook through the Hoopla app. Use your MBTS library card to sign up for Hoopla for free.
New members are always welcome and you do not need to be a member of the book group or have read the books to enjoy this author chat.
First Friday Movies at MBTS: The Super Mario Bros. Movie
FRIDAY, JULY 7 AT 5:30—7:30PM
Movies at the Library have returned! We will be showing a movie in our newly renovated Reference Room on the first Friday of every month at 5:30PM. We will supply the popcorn. Feel free to bring covered, non-alcoholic beverages.
The movie this month, The Super Mario Brothers Movie has a MPA rating: PG; for action and mild violence. "A plumber named Mario travels through an underground labyrinth with his brother, Luigi, trying to save a captured princess."
Career Center on the Go with MASS HIRE
TUESDAY, JULY 11 AT 10:00 AM—2:00PM
The Career Center of the GO at teh MBTS Public Library. OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC; and an opportunity to bring services provided by the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development directly to the hands of our community residents. During this visit the following information will be imparted:
Career Coach Advising – An opportunity where residents can speak one-on-one with an Advising Coach about the possibility of ANY Training Opportunities offered at MHNSCC. Training Opportunities such as career certifications, Industry-specific training (Healthcare, Manufacturing), or simply career pathways.
Job Search Assistance – This is a unique chance to review the labor market in various industries and discuss salary expectations, ONE-ON-ONE Résumé Review, and connections with meaningful jobs and careers.
No Need to register in advance! No Cost to attend! This event is open to the General Public. Walk-Ins are WELCOME!
Hearthside Book Group: "The Woman They Could Not Silence"
TUESDAY, JULY 11 AT 4:00—5:00PM
On Tuesday, July 11th join us in person at the library or on ZOOM to discuss the biography The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore. "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes another dark, dramatic, but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten woman whose harrowing story changed the world."
Contact Lori Dumont at ldumont@manchesterpl.org or at 978-526-7711 for further information. Copies of this book are available at the circulation desk, curbside pickup or by home delivery. Ebooks available for free from the hoopla app. Sign up using your Manchester library card.
Virtual Events
KIDS TEENS ADULTS ALL AGES
All virtual events require registration. Click on the events to register.
Revolutionary Heroine Deborah Sampson and Gender Identity (Virtual)
TUESDAY, JUNE 27 AT 7:00—8:00PM
Join us on Zoom for a celebration of Pride Month with this extraordinary conversation! This conversation and content will be geared towards adults.
About Revolutionary: After years as an indentured servant in a sleepy Massachusetts town, chafing under the oppressive norms of colonial America, Deborah can’t contain her discontent any longer. When a sudden crisis forces her hand, she decides to finally make her escape. Embracing the peril and promise of the unknown, she cuts her hair, binds her chest, and, stealing clothes from a neighbor, rechristens herself Robert Shurtliff. It’s a desperate, dangerous, and complicated deception, and becomes only more so when, as Robert, she enlists in the Continental Army.
What follows is an inspiring, one-of-a-kind journey through an America torn apart by war: brutal winters and lethal battlefields, the trauma of combat and the cruelty of betrayal, the joy of true love and the tragedy of heartbreak. In his brilliant Revolutionary, Myers, who himself is a descendant of the historical Deborah, takes full advantage of this real-life heroine’s unique voice to celebrate the struggles for freedom, large and small, like never before.
About Alex: Alex Myers is a writer, teacher, and speaker. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Harvard University, studying Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Myers was the first openly transgender student at Harvard and worked to change the University’s nondiscrimination clause to include gender identity. After earning a master’s degree in religion at Brown, he has pursued a career in teaching English at secondary schools. He completed his Master’s of Fine Arts in fiction writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, where he began his work on Revolutionary, which was published in 2014 by Simon & Schuster.
This program made available through a partnership with the Ashland Public Library and is sponsored by the Friends of the Ashland Public Library and in partnership with Ashland Is United.
Nancy Horan Author of "The House of Lincoln" (Virtual)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28 AT 7:00—8:00PM
Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller "Loving Frank," returns with her new book "The House of Lincoln," a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who arrives in Lincoln's home of Springfield from Madeira, Portugal. Join Nancy Horan and author, Therese Fowler as they discuss Nancy’s new book, The House of Lincoln which will be published June 6.
This event is made possible through a partnership with the Burlington Public Library. Register Here.
An Evening With Bestselling Author Lisa See (Virtual)
WEDNESDAY, JULY 12 AT 7:00—8:00PM
Join New York Times bestselling author Lisa See on Zoom as she talks about her new book Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, a captivating story of women helping other women. See’s latest historical novel was inspired by the true story of a woman physician from 15th-century China and is a triumphant reimagining of the life of a woman who was remarkable in the Ming dynasty and would be considered remarkable today.
This event is made possible through a partnership with the Burlington Public Library. Register Here.
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