November 2019
We hope you are keeping warm! Please take a moment to look below or to visit our website for this month's program details. Come on by soon!
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November Art Exhibit
Anne H. Brock Community Room
November 1-November 30
Elizabeth Bradfield
Toward Antarctica
Antarctica was the focus of Bradfield’s Approaching Ice, written before she had set foot on the continent. Toward Antarctica (May 2019) furthers her investigation with boots on the ground, using photographs, compressed prose, and short poems to examine our relationships to remoteness, discovery, expertise, awe, labor, temporary societies, tourism’s service economy, and “pure” landscapes. This show features photographs from the book. Elizabeth Bradfield will also be reading at the Library with other poets on November 20!
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Thanksgiving Weekend Movies!
Join us for a family movie! Popcorn and apple cider will be served.
Adults are welcome without children.
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Saturday, November 30, 10:30 a.m.
Having spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, nothing could prepare Dora (Isabela Moner) for her most dangerous adventure ever—High School. Always the explorer, Dora quickly finds herself leading Boots (her best friend, a monkey), Diego (Jeffrey Wahlberg), a mysterious jungle inhabitant (Eugenio Derbez), and a rag tag group of teens on a live-action adventure to save her parents (Eva Longoria, Michael Peña) and solve the impossible mystery behind a lost city of gold. Rated PG (for for action and some impolite humor); 1 hour 42 min.
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Saturday, November 30, 1:30 p.m.
A modern Mark Twain style adventure story, THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON tells the story of Zak (Zack Gottsagen), a young man with Down syndrome, who runs away from a residential nursing home to follow his dream of attending the professional wrestling school of his idol, The Salt Water Redneck (Thomas Haden Church). A strange turn of events pairs him on the road with Tyler (Shia LaBeouf), a small time outlaw on the run, who becomes Zak’s unlikely coach and ally. Together they wind through deltas, elude capture, drink whisky, find God, catch fish, and convince Eleanor (Dakota Johnson), a kind nursing home employee charged with Zak’s return, to join them on their journey. Rated PG-13 (for thematic content, language throughout, some violence and smoking); 1 hour 33 min.
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Truro Library Book Group
Wednesday, December 4, 6:00 p.m.
October's selection is available at the circulation desk:
The Spy and the Traitor by Ben MacIntyre
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER by the celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes. * “The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉ
If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation’s communism as both criminal and philistine. He took his first posting for Russian intelligence in 1968 and eventually became the Soviet Union’s top man in London, but from 1973 on he was secretly working for MI6. Unfolding the delicious three-way gamesmanship between America, Britain, and the Soviet Union, and culminating in the gripping cinematic beat-by-beat of Gordievsky’s nail-biting escape from Moscow in 1985, Ben Macintyre’s latest may be his best yet. Like the greatest novels of John le Carré, it brings readers deep into a world of treachery and betrayal, where the lines bleed between the personal and the professional, and one man’s hatred of communism had the power to change the future of nations.
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Tuesdays, 1:00 p.m.
September 24-December 17
The Truro Public Library is proud to host a Next Chapter Book Club for adolescents and adults on the Outer Cape living with intellectual or developmental challenges. The 2019 fall session begins on September 24 and continues through December 17. The Next Chapter Book Club is a nationwide program that provides the fun and focus of a book club to members of our communities who often lack opportunities to explore written works in a relaxed, engaging, and constructive setting. Please consider joining us! Contact Tricia or Maggie at the Truro Library for more details.
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Ongoing Mindful Ease
with J.C. (Chuck) Hotchkiss
Tuesdays, November 12 & 26, 5:30–7:00 p.m.
Join an ongoing gathering to practice mindfulness and meditation: Learn how to inhabit life with a mind of peace, joy, and deepening attention. The popular winter series has continued as an ongoing, bi-weekly workshop. JC (Chuck) Hotchkiss is an artist/educator who continues to enjoy a lifelong engagement with meditative practices.
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Storytime
Every Thursday at 10:30 a.m.
For children up to age 5 and their caregivers. Talk, sing, read, write and play together in a format appropriate for young children. Share books, stories, rhymes, music and movement.
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Truro Playgroup
Every Monday, 9:00-11:00 a.m. except school holidays
From October 21, 2019 to May 4, 2020 (except school holidays). For children aged birth to three years old, and their parent or caregiver. Talk, sing, read, write, and play together in a format appropriate for young children. Share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement. Engaging toys, fun crafts, and healthful snacks will be provided.
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