Dickens of a Village at GPL!
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Visit us for games, a craft, stories and more holiday activities! Regular Library and Park and Recreation services will end at 5PM when the celebration officially begins this Friday, December 2nd. Dickens of Village will also begin our annual Giving Tree Fundraiser. Give the gift of reading to our community by finding an ornament on the tree with our wish list items and donating towards that wish.
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Friends of the Library Membership Drive
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Are you a Friend of the Library? In November and December, the Friends of the Greendale Public Library reach out to current members to renew their annual commitment of financial support. If you haven’t received a membership renewal in the mail or your email, please stop by the library to pick up a Membership / Renewal form. You can also become a Friend or renew online.
Friends memberships also make GREAT GIFTS for the library lovers in your Greendale family!
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The Greendale Public Library will be closed Friday, December 23rd through Sunday, December 25th, for the Christmas Holiday. The library will re-open for its regular hours on Monday, December 26th from 9am-8pm.
GPL will also be closed Friday, December 30th through Sunday, January 1st for the New Year Holiday. We will re-open for normal hours on Monday, January 2nd from 9am-8pm.
Happy Holidays!
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Programs, Programs, Programs!
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After School Family Fun (Youth Area)
Mondays, Dec. 5th-19th, 3-4:30pm
Come to the library youth area after school to play with LEGO, do a craft and have a snack. After School Family Fun is for children in grades 1-5 but younger children can participate with the help of an adult. No registration required.
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Teen & Tween Movie (Lower Level)
Thursday, Dec. 8th, 3:15-4:45pm
Join us each month for a fun movie and some popcorn. This month we will be watching Lightyear [PG]. No registration required.
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Teen & Tween Craft (Lower Level)
Wednesday, Dec. 14th, 3:15-4:30pm
Wanna get crafty? Teens & Tweens in grades 6-12, join us as we do a monthly craft! This month is Bath Bombs. No registration required.
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Teen & Tween Hangout (Lower Level)
Wednesday, Dec. 21st, 3:15-4:30pm
Teens & Tweens in grades 6-12, are you looking for a place to hangout with your friends? Join us at the library where we’ll have games and snacks for you to enjoy! No registration required.
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Color Me Calm (Lower Level)
Monday, Dec. 5th, 6-7:30pm
Enjoy a stress-free evening of coloring fun! The library will provide the materials, but feel free to bring in your own supplies. For adults ages 18+. No registration.
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Book A Librarian (Info Desk) ***REGISTRATION REQUIRED***
Thursdays, Dec. 8th & 22nd, 3-5:00pm
Every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month, book a 30 minute, one-on-one session for basic technology help. Feel free to bring your own devices for assistance. Registration required.
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Monday Movie Matinee (Lower Level)
Monday, Dec. 12th, 1-4pm
On the 2nd Monday of the month, grab some popcorn and join us for free showings of popular films. The movie for this month is Little Women (PG). For Adults 18+. No admission fee. No registration.
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Cookie Swap (Lower Level)
Tuesday, Dec. 13th, 6:30-7:30pm
Join us for a cookie exchange! Make 2 dozen of your choice of cookie: one dozen to taste and share, the other dozen to swap! Bring 1 typed copy of the cookie recipe. No store-bought cookies please. Adults 18+ only. No registration required, but sign up online to see what others are making here: tinyurl.com/GPLCookieSwap.
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Monday Movie Night (Lower Level)
Monday, Dec. 19th, 5:30-7:45pm
In addition to Monday Movie Matinee, we will now also have Monday Movie Night! Join us in the library lower level for a feature film on the 3rd Monday of the month from 5:30-7:45pm! This month's film is Yellow Rose (PG-13). Adults 18+ only. No registration required.
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Skip the long wait-list and pick up popular titles today with our Lucky Day Book of the Month! Each month we choose a popular book and purchase extra copies that are available for immediate checkout. The Lucky Day book for this month is Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan.
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| "Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life-living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher-was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start. And for just a short while, these new beginnings are exactly what Olivia and Lily need. Their paths cross when Asher falls for the new girl in school, and Lily can't help but fall for him, too. With Ash, she feels happy for the first time. Yet at times, she wonders if she can she trust him completely . . . Then one day, Olivia receives a phone call: Lily is dead, and Asher is being questioned by the police. Olivia is adamant that her son is innocent. But she would be lying if she didn't acknowledge the flashes of his father's temper in him, and as the case against him unfolds, she realizes he's hidden more than he's shared with her"-- Publisher's description. |
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A Footnote from the President
Katherine Dombrowski,
Greendale Library Board President
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Which book, (or series, or author, or character), was the magic key that opened the door to your love of reading? For me, it all started with Nancy Drew.
Nancy was not approved of by my teachers. “Those” books were not “good literature”. My small, Catholic school library, consisted of Junior Classics, “approved” historical fiction (more fiction than history, I’m afraid), and the biography of every known saint in the litany. Consequently, we Nancy Drew aficionados, in Mrs. Albert’s fourth grade class started our own underground exchange system.
Every birthday during that year, and the Christmas gift gorge, brought new titles to our exchange system. Since our allowances in 1966 ranged from 25 to 50 cents per week (depending on how many brothers and sisters we had), most of us couldn’t hang onto our allowances long enough to save up the $1.29 a new, yellow-bound hardcover cost. We had to rely on the generosity of parents and relatives.
The love was strong! My fellow female classmates and I didn’t want to just READ Nancy Drew, we wanted to BE Nancy Drew. Seriously, what 10-year-old girl wouldn't? Our pleated skirt, sagging knee-hi’s, bone-straight hair (or alternately, frizz), homework, housework, sibling-filled, scruffy lives longed for her charmed existence.
We meet Nancy when she is sixteen (at which age she has her own convertible). She was not burdened with a mother who supervised every conceivable moment of her life. She had instead, a handsome, wealthy, successful, attorney father, who took her seriously, and consulted with her on his difficult cases. She is pretty, friendly and smart (I still don’t know when she went to either high school or college-but with her wide knowledge of almost any and every subject, she must have fitted it in somewhere). Nancy played every conceivable sport to perfection. She was artistic and musical. She had two devoted “chums”, and a really cute, college-age boyfriend, who was her ever-present escort, and co-hort (when a male side-kick was needed). And her talents were beyond belief.
Need a stand-in for the leading lady in a play? Nancy learned the lines overnight. Need someone to charm the businessmen of the city to subscribe to new playground equipment? Send Nancy - she’d get them to re-pave it as well! Need a feisty teenage girl to solve a potential blackmailing scheme? The unaccountable robbery of a clock? The mysterious voices and footsteps in your Victorian mansion? Call on Nancy!
Inevitably, I outgrew Nancy (although my collection still sits on our shelves), but she started me down the intriguing and adventure-filled path of my favorite genre - the mystery story. Over my 56 years of exploring this genre, I have been a party to more murders, kidnappings, con games, espionage, robberies, burglaries, heists, identity switches, forgeries, and missing person hunts, than Scotland Yard in all its venerable history.
Most teachers scoffed at the Stratemeyer syndicate books, but they became the foundation for many of today’s readers - just as Harry Potter became so for scores of children over these recent years. While Nancy Drew, Frank and Joe Hardy, the Dana Girls, and Tom Swift (not forgetting Swift,Junior), may not be in the Harry Potter league of high quality Children’s Literature, adventuring with those improbably perfect teenagers were the magic keys that opened the love of reading to scores of us. And if your children and grand-children (whatever their age) express a desire for titles that may seem less than “outstanding literature for young people”, remember the humble beginnings from which, for many of us, the love of reading sprang….and let history repeat itself.
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Online Card Renewal
Make sure you stay up to date with your library card so you don't miss out on the latest library materials! Renew in-person at the Library, or Renew Online Here.
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