Engage, Enrich, Entertain
Sunday April 30th is Green Up, Clean Up day here in Newport. This event is sponsored by the Recreation Department and the Conservation Committee. The library’s yard and gardens will be one of the places you can volunteer to help clean up! The event starts at 9am on the common. We hope to see you then!
Join us at the library for a week full of fun events to celebrate National Library Week!
Monday April 24th 2:30pm: Teen Board Games
Tuesday April 25th 10am-6pm: Lego Challenge Drop In
Tuesday April 25th 12pm: Brown Bags & Books
Tuesday April 25th 1pm: Historic building tour
Tuesday April 25th 1pm: Canasta Club
Tuesday April 25th 3pm: Historic building tour
Wednesday April 26th 3pm: Teen Advisory Board
Wednesday April 26th 6pm: Braiding Sweetgrass Discussion
Thursday April 27th 2pm: 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten Party
Thursday April 27th 2:30pm: Teen Video Games
Thursday April 27th 6pm: Historic building tour
Thursday April 27th 7pm: Poetry Group with special guest poet
Friday April 28th 3pm: Teen Escape Room board games
Friday April 28th 5pm: Little Wiggle Story Time
Saturday April 29th 10:30am: Dungeons & Dragons (registration required)
Saturday April 29th 10:30am: Puzzle Frenzy
Drop in anytime this week to decorate a paper heart with why you love the library!
Take a walk around the outside of the library to enjoy our newest StoryWalk.
What: A Zoom presentation about cat behavior
When: Wednesday, April 5th at 6pm
Where: This Zoom presentation will be available to join remotely, or participate in person at the library.
This webinar pulls together and interrelates:
the Cycle of Predation that can lead to “drive-by” ankle biting, play aggression, early morning wake up, and food aggression as examples. being prey on the Confidence Scale that can lead to similar behaviors but can also result in fearful cats, victimized cats (cat on cat aggression), fear aggression and redirected aggression.
The Q&A is typically geared towards guests who want behavior advice and all advice is happily given in the allotted time. Some guests may want additional support and they will be given the opportunity to book a private behavior consultation afterwards and into the future as needed. This 60 minute webinar (including extensive Q&A) is given over Zoom to any organization that wants it.
I am a shelter-trained and Certified feline training and behavior specialist with the Animal Care Centers of New York City, a not-for-profit shelter contracted by the City of New York to provide animal related services to the residents of New York. I’m also in private practice as a feline behavior consultant and I believe in a compassionate, educational and non-judgemental approach to cat behavior and I believe in creating a happier world for cats and the humans who love them! My husband and I share our home with our two cats, happy-go-lucky Cricket, and Jenny, her blind-from-birth bestie, who rules our home.
Stephen has given hundreds of behavior consults in person and over Zoom, many of them through his presence on the Airbnb Online Experience platform which you can view at https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/1725425 and where he has over 120+, 5 star reviews. He believes strongly in a compassionate, collaborative and educational approach to cat behavior, and he is Fear Free Certified. Decoding the Mysteries of Cats, or Why Cats Do What They Do!
Join us Wednesday, March 22nd at 6pm as Author Kenneth M. Sheldon talks about his book Deep Water.
Kenneth M. Sheldon is the author of the true-crime book Deep Water—Murder, Scandal and Intrigue in a New England Town, as well as suspense novels written under the pen name Michael Manley. He formerly served as West Coast Bureau Chief for Byte Magazine, the first magazine about personal computers, and has been a regular columnist for Yankee Magazine and New Hampshire Magazine. He has appeared on New Hampshire Chronicle, and on stage, the radio, and television. He is also the author of Welcome to Frost Heaves, a collection of stories written as Yankee humorist Fred Marple.
Deep Water is based on extensive research into the Dean murder, including thousands of pages of FBI documents, Grand Jury testimonies, newspaper accounts, private correspondence, and the archives of the Jaffrey Historical Society.
Consider joining one of our book groups for a chance to chat about books, connect with friends, and try something new!
Copies of the latest books will be available at the library’s circulation desk. You don’t even need a library card to pick up a book! Just sign them out and join the discussion with like minded readers.
We’re bringing back the Books on Tap book group which meets at Salt Hill Pub. We’ll be meeting the first Thursday of the month. See you 5:30 at the Pub!
| Oct 6th | The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner |
| Nov 3rd | The Rose Code by Kate Quinn |
| December 1st | Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley |
Teen Book Club is for middle and high school young adults. Join other readers to talk about
some old favorites and some exciting new reads! This group meets every other Wednesday.
The first meeting will be September 14th at 3:00 We’ll be talking about Heartstopper by Alice
Oseman.
If you are interested, Ask Molly! mdipadova@newport.lib.nh.us
Beginning this September, the library will host a monthly book club for primary school-aged students. On book group day, we will begin by eating a snack and walking through the pictures, reading the book aloud together, and then reading through silently or with our grownups, before coming back together to talk about the book and enjoy some imaginative play.
Registration will not be required, but if you are interested, we invite you to talk to Mo about joining in so we can have an idea of how many books to request, or to discuss what would be helpful to your child.
Our first meeting will be Tuesday, September 13th at 3:30 or after Richards School lets out. We’ll be reading Pete the Cat: Too Cool for School, by Kimberly and James Dean. Other book choices will include Chicken Said, “Cluck!” by Judyann Ackerman Grant, Otter: Hello, Sea Friends! By Sam Garton, and Biscuit and the Little Llamas by Alyssa Capucilli.
For more information, contact Mo at mchurchill@newport.lib.nh.us
Want to get away? The Beach Readers have got you covered.
This group will offer books that are escapes from reality, easy to read, captivating, and accessible to many readers.
For more information, contact Ali at awood@newport.lib.nh.us
| Sept | 14 | Pretty Little Liars | Shepard, Sara |
| Oct | 12 | Howl’s Moving Castle | Jones, Diana Wynne |
| Nov | 9 | Flamer | Curato, Mike |
| Dec | 14 | The Uncommon Reader | Bennett, Alan |
The Brown Bag and Books club is a midday group and the books are chosen democratically once a year. Interested in discovering new books that you might have otherwise completely overlooked? Or do you want to enrich yourself and possibly understand the world from a different perspective? Consider joining in!
For more information, contact Ali at awood@newport.lib.nh.us
| Sep | 20 | This Tender Land | William Kent Krueger |
| Oct | 25 | The Night Watchman | Erdrich, Louise |
| Nov | 22 | Finding Freedom | French, Erin |
| Dec | 27 | Pot Luck! | ~Hopefully~ |
| Jan | 25 | Chances Are... | Russo, Richard |
