Vol. 3: No. 24 | June 4, 2021
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Library Events This Week: June 5-11
Library Hours
Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 9am - 5pm
Tuesday, Thursday: 9am - 9pm
Saturday: 9am - 1pm
Sunday: CLOSED
Announcements
Summer Reading is Almost Here!
June 18 - August 3, 2021
Summer Reading is just around the corner, and the Rodgers Library is ready with library activities and events all summer long!

Our theme "Tails and Tales" invites readers of all ages to learn about your favorite animal with a tail (or without a tail) this summer as you read, listen to, or participate in events and tales about tails!

Scroll down to see a listing of events for kids of all ages!
Monthly Book Raffle: Enter to Win!
Hour of the Witch
by Chris Bohjalian
Tuesday, June 1
through Wednesday, June 30
Enter to win a copy of bestselling author Chris Bohjalian's new novel Hour of the Witch!
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It’s 1662 Boston, a world where Satan is as real as your next-door neighbor. A young Puritan woman plots her escape from a violent marriage. Can she divorce her husband and avoid being hanged as a witch?

Click on the book cover for the Goodreads description.

How to enter:
  • Visit the library and submit a raffle ticket.
  • Email Adult Services Librarian Amy Friedman by clicking the button below and request she enter your name. Please include your name and phone number. NOTE: You may only enter once by email.
Events This Week: June 5 - 11
Get Fit With Your Library
Senior Fitness
Saturday, June 5
ONLINE EVENT. DanceFit With Jess is inviting you to Get Fit! Register to receive a link to the video, which you may access any time, all week!

This week, join Jess for Senior Fitness! All levels welcome.

Registration required. Click on the button at right for more information and/or to register.
Quick Mushroom Growing Projects
Monday, June 7 @ 7pm
ONLINE EVENT. Learn how to get spawn and/or fungal tissue or cultures to start your projects, presented by Mark Gostkiewicz of Tri Gable Lea Farm.

Registration required. Click on the button below for more information and/or to register.
Austen Book Club
Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen
Wednesday, June 9 @ 7pm
ONLINE EVENT. Adopted into the household of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, Fanny Price grows up a meek outsider among her cousins in the unaccustomed elegance of Mansfield Park. Soon after Sir Thomas absents himself on estate business in Antigua (the family's investment in slavery and sugar is considered in the Introduction in a new, post-colonial light), Mary Crawford and her brother Henry arrive at Mansfield, bringing with them London glamour, and the seductive taste for flirtation and theatre that precipitates a crisis. 

Copies of the book are available at the Circulation Desk.

Registration required. Click on the button at right for more information and/or to register.

Questions? Please write to us at austenbookclub@rodgerslibrary.org.
Mystery Lovers Book Club
The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman
Thursday, June 10 @ 10:30am
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly to discuss unsolved crimes; calling themselves The Thursday Murder Club.

When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly finds itself in the middle of their first live case. As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it’s too late? 

Click on the book cover to read the Goodreads description.

Our book club will meet on the library lawn unless the weather is yucky! In case of rain, you will receive an email with a Zoom meeting number. Let's hope for great weather!

Registration required. Click on the button below for more information and/or to register.
Genealogy Club
Crossing the Pond: Techniques for Finding Your Elusive Eastern European Ancestors
Friday, June 11 @ 1:30pm
ONLINE EVENT. Join genealogist Lisa Alzo for a discussion on traditional methods and online resources for tracking ancestors both in the U.S. and the old country, including techniques for overcoming some of the most common obstacles and problems faced during the research process.

Registration required. Click on the button below for more information and/or to register.
Online Games
Boggle!
Friday, June 11 @ 4pm
ONLINE EVENT. Play the famous head-to-head word search game on Zoom!

Registration required. Click on the button below for more information and/or to register.
Summer Reading is Almost Here!
Summer Reading 2021: Tails and Tales
June 18 - August 3
Click here for Summer Reading Activities for Children, Teens and Tweens!
Click here for a complete listing of all our Summer events.
Friday, June 18
Also on Friday, June 18!
Tuesdays in July!
Click on the button below for more information and to register.