Plumb library to hold children’s group, book club

Sep 4, 2019
ROCHESTER — The Friends of Plumb Library will hold their annual Book Sale on Saturday, Sept. 14 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Rochester Congregational Church Fellowship Hall.  Items for sale will include books, CDs, DVDs. puzzles, games, and baked goods. Donations will be accepted until 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 12. To volunteer, stop by or call the library at 508-763-8600. 
 

There are a few spaces open in the Library's "Twos and Threes Together" story time on Fridays at 10:30 a.m., starting Oct. 4. Please email lfuller@sailsinc.org or register on the library's Events Calendar found on the website.  Join Fuller for an engaging interactive "partial lap sit" storytime that includes books, songs, fingerplays, music, movement and more. The storytimes are enhanced with activities that build six important pre-reading skills — talking, singing, reading, writing and playing —  that children need to be able to learn to read and write.  

 
During Library Card Signup Month card replacements are free (the usual fee is $2). Children getting their first library card during September will receive a library card holder and a special sticker. 
 

The Council on Aging Book Group will discuss "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride on Tuesday, Sept. 17 at 10:15 a.m. at the Rochester Council on Aging on Dexter Lane. Books are available at the library. Bring a library card to the meeting.

 
In the book a young African-American man describes growing up in an all-black Brooklyn housing project, one of twelve children of a white mother and black father, and discusses his mother's contributions to his life and coming to terms with his confusion over his own identity. 
 
"Just the Facts" Nonfiction Book Group will discuss "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft” by Stephen King on Thursday, Sept. 19 at 6:30 p.m.
 
The book is a dual autobiography and primer on writing which follows King's childhood and coming of age, the struggling years that led to the creation of his first novel, his personal demons, and his recommendations on developing the writer's craft. Copies are available at the library.
 
Cafe Parlez Book Group will discuss "Astray" by Emma Donohue on Thursday, Sept. 26 at 6:30 p.m. The new collection of short stories features a cross-section of society including runaways, drifters, gold miners, counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves from puritan Massachusetts to revolutionary New Jersey to antebellum Louisiana. Books are available at the library.