Greenville Public LibraryDecember 2020 Newsletter •••imagine the possibilities•••

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The Greenville Public Library will be closed December 24, 25, & 26. The library will close at 5:00 pm on December 31 and will be closed on January 1 & 2.

Learn two different styles of hand lettering for your holiday cards, gift tags, and more! This is a workshop for beginners. We will show you the basics and then practice our letters together. Pick up a kit with paper, samples, and practice sheets at the library 12/7 – 12/9. Please register online in our event calendar at greenvillelibraryri.org or by calling 401-949-3630.

Join us for an informal virtual meeting to discuss what books you are currently reading. Share your great read and discover a new one! We meet virtually via Zoom. Once you register for the book chat, we will send you a link and password to join the event. Please register online on our event calendar at greenvillelibraryri.org or by calling 401-949-3630. We look forward to seeing you soon!

Learn to Hand LetterOptional Zoom meeting December 9 at 6:30 pm

Virtual Book ChatThursdays, December 3 & 17 at 6:00 pm

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Join the Snow Queen and Snow Princess virtually for an enchanted sing along and storytime! Please register on the library

calendar at greenvillelibraryri.org and a link for a Google Meet will be sent to you.

Did you know that you can practice coding without a computer? Celebrate Computer Science Education

Week this year with some special “unplugged” coding activities, including networking a neighborhood, coding an emoji, and sending a secret message!

Stop by the library between December 7-12 and pick up an Hour of Code activity packet in the children’s room. Activity packets will also be available in the

Youth Services mailbox outside the library building. Tune in to our YouTube channel or Facebook page

throughout the week for helpful coding videos starring Miss Babs, Miss Patty, and Miss Patricia.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been studying Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) for over 3 decades. SAD is the result

of fewer daylight hours during daylight savings. SAD is more common among

people in northern regions like ours and can last up to 5 months. Here are some tips for

preventing and coping with SAD and beating the “winter blues”:

• Talk with your doctor• Excercise, outdoors when possible• Eat fresh fruits, veggies, and lean

proteins• Try light therapy with a light box

For more information, visit the NIH website or search Consumer Health Complete on

AskRI.org.Source: newsinhealth.nih.gov/2013/01/beat-winter-blues

Virtual Visit with the Snow Sisters

Wednesday, December 30 at

2:00 pm

Unplugged Hour of Code

Did You Know?

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Tuesday, December 15 at 4:00 pm

Check out Patricia’s Dinosaur Book Talks on the Greenville Library’s YouTube

Channel.

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The Middles: Choose Your Own Adventure

Monday, December 28 at 6:00 pm

Feeling too old for children’s programs, but not quite old enough for the teen

programs? The Middles is the place for you on the 4th Monday of each month!

Grades 4-6 are invited to join our “Choose Your Own Adventure” read-along in Google Meet. Your choices will help shape the story in our group reading

adventure! Please register to receive a link to our Google Meet. Grades 4-6.

Crowd Collage ProjectEXTENDED! Now through December 31.Help us create a crowd-sourced collage in the young adult area of the library! Pick up a collage kit and decorate an 8.5 x 11 inch piece of paper with pictures and words clipped from magazines and newspapers. Drop off your completed collage at the library to earn an hour of community service. Be sure to write your name on the back of your collage if you’d like community service credit for your work.

Virtual Community Service HoursDo you need to complete community service hours for school, scouts, church, or honor societies? The Greenville Library Young Adult department needs your help! Visit our website to fill out an online application: greenvillelibraryri.org/teens/volunteer. Patricia will contact you with more in-formation about current virtual volunteer projects you can complete from home.

Please register for all activities in our online event calendar at

greenvillelibraryri.org.

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Exhibits

Library Happenings

Due to the nature of her job as an art teacher, Renée Finlay had always considered herself to be a “Jack of all trades and a master of none.” When retirement was approaching and despite having a strong ceramics background, Renée focused her attention on attaining mastery in drawing and painting.

Since having first encountered pastels while taking art lessons as a child, Renée has chosen to now pursue the study of pastel painting as a senior citizen.

Although predominately a plein air painter, Renée enjoys still life and portrait studies; however, she is currently experimenting with abstract themes and images. This exhibition is a display of various subject matter, but every work is a pastel painting.Renée Finlay is a retired Bellingham, Massachusetts High School Fine Arts Department Head and has also taught at the college and graduate levels. Renée is a Smithfield, RI resident and serves on a number of committees in town. She holds memberships in several art associations, including the Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Wickford Art Association, Cape Cod Art Center, and Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod.

For the full artist’s statement, please visit greenvillelibraryri.org/about/artists-page

Renée Finlay | PastelsDecember 2020

Renée Finaly | Pastel | West Island, Fairhaven , MA

Thank you to Town Council President Suzy Alba, Town Manager Randy Rossi, and Town Planner Mike Phillips (pictured left to right) for delivering the Take it Outside Grant equipment. The officials dropped off an outdoor heater, folding chairs, tent, fm transmitter, hand sanitizer station, outdoor lights, microphone and stand. The equipment purchased with the grant funding will allow the library staff to safely conduct outdoor programs.

The Annual Meeting of the Greenville Public Library Association took place on November 19. The following board members were nominated for offices with terms listed below:Stephen Cicilline, President - 2023Leslie Cashel, MD, Vice President - 2022Dennis Finlay, Treasurer - 2022Elaine Farley, Secretary - 2021

The following board members were reinstated for the terms listed below:David Brush - 2023David Hansen - 2023Terri Kless - 2023

Thank you to the Board of Trustees for your service to the library.

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All that glitters / Danielle Steel.The awakening / Nora Roberts.The body in the garden / Katherine Schellman.A California Christmas / Brenda Novak.Chasing the past / S.A. MacDonald.Christmas at Holiday House / RaeAnne Thayne.Christmas at the Island Hotel / Jenny Colgan.Christmas card murder / Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis, Peggy Ehrhart.A Christmas resolution / Anne Perry.The Christmas room / Catherine Anderson.The Christmas table / Donna VanLiere.The cookbook club of food and friendship / Beth Harbison.A crime of a different stripe / Sally Goldenbaum.The daughters of Erietown / Connie Schultz.Daylight / David Baldacci.Deadly cross / James Patterson.Empire of wild / Cherie Dimaline.Fortune and glory : tantalizing twenty-seven / Janet Evanovich.A garland of bones / Carolyn Haines.The gift of the magpie / Donna Andrews.Goodnight beautiful / Aimee Molloy.The harbinger II / Jonathan Cahn.Hidden in plain sight / Jeffrey Archer.How to raise an elephant / Alexander McCall Smith.Inside story / Martin Amis.Invisible girl / Lisa Jewell.An Irish country welcome / Patrick Taylor.

Jingle all the way / Debbie Macomber.The law of innocence / Michael Connelly.Marauder / Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison.Missionaries / Phil Klay.Murder comes to call / Jessica Ellicott.The Noel letters / Richard Paul Evans.The Paris model / Alexandra Joel.Piece of my heart / Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke.Return to Virgin River / Robyn Carr.The searcher / Tana French.Second mother / Jenny Milchman.The sentinel / Lee Child and Andrew Child.Shadows in death / J. D. Robb.Shakeup / Stuart Woods.Silent bite / David Rosenfelt.The sowing season / Katie Powner.Three women disappear / James Patterson and Shan Serafin.A time for mercy / John Grisham.Tom Clancy : shadow of the dragon / Marc Cameron.To sleep in a sea of stars / Christopher Paolini.Troubled blood / Robert Galbraith.Troubles in paradise / Elin Hilderbrand.The twelve dates of Christmas / Jenny Bayliss.Whispering hearts / V.C. Andrews.The wonder boy of Whistle Stop / Fannie Flagg.You betrayed me / Lisa Jackson.

New Book RequestsVisit our website greenvillelibraryri.org to fill out our new best sellers request form. The form lists all of the latest forthcoming titles from popular authors like James Patterson, Danielle Steel and more.

We will add the titles you select to your holds list so you can get a jump on the wait times.

Find the form on our new book alerts page.

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New NonficitonAlone together : love, grief, and comfort in the time of COVID-19 / edited by Jennifer Haupt. 362.1962 ALO American crisis / Andrew Cuomo. 614.5 CUO The best of me / David Sedaris. 818.54 SED Blackout : how Black America can make Its second escape from the Democrat plantation / Candance Owens. 324.2734089 OWE Catching the wind : Edward Kennedy and the liberal hour / Neal Gabler. 92 KENNEDY College admissions during COVID : how to navigate the new challenges in admissions, testing, financial aid, and more / Robert Franek. 378.161 FRA Conjure / Rae Armantrout. 345.73 ARM Culture warlords : my journey into the dark web of white supremacy / Talia Lavin. 305.800973 LAV The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X / Les Payne and Tamara Payne. 92 X Do it afraid : embracing courage in the face of fear / Joyce Meyer. 248.8 MEY Do you feel like I do? : a memoir / Peter Frampton with Alan Light. 92 FRAMPTON Donald Trump v. the United States : inside the struggle to stop a President / Michael S. Schmidt. 973.933 SCH Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss / Jenna Bush Hager. 920 HAG Humans / Brandon Stanton. 779 STA Jacques Pepin quick + simple : simply wonderful meals with surprisingly little effort / Jacques Pepin. 641.5 PEP

Let love rule / Lenny Kravitz with David Ritz. 92 KRAVITZ Martha Stewart’s cake perfection / Martha Stewart. 641.8653 STE Modern comfort food : a Barefoot Contessa cookbook / Ina Garten. 641.5 GAR A promised land / Barack Obama. 92 OBAMA Reclaiming her time : the power of Maxine Waters / Helena Andrews-Dyer. 92 WATERS Rhode Island memories. Volume III : from turmoil to the Providence renaissance - the 1960s through the 1990s / Providence Journal. RI 974.5 RHO The rise : Black cooks and the soul of American food / Marcus Samuelsson. 641.5929 SAM Saving Narragansett Bay : How people, passion, and perseverance made all the difference / by Todd McLeish RI 917.45 MCL Ten lessons for a post-pandemic world / Fareed Zakaria. 303.49 ZAK Trial by fire : a devastating tragedy, 100 lives lost, and a 15-year search for truth / Scott James. 363.3709745 JAM Trust : America’s best chance / Pete Buttigieg. 320.51 BUT Unprepared : America in the time of coronavirus / Jon Sternfeld. 616.2414 STE Wolf Island : discovering the secrets of a mythic animal / David L. Mech. 599.773 MEC The world of Plymouth Plantation / Carla Gardina Pestana. 974.4 PES The zealot and the emancipator : John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the struggle for American freedom / H.W. Brands. 920 BRA

Happy Holidays from the Greenville Public

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GREENVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEESStephen Cicilline, PresidentLeslie Cashel, MD, Vice PresidentDennis Finlay, TreasurerElaine Farley, SecretaryVirginia HarnoisJulianne Ip, MDBarbara LysikDomine Vescera RagostaMilo J. St. AngeloDavid BrushDavid HansenTerri KlessDorothy J. Swain,Director

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