Author: KDesantis

Pember Presents: Domino the Great

Pember Presents: Domino the Great

The summer reading fun continues at the Pember Library with “The Splish Splash Reading Show” on July 1 at 6:00 PM. Join us as Domino the Great presents an action packed program that will grab the attention of children (and fun loving adults too) with amazing magic tricks, hilarious family-appropriate humor, tons of audience participation, music and more. Domino says, “This is not your ordinary magic show…” There are magic tricks throughout the program to capture and keep the attention …
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Pember Board Meeting

Pember Board Meeting

A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Pember Library and Museum will be held on the first Wednesday of each month at the Pember. This is a regular meeting and open to the public.
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Dear Reader

Dear Reader

This week’s books are: The brutal telling by Louise Penny, Audio Book Club Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin, Business Book Club The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors by Michele Young-Stone, Fiction Book Club Hero’s Tribute by Graham Garrison, Good News Book Club Deadly Intent by Lynd La Plante, Mystery Book Club Hands of My Father by Myron Uhlberg, NonFiction Book Club Shimmer by Eric Barnes, PrePub Book Club First Love, Wild Love by Madeline Baker, Romance Book Club The …
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The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

This is a gift from Stephenie Meyer to her fans:  you can read The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner for FREE.  Read it here. This site will be live from noon EST on June 7th until midnight EST on July 5th. Please keep in mind that you can only read the book here – you won’t be able to download it to your e-reader or phone. And you can’t print it out.
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Make a splash this summer at your local library — Teen Summer Reading Program

Make a splash this summer at your local library — Teen Summer Reading Program

The Pember Library at 33 West Main St in Granville will kick off the teen summer reading program, Make Waves @ Your Library. Join in the fun of Summer Reading! Have a slice of pizza and a soda and find out what we have planned for the summer! For information, call 518-642-2525. All programs involve water in some way and there is the possibility each week that someone will get wet! Public libraries across the State encourage reading through the …
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Pember Presents: Let Loose the Dogs of War: New York in the American Civil War

Pember Presents: Let Loose the Dogs of War: New York in the American Civil War

The Pember Library will present a lecture by Robert W. Arnold III on “Let Loose the Dogs of War: New York in the American Civil War”. Free and open to the general public, the event begins at 6:30 PM, Thursday, June 10 at the Pember Library in Granville. This event is made possible through Speakers in the Humanities, a program of the New York Council for the Humanities. Robert W. Arnold III is a career public historian now retired from …
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SPLASH! into Summer Reading

SPLASH! into Summer Reading

Splash into New York State Water Science will kick-off the kid’s Summer Reading Program at the Pember Library. Join us for this free program June 19 at 10:30 A. M. Space is limited! Call the Pember Library at 518 642-2525 to sign up. Presenting the program is Carol Parenzan Smalley, a children’s author who has written creative nonfiction science materials for leading educational publishers, a teaching artist who creates programs for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the …
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Donations and Volunteers needed for the book sale

Donations and Volunteers needed for the book sale

The annual Friends of the Pember Library Book Sale will take place at the Mary J Tanner School on Route 22 in Middle Granville Friday and Saturday, July 9 and 10, beginning at 9:00 A.M. each day. There will be thousands of books available. Most hardcover books will be $1.00 and paperbacks for $.25. Newer or special books will be individually priced. On Saturday from 1pm to 3 pm will be our $1.00 per bag sale using bags we provide. …
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Dear Reader

Dear Reader

The Cost of Bad Behavior by Christine Pearson and Christine Porath, Business Book Club The Actor and the Housewife by Shannon Hale, Fiction Book Club The Pravda Messenger by Robert Cornuke & Alton Gansky, Good News Book Club A Drunkard’s Path by Clare O’Donohue, Mystery Book Club Muffins and Mayhem Recipes for a Happy–if Disorderly–Life by Suzanne Beecher, NonFiction Book Club Fallen Rogue by Amy Rench, Romance Book Club Once a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough, Teen Book Club
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Dinner & Auction tonight!!

Dinner & Auction tonight!!

Today is the last day to get your bids in for the wonderful items up for auction. Final bids will be accepted at the dinner tonight. It looks like we will have a full house for dinner and dancing at the Lake St Catherine Country Club.
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