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The book club will be reading The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty. From Goodreads: At the heart of The Husband’s Secret is a letter that’s not meant to be read My darling Cecilia, if you’re reading this, then I’ve died… Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret—something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of …

    What if you knew the precise time of death of the last dinosaur?  Or of the last Dodo Bird or Saber-Tooth Tiger?  Well, we are in possession of just such a colossal piece of information about the extinct Passenger Pigeon, once the most abundant bird of North America.  Martha, the last known Passenger Pigeon died at 1 PM on September 1, 1914 at Cincinnati Zoological Garden.   The Pember Museum has prepared a special exhibit to commemorate the …

The book club will be meeting to discuss “Bel Canto” by Ann Patchett. from Goodreads: In an unnamed South American country, a world-renowned soprano sings at a birthday party in honor of a visiting Japanese industrial titan. His hosts hope that Mr. Hosokawa can be persuaded to build a factory in their Third World backwater. Alas, in the opening sequence, just as the accompanist kisses the soprano, a ragtag band of 18 terrorists enters the vice-presidential mansion through the air …

  Thursday, August 7, 6-8PM at the Pember Library, 33 West Main, Granville: Pat Oathout will teach quilling. Pre-registration is not required, materials provided. For information, call 518-642-2525.

We will have regular hours on Tuesday but the library and museum won’t open until 2:30 PM on Wednesday, July 16.

Join Linda every Saturday for the next five weeks for crafts, stories and kid-friendly activities. Registration is not required. Celebrate the ordinary wonders of everyday science with these hands-on resources: Albee, Sarah. Clever Trevor. Kane Press, 2003. Aronin, Miriam. Mangled by a Hurricane! Bearport Publishing, 2010. Blair, Beth. The Everything Kids’ Gross Mazes Book: Wind Your Way through Hours of Twisted Turns, Sick Shortcuts, and Disgusting Detours! Adams Media, 2006. Branzei, Sylvia. Grossology. Price Stern Sloan, 2002. Breen, Mark and …

The Pember Book Club will be meeting to discuss any books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. From GoodReads: Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez born in Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia March 06, 1927 died April 17, 2014 gender male website http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/ genre Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Magical Realism influences G.K. Chesterton, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William Faulkner, Juan Rulfo, Fra…more About this author   Gabriel José de la Concordia Garcí­a Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garcí­a Márquez, familiarly known as “Gabo” …