Moby-Dick is everywhere!  I’ve just finished reading the new detective mystery by Boston area rising star Paul Tremblay.  NO SLEEP TILL WONDERLAND (yes, Wonderland dog track in Revere!), is his second novel featuring narcoleptic private investigator Mark Genevich.  The narcolepsy provides an element of comic relief and also impedes, or sometimes propels Genevich’s investigations!  The following dream sequence is both…

Today’s blog is about Mango Languages - one of our newest and most exciting databases.  Consider it your free ticket to learning another language!  Right now Falmouth Public Library offers six languages: 

Brazilian Portuguese
English for Brazilian Portuguese speakers
French
Italian
Spanish
Mandarin Chinese

For our final movie in our Moby Movie Madness series we will be showing a silent film, but with LIVE piano music! After listening to the soundtrack that had been slapped onto the DVD of Sea Beast, I decided we could do better, and found there was a pianist who would create a score just for…

Last Wednesday afternoon, the air in the Teen Room was filled with the scent of eucalyptus oil and the sound of enthusiastic henna fans!

The process to create a beautiful design on your hand, arm or leg was pretty simple. Two hours before the program a cone of dried henna powder, directly from the fields of Morocco, was…

As promised yesterday, I present a tour of Biography Resource Center (BRC) and Biography Resource Center:  African Americans (BRC:AA).  “BRC has over 400,000 biographies covering literary figures, sciences, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, current events and the arts.” Its companion database, BRC: AA, contains long biographies of…

Database Friday is on its way back!  We’ll introduce a different database each week for your learning pleasure. 

A database, by the way, is a collection of information about a chosen subject that is stored and searched electronically.  For example, we have a database about auto repair, another with Massachusetts newspapers and…

Yes, the white whale is being stopped in his tracks by the white snow this evening. So ... stay home and catch up on your Moby reading! Next week we will be discussing Chapters 65-96. See you then! We’ll keep you posted if and when the library closes today. Please remember we don’t open until 1:00 on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.…

Today’s books from The Point where Mindy, Melanie, and I were discussing books to read for National African-American History Month.  If you think we didn’t talk about all these books, you would be right if you listened in the morning. We were up against Pledge Drive, so the full show…

Recently in a favorite reference source, Chase’s Calendar of Events, I discovered that Sunday January 31 was National Seed Swap Day.

The germ of an idea sprouted! Perhaps we could have a Seed Swap area in the library where local gardeners could exchange seeds. Soon gardening books, several peat pots, a plant, garden gloves, some seed packets donated…

Just another reminder that Nathaniel Philbrick‘s talk will be at MORSE POND SCHOOL on this Saturday, February 6th at 2:00 p.m. The Moby-Dick Book Club continues on Wednesday evenings at the library at 7:00 p.m., and this week chapters 49-64 will be discussed. We continue to add things to our What’s…