ThThe Falmouth Public Library is considering a Planning and Design Grant to study the East Falmouth Branch Library for possible improvement, expansion or replacement in the future. We would like your help in determining how best to proceed. Please take this short, eight question, survey by clicking on the
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Please join us on Tuesday, November 9th from 4pm to 5pm via Zoom as Dr. Heather Goldstone from the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Woods Hole presents a lecture on climate change on Cape Cod.
Two recent UN reports indicate that we are now committed to hitting 1.5C of warming by early next decade, and are on track to hit 2.7C this century. With the damaging impacts of climate change already apparent and increasing, it’s critical for communities to understand the risks they face—those that are inevitable and require adaptation, and those that we can still avert. This Climate Change on Cape Cod: What’s at Stake and What Can We Do lecture brings the risks, opportunities, and choices presented by the global challenge of climate change down to the local level. A Q&A will follow the lecture.
To register to attend this virtual climate change lecture, click here.
“Dr. Heather Goldstone oversees Woodwell Climate Research Center’s communications activities, bringing the rich stories of Woodwell scientists to diverse public audiences. Dr. Goldstone has extensive experience as both a scientist and a journalist, and she is passionate about melding data and narrative in climate change stories that build awareness and inspire action.” – Woodwell Climate Research Center
How To Avoid A Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have And The Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates (2021)
How To Prepare For Climate Change: A Practical Guide To Surviving The Chaos by David Pogue (2021)
Hurricane Lizards And Plastic Squid: The Fraught And Fascinating Biology of Climate Change by Thor Hanson (2021)
The New Climate War: The Fight To Take Back Our Planet by Michael E. Mann (2021)
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case For Hope And Healing In A Divided World by Katherine Hayhoe (2021)
Warmth: Coming Of Age At The End Of The World by Daniel Sherrell (2021)
Angry Weather: Heat Waves, Floods, Storms, And The New Science of Climate Change by Friederike Otto with Benjamin von Brackel (2020)
Disposable City: Miami’s Future On The Shores Of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza (2020)
The Fragile Earth: Writing From The New Yorker On Climate Change (2020)
The Future We Choose: Surviving The Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac (2020)
Solved: How The World’s Great Cities Are Fixing The Climate Crisis by David Miller (2020)
The Story Of More: How We Got To Climate Change And Where To Go From Here by Hope Jahren (2020)
All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective On Climate Change by Michael T. Klare (2019)
Climate Change Politics And Policies In America: Historical And Modern Documents In Context (2019)
Rising: Dispatches From The New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush (2019)
The Ice At The End Of The World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland’s Buried Past And Our Perilous Future by Jon Gertner (2019)
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells (2019)
No Immediate Danger: Carbon Ideologies by William T. Vollmann (2018)
Climate Change: An Encyclopedia Of Science, Society, And Solutions (2017)
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed To Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken (2017)
The Falmouth Public Library is hosting a free virtual Libby webinar by the experts at OverDrive on Wednesday, September 1st at 10am! With the Libby app, you can access the entire CLAMS digital library collection to read and listen to eBooks, eAudiobooks, and eMagazines all for free with your library card!
Register today to learn how to sign into Libby, navigate around, browse and search for titles, borrow titles and place holds, manage notifications, and much much more!
Can’t make this webinar but are interested in learning more about Libby? Register and a recording of the webinar will be sent to you for you to watch whenever it is best for you!
To register, just click this link: https://overdrive.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_G2S1_GJNSYmZNPDhmMtu4A
The Falmouth Public Library is excited to announce the third Live Music on the Lawn concert of the summer! Join us and the folk music duo of Hungrytown for a free, live, outdoor concert on the library lawn on Saturday, August 28th, from 2pm-3pm! Just bring your own chair or blanket and sit back and relax to the wonderful music of Hungrytown!
“After more than fifteen years of world-wide touring and three album releases (Hungrytown, in 2008; Any Forgotten Thing in 2011; and Further West in 2015), Rebecca Hall and Ken Anderson have earned a reputation for the quality and authenticity of their songwriting.” “Lyricist Rebecca Hall is credited with compositions “that sound as timeless as any traditional songs” (Northern Sky, UK) while producer/multi-instrumentalist/husband Ken Anderson is lauded for his “remarkable affinity for instrumental embellishment” (No Depression) and for crafting Hungrytown’s “gorgeous vocal harmonies” (Folk and Roots, UK).””
“Their third and latest album, Further West, made the top 10 on the American Folk DJ charts for two months, and at least 14 “Best of the Year” lists. “Not only is this one of the best albums of 2015, it’s one of the best of the decade,” proclaimed New York Music Daily.” “Hungrytown’s music has also received extensive radio airplay worldwide and has appeared on several television shows, including Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, IFC’s Portlandia and Netflix’s Lady Dynamite.”
The Falmouth Public Library is excited to announce a local author panel with Mark Epstein, Isabella Stewart and Sandra Stosz on July 12th starting at 4pm via Zoom! Please join us as this trio presents their first publications with an audience Q&A to follow. If you would like to submit author questions ahead of time, please email your questions to info@falmouthpubliclibrary.org.
This event is free and is open to adults and older teens. Registration is required to receive the Zoom link. To register, please contact the reference department at 508-457-2555 x 7 or stop by the reference desk. You can also register by clicking here. All three books are available at Eight Cousins for purchase.
They Call Me Pathfinder by Mark Epstein: “Lauded by Coretta Scott King’s cousin, Christine Jackson, as “a book everyone should read!” in this inspiring memoir of an educator, Epstein shares the magic of befriending some of the greatest athletes in history as well as students and parents in the public school system.” (publisher)
Tangled Vince, Island Crimes: Martha’s Vineyard Off-Season by Isabella Stewart: “This is not a beach novel taking place in the soft summer winds. It is the flip side taking place in the off-season when the wild vines take hold of vacant summer properties and weaken their foundations, climb and strangle trees, and weave a cloth of deception that is stronger than twine.” (publisher)
Breaking Ice & Breaking Glass: Leading in Uncharted Waters by Vice Admiral Sandra Stosz, USCG (ret): “Admiral Sandy Stosz draws upon 40 years of extensive leadership experience and wisdom to provide tools that will help leaders navigate complexity to reach their goals and succeed at every level.” (publisher)
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month where we recognize and celebrate the heritage and cultures of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and their contributions and influences on the United States and its history. For more information and online events, lectures, exhibits, collections, videos and images, please visit https://asianpacificheritage.gov/
In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, the Falmouth Public Library has put together a reading list of 2020 and 2021 books for all ages that are available from the library.
A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson
Amy Wu and the Patchwork Dragon by Kat Zhang
Finish the Fight!: the Brave and Revolutionary Women who Fought for the Right to Vote written by the Staff of The New York Times
Grandpa Grumps by Katrina Moore
Stand Up, Yumi Chung! by Jessica Kim
Watercress by Andrea Wang
When you Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
Who Is Kamala Harris? by Kirsten Anderson
Yasmin the Writer by Saadia Faruqi
Your Name is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Almost American Girl : an Illustrated Memoir by Robin Ha
Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen
Super Fake Love Song by David Yoon
Crying in H Mart : a Memoir by Michelle Zauner
Eat a Peach : a Memoir by David Chang with Gabe Ulla
Facing the Mountain : a True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James Brown
Heart of Fire: an Immigrant Daughter’s Story by Mazie K. Hirono
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang
Inheritors by Asako Serizawa
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Last Tang Standing by Lauren Ho
Made in China : a Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods by Amelia Pang
Minor feelings : an Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
RomeAntically Challenged by Marina Adair
Sex and Vanity : a Novel by Kevin Kwan
Sigh, Gone : a Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit in by Phuc Tran
Sparks Like Stars: a Novel by Nadia Hashimi
Speak, Okinawa : a Memoir by Elizabeth Miki
Things We Lost to the Water: a Novel by Eric Nguyen
This is One Way to Dance : Essays by Sejal Shah
Tower of Skulls : a History of the Asia-Pacific War, July 1937-May 1942 by Richard B. Frank
The Scientist and the Spy : a True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage by Mara Hvistendahl
The Son of Good Fortune: a Novel by Lysley Tenorio
Women’s Liberation! : Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution & Still Can edited by Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore
The Falmouth Public Library Book Bike is hitting the road once again for its 2021 touring season! Come check out the Book Bike on its first ride, Monday, May 17th from 10:30 to 11:00 am when it will be at the Choate Lane Apartments.
All members of the community are invited to stop by. You can sign up for a library card, pick up free books and DVDs, and meet FPL staff. We are looking forward to seeing you and spreading our love of the Library throughout town!
Please note all visits are weather permitting:
Choate Apartments, Choate Ln: 10:30-11:00 am on May 17, July 12, September 13
Cape Cod Apartments, 62 Locust St: 10:30-11:00 am on June 21, August 16, September 27
Dillingham Place, 110 Dillingham Rd: 10:30-10:50 am on June 4, July 16, August 13, September 10
Harborview Apartments, 115 Scranton Ave: 10:30-11:00 am on June 7, August 2
Rose Morin Apartments, Rose Morin Ln: 11:00-11:20 am on June 4, July 16, August 13, September 10
Salt Sea Apartments, Salt Sea Ln: 10:30-11:00 am on May 24, July 19, September 20
Surf Drive Beach Storytime: 4:45-5:15 pm on July 8, July 15. July 22. July 29, August 5, August 12, August 19, August 26
For the most up to date information on the Book Bike and for additional visits, visit our Book Bike webpage by clicking here and by following @falmouthbookbike on instagram.