Dennis Public Library - July Newsletter

Welcome to our monthly library newsletter. Each month we will share our upcoming programs, library happenings, and featured new items!

Blood Pressure and Wellness Clinic

Third Wednesday of the Month from 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

Do you know your numbers? Come find out for FREE! Walk ins welcome!

This clinic is brought to you by the VNA of Cape Cod Public Health and Wellness Division.

Understanding Alzheimer's and Dementia

 

Thursday, July 20th at 6:00 p.m.

The Alzheimer's Association will host a presentation about Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Join us to learn about the impact of Alzheimer’s, the difference between Alzheimer’s and dementia, Alzheimer’s disease stages and risk factors, current research and treatments available, and resources available from the Alzheimer’s Association. 

This event will hosted by Jennifer Hoadley the Regional Manager of Southeastern Massachusetts for the Alzheimer's Association Massachusetts/New Hampshire Chapter. Please call the library at 508-760-6219 to register for this program

Author Event: Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos

Thursday, July 27th at 6 p.m. 

Author Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos will discuss her book The Pirate’s Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd, a dramatic and deliciously swashbuckling story of Sarah Kidd, the wife of the famous pirate Captain Kidd, charting her transformation from New York socialite to international outlaw during the Golden Age of Piracy.

This event will include a presentation discussing the book and a Q&A session with the author. Copies of the book will be available to purchase and be signed. 

Please call the library at 508-760-6219 to register for this program. 

This program was paid for by the Friends of the Dennis Public Library.

Tiny Art Show

In July we will display tiny artwork created by our patrons. The theme for this summer's art display is Cape Cod summer.

Artwork will be available to pick up in August 2023.

English for Speakers of Other Languages

Fridays

The library is holding informal sessions to learn conversational English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL):

Fridays at 12:30 p.m.

All are welcome. Bring friends and family!

Please call the library at 508-760-6219 or stop in for more information. 

July Art Display

Rick Kucia is our featured artist for the month of July. Rick has a passion for fishing which inspired him to practice the art of gyotaku printing. Gyotaku is a traditional form of Japanese printing used by fishermen to record their catches. In Rick’s style of gyotaku, the actual sea life is his canvas. Colorful inks are applied to the sea life itself, then cloth or rice paper is gently pressed on the surface of the sea life to find  each creature’s unique details. When the cloth or paper is removed, a beautiful impression is left. All of his artwork is original and the marine life was personally found or caught from the waters of Cape Cod, MA.

Call for Artists for 2023

The Dennis Public Library wants to show you off!

The Dennis Public Library is seeking new artists to display their “two-dimensional” work in the library’s busy meeting room. The library also has a large display case in the main lobby suitable for showcasing three-dimensional work.These spaces are available together or separately. Show periods run for one calendar month and artists are welcome to hold an opening. If you are, or know of, an artist who has not shown at the library since our post-Covid reopening, please consider displaying at the library.

The library is located at 5 Hall Street in Dennis Port.

For more information, call Kym Cormier at 508-760-6219 ext. 205 or email her at
[email protected]

Book Clubs

Tuesday, July 11th at 6:30pm - Mystery Book Club

This month the Mystery Book Club is reading Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen. This meeting is hybrid, online options are available. Please email [email protected] if you are interested in attending.

Wednesday, July 19th at 2:00pm - DPL Book Club 

This month the DPL Book Club is reading A Good Year by Peter Mayle. This group meeting is in person at the library. Please email [email protected] if you are interested in participating. 

Fun for the Kids!

Pre-school Story and Craft Time

Thursdays at 10:30am

Join Lisa, our Children's Librarian, each Thursday for play time, fun stories, songs and a craft. All ages are welcome. No registration is required. Come and join the fun!

The Dennis Libraries present a Summer StoryWalk®

Starting Thursday, June 29th 

The Dennis Libraries present a StoryWalk® at Johnny Kelley Park in Dennis. This summer’s featured book is Peter the Piping Plover. Peter is a migratory shorebird who has just hatched and lives and grows up on a Cape Cod beach over the summer. The author Amanda Maguire took the book’s captivating photographs that introduce children to the wonders of nature.  

The walk begins across from the picnic area and proceeds right, following the Braille Trail path. We hope readers of all ages join the fun. Afterwards, feel free to spend time exploring all of the park’s offerings.  

The StoryWalk® concept was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier, VT, and developed with the help of Rachel Senechal of the Kellogg-Hubbard Library. The Dennis Libraries thank these two innovative women, along with the Recreation Department and the Department of Public Works for the Town of Dennis, for making this event possible.

Summer Craft Fun

Wednesdays 11am-12pm

July 5th - Kindness Rocks

July 26th - Dinosaur Terrarium - Please register, quanties are limited

August 2nd - Mini-Mini Golf Hole - complete with obstacles

August 23rd - Clay Fun

LEGO Education - Spike Prime

Spike Prime - 5 Week Workshop

Tuesdays, July 11th, 18th, 25th, August 1st, & 8th ~ 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Join us for a 5 week workshop using LEGOs and intuitive drag-and-drop coding languages to make creative projects. For grades 6th - 8th.

No experience required. Pizza included.

Call 508-760-6219 to register, spaces are limited.

Ukulele Family Fun

Ukulele Family Fun with Julie Stepanek

Wednesday, July 12th, 10:30am

Want to try an instrument that is fun and easy to play? Join Julie as she shows the fundamentals of ukulele playing.

No experience necessary. Ukuleles provided, or you may bring you own. Registration recommended.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Dennis Arts and Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

Pop Up Art School

Clay Bee

Friday, July 21st, 12:30pm-2pm

This program is two clay projects in one! Participants will make a large bee and a cardboard honeycomb. While the bees dry, students will make the second project of mini bees on a clay honeycomb.

Stem Cart Tuesdays

Come and check out our new stem cart from Lakeshore Learning. We will wheel it out every Tuesday from 1-7 for play

Our mobile stem cart comes jam-packed with 11 awesome STEM kits—all specially designed! From engineering roller coasters and experimenting with magnets to setting off giant chain reactions, children can explore tons of different STEM concepts—right at our station.

Summer Reading News

Signup online or in person. Online at dennispubliclibrary.beanstack.com

Receive a reusable Summer Reading bag and a free book choice when you sign up!

Earn a new button/badge for every 3 hours you read. Collect them all.

Find Your Voice is the theme this year!

We have some great free programs and summer fun!

New Books in the Children's Room

Bugs: A Peek-Through Picture Book
By Teckentrup, Britta
2023-05 - Doubleday Books for Young Readers
9780593564585 Check Our Catalog

Fans of the bestselling series that began with Tree: A Peek-Through Picture Book can take an up-close look at the world of insects in this beautiful book with peek-through holes.

If you look down toward the ground,

A world of wildlife can be found.

Young children will enjoy peeking through the holes and seeing new bugs …More

The Tide Pool Waits
By Fleming, Candace
Illustrator Hevron, Amy
2022-04 - Neal Porter Books
9780823449156 Check Our Catalog

Dive into the rich ecology of tide pools and watch a hidden world spring in this masterful nonfiction picture book for very young readers.

Twice a day when the tide goes out, an astonishing world is revealed in the tide pools that form along the Pacific Coast.

Some of the creatures that live here look like stone. Others look like plants. Some move so slowly it's hard to tell if …More

 

Fall of the School for Good and Evil
By Chainani, Soman
2023-05 - HarperCollins
9780063269538 Check Our Catalog

THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL is the #1 movie now streaming on Netflix-starring Academy Award winner Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Yeoh, Sofia Wylie, Sophie Anne Caruso, Jamie Flatters, Earl Cave, Kit Young, and many others!

What rises . . . must fall.

Two brothers

One Good.

One Evil.

In exchange for power and

…More

Miss Quinces: A Graphic Novel
By Fajardo, Kat
Illustrator Fajardo, Kat
2022-05 - Graphix
9781338535587 Check Our Catalog

Rising star Kat Fajardo's debut middle-grade graphic novel about a girl who would rather do anything other than celebrate her quinceañera! A funny and heartfelt coming-of-age story about navigating the expectations of family and cultural tradition.

Sue just wants to spend the summer reading and making comics at sleepaway camp with her friends, but instead she gets stuck going to Honduras

…More

Yoshi and the Ocean: A Sea Turtle's Journey Home
By Moore, Lindsay
Illustrator Moore, Lindsay
2022-05 - Greenwillow Books
9780063060982 Check Our Catalog

Lindsay Moore chronicles the remarkable true story of Yoshi, a loggerhead sea turtle who traveled an astounding 25,000 miles after being released from the aquarium that rehabilitated her. Informational and awe-inspiring, Yoshi and the Ocean is a gorgeous picture book about patience, perseverance, the ocean, and finding your way home. A transformative

…More

New Fiction and Non-Fiction

Not Alone
By Jackson, Sarah K.
2023-05 - Doubleday Books
9780385548434 Check Our Catalog

An exhilarating debut novel, tracing the harrowing journey of a mother and son fighting for survival and a future in a world ravaged by environmental disaster - "Not Alone kept me breathless with tension... [A] gripping adventure story." --Emma Donoghue, New York Times bestselling author of Room and Haven

Five years ago, a microplastic storm wiped out most of …More

Killing Moon
By Nesbo, Jo
Translator Kinsella, Seán
2023-05 - Knopf Publishing Group
9780593536964 Check Our Catalog

This killer will get inside your head. • Brilliant rogue police investigator Harry Hole is back, this time as an outsider assembling his own team to help find a serial killer who is murdering young women in Oslo in the next novel in the New York Times best-selling series.

"One of today's most interesting thriller writers." -Lee Child, author of the #1 New

…More

The Gulf
By Cochran, Rachel
2023-06 - Harper
9780063284128 Check Our Catalog

"Exquisite and gripping. . . . The Gulf is a page turner to be savored; Cochran is a master of both prose and plot."--Ilana Masad, author of All My Mother's Lovers

In this electrifying debut literary thriller, set on the gulf coast of Texas in the 1970s at the height of the women's liberation movement, a closeted young woman attempts to solve her

…More

Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral
By Smith, Ben
2023-05 - Penguin Press
9780593299753 Check Our Catalog

"Engrossing and suspenseful." --The New York Times

"Expertly pulls readers in." --The Guardian

"Smith sharply chronicles the revolutionary moment." -- Financial Times

The origin story of the Age of Disinformation: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, Jonah Peretti of HuffPost and BuzzFeed and Nick Denton of Gawker …More

Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism
By Kroeger, Brooke
2023-05 - Knopf Publishing Group
9780525659143 Check Our Catalog

An essential history of women in American journalism, showcasing exceptional careers from 1840 to the present

Undaunted is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism's most valued work. From Margaret Fuller's improbable success to the highly paid reporters of the mid-nineteenth century to the breakthrough …More