BINGO! Adult Summer Reading Challenge
Our summer reading challenge for adults is underway!
Take a board from the display in the lobby to get started.
Or, CLICK HERE to print your Bingo Board online!
Fill in each square on the board with the name of a book you complete this summer. Each book title can only be used once. Audiobooks count! Play to earn entries for prize drawings, find details on the back of your game board!
Summer Silent Auction
Support the library this summer, through our Silent Auction.
All proceeds from this fundraiser will benefit the library, as we enter our new fiscal year.
Visit the tables by our geranium window in the lobby to peruse our items, and to place your bids.
Bidding end on Saturday, August 9 at 2:00 p.m.
Auction winners will be contacted individually on Monday, August 11.
"Power Foods for the Brain" Cooking Demo
We welcome Anke Rudy for a plant-based cooking demo!
In this Food for Life: Power Foods for the Brain class, you will learn strategies for maintaining memory and improving brain function, including how to prepare brain health-promoting meals.
There will be opportunities to sample Anke's food!
Interested? Click HERE to Register for this Cooking Demo!
"Cranberries: New England's Bounty"
Join noted historian and author Anthony Sammarco for a talk about New England's bounty: cranberries!
Hear about the history of this fruit, starting with Native Americans introducing European settlers to cranberries near what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Interested? Click HERE to RSVP for this presentation!
Mighty Music Bingo!
Join us for a night of music, and support the library by playing bingo!
$20 per person, due at the door. Play to win fabulous prizes!
Registration is required for this event.
Interested? Click HERE to register for Mighty Music Bingo!
Yoga with Pam
CPL hosts FREE Hatha yoga on the 1st and 3rd Friday of each month! This is a hybrid program. We welcome you to join us either in-person or remotely via Zoom!
The instructor, Pam Falcone, will lead the class in the Community Rooms on our lower level. Don't forget your mat!
No registration required to attend in-person, drop in!
Registration is required to attend remotely via Zoom.
CLICK HERE to request a link to the Zoom Meeting.
Watch Wednesdays: "My Octopus Teacher"
Come see a screening of this Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature!
Directed by Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed, My Octopus Teacher (2020) follows filmmaker Craig Foster as he builds a relationship with a wild octopus, and shows us what we can learn from ocean life. Join us to see this adventure through a South African kelp forest.
Rated TV-G. 1 hour, 20 minute runtime. Popcorn will be served!
Interested? Click here to RSVP for this Watch Wednesday!
Open Coloring for Adults
Join us for open coloring hour at the Centerville Public Library.
Relax and unwind during a laid back morning of art and socializing! Colored pencils and pages will be provided.
No registration required, drop in! FREE!
Tick Prevention with Dr. Stephen Rich
Join local, best-selling author, Janis Robinson Daly, as she shares how a unique discovery made during genealogy research inspired her to write a historical novel, The Unlocked Path.
Janis will share some of her research methods and how she used facts to drive the development of a novel.
Interested? Click here to RSVP for this Local Author Talk!
This presentation will be held in Community Rooms AB.
A book sale and signing will follow the presentation. Janis will have copies of her books available for purchase.
Author Talk with Ted Reinstein
Come to the library for an author talk discussing Travels Through the Heart and Soul of New England: Stories of Struggle, Resilience, and Triumph.
Journalist and author Ted Reinstein has reported all around New England for 25 years, telling the colorful stories of this historic yet ever-changing corner of America.
Interested? Click here to RSVP for this Author Talk!