
Duxbury Free Library Our hours for Thanksgiving weekend are as follows: Wednesday (today) 10 - 5; closed Thursday; Friday & Saturday 10 - 5; Sunday 1 - 5. Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!

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Check out the Duxbury Clipper video coverage of the Cardboard Wars:http://eduxbury.com/index.php?option=com _content&view=article&id=4434:the-battle -of-the-bookmarks&catid=18:news&Itemid=1 20
The Battle of the Bookmarks (video in story) | Duxbury Clipper - Hometown newspaper for Duxbury, Mas
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v/rPknd1bsqdk A circle is drawn in chalk on the field. Two warriors step forward, the afternoon sun glinting off their shields. The two combatants draw their weapons, and upon a signal from the

Duxbury Free Library Upcoming YA events for this week: Knitwits, Tuesday, Nov 24 at 2:30pm and Bookmarks, Wednesday, Nov 25 at 2pm. Both will be held in the YA area on the upper level.

Duxbury Free Library This reader can attest to the wonderfulness of This is Where I Leave You. Has anyone else read any of these "under the radar" books?
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Ellen Snoeyenbos
Now here's a nice way to have patrons help promote a library event: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11 /cardboard_tube_battle.html
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My local library picked up on the festive trend of Cardboard Tube Fighting. The Boston Globe covered the preparations: The group discovered cardboard tube fighting last summer in time to incorporate a bit of it into a presentation on Greek mythology at a reading program party. ...

Duxbury Free Library On Sunday, 11/22 at 2:00 Joshua Kendall will present his book The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus. The author will discuss his painstaking research on Dr. Peter Roget's life and Roget's attempt to divide the world into exactly 1000 concepts. All are welcome - reserve your ticket at the circulation desk.

Duxbury Free Library Just a reminder....Gather 'Round Storytime will be held Friday, Nov 20 at 10:30am in the Children's Dept. Stories for preschoolers through kindergarten with an adult. See you there!

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Check out the Globe article: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massach usetts/articles/2009/11/19/teen_reading_ group_in_duxbury_stages_mock_sword_fight s_for_fund_raiser/
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They don their armor. They mask their faces and stare menacingly at their enemies. They raise their swords. Battle cries ring out, and the wild nonsense begins.

Kirstin What a great article about the Bookmarks. Congrats.
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They don their armor. They mask their faces and stare menacingly at their enemies. They raise their swords. Battle cries ring out, and the wild nonsense begins.

Duxbury Free Library After 20 years of loyal service to the Duxbury Free Library as a volunteer shelf reader, Gordon MacIver, is leaving us. We celebrate his quiet service to our library and wish him all the best! If you see him, thank him, please!

Duxbury Free Library Something you may not have known...find these authors in our catalog.
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The history of literature is filled with authors who also performed surgery or scribbled prescriptions. Lynn Neary speaks with two doctors who are also fiction writers — Abraham Verghese and Terrence Holt — about the link between medicine and writing literature.

Ellen Snoeyenbos
Love this quote from our friend, Neil:
"Librarians are the coolest people out there, doing the hardest
job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with
librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness." Neil
Gaiman

Duxbury Free Library Hey adults are welcome to participate i the Cardboard Wars on Saturday at 2 p.m. Let yourself be a little silly, take up a tube and do some shield whacking....! It 's for a good cause, too.

Duxbury Free Library The Duxbury Free Library will open on Sundays from 1 – 5 pm beginning November 22, 2009....Hurray!
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