Storytimes near KENT MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Other (Including Historical Room)

Join us for a morning of American Mahjong! Make new friends as you play one of the world's oldest tile based games. For Adults - Basic knowledge of the game required. Please bring your 2025 NMJL ( National Mahjong Junior League ) card. Thursday mornings from 10:00am - 12pm Registration required

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Children's Room

Recommended Ages 0-5 Bring your singing voice! We sing, dance, blow bubbles -- and have fun! No registration required.

Auditorium

Lorne Lorne Michaels, creator of Saturday Night Live (1975), offers unprecedented access to the man who built and sustained the institution for five decades. Rated R: 1 hour and 41 minutes Registration is not required. Auditorium seats 45. Closed captioning will be turned on whenever available.

Children's Room

Let's end Shark Week on a high tide by making Ocean Sensory bottles. Sail in to the children's room anytime between 9:30 and noon. All ages, while supplies last.

Other (Including Historical Room)

The Friends of the Kent Memorial Library will accept book donations in the downstairs lobby from 10 am - 12 pm.

Children's Room

Be a guest librarian! Learn how to pick a theme, find the books, and make a display, with Ms. Sandy! Grades K and Up. Registration is required.

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A book group for adults to read and discuss books that have been challenged and/or banned. Copies of the book will be available at the library. Facilitated by Librarian Anna Cierocki. Registration is not required. Please be aware that this group discusses books which may include sensitive topics. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende The House of the Spirit brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their daughter Blanca embarks on a forbidden love affair, the result is an unexpected gift: adored granddaughter Alba, a beautiful and strong-willed child who will lead her family and her country into a revolutionary future.

Marble Table

This is not a library program, but is open to the public.

Children's Room, Marble Table

Come with your friends or family for Giant Family Game Night! This is a full building takeover, giant versions of popular games will be set up throughout the building. This time we will be expanding to include outdoor games on the lawn. From giant Yahtzee to giant Candyland, Uno, Clue, Monopoly and many, many more. Drop-in anytime between 5:00 and 8 no registration necessary. Come play!

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This meeting is private and not open to the public.

Marble Table

Our D&D group is full.

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Let your natural creativity flow! Follow instructor Pamela Halligan of Pam’s Picassos as she walks you through the steps of creating your own masterpiece. *all supplies are included

Join us for an evening of American Mahjong! Make new friends as you play one of the world's oldest tile based games. For Adults - Basic knowledge of the game required. Please bring your 2026 NMJL ( National Mahjong Junior League ) card. *Registration required

Other (Including Historical Room)

Join us for a morning of American Mahjong! Make new friends as you play one of the world's oldest tile based games. For Adults - Basic knowledge of the game required. Please bring your 2025 NMJL ( National Mahjong Junior League ) card. Thursday mornings from 10:00am - 12pm Registration required

Auditorium

at Beeman, MSW from Suffield Community Aid, is offering free initial Social Services Consultations on the third Thursday of each month at Kent Memorial Library. Make an appointment if you need help. Appointments are required as spaces are limited. Suggested Topics (but feel free to seek help on other ones): Adult Day Care Assistance with completing State and Federal Benefits forms Caregiver Information Disability Resources Housing Legal Services Medicaid Medicare Mental Health & Addiction Resources Transportation SNAP (Food Stamps) Social Security Suffield Community Aid Programs & Services

Auditorium

at Beeman, MSW from Suffield Community Aid, is offering free initial Social Services Consultations on the third Thursday of each month at Kent Memorial Library. Make an appointment if you need help. Appointments are required as spaces are limited. Suggested Topics (but feel free to seek help on other ones): Adult Day Care Assistance with completing State and Federal Benefits forms Caregiver Information Disability Resources Housing Legal Services Medicaid Medicare Mental Health & Addiction Resources Transportation SNAP (Food Stamps) Social Security Suffield Community Aid Programs & Services

Auditorium

at Beeman, MSW from Suffield Community Aid, is offering free initial Social Services Consultations on the third Thursday of each month at Kent Memorial Library. Make an appointment if you need help. Appointments are required as spaces are limited. Suggested Topics (but feel free to seek help on other ones): Adult Day Care Assistance with completing State and Federal Benefits forms Caregiver Information Disability Resources Housing Legal Services Medicaid Medicare Mental Health & Addiction Resources Transportation SNAP (Food Stamps) Social Security Suffield Community Aid Programs & Services

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Join us for the next meeting of The Kids Who Read Books Book Club! We'll be discussing The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus 1) by Rick Riordan. Books will be available to check out at the library. Open to all people in grades 5-12. Registration is not required. The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan JASON HAS A PROBLEM. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper, and his best friend is a guy named Leo. They’re all students at the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids," as Leo puts it. What did Jason do to end up here? And where is here, exactly? Jason doesn't know anything—except that everything seems very wrong. PIPER HAS A SECRET. Her father has been missing for three days, ever since she had that terrifying nightmare about his being in trouble. Piper doesn’t understand her dream, or why her boyfriend suddenly doesn’t recognize her. When a freak storm hits during the school trip, unleashing strange creatures and whisking her, Jason, and Leo away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood, she has a feeling she’s going to find out, whether she wants to or not. LEO HAS A WAY WITH TOOLS. When he sees his cabin at Camp Half-Blood, filled with power tools and machine parts, he feels right at home. But there’s weird stuff, too—like the curse everyone keeps talking about, and some camper who's gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist that each of them—including Leo—is related to a god. Does this have anything to do with Jason's amnesia, or the fact that Leo keeps seeing ghosts? Join new and old friends from Camp Half-Blood in this thrilling first book in The Heroes of Olympus series. Best-selling author Rick Riordan has pumped up the action, humor, suspense, and mystery in an epic adventure that will leave readers panting for the next installment.

Marble Table

Reading 9-5, a pop-up Dolly Parton Book Club. Dolly Parton, beloved American treasure and literacy hero, has released her top 5 reads of all time. Join us as we read and discuss Dolly’s favorite works of literature. You can choose to do just one or join them all. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck SUMMARY The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized--and sometimes outraged--millions of readers. First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads--driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck's powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.

Children's Room

Recommended Ages 0-5 Bring your singing voice! We sing, dance, blow bubbles -- and have fun! No registration required.

Auditorium

Hamilton The real life of one of America's foremost founding fathers and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Rated PG-13; 1 hour and 26 minutes Registration is not required. Auditorium seats 45. Closed captioning will be turned on whenever available.

Children's Room

Join Ms Sandy for crafts!! Drop in and check it out. While supplies last. Ages 4 and up Drop in.

Children's Room

Be a guest librarian! Learn how to pick a theme, find the books, and make a display, with Ms. Sandy! Grades K and Up. Registration is required.

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What was your favorite book this summer? What was your favorite activity? Let's eat some ice cream and talk about what we've done so far this summer! Ages: 8-12 Registration Required Sponsored by the Friends of Kent Memorial Library.

Marble Table

Rabble Readers is an Escapist Lit book club for adults. We read Sci-fi, Fantasy, Horror, Lit RPG, Dystopian etc....whatever takes us away! We meet the third Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. Copies of the book are available for pick up at the library. Drop -in, no registration required. Summary For suspense-filled, post-apocalyptic thrillers, Wool is more than a self-published ebook phenomenon―it's the new standard in classic science fiction. In a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silo's rules for years, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: He asks to go outside. His fateful decision unleashes a drastic series of events. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, whose special knack is fixing machines. Now Juliette is about to be entrusted with fixing her silo, and she will soon learn just how badly her world is broken. The silo is about to confront what its history has only hinted about and its inhabitants have never dared to whisper. Uprising. A New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller, as well as Kindle Book Review's 2012 Indie Book of the Year, Wool is truly a blockbuster.

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Wednesday, July 22 at 3 pm Do you have what it takes to build the tallest Lego tower? Join us for a LEGO building competition! Whoever builds the tallest (yet sturdiest!) building with the supplied LEGOS wins a prize! Baseplates and LEGOS will be provided. Please do not bring pieces from home. Building partners are allowed but there’s only one prize, so winners will have to share. Ages 7-12. Space is limited; registration is required. Please register each participant separately.

Marble Table

Our D&D group is full.

Join us for an evening of American Mahjong! Make new friends as you play one of the world's oldest tile based games. For Adults - Basic knowledge of the game required. Please bring your 2026 NMJL ( National Mahjong Junior League ) card. *Registration required

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Led by a physical therapist, this presentation focuses on conservative, non-drug approaches to care. Attendees will learn how daily habits—like posture, movement, and stress—play a critical role in back health. The session will also introduce easy, actionable strategies, including proper lifting techniques, simple posture adjustments, and effective core stability exercises that support long-term spine health.