Middletown Public Library is offering a 3-week continuing series on “Microsoft Office ‘07: The Basics.” Computer instructor Creusa Michelazzo will design a course based on participants’ computer skill level and their expressed interest in specific Microsoft Office ‘07 features.

MPL will provide the computers for patrons to use during the workshops, but participants are welcome to bring their own laptops. Classes will be held on Tuesdays, August 7th, 14th, and 21th from 5pm-7pm.

Class size is limited to 10 participants. It’s free, but registration is required. To register, please call (401) 846-1573.

Sponsored by MPL and Ocean State Libraries under a Federal BTOP stimulus grant.

 

“Meet the Author” at the Middletown Public Library is pleased to host Mr. Mark Ellis as our next featured local author! We hope you join us as we welcome Mark to the Middletown Public Library!

Saturday, May 5th, at 2:00pm.

Mr. Mark Ellis, "Adventurist Extraordinaire"

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Light refreshments will be served!

Did you know the Middletown Public Library has discount passes to amazing museums in Rhode Island AND Massachusetts plus discount passes the PawSox?

We provide passes and coupons to a variety of educational and cultural destinations throughout little Rhody and our sister state to the north. Passes and coupons can be obtained at the Circulation Desk.

So what passes do we have?

Audubon Society of Rhode Island, Bristol, RI
Pass admits 2 adults and 4 children under the age of 18

Blithewold Mansion, Gardens & Arboretum, Bristol, RI
Pass admits 2 adults and 6 children under the age of 18
Pass valid mid-April thur mid-October

Children’s Museum, Providence, RI
Coupon allows $2.00 admission for up to 4 people

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Coupon admits 2 adults at $7.00 each and discounted admission to special exhibits

Museum of Science, Boston, MA
Coupon admits up to 4 people at $5.00 each

Mystic Aquarium, Mystic, CT
Pass allows discount admission for 2 adults ($6 off each) and 2 children ($4 off each)

Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT
50% off admission for 2 adults and 2 children

New England Aquarium, Boston, MA
Coupon admits up to 4 people at $8.00 each. Not valid July and August

PawSox Baseball, Pawtucket, RI
Ticket allows a group of up to 6 people admission for a flat rate of $18

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Pass allows 2 adults free admission and 10% discount in the museum store

Roger Williams Park Zoo, Providence, RI
Pass allows $3.00 discount on admission for up to 4 people

So gather up your friends and family and go see something wonderful!

In celebration of National Money Smart Week, Middletown Public Library offers 3 different workshops to help you become more financially savvy.

DUMPING YOUR DEBT: On Monday, April 23^rd Anthony Hanos and Jerry Bowen reveal the truth about credit lies and give you a plan to walk out of debt with confidence.

HOW TO AVOID SCAMS, FRAUDS & IDENTITY THEFT: On Tuesday, April 24^th the Better Business Bureau’s Amy Schram will show you how to avoid the latest scams, frauds and identity theft schemes.

EXTREME COUPON’ING 101: And on Thursday, April 26^th extreme coupon’er Heather Polochick will teach you how to shop more effectively and efficiently without breaking the bank.

All programs begin at 6PM and are FREE! For more info email ChristinaWolfskehl@yahoo.com or call (401) 846-1573.

Meet the Author at the Middletown Public Library is proud to present Mike Freeman!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, March 22nd at 6:00pm.

Copies of book will be available for purchase and signing. Light refreshments will be served.

We hope you will join us as we welcome Mike to the Middletown Library!

Download Station Coming to the Middletown Public Library! 

We are excited to announce that our Download Station will be ready for public use beginning in April. Stop in and talk with our staff about using this new product to download digital content on to your personal device. We will be happy to schedule time with you to help you make the most of this digital collection!

The Expats by Chris Pavone

Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in her marriage and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. So when her husband is offered a lucrative job in Luxembourg, she jumps at the chance to leave behind her double-life, to start anew.

She begins to reinvent herself as an expat, finding her way in a language she doesn’t speak, doing the housewifely things she’s never before done—playdates and coffee mornings, daily cooking and never-ending laundry. Meanwhile, her husband works incessantly, at a job Kate has never understood, for a banking client she’s not allowed to know. He’s becoming distant and evasive; she’s getting lonely and bored.

Then another American couple arrives. Kate soon becomes suspicious that these people are not who they say they are, and she’s terrified that her own past is catching up to her. So Kate begins to dig, to peel back the layers of deception that surround her. She discovers fake offices and shell corporations and a hidden gun, a mysterious farmhouse and numbered accounts with bewildering sums of money, and finally unravels the mind-boggling long-play con that threatens her family, her marriage, and her life.

Stylish and sophisticated, fiercely intelligent and expertly crafted, The Expats proves Chris Pavone to be a writer of tremendous talent.

Reserve your copy today!