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Farm to Table: Come Learn About Community Supported Agriculture

Mar 122025
 

Do you want to learn more about where your groceries come from? Then come learn about Community Supported Agriculture from Farmer Sam Chronister! Community Supported Agriculture is one way to stock your fridge and pantry by going straight to the source. Participants will also be given seeds, soil, and small planter to start their own indoor garden in the spirit of this year’s Longwood Gardens Community Reads, Paradise Under Glass by Ruth Kassinger. Additionally, a lucky few will go home with passes to Longwood Gardens. Co-sponsored by Living Hope Farm in Harleysville.

Registration required. You can register here.

Teen Book Club

Mar 072025
 

Want to read books you’ve never heard of? Need a group to talk to about the books you love? We now have a Teen Book Club!

Ages 12 – 18

All reading levels are welcome! Join us to read a new teen book every month and discuss it with your friends. Books will be available to check out at the circulation desk. No registration needed!

If you have any questions please email Ayanna Madison at amadison@mclinc.org

Meeting DateBookAuthor
Jan. 18, 2025N/AN/A
Feb. 15, 2025N/AN/A
March 15, 2025N/AN/A
April 19, 2025Enders GameOrson Scott Card
May 17, 2025MooncakesSuzanne Walker
June 14, 2025
TBA
July 19, 2025TBA
Aug. 16, 2025TBA
Sept. 20, 2025TBA
Oct. 18, 2025TBA
Nov. 15, 2025TBA
Dec. 20, 2025TBA

Horror Book Club

Mar 052025
 

Join us for the Horror Book Club on the third Monday of each month at 6:00pm at the Norristown Public Library or virtually (registration requested). All are welcome to attend this book club focusing on books with non-traditional horror narratives.  You can borrow copies of the book through the library or get it elsewhere. Questions or to register, email Ayanna Madison at amadison@mclinc.org.

Meeting DateBookAuthorContent Warnings
January 2025N/AN/A
February 2025N/AN/A
March 26, 2025Ring, ShoutDjeli ClarkGraphic- Racism, Body horror, Gore

Moderate- Slavery, Racial slurs, Death of parent

Minor- Animal death, Sexual content, Antisemitism
April 23, 2025ManhuntGretchen Felker-MartinGraphic- Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, Dysphoria, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate- Ableism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Racism, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Outing, Abandonment, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor- Animal death and Panic attacks/disorders
May 28, 2025Meddling KidsEdgar CanteroGraphic- Violence, Mental illness, Death

Moderate- Suicide, Transphobia, Gore

Minor- Bullying, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders
June 25, 2025Witchcraft for Wayward GirlsGrady HendrixGraphic- Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Blood

Moderate- Child abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault

Minor- Rape, Racism, Adult/minor relationship
July 23, 2025Friday BlackNana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahGraphic- Violence, Racism, Gun violence

Moderate- Abortion, Mass/school shootings, Suicide

Minor- Cannibalism, Animal cruelty, Cancer
August 27, 2025Tell Me I'm WorthlessAlisson RumfittGraphic- Transphobia, Rape, Sexual assault

Moderate- Drug use, Self harm, Suicide attempt

Minor- Vomit, Pedophilia, Animal death
September 24, 2025Silver NitrateSilvia Moreno-GarciaGraphic- Murder, Death, Blood

Moderate- Racism, Car accident, Ableism

Minor- Cancer, Alcoholism, Addiction
October 22, 2025My Sister the Serial Killer Oyinkan BraithwaiteGraphic- Murder, Child abuse, Death

Moderate- Domestic abuse, Blood, Violence

Minor- Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Death of parent
December 10, 2025Never whistle at night : an Indigenous dark fiction anthologyTheodore C. Van Alst Jr.Graphic- Racism, Body horror, Violence

Moderate- Rape, Sexual assault, Colonisation

Minor- Vomit, Alcoholism, Religious bigotry
December 24, 2025No Book Club (Library Closed)

String Theory: Needlework Club

Mar 032025
 

Join us for needlework and camaraderie. Feel free to bring a project you’re already working on or start something new. Open to all experience levels.

Limited materials will be provided. If you have any questions, please email modete@mclinc.org

Registration not required.

The Movie Talkers: Film Discussion Club

Mar 032025
 

Let’s talk movies! The Movie Talkers is a film discussion club that will cover a wide variety of genres and time periods. It’s like a book club, but for movies!

April 2, 2025: Singin’ in the Rain (1952) dir. Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly

Synopsis:

When the transition is being made from silent films to `talkies’, everyone has trouble adapting. Don and Lina have been cast repeatedly as a romantic couple, but when their latest film is remade into a musical, only Don has the voice for the new singing part. After a lot of practice with a diction coach, Lina still sounds terrible, and Kathy, a bright young aspiring actress, is hired to record over her voice.

Copies of the DVD are available at circulation. Singin’ in the Rain is also available for streaming on Max. If you have any questions, need help accessing the movie, or want a Zoom link for the meeting, please email modete@mclinc.org

No registration required

Garden Book Discussion – Longwood Gardens Community Reads

Feb 272025
 

Join us at the library for a friendly book discussion of Paradise Under Glass by Ruth Kassinger. Copies of the book are available at the Montgomery County-Norristown Public Library and other libraries across the region. This event is part of the Longwood Gardens Community Read which is designed to encourage reading for pleasure and start a conversation. Focusing on literature about gardens, plants, and the natural world, Longwood chooses an exceptional book annually (paired with similarly themed younger readers’ book) through a variety of programs, discussions, and lectures across all community partner organizations. Some lucky participants will win passes for four to Longwood Gardens. Please register through our events tab on our website: https://mnl.libcal.com/event/14150190

 

 

Paradise Under Glass: The Education of an Indoor Gardener

By Ruth Kassinger

Paradise Under Glass is a witty and absorbing memoir about one woman’s unlikely desire to build, stock, and tend a small conservatory in her suburban Maryland home.

Kassinger found herself in need of a positive path after the death of her sister, her home becoming an empty nest, and her own battle with breast cancer. A resident of Maryland, she visited the conservatory of the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington D.C. and was inspired to add a much smaller-scale conservatory to her home. “It occurred to me that adding a conservatory to our house was just what I needed,” Kassinger says. “Warm and humid, beautiful, ever-green, peaceful and still, a conservatory would be the perfect antidote to the losses and changes of middle age. It would be my personal tropical paradise where nothing unexpected lurked in the landscape.”

Kassinger was definitely not a skilled indoor gardener before taking her conservatory leap. As an experienced writer and researcher, she knew she needed to learn about indoor gardens and how to grow indoor plants if she was to be successful—the results of which she shares in Paradise Under Glass. This wonderful combination of warm humor, personal anecdotes, and fascinating history makes for a terrific read.

 

 

The Writer’s Forum: Adult Writer’s Group

Feb 102025
 

Looking for a writing community? Join us for our monthly Adult Writer’s Group. Whether you are working on that final draft or trying to fine-tune your idea, this group is here to help. Held on the 3rd Wednesdays of every month. All experience levels are welcome.

Our first meeting is on March 19th

You can register here or by emailing Mary Ann at modete@mclinc.org

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