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Mystery Book Club: The Twelve Clues of Christmas

Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Hilton Garden Inn Room at Portsmouth Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Adult
Hybrid Mystery Book Club:

The library's new Mystery Book Club meets at 1 PM on the first Tuesday of each month. All are welcome. Whenever possible, copies of each month's title will be available for...

Details:

  The Twelve Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen Scotland, 1933. While her true love, Darcy O’Mara, is spending his feliz navidad tramping around South America and her mother...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Portsmouth Public Library
Room: Hilton Garden Inn Room
Age Group: Adult
Program Type: Book Club
Required
Seats Remaining: 40
Details:

The library's new Mystery Book Club meets at 1 PM on the first Tuesday of each month. All are welcome.

Whenever possible, copies of each month's title will be available for checkout with a library card.

Registration is optional - register to receive reminders!

This club will be held in hybrid format. Come in person at the library, or attend online! Click this link to connect via Zoom. Password: 3GWdHC

For more book groups, visit cityofportsmouth.com/library/book-discussion-groups.

 

This event is in the "Adult" group.

Classics Book Club: Wuthering Heights

Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Macleod Board Room at Portsmouth Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club, Authors & Books
Age Group:
Adult
Hybrid Classics Book Club:

The library's Classics Book Club meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 7 PM. All are welcome. Whenever possible, copies of each month's title will be available for checkou...

Details:

  Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte A wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Cathe...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Portsmouth Public Library
Room: Macleod Board Room
Age Group: Adult
Program Type: Book Club, Authors & Books
Required
Seats Remaining: 12
Details:

The library's Classics Book Club meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 7 PM. All are welcome.

Whenever possible, copies of each month's title will be available for checkout with a library card.

Registration is optional - register to receive reminders!

This club will be held in hybrid format. Come in person at the library, or attend online! Click this link to connect via Zoom. Password: 3GWdHC

For more book groups, visit cityofportsmouth.com/library/book-discussion-groups.

 

This event is in the "Adult" group.

Fiction Book Club: The Girl from Guernica

Monday, December 9, 2024 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Hilton Garden Inn Room at Portsmouth Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club, Authors & Books
Age Group:
Adult
Hybrid Fiction Book Club:

The library's Fiction Book Club meets the second Monday each month at 1 PM and 7 PM. All are welcome. Whenever possible, copies of each month's title will be available for check...

Details:

  The Girl from Guernica by Karen Robards On an April day in 1937, the sky opens and fire rains down upon the small Spanish town of Guernica. Seventeen-year-old Sibi and...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Portsmouth Public Library
Room: Hilton Garden Inn Room
Age Group: Adult
Program Type: Book Club, Authors & Books
Required
Seats Remaining: 31
Details:

The library's Fiction Book Club meets the second Monday each month at 1 PM and 7 PM. All are welcome.

Whenever possible, copies of each month's title will be available for checkout with a library card.

Registration is optional - register to receive reminders!

This club will be held in hybrid format. Come in person at the library, or attend online! Click this link to connect via Zoom. Password: 3GWdHC

For more book groups, visit cityofportsmouth.com/library/book-discussion-groups.

 

The Girl from Guernica by Karen Robards

This event is in the "Youth" group.
This event is in the "Grades 3 - 5" group.

Grades 4 + 5 Book Club

Monday, December 9, 2024 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Youth Activity Room at Portsmouth Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Youth, Grades 3 - 5
Details:

Students in grades 4 and 5 are invited to meet with other readers to talk books and trivia! This month's BOOKS are the graphic novels Sunny Side Up by Jennifer Holm and Stargazing ...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Portsmouth Public Library
Room: Youth Activity Room
Age Group: Youth, Grades 3 - 5
Program Type: Book Club
Required
Seats Remaining: 6
Details:

Students in grades 4 and 5 are invited to meet with other readers to talk books and trivia! This month's BOOKS are the graphic novels Sunny Side Up by Jennifer Holm and Stargazing by Jen Wang.

This event is in the "Adult" group.

Fiction Book Club: The Girl from Guernica

Monday, December 9, 2024 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Hilton Garden Inn Room at Portsmouth Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club, Authors & Books
Age Group:
Adult
Hybrid Fiction Book Club:

The library's Fiction Book Club meets the second Monday each month at 1 PM and 7 PM. All are welcome. Whenever possible, copies of each month's title will be available for check...

Details:

  The Girl from Guernica by Karen Robards On an April day in 1937, the sky opens and fire rains down upon the small Spanish town of Guernica. Seventeen-year-old Sibi and...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Portsmouth Public Library
Room: Hilton Garden Inn Room
Age Group: Adult
Program Type: Book Club, Authors & Books
Required
Seats Remaining: 44
Details:

The library's Fiction Book Club meets the second Monday each month at 1 PM and 7 PM. All are welcome.

Whenever possible, copies of each month's title will be available for checkout with a library card.

Registration is optional - register to receive reminders!

This club will be held in hybrid format. Come in person at the library, or attend online! Click this link to connect via Zoom. Password: 3GWdHC

For more book groups, visit cityofportsmouth.com/library/book-discussion-groups.

 

The Girl from Guernica by Karen Robards

This event is in the "Youth" group.
This event is in the "Grades K - 2" group.

Grades K/1 Picture Book Club

Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at 3:30pm - 4:15pm
Levenson Room at Portsmouth Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Youth, Grades K - 2
Details:

Book Club for Kindergarten and First Grade (formerly known as  Blast Off!) This book club is not intended to teach literacy but simply build a love of books and libraries! ...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Portsmouth Public Library
Room: Levenson Room
Age Group: Youth, Grades K - 2
Program Type: Book Club
Required
Seats Remaining: 4
Details:

Book Club for Kindergarten and First Grade (formerly known as  Blast Off!)

This book club is not intended to teach literacy but simply build a love of books and libraries!

More Info

Children under ten (10) years of age must be accompanied and supervised by an adult.
This event is in the "Adult" group.

Nonfiction Book Club: The Chiffon Trenches

Monday, December 16, 2024 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Hilton Garden Inn Room at Portsmouth Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club, Authors & Books
Age Group:
Adult
Hybrid Nonfiction Book Club:

The library's Nonfiction Book Club meets the third Monday each month at 1 PM. All are welcome. Whenever possible, copies of each month's title will be available for checkout wit...

Details:

The Chiffon Trenches by Andre Leon Talley Discover what truly happens behind the scenes in the world of high fashion in this detailed, storied memoir from style icon, bestsellin...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Portsmouth Public Library
Room: Hilton Garden Inn Room
Age Group: Adult
Program Type: Book Club, Authors & Books
Required
Seats Remaining: 43
Details:

The library's Nonfiction Book Club meets the third Monday each month at 1 PM. All are welcome.

Whenever possible, copies of each month's title will be available for checkout with a library card.

Registration is optional - register to receive reminders!

This club will be held in hybrid format. Come in person at the library, or attend online! Click this link to connect via Zoom. Password: 3GWdHC

For more book groups, visit cityofportsmouth.com/library/book-discussion-groups.

The Chiffon Trenches by Andre Leon Talley

This event is in the "Tween & Teen" group.
This event is in the "Tween (Grades 6 - 8)" group.
This event is in the "Youth" group.

Middle School Book Club

Monday, December 16, 2024 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Youth Activity Room at Portsmouth Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Tween & Teen, Tween (Grades 6 - 8), Youth
Details:

Students in grades 6-8 are invited to meet with other readers to talk books and trivia!Students can pick up the book at the library ahead of time and then join us for a fun convers...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Portsmouth Public Library
Room: Youth Activity Room
Age Group: Tween & Teen, Tween (Grades 6 - 8), Youth
Program Type: Book Club
Required
Seats Remaining: 8
Details:

Students in grades 6-8 are invited to meet with other readers to talk books and trivia!

This event is in the "Teen (Ages 13 - 18)" group.

Teen Book Group at PHS

Tuesday, December 17, 2024 at 2:45pm - 3:15pm
Off Site
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Teen (Ages 13 - 18)
Details:

Come join us for Teen Book Club! Held at the high school during Flex Block, each month we discuss a book we read together and receive a new book to talk about the following month!A...

Open
Required
Offsite Event
Library Branch: Off Site
Age Group: Teen (Ages 13 - 18)
Program Type: Book Club
Required
Seats Remaining: 6
Details:

Come join us for Teen Book Club! Held at the high school during Flex Block, each month we discuss a book we read together and receive a new book to talk about the following month!

This event is in the "Youth" group.
This event is in the "Grades K - 2" group.
This event is in the "Grades 3 - 5" group.

Book Club Grades 2/3

Tuesday, December 17, 2024 at 3:30pm - 4:15pm
Levenson Room at Portsmouth Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Youth, Grades K - 2, Grades 3 - 5
Details:

Book Club for second and third grades will be back at the library! This book club is not intended to teach literacy but simply build a love of books and libraries! We will chat ...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Portsmouth Public Library
Room: Levenson Room
Age Group: Youth, Grades K - 2, Grades 3 - 5
Program Type: Book Club
Required
Seats Remaining: 3
Details:

Book Club for second and third grades will be back at the library!

This book club is not intended to teach literacy but simply build a love of books and libraries! We will chat about the book and play games or do an activity!

More Info

Children under ten (10) years of age must be accompanied and supervised by an adult.
This event is in the "Adult" group.

Speculative Fiction Book Club: Akata Woman

Tuesday, December 17, 2024 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Macleod Board Room at Portsmouth Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club, Authors & Books
Age Group:
Adult
Hybrid Spec Fic Book Club:

The library's Speculative Fiction Book Club meets the final Tuesday each month at 7 PM. All are welcome. Whenever possible, copies of each month's title will be available for ch...

Details:

Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor From the moment Sunny Nwazue discovered she had mystical energy flowing in her blood, she sought to understand and control her powers. Throughout...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Portsmouth Public Library
Room: Macleod Board Room
Age Group: Adult
Program Type: Book Club, Authors & Books
Required
Seats Remaining: 7
Details:

The library's Speculative Fiction Book Club meets the final Tuesday each month at 7 PM. All are welcome.

Whenever possible, copies of each month's title will be available for checkout with a library card.

Registration is optional - register to receive reminders!

This club will be held in hybrid format. Come in person at the library, or attend online! Click this link to connect via Zoom. Password: 3GWdHC

For more book groups, visit cityofportsmouth.com/library/book-discussion-groups.


Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor

This event is in the "Adult" group.

Nonfiction Book Club

Monday, January 20, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Hilton Garden Inn Room at Portsmouth Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Adult
Cancelled
Library Branch: Portsmouth Public Library
Room: Hilton Garden Inn Room
Age Group: Adult
Program Type: Book Club
This event is in the "Tween & Teen" group.
This event is in the "Tween (Grades 6 - 8)" group.
This event is in the "Youth" group.

Middle School Book Club

Monday, January 27, 2025 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Youth Activity Room at Portsmouth Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Tween & Teen, Tween (Grades 6 - 8), Youth
Details:

Students in grades 6-8 are invited to meet with other readers to talk books and trivia! Students can pick up the book at the library ahead of time and then join us for a fun con...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Portsmouth Public Library
Room: Youth Activity Room
Age Group: Tween & Teen, Tween (Grades 6 - 8), Youth
Program Type: Book Club
Required
Seats Remaining: 8
Details:

Students in grades 6-8 are invited to meet with other readers to talk books and trivia!

Students can pick up the book at the library ahead of time and then join us for a fun conversation and related activities about the book.

This event is in the "Tween & Teen" group.
This event is in the "Tween (Grades 6 - 8)" group.
This event is in the "Youth" group.

Middle School Book Club

Monday, February 24, 2025 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Youth Activity Room at Portsmouth Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Tween & Teen, Tween (Grades 6 - 8), Youth
Details:

Students in grades 6-8 are invited to meet with other readers to talk books and trivia! Students can pick up the book at the library ahead of time and then join us for a fun con...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Portsmouth Public Library
Room: Youth Activity Room
Age Group: Tween & Teen, Tween (Grades 6 - 8), Youth
Program Type: Book Club
Required
Seats Remaining: 8
Details:

Students in grades 6-8 are invited to meet with other readers to talk books and trivia!

Students can pick up the book at the library ahead of time and then join us for a fun conversation and related activities about the book.

This event is in the "Tween & Teen" group.
This event is in the "Tween (Grades 6 - 8)" group.
This event is in the "Youth" group.

Middle School Book Club

Monday, March 24, 2025 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Youth Activity Room at Portsmouth Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Tween & Teen, Tween (Grades 6 - 8), Youth
Details:

Students in grades 6-8 are invited to meet with other readers to talk books and trivia! Students can pick up the book at the library ahead of time and then join us for a fun con...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Portsmouth Public Library
Room: Youth Activity Room
Age Group: Tween & Teen, Tween (Grades 6 - 8), Youth
Program Type: Book Club
Required
Seats Remaining: 8
Details:

Students in grades 6-8 are invited to meet with other readers to talk books and trivia!

Students can pick up the book at the library ahead of time and then join us for a fun conversation and related activities about the book.

This event is in the "Tween & Teen" group.
This event is in the "Tween (Grades 6 - 8)" group.
This event is in the "Youth" group.

Middle School Book Club

Monday, April 28, 2025 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Youth Activity Room at Portsmouth Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Tween & Teen, Tween (Grades 6 - 8), Youth
Details:

Students in grades 6-8 are invited to meet with other readers to talk books and trivia! Students can pick up the book at the library ahead of time and then join us for a fun con...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Portsmouth Public Library
Room: Youth Activity Room
Age Group: Tween & Teen, Tween (Grades 6 - 8), Youth
Program Type: Book Club
Required
Seats Remaining: 8
Details:

Students in grades 6-8 are invited to meet with other readers to talk books and trivia!

Students can pick up the book at the library ahead of time and then join us for a fun conversation and related activities about the book.