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Drop-in story time for babies and toddlers (0–36 months) featuring stories, songs, movement, and puppets at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library.

A drop-in story time for babies and toddlers (0–36 months) featuring stories, songs, movement, and puppets at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library.

Children ages 5 and up read aloud to Rose, a trained therapy dog from PAWS for People, in 10-minute sessions designed to build reading confidence in a nonjudgmental environment.

A drop-in story time for babies and toddlers (0–36 months) featuring stories, songs, movement, and puppets at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library.

A drop-in story time for babies and toddlers (0–36 months) featuring stories, songs, movement, and puppets at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library.

Teens ages 11-17 can earn volunteer hours at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library by helping with hands-on tasks like shelf organizing, cleaning, and preparing children's craft materials.

A free-play session with toys and blocks designed for preschoolers ages 3–5 (with younger siblings welcome) at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library.

A drop-in library storytime session exclusively for babies who are not yet walking, featuring stories, songs, puppets, and caregiver social time at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library.

A one-time family storytime and craft event celebrating Kitty Cat Month at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library, featuring cat-themed picture and chapter books followed by a hands-on activity for children ages 4-8.

A drop-in free play session for babies and toddlers (best for 6 months–4 years) featuring toys, blocks, and learning activities in the upstairs large room at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library.

The Media-Upper Providence Free Library's Friday Film Club screens the 2025 sci-fi comedy "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die," directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Sam Rockwell, as the finale of its September Science Fiction Fridays series.

A gentle, accessible chair yoga class for adults at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library, focusing on core strength, balance, mobility, and breathing in a seated or chair-supported format.

A drop-in story time for babies and toddlers (0–36 months) featuring stories, songs, movement, and puppets at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library.

A drop-in story time for babies and toddlers (0–36 months) featuring stories, songs, movement, and puppets at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library.

Kids ages 3–10 can drop into the children's room for an hour of Magna-Tile building challenges or free-form creative play as part of the library's Magna-Tile Month celebration.

A drop-in story time for babies and toddlers ages 0–36 months featuring stories, songs, movement, and puppets at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library.

A drop-in story time for babies and toddlers (0–36 months) at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library featuring stories, songs, movement, and puppets.

Andrew Behringer ("Mr. Andrew") leads high-energy, interactive children's music sessions featuring sing-alongs, dancing, and family-friendly songs on guitar and vocals.

A gentle weekly chair yoga class at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library, led by instructor Alexis, focused on core strength, balance, stretching, and breathing for adults of all abilities.

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones This chilling historical novel is set in the nascent days of the state of Montana, following a Blackfeet Indian named Good Stab as he haunts the fields of the Blackfeet Nation looking for justice. It begins when a diary written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall in 2012. What is unveiled is a slow massacre, a nearly forgotten chain of events that goes back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow, told in the transcribed interviews with Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar and unnaturally long life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story, captured in the vivid voices of the time, by one of the new masters of literary horror, Stephen Graham Jones. You can find all our selections here: https://mediauplibrary.org/afternoon-book-club/ Please email [email protected] to join the book club.

A gentle, chair-based yoga class at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library led by instructor Alexis, focused on core strength, balance, mobility, and breathing for adults of all physical abilities.

What We Can Know by Ian McEwan 2014 : At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife's birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, 'A Corona for Vivien'. Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the candlelit table know that for generations to come people will speculate about the message of this poem, a copy of which has never been found, and which remains an enduring mystery. 2119 : Just over one hundred years in the future, much of the western world has been submerged by rising seas following a catastrophic nuclear accident. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. In the water-logged south of what used to be England, Thomas Metcalfe, a lonely scholar and researcher, longs for the early twenty-first century as he chases the ghost of one poem, 'A Corona for Vivian'. How wild and full of risk their lives were, thinks Thomas, as he pores over the archives of that distant era, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the elusive poem's discovery, a story is revealed of entangled loves and a brutal crime that destroy his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately well. What We Can Know is a masterpiece, a fictional tour de force, a love story about both people and the words they leave behind, a literary detective story which reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost. -- Provided by publisher. You can find all our selections here: https://mediauplibrary.org/afternoon-book-club/ Please email [email protected] to join the book club.

A gentle, accessible chair yoga class at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library focused on core strengthening, balance, stretching, and breathing, open to all bodies and ability levels.

A book sale hosted by the Media-Upper Providence Free Library featuring hundreds of gently used books, DVDs, and CDs.

A gentle, chair-based yoga class at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library focused on core strength, balance, mobility, and breathing, accessible to all ability levels.

A gentle, chair-based yoga class at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library focused on core strength, balance, stretching, and breathing, open to all ability levels.

The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. The hardest thing in the world is to live only once… One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to transform Hai's relationship to himself, his family, and a community on the brink. Following the cycles of history, memory, and time, The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which love, labor, and loneliness form the bedrock of American life. At its heart is a brave epic about what it means to exist on the fringes of society and to reckon with the wounds that haunt our collective soul. Hallmarks of Ocean Vuong's writing—formal innovation, syntactic dexterity, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness—are on full display in this story of loss, hope, and how far we would go to possess one of life's most fleeting mercies: a second chance. You can find all our selections here: https://mediauplibrary.org/afternoon-book-club/ Please email [email protected] to join the book club.

Andrew Behringer is a children's and family music performer who plays interactive, dance-along sing-alongs using guitar, vocals, looping pedals, vocal harmonizers, and drum pads to get kids ages 2 and up moving.

A gentle, chair-based yoga class at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library led by instructor Alexis, focused on core strength, balance, stretching, and breathing for adults of all ability levels.

Media's Merry Musicians Ensemble invites you to come join us! This joyful ensemble grew out of Amber Lee Casper's private students' desire to connect with other musicians here in Media. 2026 will be our third year, and we are excited to welcome even more of our neighbors to come play with us! Our repertoire is curated by Mrs. Casper and draws from classical, traditional folk, medieval, and American folk genres (requests welcome!). We meet at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library every other month on a Saturday from 11am-12:30pm. Over the course of the year, we will hold seven rehearsals and hope to perform at one or two community events in Media as opportunities arise. We are not a professional ensemble—rather, we are Media's Merry Musicians: your neighbors and friends who simply believe that playing music together as a community matters. We are graciously sponsored by the Media-Upper Providence Free Library, whose support allows us to expand our reach and welcome more participants from Media and the surrounding area. It's completely free to join! Our ensemble is open to adults and youth (ages 12+) accompanied by a parent or guardian. We are especially looking for violin, viola, cello, bass, guitar, accordion, and harp—but all instruments are welcome! If you're feeling unsure about the level, you're welcome to explore the repertoire examples listed here . We choose music that is beautiful, approachable, and enjoyable for a variety of players. If you'd simply like to drop in to say hello and observe a rehearsal, please feel free to email Amber at [email protected] It's normal to feel a little shy when trying something new--we all do! But don't let that stop you from meeting your community and sharing in the joy of making music. We are blessed to have such a warm community here in Media. Let us rejoice and make a "joyful noise" together! For more information and full list of dates visit https://www.violinviolamasterclass.com/medias-merry-musicians.html

A gentle, weekly chair-based yoga class for adults at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library, led by Alexis on Mondays at 10am, focusing on core strength, balance, stretching, and breathing in an accessible, judgment-free setting.

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives nearby in a house next to the sea. Together, Lucy and Bob talk about their lives, their hopes and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, befriends one of Crosby's longest inhabitants, Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive's apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known – "unrecorded lives," Olive calls them – reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning. Brimming with empathy and pathos, Tell Me Everything is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, "Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love." You can find all our selections here: https://mediauplibrary.org/afternoon-book-club/ Please email [email protected] to join the book club.

Andrew Behringer's Play on Music is a high-energy, interactive children's music act featuring sing-alongs, dancing, and family-friendly songs performed with guitar, vocals, and live looping technology.

Media's Merry Musicians Ensemble invites you to come join us! This joyful ensemble grew out of Amber Lee Casper's private students' desire to connect with other musicians here in Media. 2026 will be our third year, and we are excited to welcome even more of our neighbors to come play with us! Our repertoire is curated by Mrs. Casper and draws from classical, traditional folk, medieval, and American folk genres (requests welcome!). We meet at the Media-Upper Providence Free Library every other month on a Saturday from 11am-12:30pm. Over the course of the year, we will hold seven rehearsals and hope to perform at one or two community events in Media as opportunities arise. We are not a professional ensemble—rather, we are Media's Merry Musicians: your neighbors and friends who simply believe that playing music together as a community matters. We are graciously sponsored by the Media-Upper Providence Free Library, whose support allows us to expand our reach and welcome more participants from Media and the surrounding area. It's completely free to join! Our ensemble is open to adults and youth (ages 12+) accompanied by a parent or guardian. We are especially looking for violin, viola, cello, bass, guitar, accordion, and harp—but all instruments are welcome! If you're feeling unsure about the level, you're welcome to explore the repertoire examples listed here . We choose music that is beautiful, approachable, and enjoyable for a variety of players. If you'd simply like to drop in to say hello and observe a rehearsal, please feel free to email Amber at [email protected] It's normal to feel a little shy when trying something new--we all do! But don't let that stop you from meeting your community and sharing in the joy of making music. We are blessed to have such a warm community here in Media. Let us rejoice and make a "joyful noise" together! For more information and full list of dates visit https://www.violinviolamasterclass.com/medias-merry-musicians.html

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the town's most respected gentlemen—one of whom has now been found dead in the ice. But when a local physician undermines her conclusion, declaring the death to be an accident, Martha is forced to investigate the shocking murder on her own. Over the course of one winter, as the trial nears, and whispers and prejudices mount, Martha doggedly pursues the truth. Her diary soon lands at the center of the scandal, implicating those she loves, and compelling Martha to decide where her own loyalties lie. Clever, layered, and subversive, Ariel Lawhon's newest offering introduces an unsung heroine who refused to accept anything less than justice at a time when women were considered best seen and not heard. The Frozen River is a thrilling, tense, and tender story about a remarkable woman who left an unparalleled legacy yet remains nearly forgotten to this day. You can find all our selections here: https://mediauplibrary.org/afternoon-book-club/ Please email [email protected] to join the book club.

My Friends by Fredrik Backman Most people don't even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it's just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise, and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures. Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier, telling silly jokes, sharing secrets, and committing small acts of rebellion. These lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream, a reason to love. Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be placed into eighteen-year-old Louisa's care. She embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn how the painting came to be and to decide what to do with it. The closer she gets to the painting's birthplace, the more nervous she becomes about what she'll find. Louisa is proof that happy endings don't always take the form we expect in this stunning testament to the transformative, timeless power of friendship and art. You can find all our selections here: https://mediauplibrary.org/afternoon-book-club/ Please email [email protected] to join the book club.