Our library director, Tom O’Connell, announced that he will be leaving the Library in early July. Over the past year, he hit the ground running and tackled numerous challenges, including issues with the Children’s Room, HVAC system, and elevator—all while working closely with staff to open the new Children’s Room and expand library services, patron membership, programs, and special events. We are grateful for his dedication and contributions to the Library. Please join us in thanking Tom and wishing him all the best in his future endeavors.

The Trustees, with support from the library staff and the Town Administrator, will begin the search for an Interim Library Director, followed by the appointment of a permanent Director. We expect library operations to continue as normal throughout this transition.

Kind regards,

Doug Bowman

Chairperson, GPL Board of Library Trustees

We are closing early at 5 PM on Thursday, July 3. We will be closed on Friday, July 4th and Saturday, July 5.

Operating Hours

Monday - Thursday: 9 AM - 8 PM

Friday: 9 AM - 6 PM

Saturday: 9 AM - 2 PM

A master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America. In June 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California, where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an

altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction--to the city of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multilayered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes.

Request a book, a large print book, a CD Audiobook, an e-book, or an eAudiobook.

Calling All Card Players!

Come and represent your library and test your Cribbage skills! This event is open to players of all levels. Due to a limited number of sets, we ask that your bring your own Cribbage board and cards.

The Library with the most points brings home a trophy.... the losing Library brings home Stinky the Skunk.

Thursday, August 28, 5:30 - 7:30 PM, Grafton Public Library

Registration opens Wednesday, July 16th!

Wednesday, September 17, 5:30 - 7:30 PM, Bancroft Memorial Library

Please contact the Bancroft Memorial Library to register.

Wednesday, October 8, 5:30 - 7:30 PM, Millbury Public Library

Please contact the Millbury Public Library to register.

12 Months 12 Books

The Grafton Public Library is participating in the Massachusetts Center for the Book Reading Challenge.

July's Challenge

Choose a book you were drawn to by its cover. Click here for some book recommendations for the month of July!

How the Challenge Works

• Choose a book that fits the monthly challenge from our display
• If you would like assistance in choosing a book, consider asking a GPL staff member for a recommendation.
• After you read, fill out this form to tell the Mass Center for the Book about what you read.
• Dedicated readers will be invited to a year-end celebration hosted by the Massachusetts Center for the Book.

The Borrower Services and Reference staff invite you to

check out an item from our curated staircase displays in

Room 201 - Large Print/New Books.

A Monthly Book Tasting program

Registration opens on August 1

The first meeting is on Thursday, September 11.

See all of our upcoming events, including Children & Teens:

See what is happening

around town:

Top 10 Books Requested in CW MARS

1. Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
2. Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
3. James by Everett Percival
4. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
5. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
6. Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
7. The Wedding People by Alison Espach
8. My Friends by Fredrik Backman
9. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
10. Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Top 10 Movies Requested in

CW MARS

1. Outlander: Season 7
2. Anora
3. Captain America
4. Mickey 17
5. A Working Man
6. Black Bag
7. Yellowstone, Season 5, Part 2
8. The Friend
9. The Alto Knights
10. Landman, Season One

Check out the CW MARS OverDrive website for a great selection of eAudiobooks and eBooks.

The next scheduled Board of Library Trustees meeting is Wednesday, July 23 from 7-9 p.m. in Meeting Room A at the Grafton Municipal Center. The agenda will be posted on the Town of Grafton website: 

https://www.grafton-ma.gov/AgendaCenter/Board-of-Library-Trustees-Grafton-Public-9

The Friends of the Grafton Public Library will be taking donations on the first Friday and Saturday of the month. The Friends will be setting tables in the Friends Corner for people to leave the books on.  Upcoming donation days are Friday, July 11 and Saturday, July 12.

Friends' gifts are available for purchase at the library.

Members can check the Friend's Facebook page for scheduled meetings.

https://www.facebook.com/GPLFriends

Join or renew your membership at www.friendsgpl.org/join. Questions? Please contact info@friendsgpl.org.