American Indian Awareness Month at MPL

Native American Pow -Wow at Middletown Public Library!

Saturday, November 19th at 12:00 Noon

November is American Indian Awareness Month. The Aquidneck Island Intertribal Indian Council is bringing Native culture to the Middletown Public Library. There will be drumming, histstory, storytelling, and more.

click on the images for additional infomation about the Aquidneck Island Intertribal Indian Council.

Ruby Tuesday Gives back to the Middletown Library

Sponsored by the Friends of the Library

Enjoy a meal at Ruby Tuesday in Middletown, between October 21 - 23, 2011, and present a copy of the flyer to your server, and 20% of the total bill will be dontated to the Middletown Public Library!

We hope to see you there!

How to Write and Publish Your Book

Have you ever wondered how to write a book and get it published?

Local author, J. Michael Squatrito, (author of "The Overlords" series) will be hosting a five-week program at the Middletown Public Library, and he will help you to accomplish this goal!

For now these sessions have been postponed. Please check back with us for the new dates and times.

Local Author, Hollie Delaney - event planned!

"Meet the Author" at the Middletown Public Library is pleased to host local author, Hollie Delaney at our next event!



Thursday, September 29th at 6:00pm in the Library Meeting Room!



Just announced: new book, "Understanding" will be released locally during this Library Event!

The Middletown Public Library has received an autographed copy of her book, "The Meeting" and we have made that available for all to enjoy! (Click on cover image to reserve title).


"The Meeting" is the first novel of "The Business" series and is available for purchase locally at Island Books and Barnes and Noble- Middletown, and available for checkout at the Middletown Public Library!

"Borrowed" from "The Meeting"...

"For Victoria Hamilton things were getting odd. The guy at the library staring at her without embarrassment. The same guy standing on the snow covered street in the dark. Then again across from her office in broad daylight on the coldest day of the year. An email referral from some long quiet foreign Clients. The subsequent phone call from an unkown lawyer followed by an email from his employer describing requirements for a property not to exceed ten million dollars. Now that was...well...very odd.

Victoria's life was finally working for her. No complaints. Kids grown and definitely living their own lives. A well situated condo that contains only her necessities. A boutique real estate brokerage functioning within her business model that treated her well. She could buy her lattes, pay her bills and have the occasional tryst if someone struck her fancy. After all the starts and stops in her life, Victoria understood that she was marking time. She was fine with it.

But the usually quiet winter was just getting plain weird."

Great adult read...a little mystery, intrigue, suspense, and some sizzling romance all set in local Newport! I enjoyed reading this book... (Sue, staff of the Middletown Library)

For additional information about the author, you can visit her website at: http://victoriaslilas.com/

Spotlight on a Local Author - Hollie Delaney

The staff of the Middletown Library had the pleasure of meeting Local Author, Ms. Hollie Delaney, when she stopped by the library to donate a copy of her book!

A connection was made, and we have invited Hollie to participate in our "Meet the Author" program! Library Director, Theresa Coish, will be contacting Hollie and inviting her to join Theresa on her monthly radio broadcast with Mr. Art Berluti on WADK local radio.

(click on image cover to reserve library copy)


The Middletown Public Library has received an autographed copy of her book and we have made that available for all to enjoy!


"The Meeting" is the first novel of "The Business" series and is available for purchase locally at Island Books and Barnes and Noble- Middletown, and available for checkout at the Middletown Public Library!

"Borrowed" from the book...

"For Victoria Hamilton things were getting odd. The guy at the library staring at her without embarrassment. The same guy standing on the snow covered street in the dark. Then again across from her office in broad daylight on the coldest day of the year. An email referral from some long quiet foreign Clients. The subsequent phone call from an unkown lawyer followed by an email from his employer describing requirements for a property not to exceed ten million dollars. Now that was...well...very odd.

Victoria's life was finally working for her. No complaints. Kids grown and definitely living their own lives. A well situated condo that contains only her necessities. A boutique real estate brokerage functioning within her business model that treated her well. She could buy her lattes, pay her bills and have the occasional tryst if someone struck her fancy. After all the starts and stops in her life, Victoria understood that she was marking time. She was fine with it.

But the usually quiet winter was just getting plain weird."

Great adult read...a little mystery, intrigue, suspense, and some sizzling romance all set in local Newport! I enjoyed reading this book... (Sue, staff of the Middletown Library)

For additional information about the author, you can visit her website at: http://www.victoriaslilas.com/


Check back with us soon for program details!

Got a Talented Kid?

Looking for a great way to help your teens spread their artistic wings and really fly? The Junior Duck Stamp is a national art contest administered by the Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program. The first place national winner of the art contest graces that year's JDS and is sold by the U.S. Postal Service and Amplex Corporation for $5!

So what do you do? Students from around the United States submit drawings to their state, territory or district competition. Winners from these competitions, called the "Best of Show," are then submitted to the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Design Contest. One image from the 53 Best of Show entries will become the next Junior Duck Stamp.

K-12 students attending public, private, or home schools in the United States and the U.S. Territories are eligible to enter, as long as they are U.S. Citizens, resident aliens, or nationals. U.S. Citizens attending schools abroad may enter through their legal state of residence.

The contest ends March 15, 2011. So grab your pens, pencils, acrylics, paints and crayons and get to work!

For more general information and contest eligibility go to http://www.fws.gov/juniorduck/ArtContest.htm#GeneralInformation.

Write Your Own Movie: Teen Screenwriting Program

Everyone has a movie within them. Now it's time to set yours free. Screenwriter extraordinaire Andria Tieman will show teens how to get that feature film out of your head, onto paper and into the hands of movie producers.

The group will meet for 5 Thursday night sessions: January 13^th, January 20^th, February 3^rd, February 17^th and March 3^rd. Each workshop will begin at 6pm and run 90 minutes. Participants must be between the ages of 12-18 years old.

The program is FREE! Light refreshments will be provided.

For more info or to reserve a space email ChristinaWolfskehl@yahoo.com or call (401) 846-1573.