Events Calendar / August 21, 2025

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McAuliffe Book Discussion (Morning): The Briar Club by Kate Quinn

The McAuliffe Branch hosts two book discussion groups to discuss various fiction and nonfiction, as well as contemporary and classic literature. You can join us anytime to discuss one particular book or become a regular.

The Briar Club by Kate Quinn

  • "Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss, whose facade of perfect wife and mother covers gaping inner wounds; policeman’s daughter Nora, who finds herself entangled with a shadowy gangster; frustrated baseball star Beatrice, whose career has come to an end along with the women’s baseball league of WWII; and poisonous, gung-ho Arlene, who has thrown herself into McCarthy’s Red Scare.

    Grace’s weekly attic-room dinner parties and window-brewed sun tea become a healing balm on all their lives, but she hides a terrible secret of her own. When a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the Briar Club women must decide once and for all: who is the true enemy in their midst?

    Capturing the paranoia of the McCarthy era and evoking the changing roles for women in postwar America, The Briar Club is an intimate and thrilling novel of secrets and loyalty put to the test.

    A beautiful, foil cover, first edition.'

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Summer Eats (Free Lunch Program)

Summer Eats is a program that provides FREE meals to kids 18 years and under!
Main Library:
Mondays & Wednesday & Fridays 12-1pm
McAuliffe Branch:
Tuesdays & Thursdays 12-1pm

Summer Eats es un programa que provee comida GRATIS a todos los niños de 18 años y menores.
Biblioteca Principal:
Lunes, Miércoles y Viernes de 12 a 13 h.
Biblioteca McAuliffe:
Martes y Jueves de 12 a 13 h.

O Summer Eats é um programa que oferece refeições GRATUITAS para todas as crianças e adolescentes de até 18 anos.
Biblioteca Principal:
Segundas, Quartas e Sextas, das 12h às 13h
Biblioteca McAuliffe:
Terças e Quintas Das 12h ÀS 13h

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Bookworms and Popcorn

Love to read? Love popcorn? Come hang out with other kids who do too! Share your book suggestions or ask for recommendations. No assigned books, just great ideas and great snacks! Grades 2-5

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Alphabet Soup: Queer Teen Hangout

A twice monthly meeting for LGBTQIA+ and allied teens to hang out and do crafts. On the first Thursday, we’ll be at the Main Library, and on the third Thursday, we’ll meet at the McAuliffe Branch.

Grades 6-12

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Summer Board Game Workshop

This is a weekly program that will run every Thursday from July 10th to August 28th. We will learn basic Game Design principles and then apply those to create our own PLAYABLE board games! Registration is required, supplies and space are limited.

For Registered Participants only, Registration Closed.

Ages 10+

 

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Framingham Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.