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Upcoming Events

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Feb

Teen Kitchen Creations: Melting Snowman Cookies

4:00pm - 4:45pm

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Teens, Middle School (grades 5-8), High School (grades 9-12)

Feb

Video Stories for Babies up to age 5

11:00am - 11:30am

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Youth, Children (ages 0-5)

Feb

First Friday Book Discussion

11:00am - 12:00pm

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Adults

Feb

Take your Child to the Library Day

12:00am - 12:00am

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Youth, Children (ages 0-5), School Aged (grades k-4)

Feb

Science Saturday with Cool-ology for grades K-4

10:00am - 11:00am

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Youth, School Aged (grades k-4)

Feb

Intermediate Classical Latin

11:00am - 12:00pm

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High School (grades 9-12), Adults

Feb

Poetry Cafe

11:00am - 12:00pm

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Adults

Feb

Preschool Stories for ages 3-5

10:00am - 10:30am

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Youth, Children (ages 0-5)

Feb

Homeschool Meetup

2:00pm - 3:00pm

At the library

Youth, School Aged (grades k-4)

Feb

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Featured eResources

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Libby

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Thousands of best-selling and classic ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines. Download the Libby App or read online at libbyapp.com.

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The Palace Project

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Offers thousands of eBook and audiobooks from the CT State Library, the Digital Public Library of America, plus everything from the Libby app, available in multiple languages.

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Hoopla

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Download and stream ebooks, audiobooks, comics, movies, TV series and music to your computers, television and mobile devices.

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Hoopla

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Download and stream ebooks, audiobooks, comics, movies, TV series and music to your computers, television and mobile devices.

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Independent, classic, international films, series and documentaries, plus the Criterion Collection, the Great Courses and PBS. Create an account at Kanopy, using your Blackstone Library card. Available...

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New Haven Register

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You will find full-text articles on local news, issues, events, people and much more from current and archived issues from 1988. Updated daily, it includes obituaries, editorials,...

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researchIT CT – Newspapers

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Anyone with a Connecticut library card can access a wide array of newspapers, including the New York Times, Hartford Courant, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times...

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Libby

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Thousands of best-selling and classic ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines. Download the Libby App or read online at libbyapp.com.

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Current News & Happenings

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Plant Propagation Station

The Blackstone Library is excited to present our Plant Propagation Station—open to everyone in the community! Visit our plant propagation station in the Circulation Lobby. You do not need a library card to take a free cutting home. What is plant propagation? Plant propagations...

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