Of Zoe Sharp’s heroine Charlie Fox, Lee Child said “If Jack Reacher were a woman, he’d be Charlie Fox.” Action thriller author Sharp and historical espionage thriller author Lawton are currently on a short tour of the United... Read More
Come to the Summer Reading Program opening celebration! Join us any time between 3:00 and 6:00 p.m. to pick up your reading log, learn about this year’s theme, Build a Better World, experience the work of David Macaulay,... Read More
Local author and journalist Stephen Kinzer talks about his new book, The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire. We are pleased to co-sponsor this event with the Friends of the Truro Meeting House.... Read More
Come to this popular program at which children may practice their reading skills by reading stories out loud to some gentle dogs from the Companion Animal Program of Cape Cod.
An afternoon of poetry and music, hosted by Barry Hellman. Featured Poet: Martha Rhodes Spotlight Poets: Susan Berlin and Wilderness Sarchild Music: Fred Boyle Presented by the Friends of the Truro Library and Barry Hellman’s Cape Cod Poetry... Read More
Sam Kafrissen will read from his latest novel, The Missing Films: A Doherty Mystery. PI Doherty is back—but his closest friend is missing. Hired by the man’s business partner and generously paid to find him, Doherty finds himself... Read More
Get your Summer Reading on with crafts, games, and giveaways! Pick up your Libraries Rock! reading log and grab some books and summer reading lists.
Join us for a reading and book signing with author James Carroll! From National Book Award-winning writer James Carroll comes a novel of the timeless love story of Peter Abelard and Héloïse, and its impact on a modern... Read More
Come to this popular program at which children may practice their reading skills by reading stories out loud to some gentle dogs from the Companion Animal Program of Cape Cod.
Poetry: Sue Burton Sue D. Burton reads from her unflinching new collection, BOX. Winner of the 2017 Two Sylvias Press Poetry Prize, Box is “a book we need: brave, bold, inventive, magical” (Carol Potter). 2017 Two Sylvias Press Poetry... Read More
Poetry: Four Local Poets Keith Althaus, Mary Ann Larkin, Toby Olson, and Patric Pepper, will treat us to a late-summer reading their work. The poets will draw from recent books, older books, and works in progress. Keith Althaus’... Read More
Come to this popular program at which children may practice their reading skills by reading stories out loud to some gentle dogs from the Companion Animal Program of Cape Cod.
Tells the story of daughter and father and the trials and tribulations of their relationship. You’ll go on adventures from the Bronx botanical garden, through the ins and outs of a pastrami sandwich—winding full circle in the miasma... Read More
Christopher Isherwood, avowed queer author and devotee of Vedanta, best known for his character Sally Bowles, reflects on his life as an outsider--in his native England, in Berlin between the wars, and in postwar America. About John Dennis... Read More
Come to this popular program at which children may practice their reading skills by reading stories out loud to some gentle dogs from the Companion Animal Program of Cape Cod. All are welcome!
Join Ryan Racette and his puppets for a program filled with his own original stories, a bit of puppet play, and some music and movement with lots and laughs and giggles.
A one-woman play (with voices) Joan leaves her tenure-track position on the West Coast to follow her husband to New York. When she takes her rambunctious four-year-old to a playground in Central Park, she stumbles into a surreal... Read More
Award-winning author Corinne Demas will read from her newest novel The Road Towards Home.
VISIONS OF BEATITUDE takes us to the closed-for-the-night Atlantic House in Provincetown, Massachusetts at 4 a.m. as the ghosts of Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill have been summoned by St. Genesius, the patron saint of theatre to meet... Read More
Every year Rex throws a party for his closest friends in the South End townhouse he has lived for 40 years. The annual party marks a special anniversary, but this year there is something important he has to... Read More
A writer and her life-long best friend meet at a Provincetown Airbnb to discuss an emergency plan they made years ago… but which plan is it? The plan to live together for the rest of their lives? Or... Read More
Both living near Paris in the 1930s, the expatriate American novelists Edith Wharton and Louis Bromfield shared a passion for gardening even more than for writing and travel. Despite being 34 years apart in age and of conflicting... Read More
A follow up from last year. Five ten-minute plays from Garrison’s acclaimed anthology of the same name. Comic, comic-dramas and dramas. Gary was the Executive Director of the Dramatist Guild of America from 2007-2016. Prior to his work... Read More
Marlene Dietrich is quoted as saying, “It’s the friends you can call at 4 a.m. that matter.” We all have those friends: the ones who understand you when you tell them your heart’s desires, who gently break your... Read More
Cold War Written by Fermin Rojas Augie, a Cuban-American playwright who grew up in the 1960’s, and his husband are about to embark on a summer reunion with their longtime friends in the Catskills to celebrate Augie’s commission... Read More
