LIBRARY HOURS

Monday: 10am – 8pm
Tuesday: 10am – 8pm
Wednesday: 10am – 8pm
Thursday: 10am – 8pm
Friday: 10am – 5pm
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: 1pm – 5pm

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Featured Museum:
Peabody Essex Museum

The Peabody Essex Museum grew out of the collection of East India Marine Society, an organization of Salem captains whose charter called for acquisition of “natural and artificial curiosities.” Its permanent collection contains art and artifacts of Africa, Asia, India, China, Japan, Korea, Pacific Islands, and features objects of maritime art and history.

Pass Benefits:

This printed e-pass allows for a reduced admission for up to 2 people at $12 per person.

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"The world is at the tip of your tongue."
Pronunciator is a fun and free way to learn any of 315 languages with personalized courses, movies, chat, and more. Your library card grants you access to this resource anytime, anywhere.
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Children's Book Bundles Are Back!
The Flint Public Library is excited to announce the return of Children's Book Bundles!

Would you like a librarian to pick out 5 (or 10) books tailored to your child's interests?

Fill out an online request form (linked below), or a paper form (available at the Children's Circulation Desk), or email SZubiel@flintpublib.org to let us know your kiddo’s age and what types of materials you’d like to see in your bundle.

Patrons will be notified when book bundles are available for pickup. Please allow up to 2 business days for book bundles to be assembled.
Book bundle availability may be limited during school vacation weeks.

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Outreach Book Delivery Service

Flint Public Library offers delivery service of library materials for patrons living in Middleton who are not able to leave their homes to visit the library without assistance. Materials can either be requested by the patron or chosen for the patron by a library staff member. For more information, please contact Aniela Anderson, by emailing aanderson@flintpublib.org or by calling the library at 978-774-8132.

Local History Resources
The Flint Public Library of Middleton, MA, offers a variety of resources on the town’s history. While some of these resources are available only for use within the library, others are available to be borrowed, and still others are digital resources that are always available from devices with an Internet connection. Click here for a snapshot of what’s available to you.
Online Resources
Information at your fingertips! Your library card allows you access to more than 30 databases, including Ancestry (genealogy), Pronunciator (lanuguage learning), Valueline (investment information), The New York Times (1985-Present), and The Boston Globe (1980-Present). Click here to see all of the databases on offer.
1000 Books Before Kindergarten

Children ages 0-5 are invited to join our 1000 Books Before Kindergarten Program! Research shows that sharing books with children builds vocabulary, increases reading readiness, and encourages empathy & bonding. Our goal is to help you achieve these benefits through a program that offers prizes for achieving reading goals.

This program is self-paced, and the only deadline is to complete 1000 books before your child’s first day of kindergarten.

Sign up by emailing Miss Stacey at szubiel@flintpublib.org, or call 978-774-8132 and speak to a children’s staff member. Please include your child’s full name & age. Once registered, pick up your program packet in the Children’s Room.

If you signed up in the past and need new reading logs to continue the program, please contact us via the information above.

Teen Volunteer Program
Are you a local teen that wants to make your voice heard at the Flint? Do you want to make the library a better place for teens while earning community service hours in the meantime? If so, we want your help! Self-motivated and responsible teens ages 13-18 may apply to volunteer at the Flint and our Teen Services Librarian, Felicia Gminski, will reach out with any suitable upcoming volunteer opportunities. Click here for the application.
Lucky Day

No holds. No renewals. No waiting.

Lucky Day is a special collection of the latest popular and bestselling titles that often have miles-long hold lists. Come by the library to see if the book you want to read right now is sitting on our Lucky Day shelf. If it is, well, you know what that means: It’s your lucky day!

Items in this collection go out for only 7 days and cannot be renewed. Two items per cardholder.

Suggest a Title
If there is a particular book or film you’d like to see in the library’s collection, suggest it. A librarian will review all suggested titles and make a decision on its inclusion. Click here to let us know what title(s) you’re interested in.

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Check Out One of Our Staff Recommendations

Loving Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination―the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. Emily Van Duyne―a superfan and scholar―radically reimagines the last years of Plath’s life, confronts her suicide and the construction of her legacy. Drawing from decades of study on Plath and her husband, Ted Hughes, the chief architect of Plath’s mythology; the life and tragic suicide of Assia Wevill, Hughes’s mistress; newly available archival materials; and a deep understanding of intimate partner violence, Van Duyne seeks to undo the silencing of Sylvia Plath and resuscitate her as the hardworking, brilliant writer she was.

 

We Solve Murders

A brand new mystery. An iconic new detective duo. And a thrilling new murder to solve . . .

Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He still does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him at home. His days of adventure are over. Adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s job now.

Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. Working in private security, every day is dangerous. She’s currently on a remote island protecting mega-bestselling author Rosie D’Antonio, until a dead body and a bag of money mean trouble in paradise. So she sends an SOS to the only person she trusts . . .

As a thrilling race around the world begins, can Amy and Steve outrun and outsmart a killer?

I Cheerfully Refuse

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, crumbled infrastructure and a lawless society. Amidst the Gulliver-like challenges of life at sea and no safe landings, Rainy is lifted by physical beauty, surprising humor, generous strangers, and an unexpected companion in a young girl who comes aboard. And as his innate guileless nature begins to make an inadvertent rebel of him, Rainy’s private quest for the love of his life grows into something wider and wilder, sweeping up friends and foes alike in his strengthening wake.

A Flicker in the Dark

When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath.

Now twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. While she finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she’s worked so hard to achieve, she sometimes feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. So when a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is she paranoid, seeing parallels from her past that aren’t actually there, or for the second time in her life, is Chloe about to unmask a killer?