Bestselling author Nancy Thayer will discuss her latest book, Summer Love, on Tuesday, June 14 at 7PM via Zoom.

About The Book: Old secrets come to light when four friends gather on Nantucket for a life-changing reunion in this heartwarming novel of love and self-discovery by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer. Summer is in full swing on sunny Nantucket, and four old friends decide to hold a reunion on the island, where they’d made fond memories nearly three decades earlier. Yet as the crew gathers for one eventful week in July, it becomes clear that old secrets, jealousies, and betrayals will be revealed. And all the while, their twentysomething children will embark on exciting new adventures all their own. Nancy Thayer shines yet again with another sunswept tale of summer love and self-discovery.

About The Author: Nancy Thayer is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including Summer Love, Family Reunion, Girls of Summer, Let It Snow, Surfside Sisters, A Nantucket Wedding, Secrets in Summer, The Island House, The Guest Cottage, An Island Christmas, Nantucket Sisters, and Island Girls. Born in Kansas, Nancy has been a resident of Nantucket for thirty-five years, where she currently lives with her husband, Charley, and a precocious rescue cat named Callie. Learn more about Nancy HERE.

Register directly on Zoom HERE. This virtual event is a collaboration between several libraries.

Registered Dietician Nutritionist Jill Patterson RD leads this fun and informative program on Wednesday, June 8 at 7PM via Zoom on how making simple tweaks in your foods lead to big results! Good nutrition can positively impact our immune system, health, well-being, productivity, performance, energy, mood, weight management, and prevent certain chronic diseases.

Register on Zoom HERE. This virtual program is a collaboration between the libraries of Georgetown, Newburyport, and Rockport. This is the last event in the series.

Join us for a very special event on Thursday, May 26 at 7PM via Zoom with prize-winning poet, novelist and educator Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, in conversation with Professor Sandra Lim, Ph.D., prize-winning poet, and professor of English at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell.

A brief reading will be followed by a conversation between our esteemed guests. Questions for the author can be submitted in advance to jfitzhanso@chelmsfordlibrary.org to be forwarded to Professor Lim.

Register directly on Zoom HERE. Presented by Chelmsford in partnership with the public libraries in Andover, Boxford, Carlisle, Danvers, Dracut, Georgetown, Groton, Groveland, Holden, Lowell, Methuen, Newburyport, South Hamilton, Tewksbury, and West Newbury.

Registered Dietician Nutritionist Jill Patterson RD leads this fun and informative program on Wednesday, May 25 at 7PM via Zoom where we will learn a total approach to improve our heart health. There are many benefits of adopting a heart healthy lifestyle including increased energy, decreased stress, improved cholesterol and blood pressure levels, and decreased risk of heart disease. Learning the science-based strategies and implementing a few simple tweaks to our lifestyle can lead to big results, so sign up today!  

Register on Zoom HERE. This virtual program is a collaboration between the libraries of Georgetown, Newburyport, and Rockport. This is the second event in a three part series. The next (and last) event in this series is June 8th: Eat This, Not That.

Award-winning author Erica Ferencik (Girl In Ice) and bestselling author Sy Montgomery (The Hawk’s Way) discuss their latest new books on Wednesday, May 18 at 7PM via Zoom.

About The Books: In Girl In Ice, an American linguist is tasked to go to a remote climate science research center off the coast of Greenland where a young girl has thawed from the ice alive speaking a language no one understands. In The Hawk’s Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty, Montgomery — a vegetarian animal-lover — takes up falconry to get close to the wild hearts of these magnificent birds of prey.

About The Authors: There is nowhere on earth Erica Ferencik won’t go to take you out of your head and into the great wild world. An award-winning novelist, Ferencik writes adventure novels featuring women who brave not only internal struggles but face extreme challenges in their environment: remote forests, steaming jungles, and desolated icescapes. To research The River at Night, Into the Jungle, and her latest, Girl In Ice, Ferencik ventured deep into the remote forests of the Allagash Territory in Northern Maine, rafted the Amazon River in the jungles of Peru, and explored the desolate iceberg-packed fjords of Greenland. To research her 33 books, Sy Montgomery has been chased by an angry silverback gorilla in Zaire, swum with octopuses, electric eels and piranhas, and worked in a pit crawling with 18,000 snakes in Manitoba. She is a four-time national bestseller, perhaps best known for her The Soul of an Octopus, a finalist for the National Book Award.

Register directly on Zoom HERE. This virtual event is a collaboration between several libraries.

Join Nicole McGurin from the Alzheimer’s Association on Tuesday, May 10 at 1PM to learn about the research in the areas of diet and nutrition, exercise, cognitive activity and social engagement, and use hands-on tools to help you incorporate these recommendations into a plan for health aging.

Register HERE. This virtual Alzheimer’s Association program is being hosted by several libraries across Massachusetts.