Program presented by Mass Audubon on February 8
Join Bill Gette of the Massachusetts Audubon Society on February 8, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., when he will be at Beebe Library to talk about attracting and feeding Backyard Birds.
Using color photographs, Bill Gette, of Mass Audubon’s Joppa Flats Sanctuary in Newburyport, will discuss the species of birds typically seen at local feeding stations and in back yard sanctuaries. He will discuss aids to field identification, ranges, food preference, and other exciting facts about these amazing animals that not only survive, but prosper, in our severe New England winters.
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Discussion of Community Supported Agriculture on February 29
On Wednesday, February 29 at 6:30 p.m., Claire Kozower, Executive Director of Waltham Fields Community Farm, will present a program on the concept of Community Supported Agriculture. CSA refers to a model of farming in which farmers sell harvest shares (vegetables, flowers, meat, etc.) directly to people in the local community.
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Library’s ebook collection expanding rapidly
Need help downloading free library ebooks to your new Nook, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPad or other device?
Beebe Library will be holding small informal overview sessions in January on downloading library ebooks to various devices using the library’s Overdrive service. If you’d like to attend a session, sign up at the Reference Desk or phone 781-246-6334, x2 to sign up and get more information.
Helpful guides on downloading ebooks via the library’s Overdrive service are available on Beebe Library’s web site. Handouts are also available at the Reference Desk.

Looking for titles for the new ebook reader you received during the holidays? Beebe Library has a growing collection of ebooks to checkout online for free.
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Supper Sleuths, a mystery discussion group, meets every second Tuesday evening at 6:00pm to discuss mysteries of every genre and type. Feel free to bring your own snack or brown bag lunch with you to the meeting.

Vote for your Classic Mystery Author on our website by 2/14/12.

The next Supper Sleuths Discussion takes place February 14, 2012 at 6:00pm to 7:30pm in the Lecture Hall where the group will discuss any mystery.

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The next gathering of Beebe Library’s book discussion group, Books By the Lake, is on February 15, 2012. The discussion of Chris Cleave’s Little Bee begins at 7:30pm in the Lecture Hall.

Bring in your suggestions for the April ballot to this meeting.

While reading, please consider: What happens to the characters that carry their stories with them, both physically and mentally? What happens when we try to forget our past? How much control over their own stories do the characters in the book seem to have?

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Need Holiday Gift suggestions? Wrap Up Books!
Beebe librarians have created lists of suggestions for gift ideas for every reader (young and old) and for every taste. Continue »

**Highly Recommended by readers

Black, Cara. Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis Aimee LeDuc series; bk.7

Block, Lawrence. A Drop of the Hard Stuff. Matthew Scudder series; bk.17
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