Provincetown Public Library Blog
Billboard Hot 100: October 16, 2017
Each week, Billboard publishes the Hot 100: The week’s most popular current songs across all genres, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and streaming activity data from online music...
New York Times Best Sellers Booklist: October 16, 2017
COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK FICTION ORIGIN by Dan Brown THE SUN AND HER FLOWERS by Rupi Kaur SLEEPING BEAUTIES by by Stephen King and Owen King IT by Stephen King THE CUBAN AFFAIR by Nelson DeMille COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK NONFICTION KILLING ENGLAND by Bill...
Provincetown Photo and a Poem: October 13, 2017
October 13, 2017 Photo by Stephen Borkowski Summer of Seventeen A Poem by Mark S. Peel When the weather turns cool from warm, the spring from young to old, when the years accumulate maturity upon the experience of wanderlust, the choice of prom or baseball poses no...
Provincetown History in Photos: October 11, 2017
Black and white postcard, circa 1915, showing a boy in a boat tied up to a wharf on the Provincetown waterfront working with a man on fishnets. In the backround is a view, some beached small boats, of houses and some parked cars on Commercial Street. The wharf, known...
Billboard Hot 100: October 9, 2017
Each week, Billboard publishes the Hot 100: The week’s most popular current songs across all genres, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and streaming activity data from online music...
New York Times Best Sellers Booklist: October 9, 2017
COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK FICTION SLEEPING BEAUTIES by Stephen King and Owen King DON'T LET GO by Harlan Coben IT by Stephen King A COLUMN OF FIRE by Ken Follett THE CUBAN AFFAIR by Nelson DeMille COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK NONFICTION KILLING ENGLAND by Bill...
Provincetown Photo and a Poem: October 6, 2017
October 6, 2017 Photo by Clayton Nottleman Flower A New Poem by Hilde Oleson So tenderly, so frail It pokes through the ground Looking wounded, looking frightened. A tiny seed still on its tip, slender stalk holding it Wavering as if to ask "Where am I?" I hear its...
Provincetown History in Photos: October 4, 2017
Photo of Commercial Street showing the front of the Lobster Pot and street, looking...
Billboard Hot 100: October 2, 2017
Each week, Billboard publishes the Hot 100: The week’s most popular current songs across all genres, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and streaming activity data from online music...
New York Times Best Sellers Booklist: October 2, 2017
COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK FICTION THE CUBAN AFFAIR by Nelson DeMille IT by Stephen King HAUNTED by James Patterson and James O. Born A COLUMN OF FIRE by Ken Follett TO BE WHERE YOU ARE by Jan Karon COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK NONFICTION WHAT HAPPENED by Hillary...
Provincetown Photo and a Poem: September 29, 2017
September 29, 2017 Photo by Rowan Wielblad How high a wall? A New Poem by Hilde Oleson How high a wall must we build to keep out pain? How far must we go to avoid misery When the world is full of drones That can carry drugs and messages Of love and hate over all the...
Provincetown History in Photos: September 27, 2017
Black and white photograph of a whale being stripped at J. Cook's Oil Factory located on Long Point....
New York Times Best Sellers Booklist: September 25, 2017
COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK FICTION A COLUMN OF FIRE by Ken Follett IT by Stephen King THE GIRL WHO TAKES AN EYE FOR AN EYE by David Lagercrantz ENIGMA by Catherine Coulter THE ROMANOV RANSOM by Clive Cussler and Robin Burcell COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK NONFICTION...
Billboard Hot 100: September 25, 2017
Each week, Billboard publishes the Hot 100: The week’s most popular current songs across all genres, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and streaming activity data from online music...
Provincetown Photo and a Poem: September 22, 2017
September 22, 2017 Photo by Stephen Borkowski Buyer Beware A Poem by John Tehan regret is a commodity best left untouched on the dusty shelve of the old Five and Dime in the mind the ancient shopkeeper there (who has run the place forever) with his stern visage and...
Provincetown History in Photos: September 20, 2017
Shipwreck on back shore. U.S. Coast Guard Station in the far background. Black and White photo from the Moffett...
New York Times Best Sellers Booklist: September 18, 2017
COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK FICTION SECRETS IN DEATH by J.D. Robb ENEMY OF THE STATE by Kyle Mills A LEGACY OF SPIES by John le Carré IT by Stephen King DARK LEGACY by Christine Feehan COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK NONFICTION THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeannette Walls...
Billboard Hot 100: September 18, 2017
Each week, Billboard publishes the Hot 100: The week’s most popular current songs across all genres, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and streaming activity data from online music...
Provincetown Photo and a Poem: September 15, 2017
September 15, 2017 Photo by Brittany Taylor Go gentle, wind. A New Poem by Hilde Oleson Do you know the fear a gull fears as it plummets down From the sky, the closing of eyes as it hits the water? Do you know that last wild gasp as a fish joins its family Swallowed...
Provincetown History in Photos: September 13, 2017
Black and White photo of Sklaroff Wharf on fire. The fishing vessel Liberty is shown tied to the...
Billboard Hot 100: September 11, 2017
Each week, Billboard publishes the Hot 100: The week’s most popular current songs across all genres, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and streaming activity data from online music...
New York Times Best Sellers Booklist: September 11, 2017
COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK FICTION GLASS HOUSES by Louise Penny THE RIGHT TIME by Danielle Steel SHATTERED by Helen Hardt Y IS FOR YESTERDAY by Sue Grafton THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 by Ruth Ware COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK NONFICTION THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeannette Walls...
Provincetown Photo and a Poem: September 8, 2017
September 8, 2017 Photo by Corinne Diana After the Viewing A Poem by Jan Kelly in honor of Betty Villari At sunset, A lone mourning dove On the wires Between two telephone poles. Only one? Not the usual grouping. It was Betty Villari Giving me one last look Before...
Provincetown History in Photos: September 6, 2017
Cutting ice on Shankpainter...
New York Times Best Sellers Booklist: September 4, 2017
COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK FICTION Y IS FOR YESTERDAY by Sue Grafton SEEING RED by Sandra Brown THE STORE by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo THE WHISTLER by John Grisham BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK NONFICTION THE GLASS CASTLE...
Billboard Hot 100: September 4, 2017
Each week, Billboard publishes the Hot 100: The week’s most popular current songs across all genres, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and streaming activity data from online music...
Provincetown Photo and a Poem: September 1, 2017
September 1, 2017 Photo by Paul Murphy Remnant A Poem by John Tehan my little house where I hope to live out my years this time around was previously owned by a cantankerous and belligerent man he lived here his final thirty-odd years with his simmering anger and his...
Provincetown History in Photos: August 30, 2017
A hull of a barge in the West End of Provincetown Harbor near the Red Inn around...
New York Times Best Sellers Booklist: August 28, 2017
COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK FICTION SEEING RED by Sandra Brown THE STORE by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo I KNOW A SECRET by Tess Gerritsen THE LATE SHOW by Michael Connelly THE WHISTLER by John Grisham COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK NONFICTION THE GLASS CASTLE by...
Billboard Hot 100: August 28, 2017
Each week, Billboard publishes the Hot 100: The week’s most popular current songs across all genres, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and streaming activity data from online music...