Provincetown Public Library Blog

A view of Long Point Lighthouse from behind the Red Inn - 1951

COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK FICTION A SPARK OF LIGHT by Jodi Picoult VINCE FLYNN: RED WAR by Kyle Mills ALASKAN HOLIDAY by Debbie Macomber CRAZY RICH ASIANS by Kevin Kwan WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK NONFICTION...

October 12, 2018 Photo by Sandra Delzotti Fall Driving A Poem by Mark S. Peel In the Fall I get nervous driving. When the first leaves hit the ground and skip across the road with each random gust of wind, I become distracted with troubling anticipation. I see the...

A 19th century postcard of the Carver Street entrance of Gifford House

COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK FICTION VINCE FLYNN: RED WAR by Kyle Mills AN ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE THING by Hank Green TRANSCRIPTION by Kate Atkinson CRAZY RICH ASIANS by Kevin Kwan LETHAL WHITE by Robert Galbraith COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK NONFICTION...

Colored Penny Postcard entitled, "Fishermen Preparing for the Trip, Cape Cod. Mass" depicting a group of fishermen working with trawl lines in tubs outside of their shed on the...

COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK FICTION LETHAL WHITE by Robert Galbraith TIME'S CONVERT by Deborah Harkness ORIGIN by Dan Brown JUROR #3 by James Patterson and Nancy Allen CRAZY RICH ASIANS by Kevin Kwan COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK NONFICTION FEAR by Bob...

Postcard image of an old well on Court Street, 1905.

COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK FICTION JUROR #3 by James Patterson and Nancy Allen SHADOW TYRANTS by Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison CRAZY RICH ASIANS by Kevin Kwan THE FORBIDDEN DOOR by Dean Koontz LEVERAGE IN DEATH by J.D. Robb COMBINED PRINT &...

September 21, 2018 Photo by Barbara Klipper Celebrations 2018 A Poem by Hilde Oleson I tell you every year how lucky we are To live in this place of raw beauty. How we are the fortunate ones who are close to nature, Walk near, or even in the water. Sometimes we feel...

U.S. navy airship guarding the coast during World War II, taken from John R. Smith's house in...

COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK FICTION LEVERAGE IN DEATH by J.D. Robb CRAZY RICH ASIANS by Kevin Kwan IN HIS FATHER'S FOOTSTEPS by Danielle Steel DARK SENTINEL by Christine Feehan DEPTH OF WINTER by Craig Johnson COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK NONFICTION...

September 14, 2018 Photo by Stephen Borkowski A Line-storm Song A Poem by Robert Frost The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away. The roadside flowers, too wet...

A postcard showing the parking area at base of railroad wharf. Provincetown Board of Trade to the...

COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK FICTION CRAZY RICH ASIANS by Kevin Kwan MAGIC TRIUMPHS by Ilona Andrews CHINA RICH GIRLFRIEND by Kevin Kwan SHARP OBJECTS by Gillian Flynn TEXAS RANGER by James Patterson and Andrew Bourelle COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK...

September 7, 2018 Photo by Sandra Delzotti Up the Hill A Poem by Melanie Black We climbed rabbit paths to the tiny amphitheatre surrounded by little marble gods -- Pan, Daphne, Bacchus, and Diane posed with blind eyes. The wind brought scents of pine And sea air....

A postcard showing the E.B. Knowles property bungalows at Beach Point.

COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK FICTION CRAZY RICH ASIANS by Kevin Kwan PIECES OF HER by Karin Slaughter TEXAS RANGER by James Patterson and Andrew Bourelle CHINA RICH GIRLFRIEND by Kevin Kwan RICH PEOPLE PROBLEMS by Kevin Kwan COMBINED PRINT &...

August 31, 2018 Photo by Ken Boyar What to Read A Poem by Mark S. Peel Each time I finish a read I think of the selections that beckon. What next, where to go to meet my next best friend. A young man has all the time in the world before him to consume and enjoy what...

A 1915 postcard of Provincetown's Red Inn in the West End.

COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK FICTION CRAZY RICH ASIANS by Kevin Kwan TEXAS RANGER by James Patterson and Andrew Bourelle ORIGIN by Dan Brown SHARP OBJECTS by Gillian Flynn FEARED by Lisa Scottoline COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK NONFICTION UNHINGED by...

August 24, 2018 Photo by Susan Peskin August A Poem by Helen Hunt Jackson Silence again. The glorious symphony Hath need of pause and interval of peace. Some subtle signal bids all sweet sounds cease, Save hum of insects’ aimless industry. Pathetic summer seeks by...

Center Methodist Episcopal Church - later Provincetown Heritage Museum - and currently our very own Provincetown Public...

August 17, 2018 Photo by Sue Clark Blue A Poem by Hilde Oleson As far as the eye can see all is blue. The sky above, the sea below Stretching from right to left. The land where we are sitting just a perch From which we can see the true blue Of our world. Against the...

A photograph of unidentified people staging a play at Town Hall, Provincetown.