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Your Health Matters Book Club

Tuesday, October 17 at 12 PM. Your Health Matters Book Club. Louis T. Graves Memorial  Public Library and the Kennebunkport Public Health Department invite you to participate in a lunchtime book discussion of The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life’s Final Moments, by Hadley Vlahos R.N. Copies of the book are available at the Library. Not able to read the book before this date? You may still join the discussion. Feel free to bring your lunch. The Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library is located at 18 Maine Street, Kennebunkport. For further information, please call 967-2778 or visit our website at www.graveslibrary.org.

For further information, please call 967-2778 or visit our website at www.graveslibrary.org.

Your Health Matters Book Club

Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library and the Kennebunkport Public Health Department invite you to participate in a lunchtime book discussion on Prescription for Admission, by Monique Nugent on Tuesday, November 14 at 12 PM. Copies of the book are available at the Library. Not able to read the book before this date? You may still join the discussion. Feel free to bring your lunch. The Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library is located at 18 Maine Street, Kennebunkport.

For further information, please call 967-2778 or visit our website at www.graveslibrary.org.

Please join us, Alison Kenneway and Kim Noble, RNs from the Kennebunkport Public Health Department on Tuesday, April 18 @ 12:00 pm in the Community Room to identify ways to improve healthy choices and overall well-being.  Bring your lunch and talk with us about “food swaps.”

Copies of this book will be available at the Library. Not able to read the book before the discussion? Come anyway and enjoy lunch and conversation with us!

Please join us, Alison Kenneway and Kim Noble, RNs from the Kennebunkport Public Health Department on Wednesday, January 18th at 9:45 am to identify ways to improve healthy choices and overall well-being.  For the month of January, we will be reading To Love and Be Loved, A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa by Jim Towey. Copies will be available at the Library. Not able to read the book before the discussion? Please feel free to join us and learn more about this month’s book pick.  Help set the course for a healthy and safer you!

Please join us, Alison Kenneway and Kim Noble, RNs from the Kennebunkport Public Health Department on Wednesday, November 16 @ 9:30 am to identify ways to improve healthy choices and overall well-being.  For the month of November, we will be reading Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff : Declutter, downsize, and move forward with your life by Mike Paxton and Jordan Michael Smith. Copies will be available at the Library. Not able to read the book before the discussion? Please feel free to join us and learn more about this month’s book pick.  Help set the course for a healthy and safer you!

Please join us, Alison Kenneway and Kim Noble, RNs from the Kennebunkport Public Health Department on Tuesday, February 21 at 12:00 pm to participate in a book discussion on My Glory Was I Had Such Friends, by Amy Silverstein.

We will discuss this memoir about the power of friendship and the resilience of the human spirit.  Ms. Silverstein tells the story of nine wonderful women who came together and never left her side, providing what medicine alone could not, as she waited on the precipice for a live-saving heart transplant

Copies of the book are available here at the Library. Not able to read the book before this date? You may still join the discussion.  Bring your lunch and your friends!

Please join us, Alison Kenneway and Kim Noble, RNs from the Kennebunkport Public Health Department on Wednesday, August 17 @ 9:30 am (or via Zoom if you cannot make it in) to identify ways to improve healthy choices and overall well-being.  For the month of July, Finding Freedom by Erin French will be discussed.   Please call the Library to get on the list (967-2778).  Not able to read the book before the discussion, please feel free to join us and learn more about this month’s book pick.  Help set the course for a healthy and safer you!

From Erin French, owner and chef of the critically acclaimed The Lost Kitchen, a TIME world dining destination, a life-affirming memoir about survival, renewal, and finding a community to lift her up

Long before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination with every seating filled the day the reservation book opens each spring, Erin French was a girl roaming barefoot on a 25-acre farm, a teenager falling in love with food while working the line at her dad’s diner and a young woman finding her calling as a professional chef at her tiny restaurant tucked into a 19th century mill. This singular memoir–a classic American story–invites readers to Erin’s corner of her beloved Maine to share the real person behind the “girl from Freedom” fairytale, and the not-so-picture-perfect struggles that have taken every ounce of her strength to overcome, and that make Erin’s life triumphant.

In Finding Freedom, Erin opens up to the challenges, stumbles, and victories that have led her to the exact place she was ever meant to be, telling stories of multiple rock-bottoms, of darkness and anxiety, of survival as a jobless single mother, of pills that promised release but delivered addiction, of a man who seemed to offer salvation but in the end ripped away her very sense of self. And of the beautiful son who was her guiding light as she slowly rebuilt her personal and culinary life around the solace she found in food–as a source of comfort, a sense of place, as a way of bringing goodness into the world. Erin’s experiences with deep loss and abiding hope, told with both honesty and humor, will resonate with women everywhere who are determined to find their voices, create community, grow stronger and discover their best-selves despite seemingly impossible odds. Set against the backdrop of rural Maine and its lushly intense, bountiful seasons, Erin reveals the passion and courage needed to invent oneself anew, and the poignant, timeless connections between food and generosity, renewal and freedom. [Good Reads]

Please join us, Alison Kenneway and Kim Noble, RNs from the Kennebunkport Public Health Department on Wednesday, July 20 @ 9:30 am (or via Zoom if you cannot make it in) to identify ways to improve healthy choices and overall well-being.  For the month of July, Funny Farm by Laurie Zaleski will be discussed.   Please call the Library to get on the list (967-2778).  Not able to read the book before the discussion, please feel free to join us and learn more about this month’s book pick.  Help set the course for a healthy and safer you!

 An inspiring and moving memoir of the author’s turbulent life with 600 rescue animals.

Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie’s dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. She was planning to relocate Annie and her caravan of ragtag rescues–horses and goats, dogs and cats, chickens and pigs–when Annie died, just two weeks before moving day. In her heartbreak, Laurie resolved to make her mother’s dream her own. In 2001, she established the Funny Farm Animal Rescue outside Mays Landing, New Jersey. Today, she carries on Annie’s mission to save abused and neglected animals.

Funny Farm is Laurie’s story: of promises kept, dreams fulfilled, and animals lost and found. It’s the story of Annie McNulty, who fled a nightmarish marriage with few skills, no money and no resources, dragging three kids behind her, and accumulating hundreds of cast-off animals on the way. And lastly, it’s the story of the brave, incredible, and adorable animals that were rescued.[Good Reads]