Exeter Public Library, Exeter RI

10/30/2026

The library is closing at 4:00 PM today, Friday 10/30/2026, due to a power outage.

10/29/2026

Hello all!
The Exeter Food Bank & Exeter Scout Troop 45 could use your help! Scouting for Food is coming and Troop 45 does the hard work of collecting donations in Exeter, sorting and delivering them to the Exeter Food Bank.
We are looking for volunteers both Saturday 10/31 & Saturday 11/7 as many hands make light work.
On 10/31 Scouts & Volunteers distribute those familiar yellow door tags you get asking for donations. With the recent Eagle Scouts aging out of the program, we could use some help with this. The Scouts have routes that are assigned so we are sure to get back to the same areas to pick up donations the following week.
On 11/7 Scouts & Volunteers will travel the same routes as the week before collecting donations from each home. Food Bank Volunteers will sort and store the food for use right here in our community.
If you, your family, organization, students, neighbor…. Are free to help with any part of this, please reach out with your email address to [email protected], I will connect you with the Scoutmaster so we can coordinate. I can provide documentation for any student needing community service hours.
Thank you for your continued support!

10/29/2026

“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.” ― Jean Cocteau, poet

Today is National Cat Day! Show some love to your feline friend.

Every year on October 29th we celebrate here at Chewy. Learn more about this holiday and find a few fun ways for celebrating your favorite kitty this year.

10/28/2026

10/27/2026

Just a quick reminder that we have our Frightfully Fabulous afternoon today, October 27, from 3-5pm. Stop by to get a Halloween manicure, glitter tattoos or to carve a pumpkin! Costumes encouraged!

10/23/2026

Tuesday, October 27, 2-5pm.

Join us for a frightfully fun afternoon of Halloween crafts! Here’s a peek at what we have planned:

Halloween Nail Salon
Get into the Halloween spirit with spooky, fabulous nail art!

Glitter Tattoos
Choose from fun designs like skeletons, witch hats, black cats, and moons.

Pumpkin Decorating
Pick out a pumpkin and make it your own! We’ll have carving tools, stencils, paints, stickers, and googly eyes, so you can carve a jack-o-lantern or create a colorful, mess-free design to take home.

Costumes are encouraged. Come dressed in your favorite costume, or bring a costume to work on for Halloween Day!

Registration not required. There is no sign-up for this drop-in event. We hope to see you.

10/21/2026

There is still room in our CraftConnect class next Thursday, October 29. We will be making Junk Journals using recycled books, stickers, paper, washi tape, etc. This class is for adults.

https://tockify.com/exeterpubliclibrary/detail/292/1793304000000

10/17/2026

Applications are now available for our annual Youth Craft Fair on Saturday, December 5, from 11am-2pm. For more information and an application, please see our website:

https://www.exeterri.gov/library/page/youth-craft-fair

10/16/2026

You still have time to read this month’s Overbooked pick, A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore!

Our adult book club meets on the last Tuesday of the month (October 27) at 6 p.m. We always welcome new members to our friendly, informal book club!

Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who's always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male.
But Charlie's been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. He's married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child.
Yes, Charlie's doing okay for a Beta. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. Just as Charlie -- exhausted from the birth -- turns to go home, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at Rachel's hospital bedside, a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird. . . .
People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It's a dirty job. But hey, somebody's gotta do it.

10/14/2026

Beloved children's character Winnie The Pooh celebrates his 100th birthday today!

Winnie-the-Pooh, one of the most influential and universally beloved children's books of the 20th century, was published 100 years ago, on October 14, 1926.

Born out of the bedtime stories that English author A.A. (Alan Alexander) Milne invented for his son Christopher Robin Milne—and featuring characters modeled in part on Christopher’s stuffed toys—Winnie-the-Pooh enchanted audiences with its simple but thought-provoking tales, set mostly within the fictional Hundred Acre Wood. Readers were equally taken with illustrator E.H. Shepard’s charming, innovative line drawings, which provided dynamic, whimsical representations of the characters’ many follies and foibles.

https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/winnie-the-pooh-100