October is Banned Book Week; check out display
The month of September ended sadly for the Andover Libraries. Gene Poulin, Priscilla’s husband of 55 years, died peacefully on September 23. Those of us fortunate enough to know him will miss his kindness and his signature smile and wave. Thanks are due to Pat Goodwin and especially to Michaela Hoover, Gene and Priscilla’s granddaughter, […]
Adult Fiction All Good People Here, Ashley Flowers The Case for Jamie, Brittany Cavallaro Fall Guy, Archer Mayor Fox Creek, William Kent Kruger It’s a Wonderful Woof, Spencer Quinn It Starts With Us, Colleen Hoover Maybe Now, Colleen Hoover Maybe Someday, Colleen Hoover Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng The Rising Tide, Anne Cleeves Tender is […]
Adult Fiction The Molly Murphy Mysteries #11-14, Rhys Bowen Tom Clancy: Enemy Contact, Mike Maden An Ivy Hill Christmas, Julie Klassen Left to Die Series #1-4, Lisa Jackson Vince Flynn: Oath of Loyalty, Kyle Mills Lucy By the Sea, Elizabeth Strout Desperation in Death, JD Robb Fox Creek, William Kent Krueger The Winners, Fredrik Backman […]
Once upon a long time ago, there lived a boy named Harry Potter. Well, not exactly. How about: once upon a time there lived two penguins, Silo and Roy, in the Central Park Zoo. That’s better, because at least they’re real, the penguins are, and they helped raise a penguin chick named Tango. But Harry […]
Last month I mentioned three books I was hoping to read in August; so far I’ve only managed to complete two. “The Luminaries” will no doubt keep me occupied this fall. Annie Proulx’s “Barkskins” ticked many genre sub-category boxes, including historical fiction, environmental science, indigenous people’s history, and economic policy. From 1693 to the present, […]
Adult Fiction Bark to the Future, Spencer Quinn Bruno’s Challenge and Other Stories of the French Countryside, Martin Walker Every Summer After, Carley Fortune Horse, Geraldine Brooks Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting, Clare Pooley The Locked Room, Elly Griffiths November 9, Colleen Hoover Rizzoli and Isles: Listen to Me, Tess Gerritsen Sparring Partners, John Grisham […]
Adult Fiction The Big Dark Sky, Dean Koontz Hour of the Witch, Chris Bohjalian Overkill, Sandra Brown Sparring Partners, John Grisham Rising Tiger, Brad Thor Heretics of Dune, Frank Herbert Chapterhouse Dune, Frank Herbert The Man Who Died Twice, Richard Osman All Your Perfects, Colleen Hoover It Ends With Us, Colleen Hoover It All Comes […]
Available for public to borrow for week-long loans
“The best thing that we’re put here for’s to see; The strongest thing that’s given us to see with’s a telescope. Someone in every town seems to me owes it to the town to keep one. In Littleton it may as well be me.” -Robert Frost, from “The Star-Splitter,” from the collection New Hampshire, 1923 […]
October 26 at 7 PM; in person or Zoom
The October Book Club selection is Xochitl Gonzales’s debut novel, Olga Dies Dreaming. From BookOfTheMonth.com: It is 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro “Prieto” Acevedo are well known in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular Congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn, and Olga is the wedding planner for Manhattan’s […]