ANDOVER — The holiday season approaches with its attending celebrations: December solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Diwali, and other traditions around the world. I’ve tried in this column to be broad-minded and include many kinds of literature and attendant cultures (oops, I may have failed at poetry); however, I’m going to simply focus on two books […]
ANDOVER — Many thanks to Jeff Dickinson and his niece, Sophie Sedgley, who have made the Andover Library much easier to locate. Check out these beautiful signs!
Fiction Identity Unknown, Patricia Cornwell Shutter, Ramona Emerson Twisted Love, Ana Huang Ask For Andrea, Noelle W. Ihli What Does It Feel Like? Sophie Kinsella I Was Anastasia, Ariel Lawhon The Grey Wolf, Louise Penny The Last One at the Wedding, Jason Rekulak Intermezzo, Sally Rooney A Lethal Lesson, Iona Whishaw A Match Made For […]
Fiction In Cold Blood, Jane Bettany In Too Deep, Lee Child The Waiting, Michael Connelly The Wedding People, Alison Espach Fixit, Joe Ide Apprentice to the Villain, Hannah Nicole Maehrer Raised by Wolves, James Patterson Playground, Richard Powers Nonfiction On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service, Anthony Fauci, M.D. The Singularity is Nearer, Ray […]
Hygge, book club, winter formal, and more!
Thursday, December 5th: Holiday Hygge Night at the Andover Public Library, from 7 to 9 PM. Come relax before the holiday season at our after-hours Hygge Night! We’ll have low lighting, relaxing music, crafts, snacks, and more to help you de-stress. This event is free and open to all. Wednesday, December 11th: Bachelder Book Club […]
As we approach 2025, book reviewers have begun publishing their “best of the quarter century” lists, an effort that spawns versions of what to read this year — right now before it disappears from the lists! Worry not, readers, for bookstores and libraries far and wide stock everything new and then just move titles along […]
Fiction Society of Lies, Lauren Ling Brown Identity Unknown, Patricia Cornwell The Night We Lost Him, Laura Dave The Life Impossible, Matt Haig A Haunting on the Hill, Elizabeth Hand Smoke, Joe Ide Pauper Auction, Mary Kronenwetter The Boyfriend, Freida McFadden Counting Miracles, Nicholas Sparks Tell Me Everything, Elizabeth Strout Nonfiction Atlas Obscura: Wild Life, […]
