On Monday, September 25, the Andover Libraries recognized two young patrons who completed the challenge of reading 1,000 books before kindergarten. Oliver Perkins, son of Tiffany and Andrew Perkins, and Eila Ware, daughter of Lesley and Thomas Ware, each received a 1,000 Books Crown, a certificate, and a special prize book. Friends and family who […]
Adult Fiction The Prospectors, Ariel Djanikian The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell, Robert Dugoni The Armor of Light, Ken Follett The Last Lifeboat, Hazel Gaynor The Bear, Andrew Krivak North Woods, Daniel Mason The Housemaid, Freida McFadden The Last Devil to Die, Richard Osman A Council of Dolls, Mona Susan Power Flee North, Scott Shane […]
Through the Reading Glasses, in which the writer recounts stories of humor and joy and silliness and determination she found in books swept off the tables of the town libraries, one in Andover, the other further along the road in East Andover… Swim Team, by Johnnie Christmas, is a graphic novel about one Black family’s […]
Story Time continues at the W. A. Bachelder Library
November Events All Andover Libraries events are free and open to all. To know an event’s location, look at the acronyms: APL stands for Andover Public Library and WABL stands for William Bachelder Library. November 2: Visit the Library Table at AEMS’s Literacy Night to enter to win a Family Fun Night gift basket November […]
Attendees played Candy Land, Jenga, Checkers, and more
Have you ever played Giant Jenga? Connect Four? Uno? Or even Candy Land? Attendees of the Andover Public Library’s Giant Game Night, held on October 4th and 5th, were given a chance to do just that. Children and adults alike traveled through the Peppermint Forest, Licorice Lagoon, and Frosted Palace to get to King Kandy’s […]
Fiction Bright Lights, Big Christmas, Mary Kay Andrews What You Are Looking For Is In The Library, Michiko Aoyama Tom Clancy: Weapons Grade, Don Bentley Playing the Witch Card, KJ Dell’Antonia This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone The Running Grave, Robert Galbraith The Last Ranger, Peter Heller This […]
Adult Fiction An American Beauty: A Novel of the Gilded Age, Shana Abe Masters of Death, Olivie Blake All the Sinners Bleed, S. A. Cosby Meet Me at the Lake, Carley Fortune The Lioness of Boston, Emily Franklin The Vaster Wilds, Lauren Groff The Sweetness of Forgetting, Kristin Harmel The Great Reclamation, Rachel Heng Yours […]
Fiction Nineteen Steps, Millie Bobby Brown Learned By Heart, Emma Donoghue Code Red, Vince Flynn (Kyle Mills) Holly, Stephen King The River We Remember, William Kent Krueger The Coworker, Freida McFadden Payback In Death, J.D. Robb The Breakaway, Jennifer Weiner Nonfiction The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder, David Grann Slavery & the […]
Purchased books are on display at the Library
