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
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store begins and ends with the same incident, the discovery of a human skeleton down an old well, leaving the author free to gradually fill in the blanks as he sees fit. James McBride certainly doesn’t disappoint, and while the story neatly falls into place, I found myself laughing, crying, […]
Gearing up for busy month of fall fun
On Tuesdays, we will continue to have Story Time at the Bachelder Library at 10 AM. On Wednesdays, we continue to have Story Time, followed by a craft, at the Andover Public Library at 10 AM. We also have rotating after-school activities every Thursday at the Andover Public Library, such as, Take and Make Crafts, […]
Call the Canaries Home, Laura Barrow The Bitter Past, Bruce Borgos The Librarianist, Patrick deWitt The Woman in the Castello, Kelsey James The Air Raid Book Club, Annie Lyons The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride The Housemaid’s Secret, Frieda McFadden The Secret Life of Sunflowers, Marta Molnar Mrs. Planskky’s Revenge, Spencer Quinn The […]
Library survey solicits resident input
September tends to be a time we settle back into routines after the busy summer months, and we would love it if you would make a habit of visiting our libraries! This month, the Andover Public Library will be hosting a variety of events for all ages. First, we will be expanding our weekly Story […]
Fiction Hello Stranger, Katherine Center Canary Girls, Jennifer Chiaverini The Little Village of Book Lovers, Nina George The Invisible Hour, Alice Hoffman None of This is True, Lisa Jewell Tides of Fire, James Rollins The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, Brandon Sanderson Red Hands, Colin W. Sargent Dead Fall, Brad Thor Fourth Wing, […]
Since I’ve been telling everyone I know to read Abraham Verghese’s new novel, The Covenant of Water, even though it’s over 600 pages long, it might be time to talk it up even more. Like his earlier book, Cutting for Stone, it’s a literary masterpiece, well worth the time and effort to study India, specifically […]