While summer, autumn, and winter seem to fill up with major holidays, spring allows us a chance to celebrate the histories and output of two of the most important groups of people in this country. I’ll sneak in February here, too, since a proper Venn diagram would most likely depict a mixture of this big […]
Mini art show, Legos, career, Book Club
There will be so many fun things to do at our Andover Libraries this month! At the Andover Public Library: Saturday, April 1, from 10 AM to noon: Mini Art Show Grand Opening Come support your local artists by attending our Mini Art Show’s Grand Opening! Stroll around the library to discover all the tiny […]
A book three months overdue is considered "lost"
When is a Library not a Library? Here is a riddle for you. When is a library not a library? Answer: when people don’t bring books back. Libraries can only work if books circulate. When we switched from our old software to the new circulation and cataloging software, we received lists of all the overdue […]
Adult Fiction The Boys From Biloxi, John Grisham Carrie Soto is Back, Taylor Jenkins Reid Killers of a Certain Age, Deanna Raybourn The Marlow Murder Club, Robert Thorogood Murder in Fulbridge Village, Jay Gill No Plan B: A Jack Reacher Novel, Lee Child Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt The Road, Cormac McCarthy The Silence […]
Mini Art Show, Paint Night, and more
March is full of fun activities at the Andover Libraries! At the Andover Public Library, which is located by the town offices, we will have a lot of special events this month. We need artists for our Mini Art Show! Starting March 1, pick up a mini canvas at the library, take it home and […]
Fiction The Push, Ashley Audrain Switchboard Soldiers, Jennifer Chiaverini Text for You, Sofie Cramer The Twyford Code, Janice Hallet Exiles, Jane Harper Unnatural History, Jonathan Kellerman The House at the End of the World, Dean Koontz Just the Nicest Couple, Mary Kubica Red, White, & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston Someone Else’s Shoes, JoJo Moyes Daisy […]
How can it possibly be March? It snowed, it thawed, it snowed lots more and then froze solid. Here we are with south sides snow-free, while north-facing yards and roofs are white as can be. The first two months of 2023 were lost in some excellent books, and I’m here to share them with you. […]
First one is on Saturday, February 4
Programs are back at the Andover Public Library! We will be hosting two special programs for kids in February. The first will be held on Saturday, February 4, which is National Take Your Child to the Library Day. Come into the library and participate in centers that will be fun for kids of all ages […]
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow always does creep in after all of our todays, but there’s little sense in trying to paraphrase Shakespeare … unless it’s to mention a book title all on its own. And what a book this is: non-video gamers, here’s your chance to really and truly understand the games and the […]
Michaela and Lee are happily adapting to our new circulation software as we slowly but surely grow more comfortable with it and discover some of the hiccups that are inevitable with a huge amount of data transfer. We continue to ask for your patience with us and with the new system. What will be most […]