Book Club, walking, remote offerings, and more
Happy New Year! We wish everyone a healthy, happy, and successful 2022! We have been working on compiling lists of the “Best Books of 2021.” Both libraries have compiled a list of the 10 most frequently checked out books from our libraries. What is especially fascinating about these lists is that there is no overlap […]
Adult Fiction Better Off Dead: A Jack Reacher Novel, Lee Child Forgiving Paris, Karen Kingsbury The Judge’s List, John Grisham The Magician, Colm Toibin The Major’s Daughter, JP Francis Never, Ken Follett Oh William!, Elizabeth Strout The Sentence, Louise Erdrich Silverview, John le Carre State of Terror, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny The Stranger […]
Adult Fiction Death in Focus, Anne Perry An Amish Schoolroom, Amy Clipston One on One, Michael Brandman The Judge’s List, John Grisham Oh William!, Elizabeth Strout Over My Dead Body, Jeffrey Archer Down the Hatch, MC Beaton Better Off Dead, Lee Child Wild Card, Stuart Woods Forgiving Paris, Karen Kingsbury Kaleidoscope, Brian Selznick We Are […]
Oh, what a gift for the onset of winter and the holidays! Just as I was wondering what would appear, along came eight tiny reindeer! Well, not exactly, it was my older daughter with an almost brand new copy of Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land. For those of you unfamiliar with Doerr’s previous novel, All […]
Venues in Warner and Contoocook
Warner Historical Society and Kearsarge Area Chamber of Commerce are hosting an arts event and shopping tour at several venues in Warner and Contoocook during the first weekend in November. Galleries in both villages will be open, and artists will be in residence at businesses to discuss or demonstrate how they create their art. Works […]
Sunapee Kearsarge Intercommunity Theatre
The stage is set, actors ready, and lights up at Warner Town Hall, where live performances once again provide entertainment for the greater Sunapee-Kearsarge region community. The Sunapee Kearsarge Intercommunity Theatre (SKIT), partnering with Center for the Arts (CFA), will be performing “Turning Toward the Sun,” a book and play written by Ceil Warren of […]
Adult Fiction Bewilderment, Richard Powers Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr The Inheritance, Charles Finch The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles The Love Songs of WEB Dubois, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers The Man Who Died Twice, Richard Osman Marked Man, Archer Mayor A Slow Fire Burning, Paula Hawkins The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman West With Giraffes, Lynda […]
ADULT FICTION A Darker Reality, Anne Perry Enemy at the Gates, Kyle Mills The Last Chance Library, Freya Sampson The Madness of Crowds, Louise Penny The Captive Kingdom, Jennifer A. Nielson The Wish, Nicholas Sparks Hidden in Plain Sight, Jeffrey Archer A Slow Fire Burning, Paula Hawkins Foul Play, Stuart Woods Apples Never Fall, Liane […]
Walter Isaacson’s new book, “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race,” is one of those perfect pieces of nonfiction. Of course it starts at the beginning, both with Doudna’s early life in Hawai’i, and with the initial discoveries of the science of evolution and genes, almost 200 years […]
Book club meets at Bachelder Library
Book Club: On Wednesday, November 17, the book club will meet at 7 PM at the Bachelder Library to discuss Martin Walker’s Bruno, Chief of Police, which is the first title in a series of murder mysteries involving Benoit Courreges, aka Bruno. These wonderfully escapist stories involve Bruno, a policeman in a small town in […]