Egads, it’s summer, just like that! Rather than tell you about one or two books that I’ve enjoyed, I’m going to pass on selections from three sources. The New York Times Book Review Summer Reading issue; Bookshop, an online resource that supports independent bookstores; and Bas Bleu, an online catalogue that just featured the picture […]
Adult Fiction Split Second, David Baldacci Tiny Tales, Alexander McCall Smith The Lady has a Past, Amanda Quick The Orphan’s Guilt, Archer Mayor An American Marriage, Tayari Jones Sooley, John Grisham A Gambling Man, David Baldacci The Final Twist, Jeffery Deaver Whereabouts, Jhumpa Lahiri Reunion Beach, Dorothea Benton Frank Saboteurs, Clive Cussler The House We […]
The Andover Library will host a book sale every other Saturday morning from 9 AM to noon in front of the Town Hall on Main Street. We start on Saturday, June 19; the next date will be July 3, then July 19, and we’ll carry on through the summer. Come one, come all, as we […]
Adult Fiction Ariadne, Jennifer Saint The Book of Lost Names, Kristin Harmel The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams A Gambling Man, David Baldacci The Heart Remembers, Jan-Philipp Sendker The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave Local Woman Missing, Mary Kubica The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba, Chanel Cleeton The Plot, Jean Hanff Korlitz […]
Adult Fiction Eternal, Lisa Scottoline The Good Sister, Sally Hepworth The Music of Bees, Eileen Garvin Not Dark Yet, Peter Robinson Ocean Prey, John Sandford The Postscript Murders, Elly Griffiths The Red Book, James Patterson Shadows in Death, JD Robb The Stranger Diaries, Elly Griffiths The Sweet Taste of Muscadines, Pamela Terry Vera, Carol Edgarian […]
Adult Fiction When the Stars Go Dark, Paula McLain Immigrant, Montana, Amitava Kumar The Midnight Library, Matt Haig A Town Called Solace, Mary Lawson Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi The Cowboy Way, Elmer Kelton Turn a Blind Eye, Jeffrey Archer Ocean Prey, John Sandford Adult Nonfiction All You Can Ever Know, Nicole Chung Young Adult Asylum Novellas, […]
Drat, I have two confessions to make, and each involves not reading a book. In the first case, I gave up quickly since it was too scary; in the second case, I stubbornly refused a book that everyone else said was such a wonderful read. Old English teachers are like that sometimes, thinking they know […]
Concert includes "Open Mic" performers
Georgia-based singer/songwriter and troubadour Adam Klein is the featured performer for the Andover Community Coffeehouse, coming up on Friday, June 18, at 7 PM via Zoom. His music touches on Americana, rustic country folk, folk-rock, and West African Mande music. Reviews of his new album, Low Flyin’ Planes, mention “a full medicinal dose of rock […]
Adult Fiction The Consequences of Fear, Jacqueline Winspear Faithless in Death, J.D. Robb The Hangman, Louise Penny Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro Not Dark Yet, Peter Robinson The Postscript Murders, Elly Griffiths The Rose Code, Kate Quinn The Stranger Diaries, Elly Griffiths The Sweet Taste of Muscadines, Pamela Terry The Venice Sketchbook, Rhys Bowen […]