Do you have a particular directional orientation? Mine has always been north, and as soon as I can locate the North Star and the Big Dipper, I know I can settle into place. It helps that the houses I’ve inhabited as an adult were built on a north-south axis and that my body adapts better […]
March 5 performance on Zoom at 7 PM
The Center for The Arts March First Friday will feature the Kearsarge Conservatory of the Performing Arts (KCPA) performing through Zoom on March 5 at 7 PM. Experience the amazing talent of the KCPA Performance Company, Art in Motion, as they perform Passion Prevails Pandemic followed by a question-and-answer session. You can get the Zoom […]
Adult Fiction Before She Disappeared, Lisa Gardner The Book of Lost Names, Kristin Harmel The Four Winds, Kristin Hannah Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell Homeland Elegies, Aya Akhtar How Much of These Hills is Gold, C. Pam Zhang How to Raise an Elephant: No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith The Liar’s Dictionary, Eley Williams The […]
Andover Library New Acquisitions February 2021 Adult Fiction The Wife Upstairs, Rachel Hawkins Hush-Hush, Stuart Woods The Exiles, Christina Baker Kline Kill the Indian, Johnny D. Boggs Pianos and Flowers, Alexander McCall Smith Before She Disappeared, Lisa Gardner The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue The Russian, James Patterson and James O. Born The Star […]
Provides 15 copies of book club selection
One of the services of our libraries is supporting book clubs by getting multiple copies of a single title to distribute to the members of the book club. A few years ago this involved searching the State Library database and then calling or e-mailing libraries in order to borrow enough copies. Over a year ago, […]
Bachelder Library New Acquisitions January 2021 ADULT FICTION The Archer, Paulo Coelho A Children’s Bible: A Novel, Lydia Millet The Curse of the Pharaohs, Elizabeth Peters Dance Away with Me, Susan Elizabeth Phillips Deacon King Kong, James McBride Deadly Cross, James Patterson Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu The Cold Millions, Jess Walter The Darkest Evening, Ann […]
“Miss Benson’s Beetle” is the intriguing title of an extraordinary new book, one in which I was engrossed over much of the holiday. Perhaps it’s because my youngest lives on Australia’s East Coast, almost a straight line away from the novel’s setting in 1950 New Caledonia, which I urge you to seek out in an […]
Andover Library New Acquisitions January 2021 ADULT FICTION The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Patrick Rothfuss Fortune and Glory, Janet Evanovich A Time for Mercy, John Grisham Credible Threat, J.A. Jance The Noel Letters, Richard Paul Evans The Law of Innocence, Michael Connolly Elsewhere, Dean Koontz The Searcher, Tana French The Titanic Secret, Clive Cussler […]
WABL walking group continues their walks
Please remember that libraries in general and books in particular can be a source of comfort and entertainment, a mode of travel, a way to explore new ideas, learn new things, and they can even push us out of our comfort zones from time to time! Whether you like to curl up in a comfy […]
The Andover and Bachelder Libraries offer congratulations to the winners of their Holiday Raffle: Olivia Bentzler, Harper Cotnoir, Barbara Freeman, Jill Gilman, Alan Greenwood, Paige Makechnie, Betty Manahan, Susan Norris, and Joan Ponti. A special thank you goes to our local businesses and local author who donated prizes so generously. These include: Repeat Boutique, Belletetes, […]