Join the fun from the comfort of your home
The Lake Sunapee Center for the Arts (CFA) is announcing that the following Programs have moved online. Please make a note of these times and join from the comfort of your home. May 1 at 7 PM and May 2 at 4 PM First Friday Gallery Night Online will be streamed online at the Center […]
Kala Farnham will perform from her home in Connecticut
As the Beacon went to press, Andover Community Coffeehouse volunteers were completing arrangements to offer a public “virtual coffeehouse” as its May 15 “Third Friday” concert, beginning in your home, in front of your computer, at 7 PM. Powered by a technology called Zoom, and using the “people skills” learned in a trial “virtual coffeehouse” […]
Bachelder Library New Acquisitions April 2020 ADULT FICTION Apeirogon, Colum McCann The Boy from the Woods, Harlan Coben The Country Guesthouse, Robyn Carr A Divided Loyalty, Charles Todd The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel In Five Years, Rebecca Serle The Last Passenger, Charles Finch Many Rivers to Cross, Peter Robinson The Mirror & the […]
Every year in New Hampshire, students nominate and vote for the perfect book for middle and high schoolers. Yes, there’s a little vetting by librarians, but it’s really just to narrow the lists. The Isinglass and Flume awards, respectively, are announced each spring to much fanfare from readers all over the state. While Lee and […]
Feedback indicates it was a success
With live audiences discouraged because of the coronavirus outbreak, Andover Community Coffeehouse volunteers are experimenting with a new technology to bring local musicians to your computer screen as they perform live from their own homes (or other locations of their choosing). The technology being used is a video conferencing service called Zoom, and it […]
The State Library has digital resources available
Greetings, What a difference a couple of weeks make! Last month we decided to try to get the Andover Libraries’ monthly newsletter into the Beacon, which meant that the newsletter needed to be completed two weeks ahead of press time. In the intervening two weeks the world has been turned upside down by COVID-19, and […]
Homescapes publishes on May 22
Lee Woodman went to New London High School, and her family used to have a home on Ragged Mountain in Andover. Her father, Everett Woodman, was president of Colby-Sawyer College (then Colby Junior College) in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Lee’s new book, Homescapes, traces her experience of growing up in India, moving to New Hampshire […]
Adult Fiction The Country Guesthouse, by Robyn Carr Dear Edward, by Ann Napolitano The Long Petal of the Sea, by Isabel Allende Oona Out of Order, by Magarita Montimore Treason, by Stuart Woods Victim 2117, by Jussi Adler-Olsen We Must Be Brave, by Frances Liardet Adult Nonfiction Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, […]
ADULT FICTION Sleep No More, P.D. James Varina, Charles Frazier The Ambassador’s Daughter, Pam Jenoff Golden in Death, J.D. Robb Westering Women, Sandra Dallas The Institute, Stephen King A Good Day For a Massacre; A Hill of Beans, William W. Johnstone Unsolved, James Patterson and David Ellis The Missing Piece; Second Sight, Sharon Sala Wolf […]
As a former English major and educator, I’ve always had an affinity for and an ease with literature – as my kids would say, “Well, duh…” Yes well, for whatever reason, the older I get, the more I like to read non-fiction and tackle the subjects that used to stymie me in school. Science and […]