ADULT FICTION Long Range, C.J. Box Blindside, James Patterson & James O. Born Hunger Winter, Rob Currie The Boy from the Woods, Harlan Coben ADULT NONFICTION Untamed, Glennon Doyle A Woman of No Importance, Sonia Purnell Fierce Free and Full of Fire, Jen Hatmaker The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage…, Meredith May Get […]
Science and the State Library will determine timing
Of course libraries like to consider themselves essential services, but we also want to be sure that everyone is safe. The librarians in us would like to get books in the hands of people as soon as possible, but the “I stand with science” part of us knows that New Hampshire has not met the […]
Delia Owens’ first novel was published in 2018, after she’d already written three non-fiction accounts of her life as a wildlife scientist in Africa and won the John Burroughs Award for Nature Writing. “Where the Crawdads Sing” remains on the bestseller list and for good reason; the woman can write! This book is a beautiful […]
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 […]