Adult Fiction Blue Moon, Lee Child Bomber’s Moon, Archer Mayor Contraband, Stuart Woods The Life She Wants, Robyn Carr Red at the Bone, Jacqueline Woodson The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates The World That We Knew, Alice Hoffman Adult Nonfiction Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War’s Most Audacious Espionage Operation, Steve Vogel […]
Highland Lake Grange Hall, Friday, October 18
Concord-based indie-folk singer-songwriter-guitarist Steven Chagnon, billed as “involved in music since the age of two or three” (he’s now 29), will headline the October 18 “Third Friday” concert at the Andover Community Coffeehouse, where he’ll be joined by up to a dozen local “open mic’ performers. Music by the featured performer begins at 7 PM […]
Wednesday, October 31
The next meeting is on Wednesday, October 23, at 7 pm at the Bachelder Library “on the corner” of Route 11 and Chase Hill Road in East Andover. Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, “The Overstory” by Richard Powers, is about trees and people’s relationships with them. What’s that old English teacher question: […]
Here’s a super scary ghost story just right for Halloween: “Small Spaces” by Katherine Arden. After a field trip to a supposedly haunted house called Smoke Hollow, 11 year old Ollie’s bus breaks down, and her teacher returns to the house to get help. The bus driver quickly turns to face the kids, advising them […]
Adult Fiction The New Girl, Daniel Silva Window on the Bay, Debbie Macomber The Sum of All Shadows, Eric Van Lustbader Chances Are… , Richard Russo The Inn, James Patterson and Candice Fox Outfox, Sandra Brown The Oysterville Sewing Circle, Susan Wiggs The Hollywood Daughter, Kate Alcott Lady in the Lake, Laura Lippman The Cold […]
Adult Fiction Ask Again, Yes, Mary Beth Keane A Better Man, Louise Penny Bloody Genius, John Sandford The Capital, Robert Menasse The Fountains of Silence, Ruta Sepetys The Institute, Stephen King Liar, Liar, Lisa Jackson Old Bones, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child The Secrets We Kept, Lara Prescott The Testaments: Sequel to the Handmaid’s Tale, […]
Friday, October 4
We want to invite you to the Proctor Academy campus on October 4 from 5:00 to 7:30 PM for an opening reception at the Lovejoy Library as we display renowned artist Liam O’Gallagher’s work, This Was The Future, and sound artist Spencer Topel describes his work, Time Lines, Sound Art Installation. If you have questions, […]
Saturday, October 12 & Sunday, October 13
Local artists Edibeth Farrington and Jay Fitzpatrick will host a joint Open Studio featuring their work on Columbus Day weekend, October 12 and 13, in Andover. Studio hours will be 10 to 3 PM both days at Ms. Farrington’s studio, 443 Elbow Pond Road. The event is part of the Lake Sunapee/Kearsarge Region Center for […]
In conjunction with area libraries
The Literary Arts Guild, a branch of the Center for the Arts (CFA), in conjunction with the Newbury Library; the Richards Free Library, Newport; and the Pillsbury Free Library, Warner, presents an inspirational and informative Fall Literary Series. Having begun on September 19 with poet, Wesley McNair, the series continues with Maura MacNeil on Sunday, […]
Wednesday, September 25 & Thursday, September 26
Summer Music Associates is a non-profit organization in New London that sponsors and promotes five concerts each summer. SMA is now pursuing ways to sponsor programs that will musically impact the school-aged population. Project Trio, a passionate, high-energy chamber music ensemble comprised of three virtuosic composer/performers from Brooklyn, New York, will spend two days in […]