Fiction The Unwedding, Ally Condie Flashpoint, Catherine Coulter The Midnight Feast, Lucy Foley Flashback, Iris Johansen A Refiner’s Fire, Donna Leon Wandering Stars, Tommy Orange The Honey Witch, Sydney J. Shields The Book of Maps, Ernest Thompson The Comfort of Ghosts, Jacqueline Winspear Nonfiction Languishing, Corey Keyes Young Adult Fiction Four Eids and a Funeral, […]
Fiction The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel, Margaret Atwood Think Twice, Harlen Coben Finlay Donovan is Killing It, Elle Cosimano Hopeless, Colleen Hoover Our Little Secret, Lisa Jackson Breaking the Dark, Lisa Jewell Nonfiction The Demon of Unrest, Erik Larson Disability Visibility, Alice Wong Young Adult Fiction and Nonfiction Dungeons and Drama, Kristy Boyce Twelfth […]
Monies donated at mini golf pay for Mess Fest
On July 11, the Andover Public Library hosted Mess Fest, an evening of messy, outdoor play for kids. We had shaving cream, Oobleck, mud, giant painting, bubbles, chalk, and water available, and children were allowed to make as much of a mess as they wanted. It was every kid’s dream! Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and […]
Summer fun continues
Summer fun continues at our Andover Libraries throughout the month of August, with a variety of programs for all ages and interests. Thursday, August 1, at 10 AM, at the Andover Public Library (APL): Squid Dissection with the UNH Marine Docents. Come learn about squids and participate in a squid dissection with marine docents from […]
Many hands make light work
Andover – The newly formed Friends of the Andover Libraries (FOALs) group would like to thank the volunteers who offered their assistance in many ways, resulting in a very successful Library Book Sale, held on July 3 and 4. We appreciated their time and effort to sort and box up books, to transport approximately 300 […]
Andover – It may seem like I’ve been too focused on war, given last month’s column, but with the news of the world so grim in places, my head is sometimes full of it! It just seemed natural then to finally open up Kristin Hannah’s latest and immerse myself in the Vietnam Conflict and the […]
Summers at the Saint, Mary Kay Andrews The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley Camino Ghosts, John Grisham Not In Love, Ali Hazelwood Things I Wanted to Say, Monica Murphy Home is Where the Bodies Are, Jeneva Rose Dreadful, Caitlin Rozakis Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea, Rebecca Thorne
Andover has two libraries and lots of materials
Andover is home to two libraries, the Andover Public Library and the William A. Bachelder Library, where everyone from Andover is entitled to a library card. But did you know that your library card allows you to access much more than just the materials in our town’s collection? Using your smartphone or tablet, you can […]
Yes, there are summers when all one wants is light fiction and maybe a compelling memoir or two. On the other hand, when you’ve finished with the garden and clean-up and the evening meal, how about delving into a real tome, a masterpiece of history, either nonfiction or an accurate fictional rendering of world events? […]