Children Enjoy Pizza and Spelling Their Names
July Events at your Andover Libraries
Our libraries will be full of Summer fun this month! Wednesday, July 3, 5 to 7 PM: Book Sale Pre-Sale and Mini Golf Grand Opening Come support your libraries by purchasing books at our book sale in Proctor Academy’s Stone Chapel (on the Town Green) or join us for a round of Miniature Golf at […]
Children Watch the Andover Library Ramp Construction
Andover Libraries Host Many June Events for Summer Fun
June marks the beginning of Summer Reading at your Andover Libraries! This year, our theme is Adventure Begins in Andover, and we’ll be highlighting all the wonderful things to do in our town. We’ll also be continuing many of our beloved programs, such as our book clubs and story times. “Read What You Want” Silent […]
Our Andover Libraries: MoreThanJust Books!
Many programs are available due to local support
Where can you rock out to Taylor Swift songs, view an art show, participate in a Cinco de Mayo themed book exchange, play imaginative games from Bluey, and join a book club all in the same month? At our Andover Libraries, of course! At the end of April, the Andover Public Library (APL) hosted a […]
William A. Bachelder Library Acquisitions — June
James, Percival Everett Until August, Gabriel Garcia Marquez Wellness, Nathan Hill The Boy in the Field, Margot Livesey Every Time I Go On Vacation, Someone Dies, Catherine Mack The American Daughters, Maurice Carlos Ruffin Death in a Darkening Mist, Iona Whishaw An Old, Cold Grave, Iona Whishaw Nonfiction The Black Box: Writing the Race, Henry […]
Andover Public Library Acquisitions — June
The Best Way to Bury Your Husband, Alexia Casale The Museum of Lost Quilts, Jennifer Chiaverini The Husbands, Holly Gramazio Funny Story, Emily Henry The Lantern’s Dance, Laurie R. King Empire of the Damned, Jay Kristoff She’s Not Sorry, Mary Kubica The Night House, Jo Nesbo The 24th Hour, James Patterson Conversations with Friends, Sally […]
Through the Reading Glasses June 2024
What an interesting book group discussion we had in April–only three of us finished “Swing Time” by Zadie Smith, and hardly anyone liked it! Talk we did though, and I’m more convinced than ever that an unpopular book is worth reading and makes for great conversation. The narrator grows up in Northwest London with best […]
New Friends of the Andover Libraries
A newly formed Friends of the Andover Libraries (FOALs)
Are you looking for ways to get involved with our wonderful Andover Libraries? A newly formed Friends of the Andover Libraries (FOALs) group will launch a community-wide membership campaign in the near future. Over the past few months, a planning committee met to organize this non-profit Friends association to strengthen, support, and extend library resources […]