Annual Book & Plant Sale

Books, videos, audiobooks!

Perennials, annuals, vegetable seedlings!

Saturday, May 26

9:00am until 2:00pm

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SUMMER READING PROGRAM!

Are you ready for a little NIGHT MAGIC?

Learn about nocturnal animals…including fairies at the library this summer!

Wednesdays: July 11-August 8

Story time for preschoolers (30 minutes)
Mondays at 10, Wednesdays at 10:30

Reading program for ages 6-12
Wednesdays at 6pm

Special event: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” August 8 at 6pm

(Children may perform scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and enjoy a variety of activities including puppets, ,music, crafts, refreshments and BOOKS!)

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NEXT BOOK-TO-MOVIE

Friday, June 1 at 7pm

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

We will read the book and compare it to the 2005 made for TV adaptation produced by Oprah Winfrey. Read the back story here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Their_Eyes_Were_Watching_God Watch out for plot spoilers!

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Third Friday Movie Night

FRIDAY, May 18 at 7pm

Read a review of the movie here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/19/MVU01GDHLF.DTL

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Library Book Group

Next meeting: Wednesday, June 13 at 7pm. We will discuss:

State of Wonder

by Ann Patchett

copies of the book are available at the library after 5/16/12.

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E-BOOK NEWS!

Harry Potter books now available as e-books on the New Hampshire Downloadable Books site.

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FREE SERVICE!

Brown Memorial Library now belongs to a consortium that offers Ancestry Library Edition for your genealogical research.

Ancestry Library Edition has all the resources of Ancestry.com, but doesn’t allow you to save personal items on the website. With the library edition, you can print out documents and/or save them to your personal disc.

I have played around with it a bit, and I’m amazed at what is available. I found the ship’s passenger lists for two great-grandparents one coming from Scotland and the other from Italy. I learned that my grandmother was tagged to be seen by a doctor on arrival and the family was in quarantine for a month!

So far, I have seen resources from Canada, England, Scotland and Wales. Many other European countries are represented.

This resource must be used in the library. I will sign in to the service for you and help with any questions. Computers may be reserved for one hour blocks (of course, you may continue to use it if another library patron is not waiting). I am here during all library open hours except between 3 and 5pm.