Monthly Archives: June 2015

Now at NML on audio CD–The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. Complete and unabridged.  Part of our new collection of classics on CD.

Just in time for college and HS reading: updated editions of two classics. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac is a novel drawn from his memory of the beat and zen scene in San Francisco during the late 50’s,  Find … Continue reading →

New feature films at the Nichols Library include The Rewrite, in which a washed–up screenwriter (Hugh Grant) takes a teaching job to stay afloat; Still Alice, in which a middle-age housewife (Julianne More) is struck with early on-set Alzheimer’s; The Homesman, a … Continue reading →

Orange is the New Black (season 2). New characters, charged situations, bad hair days. In Justified, Season 4, Marshall Raylon Givens tracks a cold case involving drugs and money. In season 5, side character Dewey Crowe returns with more criminal members of … Continue reading →

Here’s 6 new gems for our general fiction readers. The Green Road by Anne Enright is a family drama set in County Clare, written by a former  Man Booker prize winner. Second Life by S. J. Watson is a psychological thriller about a woman … Continue reading →

Summer breach reads are pouring in and many of your favorites are already here. In Beach Town by Mary Kay Andrews, a woman with her career on rocks heads for a remote beach town—to film a movie! (nice twist). In  All the Single Ladies … Continue reading →

Thanks, Meredith Garden Club, for decorating our planters. Sure do appreciate it. 

This year we added subscriptions to Antiques and Fine Art, Experience Life,This Old House and Vanity Fair.   Antiques and Fine Art is your guide to what’s going on in the fine and folk arts scene. Our current issue has features … Continue reading →

Just in– It’s a Long Story by Willie Nelson. Willie tells his story like he sings—with ease. In A Lucky Life, Interrupted, Tom Brokaw reflects on his past while battling cancer in his present.  And in The Residence, Kate Andersen Brower takes … Continue reading →