Monthly Archives: May 2016

The Nichols Library will be closed Thursday, June 2nd for maintenance work.

The trails are open at the Science Center.  Our trail pass gives discounted admissions. Other programs coming up at SLSC:   Kirkwood Gardens Day, Saturday, June 4 ( 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) –find beautiful plants for your own garden and … Continue reading →

Several eagerly awaited fiction titles by popular author also arrived late last week.  In “Beyond the Ice Limit” by suspense writer Douglas Preston, the meteorite that crashed to earth in “The Ice Limit” is found out to be a deadly … Continue reading →

“First Women” by Kate Andersen Brower (The Residence) offers an inside portrait of presidential wives, from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama.  There is plenty if dish, but author Anderson also brings to light the unexpected skill set needed by these … Continue reading →

‘A Rage for Order”  by Robert Forsyth Worth looks into the  hopeful rise and chaotic collapse of the Arab Spring.   As the author  discovered, “the demands for dignity and civic rights have been transformed into conflicts that loosened the … Continue reading →

Hated history in school?  Maybe it’s because you had to read textbooks.   The past comes to life in these lively new stories at the Nichols Library in Center Harbor. In ‘Valiant Ambition”, Nathaniel Philbrick (Heart of the Sea) tells how Revolutionary … Continue reading →

Also new in series fiction is “Noonday,” the final entry of Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy (FIC BAR Regeneration #3).   The story follows the lives of three art students through two world wars. The story begins with “Life Class,” where three … Continue reading →

The library‘s latest piece of series fiction is Extreme Prey (print and CD) by John Sandford   (L. Davenport #26 in our new shelf label system). Inspector Davenport, no longer working for the Minnesota BCA, is asked to “look into something” … Continue reading →

Series fiction, novels with continuing characters, are among the most in demand books at the Nichols Library in Center Harbor.   They also sometimes pose a problem—if you are new to a series, how do you find out where it begins … Continue reading →

Finally, the last of this year’s Oscar winners Oscar winners have arrived on DVD.  In “The Revenant”, frontier explorer Hugh Glass (Best Actor Leonardo DiCaprio) is attacked by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting … Continue reading →