Monthly Archives: June 2019

Many new DVDs! In The Mustang, a convict with animal skills finds redemption. In Five Feet Apart, teens with a deadly disease find each other. In Gloria Bell, a divorce finds love; In Mrs Wilson, a woman finds her husband … Continue reading →

Kate Atkinson and KateMosse.  In “Big Sky”, Kate Atkinson brings back iconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie.  His current case, gathering proof of a husband’s indiscretions for his suspicious wife, is fairly routine.  A chance encounter with a desperate man on a … Continue reading →

Many gently used books from the shelves of the Nichols Memorial Library in Center Harbor are looking for new homes. On July 4th, from 8:30am to noon, the Library will offer these wonderful books up for adoption to loving bookworms … Continue reading →

“The Guest Book” is the much-anticipated return of Sarah Blake (The Postmistress).  Her new story    follows three generations of a privileged American family, one used to running the world. By the end of the novel, they’re beginning to be run … Continue reading →

In ”The friends we Keep” by Jane Green, former schoolmates unite for a 30th anniversary. In “The Summer of Sunshine & Margot” by Susan Mallery, sisters seek fresh gigs and romance at the seaside. And in  “The Summer of ’69”, beach … Continue reading →

“Murder in Bel-Air” by Cara Black, Detective Leduc’s mother is witness to a murder.  In “Manitou Canyon” by William Kent Kreuger, Cork O’Connor vanishes just days before his daughter’s wedding.  “Unsolved” by James Patterson features a new co-author and series … Continue reading →

In ‘Cari Mora” by Thomas Harris (“Silence of the Lambs”), a caretaker living in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, has escaped the violence of her own country only to work for a man sitting on a fortune in … Continue reading →

This month marked the 75th anniversary of the allied landings in France that began the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi tyranny.  Nichols Library has the story of their deeds and sacrifice. “Sand and Steel” by Peter Caddick-Adams presents a … Continue reading →

Your historical nugget of the day, but one not without meaning. Juneteenth* commemorates the final abolition of  chattel slavery in the United States. Although President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, slavery remained in effect in areas under secessionist … Continue reading →

In “The Upside” a quadriplegic billionaire gets an unlikely caregiver, while in “A Dog’s Way Home” the lost are found.   In ”Destroyer”, an undercover cop comes to terms with an old nemesis, while In “Rust Creek”, a new age … Continue reading →