Monthly Archives: September 2019

The Dutch House by Anne Patchett is a “richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go.”  A Single Thread  by Tracy Chevalier is about … Continue reading →

Enhanced showtime with more challenging themes. In The Professor and the Madman, the compilers of the Oxfrd English Dictionary are about to honor Dr. W. C. Minor (Sean Penn), who had submitted more than ten thousand definitions, until it comes … Continue reading →

Good crime fiction is like solving a puzzle. As Poirot would say, it stimulates the little grey cells. In The Long Call, Ann Cleeves  introduces detective Matthew Venn, who returns to the evangelical community he grew up in for his … Continue reading →

The United States and New Zealand were both founded by English colonists, but evolved into different highly different societies. Both are democracies, but the latter developed an ethic of fairness while our own country placed an emphasis on freedom. In … Continue reading →

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood is a ”riveting sequel” to The Handmaids Tale, set 15 years later, with the theocratic Republic of Gilead fighting to hold onto power. A Door in the Earth by Amy Waldman tells the tale of … Continue reading →

Homeschooling in the Center Harbor area? The Nichols Library is here to support you. We subscribe to Practical Homeschooling, which offers class plans, curriculum guides and other handy advice.  Our book Homeschooling 101 by Erica Arndt walks you through the … Continue reading →

In The Dark Side by Danielle Steel, a young woman who had been neglected as a child enters into motherhood with a determination to turn things around and raise her child right.  Her aspirations give way to fear as she … Continue reading →

In Old Bones by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, a research team assembles to seek the last camp of the Donner party, the snow-bound pioneers who fell to cannibalism as supplies ran out. new terrors await.  Historic interest gives way … Continue reading →

September is National Library Card Month and the Nichols Library would like make this a banner month for registrations.  If you already have a card, reach out to a friend who is new to town or doesn’t have a card? … Continue reading →

In Love and Death among the Cheetahs by Rhys Bowen, a group of hard-partying British aristocrats on holiday in Kenya find their revels cut short when one of their number is found dead, the apparent victim of a lion attack. … Continue reading →