July is a CRAZY busy month at the library!!

Hello all, and Happy Summer!

Hope you're all enjoying your summer, so far.  July is, by far, our biggest and busiest programming month of the year, and to that end, we want to make sure you're aware of several wonderful events that are happening over the next couple of weeks, a couple of which were not included in our Summer Programming flyer that went out to the Andover Elementary School kids.  There's a long list, but we hope you'll be sure to read on...

Wednesday, July 13th -- 3PM:  Living Dragons with Brian Kleinman of Riverside Reptiles.  This program is sponsored by the Andover Friends of the Library.

Thursday, July 14th -- 7PM:  Our Connecticut Authors Trail contribution for 2016 will be a visit with Connecticut native, Lauren Acampora, who will speak about her highly-acclaimed debut collection of linked stories, The Wonder Garden.  Ms. Acampora will sign copies of her book post-book talk, so make plans to be here!

**ADDED**  Thursday, July 21st -- 7PM:  Justin Mazz Magic Show!  This magical evening of FREE entertainment will be held at the Andover Town Hall Community Room, 17 School Road, Andover.  Somehow or other, we did not get this program into our final Summer Programming flyer for 2016, but we hope to see you at the Community Room on July 21st ~ along with several of your friends and neighbors!  Kindly share info about this magic show with folks you know.  Thanks!  

Monday, July 18th -- 5:30PM:  Chess For Beginners!  This is a new program we're trying out, and is being sponsored by the Andover Friends of the Library.  However, if we do not have enough participants signed up by July 14th, we may have to cancel.  Please sign up TODAY:  860-742-7428.

Monday, July 25th -- 1PM:  Flip-Cam Filmmaking!  This is also a new program we're trying out, and the program is being sponsored by the Andover Friends of the Library.  Again, we NEED to know that there will be participants, so sign up as soon as possible:  860-742-7428.

Thursday, July 28th -- 6:30PM:  The Hot Flashes in concert at the Andover Gazebo!  This free concert is sponsored by the Andover Friends of the Library, and is the 9th time we've presented a FREE summer concert for the community in Andover!  Grab your chair and blanket and be there!  (In the event of rain, the show will be held in the Andover Town Hall Community Room).

**ADDED** Sunday, July 31st -- 4PM to 7PM:  Friends' fundraiser at Subway on Route 6, Andover!  For the third year in a row, the Friends will become Subway sandwich makers for three hours, and for their efforts, a percentage of the profits will go directly back to the Library Friends!  Help 'em raise a lot of money during those three hours, won't you?

We would LOVE for you to be part of as many of these activities as you possibly can!  Call the library if you have questions:  860-742-7428.

We would also very much appreciate you sharing this email with these many events with as many friends as you can.  The more, the merrier!

Thanks again, and enjoy July!!

Amy O.

100 book discussions and counting at Andover PL!

Book #1

Book #102

It has been a while since we updated our Andover PL blog, but tonight, it seems that we are celebrating a momentous occasion at the library -- of sorts, anyway! Initially, we thought that tonight our group would be discussing the 100th book we've read together.  However, it turns out we miscounted, and tonight, we're actually reading our 101st book!  Beginning in April 2003, this group met quarterly, but over the years, we've adopted a more consistent schedule, expanding from quarterly to bimonthly to 8-10 times a year to monthly in 2016!  We hope you'll consider joining us for a future discussion.

In the meantime, here's a look at the first 101 books we've read for our group...

1. Falling Angels - Tracy Chevalier (April 2003)
2. Hostage - Robert Crais (August 2003)
3. The Wind Done Gone - Alice Randall (October 2003)
4. Spilling Clarence - Anne Ursu (January 2004)
5. Future Homemakers Of America - Laurie Graham (March 2004)
6. Big Stone Gap - Adriana Trigiani (May 2004)
7. Confederates In The Attic:  Dispatches From The Unfinished Civil War - Tony Horwitz (June 2004)
8. When The Emperor Was Divine - Julie Otsuka (October 2004)
9. Clay's Quilt - Silas House (January 2005)
10. The Hazards Of Good Breeding - Jessica Shattuck (March 2005)
11. The Secret Life Of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd (April 2005)
12. 24 Hours - Greg Iles (May 2005)
13. Lucia, Lucia - Adriana Trigiani (June 2005)
14. In The Land Of Second Chances - George Shaffner (September 2005)
15. The Coal Tattoo - Silas House (November 2005)
16. The Christmas Box - Richard Paul Evans (December 2005)
17. The Song Reader - Lisa Tucker (January 2006)
18. Under The Banner Of Heaven:  A Story Of Violent Faith - Jon Krakauer (March 2006)
19. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons - Lorna Landvik (May 2006)
20. The Five Quarters Of The Orange - Joanne Harris (June 2006)
21. Girls Of Tender Age:  A Memoir - Mary-Ann Tirone Smith (September 2006) EAST OF THE RIVER READS SELECTION
22. Masters Of Illusion - Mary-Ann Tirone Smith (September 2006)
23. Lucy - Ellen Feldman (November 2006)
24. One Part Angel - George Shaffner (January 2007)
25. Having Our Say:  The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years - Sarah L. & A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth (March 2007)
26. March - Geraldine Brooks (June 2007)
27. The Tall Pines Polka - Lorna Landvik (July 2007)
28. Mr. Emerson's Wife - Amy Belding Brown (September 2007) EAST OF THE RIVER READS SELECTION
29. Nickel And Dimed:  On (Not) Getting By In America - Barbara Ehrenreich (October 2007)
30. The Photograph - Penelope Lively (November 2007)
31. The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler (January 2008)
32. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (February 2008)
33. Stones From The River - Ursula Hegi (April 2008)
34. The Next Thing On My List - Jill Smolinski (June 2008)
35. Tallgrass - Sandra Dallas (July 2008)
36. Billy Boyle - James R. Benn (September 2008) EAST OF THE RIVER READS SELECTION
37. The Master Butchers Singing Club - Louise Erdrich (October 2008)
38. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee (February 2009) HARTFORD AREA BIG READ SELECTION
39. A Northern Light - Jennifer Donnelly (March 2009)
40. Bridge Of Sighs - Richard Russo (May 2009)
41. Keeper And Kid - Edward Hardy (June 2009) AUTHOR VISIT
42. A Walk In The Woods:  Rediscovering America On The Appalachian Trail - Bill Bryson (July 2009)
43. Outside Valentine - Liza Ward (September 2009)
44. Widows Of Eden - George Shaffner (November 2009)
45. Christmas Train - David Baldacci (December 2009)
46. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (February 2010)
47. The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain (April 2010) HARTFORD AREA BIG RED SELECTION
48. The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (May 2010)
49. Tell Me When It Hurts - Christine M. Whitehead ANDOVER AUTHOR
50. Dating Jesus:  A Story Of Fundamentalism, Feminism, And The American Girl - Susan Campbell (August 2010) CONNECTICUT AUTHOR TRAIL VISIT
51. A Redbird Christmas - Fannie Flagg (December 2010)
52. No! I Don't Want To Join A Book Club - Virginia Ironside (January 2011)
53. Traveler - Ron McLarty (March 2011)
54. My Antonia - Willa Cather (May 2011)
55. The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (June 2011)
56. Lost Rights:  The Misadventures Of A Stolen American Relic (August 2011) CONNECTICUT AUTHOR TRAIL VISIT / ANDOVER AUTHOR
57. The Help - Kathryn Stockett (November 2011)
58. A Dog Named Christmas - Greg Kincaid (December 2011)
59. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn - Betty Smith (January 2012)
60. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout (March 2012)
61. Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet - Jamie Ford (April 2012)
62. East Of Eden - John Steinbeck (June 2012)
63. Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson (July 2012)
64. The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie (August 2012)
65. The Lifeboat - Charlotte Rogan (October 2012) EAST OF THE RIVER READS SELECTION
66. The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien (November 2012)
67. Wishin' & Hopin':  A Christmas Story - Wally Lamb (December 2012)
68. Moloka'i - Alan Brennert (January 2013)
69. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Louise Shaffer (February 2013)
70. The Violets Of March - Sarah Jio (March 2013)
71. Nothing To Declare:  Memoirs Of A Woman Traveling Alone (April 2013)
72. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern (June 2013)
73. A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain (July 2013)
74. The Accidental Genius Of Weasel High - Rick Detorie (August 2013)
75. The Paris Wife - Paula McLain (October 2013)
76. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (November 2013)
77. Matchless - Gregory Maguire (December 2013)
78. What Alice Forgot - Liane Moriarty (January 2014)
79. Loving Frank - Nancy Horgan (February 2014)
80. Nothing Daunted:  The Unexpected Education Of Two Society Girls In The West - Dorothy Wickenden (March 2014)
81. The Other Typist - Suzanne Rindell (May 2014)
82. The Three Miss Margarets - Louise Shaffner (June 2014)
83. Caleb's Crossing - Geraldine Brooks (July 2014)
84. The Rosie Project - Graham Simsion (August 2014)
85. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (September 2014)
86. The Worst Hard Time:  The Untold Story Of Those Who Survived The Great American Dust Bowl (October 2014)
87. The Autobiography Of Mrs. Tom Thumb - Melanie Benjamin (November 2014)
88. Christmas At Harrington's - Melody Carlson (December 2014)
89. The Storied Life Of A.J. Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin (January 2015)
90. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson (February 2015)
91. Mud Season:  How One Woman's Dream Of Moving To Vermont, Raising Children, Chickens And Sheep & Running The Old Country Store Pretty Much Led To One Calamity After Another - Ellen Stimson (March 2015)
92. The Age Of Innocence - Edith Wharton (April 2015)
93. The Art Forger - B.A. Shapiro (May 2015)
94. The Last Summer Of The Camperdowns - Elizabeth Kelly (July 2015)
95. Travels With Charley:  In Search Of America - John Steinbeck (August 2015)
96. The Last Days Of Dogtown - Anita Diamant (October 2015)
97. Where'd You Go, Bernadette - Maria Semple (November 2015)
98. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (December 2015)
99. Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow (January 2016)
100. A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman (February 2016)
101. One Hundred Years Of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (March 2016)