Manchester City Library

Due to our migration (not south for the winter… that comes later) certain library services will be unavailable: placing of requests and renewals. When you visit the library during this time please be sure to bring your library card as we will need your barcode to check materials out during this downtime.

We thank you for your patience as we upgrade the system to serve you better.

Group will read Mystic River, a novel by Dennis Lehane - Riveting character studies of three childhood friends from a working class Boston neighborhood who are brought together when the daughter of one of the three is violently murdered.
For more information, please contact Arlene Letourneau at 624-6550 ext. 605.

King narrates this supernatural love story through the eyes of a grieving widow who must follow the clues her novelist husband left in a horrific treasure hunt.

Army Major Bennett Marco can’€™t sleep at night–and he doesn’€™t want to. Marco spends his days giving inspiring speeches about his platoon‒s ambush in the Kuwaiti desert and the heroics of Sergeant Raymond Shaw, who won the Medal of Honor for saving Marco’s crew. But at night, Marcoa’s dreamlike memories of the desert turn sinister and terrifying. And Marco privately wonders whether the two soldiers who died in the firefight might have met darker fates than officially recorded–and whether Shaw might not be the glorious hero that everyone thinks he is. When Shaw takes the national stage as a surefire candidate for vice president–under the thumb of his controversial mother, Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw- €“Marco is forced to act on his growing suspicions. With military officials questioning his sanity, and the net of security tightening around Shaw, Marco races to probe deeper into the unimaginable,shocking truth before the White House is won. (PG-13)

For more information, please contact Steve via email or at 624-6550 ext. 323.

Come see it on the big screen at the West Branch. Rated PG.