This August be sure to honor New Hampshire inventors: eat your lunch out of a tupperware container using a spork while riding on your Segway!
Entries Tagged as 'Books'
August is Inventors Month
August 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, City Library, Main Branch, local history
Tags: Dean Kamen·Earl Silas Tupper·George Laramy·globe·inventions·new hampshire·Segway·spork·tupperware
Summer Stars
August 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, City Library
The Perseid meteor shower has been observed by mankind for almost two thousand years.
Tags: astronomy·Carl Sandburg·meteor showers·Perseids·poetry·Swift-Tuttle comet
August Gardening
August 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, City Library
Gardeners who find it too uncomfortable to work outside may enjoy staying inside with some of our gardening books.
Tags: gardening
Catch a Wave! Make a Splash! Read about New Hampshire!
August 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Books, City Library, Main Branch, NH Room, local history
Take a break from your usual summer fare and read up on some local history.
Tags: Books·Eric Jones·Fritz Wetherbee·Grace Holbrook Blood·history·John Clayton·local history·new hampshire·New Hampshire Room·Rebecca Rule·Tamara K. Hareven·Thomas D'Agostino
Here’s the Scoop!
July 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Books, City Library, Main Branch, News, West Branch
July is National Ice Cream Month so don’t feel guilty about indulging in your favorite flavor! Or two!
Tags: cookbooks·cooking·David Lebovitz·flavors·ice cream·jimmies·Joanna Farrow·July·Laurel & Hardy·National Ice Cream Day·National Ice Cream Month·sprinkles
Summer Reading Lists
July 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Books, City Library, Teens
Got summer reading to do for school?
Tags: 2010 Summer reading List·classics·manchester·Manchester Central High Reading List·Memorial High School Reading List·reading·school summer reading list·summer homework·summer reading list·teen summer reading·Teens·Trinity High School Reading List·young adults
Tour de France
July 15th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Books, News
The Tour de France is an annual bicycling tour that travels through France. The first tour took place in 1903.
Tags: bicycle tours·bicycling·Books·France·Lance Armstrong·peleton·sports·stage races·Tour de France·yellow jersey
So Many Books, So Little Time
July 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, City Library, Main Branch, West Branch
What are you reading this summer?
Ahh summer. Warm days, sun, surf, crystal clear lakes, lazy days on the back porch, and books. Lots and lots of books. You know the ones on the list you’ve been compiling all year. If your list is anything like mine, summer will have to be extended to get them [...]
Tags: Books·Heresy·lilly the librarian·Major Pettigrews Last Stand·reading·reading lists·summer reading·The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
A Twilight Novella
June 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Books, City Library, Main Branch, Teens, West Branch
Good news for those who are not tired of vampire novels and were going through “Twilight” withdrawal. Stephenie Meyer has published a new book called “The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella”.
Here’s an brief description: Fans of The Twilight Saga will be enthralled by this riveting story of Bree Tanner, a character [...]
Tags: Books·Bree Tanner·novella·Stephenie Meyer·Twilight·young adults
Teen Summer Reading Program
June 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, City Library, Events, Main Branch, News, Summer Reading Program, Teens
Area teens are invited to “Make Waves @ Your Library” this summer by participating in the Manchester City Library’s teen summer reading library program from June 21 to August 6. Teens are invited to come to the Library and read for prizes as well as to take part in special events offered throughout the summer. [...]
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