Join us on May 19th at the West Branch for a special book signing of  the new novel, “Pool”, by Robin Beaudette.

Patrons will access the new titles through the downloadable books website, http://nh.lib.overdrive.com, and still have access to the entire downloadable books consortium collection. All of the circulation parameters are the same (i.e. two week check out, no renewals, no fines, and early returns are available).

When deciding what to purchase first, MCL has made books with long hold lists a top priority. Here is a slide show on how to place a hold on an ebook and identify books the library has purchased.

Here is our first order of OAP titles. The link will take you to the downloadable books catalog record for the title.

Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James: http://bit.ly/MCL_Fifty_Shades_of_Gray
1858 by Bruce Chadwick: http://bit.ly/MCL_1858
44 Cranberry Point by Debbie Macomber: http://bit.ly/MCL_44_Cranberry_Point
The Abduction by Mark Giminez: http://bit.ly/MCL_The_Abduction
An Amish Love by Beth Wiseman: http://bit.ly/MCL_An_Amish_Love
The Anatomist’s Apprentice by Tessa Harris: http://bit.ly/MCL_Anatomists_Apprentice
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo: http://bit.ly/MCL_Behind_the_Beautiful
Defending Jacob by William Landay: http://bit.ly/MCL_Defending_Jacob
Darkest Secret by Gena Showalter: http://bit.ly/MCL_Darkest_Secret
The Expats by Chris Pavone: http://bit.ly/MCL_Expats
Fallen by Karin Slaughter: http://bit.ly/MCL_Fallen
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin: http://bit.ly/MCL_A_Game_of_Thrones
Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Steig Larrson: http://bit.ly/MCL_Girl_Who_Kicked
Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larrson: http://bit.ly/MCL_Girl_Who_Played
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: http://bit.ly/MCL_Girl_with_the_dragon
If You Know Her by Roxanne St. Clair: http://bit.ly/MCL_If_You_Know_Her
Life As I Blow It by Chelsea Handler: http://bit.ly/MCL_Life_As_I_Blow_It
The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks: http://bit.ly/MCL_The_Lucky_One
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern: http://bit.ly/MCL_The_Night_Circus
Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson: http://bit.ly/MCL_Primal_Blueprint
Sister Queens by Julia Fox: http://bit.ly/MCL_Sister_Queens
Starters by Lissa Price: http://bit.ly/MCL_Starters
American Gods by Neil Gaiman: http://bit.ly/MCL_American_Gods
Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein: http://bit.ly/MCL_Art_of_Racing
Death of Kings by Bernard Cornwell: http://bit.ly/MCL_Death_of_Kings
Micro by Michael Crichton: http://bit.ly/MCL_Micro
Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver: http://bit.ly/MCL_Pandemonium
Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan: http://bit.ly/MCL_Sex_At_Dawn
Supreme Justice by Philip Margolin: http://bit.ly/MCL_Supreme_Justice
When did I Get Like This by Amy Wilson: http://bit.ly/MCL_When_Did_I_Get_Like_This

For more information about e-books contact the library at 624-6550×319 or email us at library@manchesternh.gov.

Two of these databases, Ancestry (library edition) and HeritageQuest are very useful in the search of your family history.  On May 8th (Tuesday) from 2:30 to 4:00 PM, in the Winchell Room at the Main Library, there will be a class to introduce you to the basic workings of these two databases. In addition, some public on-line genealogy databases will be discussed.

Laptops will be provided during the class to use in the search of the databases.  There is a limited amount of available seats; thus you must register ahead of time for the class.  You may sign up for the class, using the events calendar at www.manchester.lib.nh.us or call 624-6550 ext. 320.

Point of contact is Eileen A. Reddy for additional information.  She can be reached at ereddy@manchesternh.gov or at 624-6550 ext. 320 (Information Desk).

To continue providing programs you’d like to see, we’d like to invite you to take part in our very short survey. Your much-needed feedback will be used to continue programs you’ve enjoyed in the past and will help us to bring you the adult programming you want to see at your library in the future.   The surveys are currently available online and will be physically available starting National Library Week, April 8th.  

You can fill out the survey one of two ways:

1) Online: You can fill out the survey online by going here.

2) Paper Copy: Grab a copy of the survey when you visit the library!  Copies will be located at  Adult programs here at the library and in the library Rotunda.  Completed paper versions of the survey should be returned to the Information Services Desk, located in the Manchester City Library Reading Room.

Answer a few questions and make your library work for you by telling us the kinds of programming you want.  Remember, this survey pertains to adult programming only.

Thanks for taking time to fill out our survey and thank you your continued support of Manchester City Library!

Amy H.

Imagine you can consider all ideas
And images represented by all words
And numbers in all libraries worldwide.
Open the book of this consideration.
Touch the paper. See the illustration
Of you, reading, when you were ten
In your local library. Turn
Several pages. Now read how you
And that other person ignited romance
In, of all places, the stacks, third floor,
In quite a different library. Snowflakes
Brushed against dark glass as you two
Stood between PQ and PR.

Now go to the index. Find “possibility.”
Look up from the book. The librarian
Who looks away was watching you.
She knows how to phrase the question
You want answered.

Librarians know where wisdom’s stored.
They catalogue the countless forms
Of silence and tell people what they
Didn’t know they wanted to know.
They treat the mentally fractured
As if they’re whole, the dull as if they’re
Sharp, Winter as if it’s Summer.

A band of sunlight angles through high
Windows, brightens shoes of a librarian,
Who knows the patron in the gray enormous
Coat will steal a book about sex or wiccans.
She knows some Christians will steal books
Deemed Satanic, ignoring a commandment
And the homeless person sleeping in a chair.
She knows some atheists treat Library as
Church, so when she moves into shadows,
She does so quietly. She worries for books.

For the librarian knows books are easily burned,
Recycled, or digitized, reduced to oxygen, carbon,
Silicon, and such basic elements as hate and
Budgetary cuts. She wishes presidents of
The United States would consult librarians
Before going to war. It would save so much time,
So many lives. She knows exactly which references
Know how badly any war will go and how soon
Citizens come to loathe their leaders. She knows
How to find stories about all the libraries
Wiped out by war. She knows patrons who’ve
Been harmed by war. Sometimes they set off alarms.
Someone asks her, “Can you help me find out
If I’m related to Napoleon? ” Yes, ” she answers,
“Come with me, please.”

All libraries may now gather inside invisible
Electrons. After closing time, books in Sweden
Send emails to maps in Chile. A librarian in Topeka
Posts a reply to one in Tokyo, adding to a blue thread
Wrapped around the globe.

As sincerely as librarians worry for books, for shelves,
For catalogues, buildings, and best practices,
So should we worry for librarians, for images and ideas.

At a table in a library, a circle of light
Lies on a book. The hand not writing turns
The page, and something important happens.

Hans Ostrom