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MANCHESTER LIBRARY NOTES | March 14

This week’s programming at the Manchester Public Library includes Shamrock snacks, author hours, digital tutorials, a “knit together,” meet thriller author and much more. …

Manchester Library Notes | February 28

This week the library is offering so many children’s programs, along with the Hearthside book group tackling the very local life of Pride Crossing's Eleonora "Eleo" Sears, needlework …

The Big Beautiful World of Trans Literature

Recently, the National Parks Service removed the “TQ+” from the website dedicated to the Stonewall National Monument, in New York City. It was the first national park dedicated to the …

Manchester Library Notes | Feb. 14

This week at the Manchester Public Library there are some great public programs. You can take tech apart, enjoy Community Game Night, join authors virtually, and much more …

Children celebrated The Year of the Snake at story hour and enjoyed stories about Lunar New Year.

Essex Library Notes | Feb. 14

There are great things happening this coming week at the TOHP Burnham Essex Public Library, like a night of "hygge," coffee cupping, an author visit, and more!

Taking Stock and Looking Forward

The change of pace that arrives for retailers in January can be jarring after the rush of the holidays, but it’s also a necessary time for reflecting on the previous year and planning for the …

Essex Library Notes | Jan. 24

There are great things happening this coming week at the TOHP Burnham Essex Public Library, like mini-golf, “STEAM and Stories,” a drop in crafting, and more! Check it out …

About 30 grade schoolers and tweens participated in the Spa Day event. After indulging in everything from nail decorating and skin care masks, to concocting their own bath bombs, much of the self-care crowd also stuck around for a screening of “Tangled”.

Manchester Library Notes | Jan 24

This week at the Manchester Public Library there are some great public programs, including an education session on bee keeping, virtual authors, Tiny Art Show reception, Dungeons and Dragons for …

Manchester Library Notes | Jan 17

This week at the Manchester Public Library on Central Street, look for author talks, a Tarot workshop, a brain health talk and of course regular programming with mindful meditation and weekly TaiChi. Check it out.

Essex Library Notes | Jan. 17

There's a lot going on right now at the Essex TOHP Burnham Public Library, including D&D, book club, access to social worker office hours, and more. But remember, the library will be closed for the federal MLK Birthday holiday. Check it out.

Grades 3-5 enjoyed an afternoon of festive fun making Holiday Slime to enjoy all season long.

Essex Library Notes | Jan 10

There are great things happening this coming week at the TOHP Burnham Essex Public Library, like mini-golf, “STEAM and Stories,” a felting workshop, and more! Check it out …

Manchester Library Notes | Jan 10

This week at the library make Cozy Luminaries for adults, Author Hour, Graphic Novel Club, Library Spa Day and much more ...

The Gift of Cookbooks

With two boys at home due to ship off to college in a few years, we’ve been working to get some meals under their belts so they can cook for themselves when the time comes. With that in …

Author Susannah Talley (right) with Hannah Harlow of The Book Shop of Beverly Farms at a book signing Sunday.

Love and Life, Room by Room

In 2008, native Manchester resident Susannah Talley discovered an abandoned dollhouse on her morning walk as she rounded East 93rd Street in New York City. That dollhouse became a broad emblem …

Manchester Library Notes | Dec. 6

There is lots coming this week at the Manchester Public Library, including a Holiday Book Fair, Cookbook Club, a Holiday chair massage and a lot more.

What’s the Last Book You Finished?

There’s been an article circulating for a few weeks about how the kids aren’t reading anymore, and college professors have stopped assigning whole books to read because students …

The Teen Loft celebrated last week's MERSD early release day by inviting students to make candy sushi! (Idle question: If you whip up a Japanese dish using Swedish Fish, is that fusion cuisine?).

Manchester Library Notes | Nov 15

This week at the library there is perfume making, Community Game Night, celebrating the best in detective fiction, winter hibernation and lots more. Library Closing | The library will …

BookTrib’s Bites: Spring Into These Four Spellbinding Reads

When a wedding is tragically averted by the death of the bridesmaid, Theodosia is determined to prove that it was murder in the latest entry to this New York Times bestselling Tea Shop Mystery series.

Emmy award–winning host, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and “America’s Mom,” Tabitha Brown, shares personal and inspiring childhood story in her first-ever picture book, Hello There, Sunshine.

New Book Helps Kids Find The Sunshine Within Themselves

(NAPSI)—A great way to cheer up a child on a gray or otherwise down day is with a new book by Tabitha Brown, the Emmy Award–winning host of the children’s show “Tab Time” and multiple NAACP …

BookTrib’s Bites: Enjoy a Variety of Fascinating Reads This Spring

(NewsUSA) - "Conviction Overturned" by Willard BakemanA must-read for evangelicals and skeptics alike. “Conviction Overturned” is a forensic review of the Bible’s credibility based on legal …

Furniture in fiction: Iconic pieces that shaped stories

House of Leon explains how signature pieces of fictional furniture have left a lasting impact on literature, film, and television.

BookTrib’s Bites: Curl Up with Four Captivating Reads

(NewsUSA) - Every Fall by Angela DouglasA chilling thriller, perfect for fans of Karin Slaughter and Lisa Gardner, exploring the dark side of police culture and family trauma.Bree knew life married …

BookTrib’s Bites: From Thrillers and Mysteries to Memoirs and More

(NewsUSA) - We're All Mad Here: An (In)Elegant Memoir by Marie KuipersPeer behind the curtain of one fiercely opinionated and unapologetically peculiar woman’s unhinged life. If her upbringing …

BookTrib’s Bites: Four Reads That Will Capture Your Heart

(NewsUSA) - The Forgotten Man: A Journey Through the Ashes by Stanley S. SeidnerA powerful epic that chronicles the adventurous life of David Wdowinski, a tragic and brilliant psychiatrist, …

A new memoir from acclaimed author and journalist Carolyn Dawn Flynn

Carolyn thought she had the answers. As an author, journalist, and single mother of twins, she was sure of her path. But with her twins moving into adulthood, and the newspaper industry in a death spiral, her life was on a collision course with an uncertain future.

Flynn takes a media job two thousand miles away, dismantles the twins’ childhood home and bids farewell to the mom-van. Within weeks, the dream unravels, leaving Flynn, in her 60s, searching for a new path.

In BOUNDLESS, Flynn reimagines the empty nest, turning her keen insight and signature poetic voice to the deeper questions about the “third stage” of women’s lives.

BookTrib’s Bites: Four Captivating Winter Reads

(NewsUSA) - A Mysterious Night at the Library by Kim ChesneyA delightful tale about the magic of books, the fun of learning, and the joy of new friendships.It's the night before Halloween, and twins …

How the literature of fire can help readers find hope among the ashes

A single page from a book lies on the charred remains of a home that burned down in the 2025 Palisades fire in Los Angeles.

Reading and maintaining a human connection have a vital role to play as extreme events that have long served as the stuff of dystopian fiction simply become a part of everyday life.

The Gilded Age novel that helps explain our fascination with Luigi Mangione

The mystery of human choices, even when circumstances are known, occupied writers like Henry James.

Henry James’ ‘The Princess Casamassima’ tells a story of political radicalism in a time of economic inequality. But even James ran up against the limits of putting himself in the mind of a killer.

BookTrib’s Bites: Four Fantastic Winter Reads

(NewsUSA) - Face the Storm by C.D. KregerThis is the author’s intimate and courageous memoir of growing up and surviving an environment of mental illness, religious zealotry, and sexual abuse. She …

New Book, MIND-BODY BIRTH, Provides Guide to Fearless Child Birth

(NewsUSA) - Birth can be scary. Prior to the global pandemic in 2020, it was estimated that 10 to 15 percent of women in the United States had a fear of childbirth so strong that it impacted their …

BookTrib Launches LIT PICKS Holiday 2024: First Chapters from the Hottest Books

(NewsUSA) - Here’s a chance for readers to get a sneak peek into some of the hottest books and new voices being talked about in literary circles this holiday season.BookTrib.com—a leading source …

BookTrib’s Bites: Jump-Start Winter with These Four Insightful Reads

(NewsUSA) - Inner Trek: A Reluctant Pilgrim in the Himalayas by Mohan Ranga RaoAfter being threatened by a Bangalore mob boss, Mohan Ranga Rao, an accomplished businessman, an avid traveler, and a …

BookTrib’s Bites: Four Irresistible Winter Reads

(NewsUSA) - Russian Nonsensical by Edward D. WebsterThis book weaves a spellbinding embroidery of mystery and intrigue, with threads of betrayal, exotic thefts, international adventure, and the …

BookTrib’s Bites: Four Fantastic Reads to Close Out Fall

(NewsUSA) - The Housekeeper’s Secret by Sandra SchnakenbergFor fans of stranger-than-truth stories, Sandy Schnakenburg uncovers rattling and unprecedented revelations in this powerful memoir of …

Engaging Two-Book Coming-of-Age Saga Amid Middle East’s Complex History

(NewsUSA) - A young man’s coming of age is at the heart of what BookLife Review calls “a richly layered narrative that sheds light on the human toll of conflict and celebrates an indomitable …

BookTrib’s Bites: Kick Off the Holidays with These Four Exciting Reads

(NewsUSA) - July and Everything After by Allie NavaA modern tale of resilience and transformation against extraordinary odds, for fans of Paolo Coelho, Amy Tan, and Khaled Hosseini.As Maya turns 22, …

Reading nonfiction prepares kids for success

(BPT) - By Melissa Taylor, M.Ed., former elementary teacher and K-12 literacy trainerNonfiction is essential in a child's reading diet. Most children primarily read fiction, but as they progress in …

Your next favorite story won’t be written by AI – but it could be someday

Good storytelling relies on sound writing, believability, creativity and lived experience. AI has become skilled at the first two but still falls short on the second two.

5 books to help you better understand today’s campus protests

Every so often, a cause ignites a sustained fury on college campuses across the nation. In 2020, it was Black Lives Matter. In 2011, it was Occupy Wall Street. In the 1980s, it was apartheid in South Africa. Right now, it’s the Israeli military campaign in Gaza. …

How ‘Dune’ became a beacon for the fledgling environmental movement − and a rallying cry for the new science of ecology

“Dune,” widely considered one of the best sci-fi novels of all time, continues to influence how writers, artists and inventors envision the future. Of course, there are Denis Villeneuve’s visually stunning films, “Dune: Part One” (2021) and “Dune: Part Two” (2024). …

W.E.B. Du Bois’ study ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ at 125 still explains roots of the urban Black experience – sociologist Elijah Anderson tells why it should be on more reading lists

W.E.B. Du Bois is widely known for his civil rights activism, but many sociologists argue that he has yet to receive due recognition as the founding father of American sociology. His groundbreaking study, “The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study,” …

Betty Smith enchanted a generation of readers with ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ − even as she groused that she hoped Williamsburg would be flattened

Eighty years ago, in the winter and spring of 1944, Brooklyn-born author Betty Smith was entering a new chapter of life. A year earlier, she was an unknown writer, negotiating with her publisher about manuscript edits and the date of publication for her first book, “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” …

How We Have Fallen Short in Teaching Literacy -- And What To Do About It

(NewsUSA) - This may be difficult to read, but did you know:In the last 15 years, 15 million students graduated from high schools testing below the basic reading level.One in five college students …

Humorous, Poetic & Allegorical Tale Reminiscent of Dante’s Inferno

(NewsUSA) - Theatrical essence, we know, relies upon a shared experience of space and time. How else does one describe the crescendo between the stage and stalls during a curtain call?In Presence, …

Twin Sisters at the Core of Dark Coming-of-Age Psycho Thriller By Debut Author

(NewsUSA) - Most good thriller novels keep readers guessing until the end. Then there are some that cause jaws to drop.TKO Rogue has launched debut author Janet Porter’s intriguing, intricate and …