Are you participating in this year’s Massachusetts Center for the Book 2023 Reading Challenge? If you haven’t been, it’s not too late! Every month offers new prompts to broaden your reading horizons, and you can submit your entries for a previous month even if that month has already happened! May’s prompt is “A book of […]
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Reading Challenges: Which will you join?
Are you looking for a way to broaden your reading horizons this year? It’s not too late to participate in the Massachusetts Center for the Book’s 2023 Reading Challenge. Each month features a new prompt to help you choose something new and unique to read. The APL is a Center for the Book reading partner, […]
Calling all Potterheads! Harry Potter Mania has hit the library!
J. K. Rowling’s epic tale of the boy who lived is still top of many of our patron’s must read lists, even though the series has been around for many years. It is fun to see children who were not even born when the book series began enthusiastically requesting the books to read on their […]
Empowered Female Characters in Romance Novels
It’s Women’s History Month, the month where we celebrate the lives and accomplishments of women. All around the library you will find displays of books by and about women. I want to talk today about one specific genre of fiction that is written by women, about women, for women. A genre of fiction that is […]