We may have limited in-person services right now but our Digital Resources are always open! Access research databases, employment tools, test prep, and more from the Resources page of our website. All you need is your HPL library card!
Every year, the Massachusetts Center for the Book challenges residents all across the state and of all ages to engage in reading that stretches their interests and knowledge. This year, for the first time, Haverhill Public Library is participating in their 2024 Reading Challenge.
Recently, our staff decided to ask their pets what books they would recommend. Here are some of the highlights from our Library Pet Recommendation social media campaign.
Banned Books Week is October 1st – 7th this year! Across the United States, libraries of all types are celebrating the freedom to read. One way you can celebrate is by reading a banned or challanged book or by joining us on Saturday, October 7th anytime between 10:00am and 2:00pm for the state-wide #LetFreedomRead Read-In event.
Come to our all-ages #LetFreedomRead Read-In event on October 7th from 10am-2pm in the Johnson Auditorium to celebrate your right to read books! Bring a book, borrow a book, listen to a book, or bring your Kindle! Stay and read for as long or as short as you like.
Jumping between two time lines and following two woman, Rachel Hawkins “The Villa” is a richly detailed and mysterious rehashing of the infamous time that Mary Shelley spent in Geneva where she wrote the seminal “Frankenstein”. In 1974, Villa Aestas in Italy was called home by a group of rock stars, musicians, their tag-a-long friends, […]
What exactly is AI? What are the benefits to society that AI can bring? What risks does it pose? And what can we do to prepare ourselves to the increase in AI technology across all fields? If you’re curious about this topic, we have a plethora of books and resources to give you a better, […]
Abby Lamb has found the love of her life in Ralph. But when they have to move into her mother-in-law’s home to take care of Ralph’s depressed mother, Laura, she has to act as the intermediary in their codependent relationship. But then Laura takes her own life and starts to haunt Abby and Ralph in […]
“As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined, until now. But the journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing and too earth-shattering in its implications, to be forgotten. Because if what […]
“In 1918, a young woman on the brink of madness pursues stardom in a desperate attempt to escape the drudgery, isolation and lovelessness of life on her parents’ farm.” Happy women’s history month! I am such a sucker for any movie or media where a woman let’s her rage get the better of her and […]
