A dark retelling of Peter Pan, Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas follows 18 year old Wendy Darling who is suddenly reliving a trauma that happened five years ago. When she was 12, Wendy and her brothers John and Michael went missing. Wendy was found alone in the woods 6 months later, but […]
Check out these books to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Click on a cover below to request that title! Fiction Comics
A young girl becomes upset when her older brother tells her the future is doomed. Where did he get this idea? From a pessimistic grown-up, of course. Depressed about the inevitable plagues and wars that will doom our future, the young girl consults her grandma, who imparts an important truth: “Grown-ups act like they can […]
May 12th at 5pm Join instructor Mandy Roberge to make some adorable boho-esque peace birds! Perfect to hang in a window or decorate your bedroom! Some light sewing will be involved. This program will be held on Zoom. Registration required to receive Zoom link and craft kit.
This modern adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes detective stories features a female-led cast that’s packed with as much adventure as the original stories. Set in Tokyo, Japan, the story follows Sara “Sherlock” Futaba and Dr. Wato Tachibana’s chance meeting after the murder of Wato’s close friend and teacher. As their friendship and […]
Colleen read The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher and this is what she thought… With two dads, four brothers, a cat, a dog, and an imaginary cheetah named Flare – this book is truly overflowing with misadventures! The story follows the Fletchers through one school year. Sam (twelve-years-old) lives and breathes soccer, but his teacher […]
May 4th at 3:30 pm on Zoom May the 4th is Star Wars day so let’s play some BINGO to celebrate! Registrants will be emailed a BINGO card (if you cannot print it out at home, please contact rgagnon@haverhillpl.org and a printout will be provided). There will be PRIZES! Ages 11-18.
HPL Armchair Travelers is going to Argentina. Take a look at all the electronic resources we have on that country, such as ebooks, audiobooks, music, movies, and more. Don’t hesitate to explore on your own! Click on the following link to see a list of e-resources on Argentina!
Based on the novel “You should have known” by Jean Hanff Korelitz, this thrilling miniseries first published on HBO tells the story of a very successful New York therapist, Grace Fraser (Nicole Kidman) married to a respected child oncologist, Jonathan (Hugh Grant) and their lives that spin out of control. After a young mother from […]
A novel about a movie production about a novel; Plain Bad Heroines is layered enough to pull the reader in and clever enough to make it a page turner. The book centers around the school of Brookhants, an all girl’s school on the coast of Rhode Island. A cluster of deaths surrounding the school haunts […]
