Check out these adult events happening in August! 8/1 | 5:30-8:30pm | Game Night Join us Thursdays for a night of board games at Haverhill Public Library! Strategy games, abstract games, filler games, complex and non complex alike, come and try out whatever you like. Feel free to bring your own games! All experience levels […]
“The Innocents” (1961), directed by Jack Clayton and starring Deborah Kerr just a few years after she filmed “An Affair to Remember” and “The King and I”, is a creepy, dark ghost movie-cum-psychological thriller well worth a peek (during the daytime, with a friend in the room). Based on Henry James’ iconic ghost story The […]
Get great discounts on a bunch of local museums and more! Did you know you can use your library card at Haverhill Public Library to get great discounts at a variety of local museums (and more!), including the Boston Children’s Museum, New England Aquarium, Boston Harbor Island Ferry, the MFA, and Massachusetts State Parks? You […]
During the Golden Age of Piracy, Jacquotte Delahaye, the daughter of a French father and Haitian mother, is forced to flee her life as a shipwright in Santo Domingo when her father is assassinated. Unfortunately, the ship she escapes on is captured by pirates. She and a fellow refugee named Teresa are made indentured servants […]
Melissa by Alex Gino is a delightful story that highlights the importance of being yourself. The big, bright letters spelling “be who you are” on the back cover suggest it, but the story inside makes it clear. The titular protagonist is a young transgender girl who navigates her gender alongside interactions with family, her best […]
Celebrate the start of the Summer Olympic Games with some movies, biographies that embrace the games! Visit our Booklist page to download this and other custom booklists prepared by our librarians! You can also scroll below to dive into our Olympic list!
Check out these adult events happening in July! 7/1 | 6-7:30pm | English (ESL) Conversation Circle Would you like to practice your English with native speakers in a relaxed and informal environment? Join us for a friendly chat–Monday evenings at 6 pm. 7/2 | 10am-12pm | Classic Matinees Every Tuesday morning in July we will […]
Ria Khan wants nothing more than to become a famous stuntwoman, so she puts all of her prodigious determination and energy into making a name for herself online. She is bullied at school and discouraged by her parents for this dream, so she relies heavily on her older sister Lena. Lena has dropped out of […]
In celebration of this year’s summer reading theme, Read, Renew, Repeat, we’re highlighting the Gale in Context: Environmental Studies database. This resource provides information and sources on a variety of issues relating to the environment and humans, in categories like global change, energy, populations, pollution, Earth systems, and more. All you need is your library […]
Barbara Kingsolver employs her exceptional talent for character development and world-building for the eponymous Damon “Demon Copperhead” Fields, set in Appalachia from the 1990s to today, in her retelling of Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield. For readers of the Dickens tale, it is fun exercise to compare the new and the old versions of the classic […]
