Julia Child has been a beloved public figure since the debut of her show The French Chef in 1963 (on Boston's PBS station, WGBH!) Recently, the HBO Max show Julia has been creating more fans of the chef. (If you'd interested in watching the show but don't have HBO, you can request the library's Roku with HBO Max access.) And since July 15th (1912) is Julia's birthday, why not celebrate by making one of her recipes...or maybe just reading about someone else making her recipes?
Cozy Cat Mysteries
August 8th is International Cat Day, which makes it the purrfect time to check out a cozy cat mystery. As you may know, plenty of fictional detectives are aided by their feline companions. Here are twelve series starters for cozy cat mystery series, which will make for great reading with or without a cat on your lap.
2022 Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards
The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards are presented annually at San Diego Comic-Con (or this year in a virtual ceremony) to the best comics creators of the year. You can read more about the Eisner Awards, including a full list of this year's nominees, on the Comic-Con website. Here are this year's winners. PS: Did you know that Hoopla has a great collection of digital comics with no waitlist, including some of this year's Eisner winners like Bitter Root, The Good Asian, Monsters, Run, Something Is Killing The Children, and more. You can find a tutorial about getting started with Hoopla here.
Artist of the Month: August 2022 – MHL Staff: Anna Tschetter, Sarah Margi and Gerry Deyermond Display Case: Andover Teens
Collages Anna Tschetter sheher is one of the Teen Services Librarians at MHL She has been making collages for the last 15 years and loves to use found materials advertising images postcards and all kinds of paper She also enjoys many fiber arts like sewing crochet and embroidery Quilt and Rug Hooking Gerry Deyermond is the Assistant…
August 2022 Book of the Month
A perfect blend of summer, nostalgia, and baseball. Pick up your copy of Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger today.
August 2022 Puzzle: Initial Values
Have you ever heard about a good book, then gone to the catalog to put yourself on hold for it, only to discover that there are already 800 people ahead of you? Next time, be one of the first to get your hold in by signing up for Author Alerts. Just create your free account, then enter the names of your favorite authors and Author Alerts will send you a text or email whenever a title by that author is ordered by the library!
July 2022 Mid-Month Sudoku
Did you hear? You can now use your Andover library card to enjoy games and puzzles from the New York Times. Besides Sudoku, it has Spelling Bee, Letter Boxed, Tiles, Vertex, and the full and mini Crosswords. Visit https://mhl.org/nyt-games to get started!
Artist of the Month: July 2022 – July Artist of the Month- Edie Tang
Artist Edie Tang was born and raised in China She began painting in 2019 She is totally selftaught her first experiences as an artist was when she painted a cartoon portrait on a pair of shoes She discovered she really enjoyed it and had a natural talent She soon started painting human and animal portraits and landscapes…
July 2022 Puzzle: Globetrotter’s salutations and sayonaras
If youre thinking of traveling be sure to get a good guidebook We have an extensive collection of travel guides from Fodors Frommers Lonely Planet Moon Rick Steves Rough Guides Footprint Eyewitness Brandt Falcon Guides and more Those plus dozens of Travel DVDs are located on the Ground Level but if you prefer ebooks many more are…
June 2022 Mid-Month Sudoku
Have you ever wondered what numbers do when they're not in Sudoku puzzles? We have books for that! From Very Short Introductions for numbers and number theory to numerology and incredible numbers--plus the ever-popular pi--you can learn more about numbers here at the library.