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.
Artist of the Month: June 2022 – June Artist of the Month- Virginia Guazzaloca
Virginia Guazzaloca Virginia Guazzaloca is a library assistant at Memorial Hall Library She is a photographer based in New England who has been taking photos since she was a young kid Her grandfather gave her his old SLR camera and she never looked back She won an award for her photography at Salem State University where she…
June 2022 Puzzle
Whether you've got a summer trip ahead, are exploring local destinations, or are an avid armchair traveler, we bet you've never been to these mythical destinations--but let us know if you find one!