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The sculpture of the polar bear family that sits in front of the library was designed and created by artist and sculptor Jim Sardonis. It was commissioned by the library……polar bear family for the front of the Main Street property. This past January, the Board of Selectmen unanimously voted to support our gift to the town. Learn more Our……list of Polar Bear Resources includes dozens of books, children’s books, movies and web sites about polar bears and the Arctic. Want to know what it’s like to be a……appear Why a polar bear family? Like many of Jim’s sculptures, the subject matter of a mother polar bear and her cubs both depicts a scene from nature and is…

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…eerily similar crime. Excavations : a novel by Kate Myers Four female colleagues on an archeological site at the Megalopolis in rural Greece, each at a very different crossroad in……beautiful, sun-drenched Greek islands, this novel paints a loving portrait of a community in crisis. As the island residents grapple with declining tourism, poverty, refugees, family feuds, and a perilously……prompting a visit to the beautiful Greek isles, where she reconnects with the past while trying to heal her family. A theater for dreamers by Polly Samson An 18-year-old woman……runs an NGO on Lesbos, Greece, Mina Simpson, an Arab American doctor, finds herself bonding with Sumaiya, a Syrian refugee with liver cancer who is determined to protect her family….

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…the Newburyport studio of Robert Scott Jackson, a Copley master painter. Michael is a native of Nova Scotia and moved with his family as a child to the village of……Garden City, a suburb of New York City on Long Island. He lived and worked in the New York area until moving his own family to North Andover in the……to favorite causes of his family including North Andover’s Hermann Youth Center, the Essex Art Center in Lawrence, Swim Across America/Dana Farber Cancer Institute, the Brain Tumor Foundation at Newton……enhanced awareness and appreciation of the ever changing physical world around us all and which he admits he took for granted prior to his putting brush to canvas. WEBSITE: Michael…

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…get suggestions for what actions to take at the Banned Books Week website. Another great way to celebrate your freedom to read is to check out one of the top……includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gayfan fiction, and facing the trauma and……fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story:……into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love. Let’s talk about it : the teen’s guide to sex, relationships, and being a human by Erika Moen…

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…Andover Mending: Healing and Resilience – have provided opportunities for wonder and contemplation along Main Street in Andover, MA. Website: https://www.mfcreates.com Instagram: @725Fulton Email: molly.725fulton@gmail.com Cazimi Collaborative Website: https://www.cazimicreativecollaborative.com Instagram:……kept coming back to clay, concentrating on both functional vessels and sculptural pieces. She began her professional career as a gallerist in Boston for many years, working in her family’s…

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…see the full list of winners (which includes some categories we can’t stock at MHL like Best Editor and Best Fan Writer) on the Hugo Awards website here. Some desperate……Saga, Vol. 11 by Brian K. Vaughan Best Graphic Story or Comic The sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the universe. When two soldiers……from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old world A city on Mars :…

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“I was a black woman according to my family, society’s one-drop rule and my birth certificate. It was culturally and legally ridiculous to wonder if I wasn’t. Yet my biological……ancestry counted for absolutely nothing. My beloved mother was white.” Former Andover resident, E. Dolores Johnson discusses her new book, Say I’m Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets and……Love, with author, Grace Talusan. It’s a multi-generational memoir that reveals America’s changing attitudes toward race mixing, discovered through the courageous journeys of her family’s women. Johnson’s parents fled to……family, and in so doing, wrestles with identity, class, and education, aiming a potent lens at what it means to be biracial and shining more light on the racism that…

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…family in the new novel by the author of World’s End. The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton Born during a powerful hurricane, Wanda, an unusual woman in a rapidly changing……world, loses family, gains community and ultimately seeks adventure, love and purpose in a place abandoned by civilization and remade by nature. The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow Thirty years……Great Massasauga Swamp, 11-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love and violent men where the only bridge……a hurricane upends everything they have taken for granted, the privileged Larson-Hall family find themselves displaced to a FEMA megashelter where their new community includes an insurance-agent-turned-drug dealer, a group…

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…written by Black authors! Acts of forgiveness : a novel by Maura Cheeks A single mother is surprised when her family blocks her from uncovering her family‘s ancestry, past and……her siblings–whom she hasn’t seen in 60 years–and discover the secret that tore her family apart. James : a novel by Percival Everett Describes the events of The Adventures of……A love song for Ricki Wilde : a novel by Tia Williams Leaving behind her socialite family in Atlanta, Ricki Wilde moves to New York to open a flower shop…

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…comforting aromatic Indian flavors: Indian food from home, cooked with heart. Ammu is a collection of recipes from Asma Khan’s childhood, from her Indian family kitchen. It is a celebration……the generations of her family. The chili cookbook : a history of the one-pot classic, with cook-off-worthy recipes from three-bean to four-alarm, and con carne to vegetarian by Robb Walsh……as handed down through her own family history, offers more than 125 recipes that show the true diversity of American Food. Practically vegan : more than 100 easy, delicious vegan……to exciting ways to bring global flavors to a kosher kitchen through 150 modern recipes that keep kosher food exciting and delicious for the entire family. Vegetarian Chinese soul food…

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