Book description (from Novelist): “After being [...]]]> Pick up a copy of Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother today and join us for pizza and a discussion of this book and other dystopian novels (Hunger Games, anyone?) at 6 pm on Tuesday, July 19. Can’t come in person? Join us via Skype, just let us know ahead of time.

Book description (from Novelist): “After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.”

You can borrow a print copy of the book from the library, or find it online. Doctorow has made the ebook version of Little Brother freely available in many formats, download it at http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/.

If you like to listen to books, the audio version can be downloaded for free during the week of June 30-July 6 at http://www.audiobooksync.com/. Audiobook can also be found at NH Downloadable Books.

The Teen Book Club will meet again on August 16 at 6 pm and we’re asking you to nominate a title. Click here to let us know your choice.

Frumie Selchen, executive director of the Arts Alliance of Northern NH, will lead the first discussion on P. G. Wodehouse’s Pigs Have Wings [...]]]> The Madison Library has received a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities Council to present a “What Is New Hampshire Reading?” book discussion series this summer on the theme “Humor Here and There.”

Frumie Selchen, executive director of the Arts Alliance of Northern NH, will lead the first discussion on P. G. Wodehouse’s Pigs Have Wings at 7 pm on Tuesday, June 28, 2011. Books can be borrowed now; pick one up and plan to join us.

The series will continue on July 26 at 7 pm, with a discussion of The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty, led by Clia Goodwin. Then on August 23, the series will wrap up with Elizabethada Wright leading a discussion of Garrison Keillor’s Lake Woebegone Days.

Join us on Tuesday, August 24 at 6 pm for a community potluck and discussion. We’ll use Jean Fritz’s biography of President James Madison, “The Great Little Madison,” as a starting point as we talk about our town’s namesake and why our town’s founders chose to [...]]]>

Image from Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Join us on Tuesday, August 24 at 6 pm for a community potluck and discussion. We’ll use Jean Fritz’s biography of President James Madison, “The Great Little Madison,” as a starting point as we talk about our town’s namesake and why our town’s founders chose to honor this Founding Father when the town was incorporated in 1852. Fritz’s book, a “brisk, highly accessible biography” (Publishers Weekly), is a good read for both children and adults.

Copies of the book are available to borrow at the library, but feel free to come to the potluck discussion whether or not you’ve read the book. Bring a dish to share, we’ll provide cold beverages.

Here are some resources about James Madison for further reading:

Library of Congress Web Guide: James Madison

Books available at the Madison Library:

• The Federalist Papers
  
• James Madison: Creating the American Constitution by Neal Riemer
• Founding Brothers and American Creation by Joseph J. Ellis
• Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America by Jack Rakove

Written for older children, award-winning author Jean Fritz has made this book about James Madison–Founding Father and our town’s namesake–an accessible and fun read for all ages. Families are encouraged to read it aloud together to include younger children.

Multiple [...]]]> . . . to all Madison residents of all ages:

Madison Reads The Great Little Madison

Written for older children, award-winning author Jean Fritz has made this book about James Madison–Founding Father and our town’s namesake–an accessible and fun read for all ages. Families are encouraged to read it aloud together to include younger children.

Multiple copies of this book are available at the library, pick one up to read this summer.

All are invited to come together as a community on Tuesday, August 24 at 6 pm to share a potluck meal and talk about the book, President Madison’s contributions to our country, and why our town’s founders chose to name this town after him.

The Madison Library was awarded a “We the People” Bookshelf grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Each year, the NEH puts together a set of books on a theme “important to the nation’s heritage” to “encourage and strengthen the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture.” The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz is one of the books in the set that was given to the Madison Library.

Madison Library’s Big Read NH events take place this week and next. If you haven’t picked up a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird, there are several available at the the library. But whether you read the book this month, or you read it years ago, or haven’t read it yet, everyone is welcome at [...]]]>

BigReadNH

Madison Library’s Big Read NH events take place this week and next. If you haven’t picked up a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird, there are several available at the the library. But whether you read the book this month, or you read it years ago, or haven’t read it yet, everyone is welcome at all of these events.

On Tuesday, March 16 at 7 pm, Attorney Richard Hesse will speak about “Civil Liberties vs. Security” at the library. This is a New Hampshire Humanities Council program. Hesse (J.D., Georgetown University; Professor Emeritus, Franklin Pierce Law Center) will speak about lawyers engaged in unpopular causes, much as Atticus Finch was in “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Hesse will link this issue to the present by discussing lawyers involved in questioning provisions of the Patriot Act and other national security efforts.

On Tuesday, March 23 at 12:45 pm, the To Kill a Mockingbird film will be shown at Silver Lake Landing, after the senior dining lunch. Later that evening, at 7 pm,  the Madison Library book group will meet to discuss the book at the library. As always at our book group meetings, refreshments will be served.

The Madison Library is one of more than 100 partners working with The Center for the Book at the New Hampshire State Library to bring The Big Read: NH Reads To Kill a Mockingbird to the Granite State during March 2010. The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest.

Copies of the book [...]]]>
What: NH Reads To Kill a Mockingbird
When: March 2010
Where: Programs at Madison Library, Effingham Public Library, Freedom Public Library, Jackson Public Library, Conway Public Library, White Birch Books, and locations throughout NH.
Who: Readers across NH and you!
Why: An American classic! Lots to discuss, well worth reading and rereading.

Copies of the book will be available soon. Let us know if you’d like to reserve one.