How Does Your Garden Grow?

This May, let HPL help transform your garden! Start by checking out our gardening book display on the first floor-you’ll find gardening books, Haverhill Gardening Club membership forms & May event calendar, and several local plant sale flyers. We’ve also created a book list with the most current and helpful gardening titles. You can request [...]

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With or Without You by Domenica Ruta

Trashy North Shore girls unite!  Domenica Ruta’s gritty and dark-witted memoir of growing up in Danvers, MA with a charismatic and destructive drug addicted mother takes you on a wild ride.  This a story that either takes you into a different world or is a story that you know very well, and you are proud [...]

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Suspect by Robert Crais

If you have never read any books by Robert Crais, now is the time. His latest novel, “Suspect’ is great. He weaves a story of a wounded LAPD cop, Scott James who also lost his partner, Stephanie in a shoot out on the streets of Los Angeles and a military working dog, Maggie who was [...]

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Judging A Book By Its Cover: A Pretty Ugly Book Talk

We all know the saying. ‘Don’t Judge a Book by its cover’. And, yeah, well, we all pretty much ignore that. Our shiniest, newest, prettiest books definitely leave the library more often than that slightly older, weirdly covered book. Still, who am I to judge? If you like the pretty books – I’ve got a [...]

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Book Review : Sincerely, Andy Rooney by Andy Rooney

Do you miss Andy Rooney?  I do.  He was my favorite part of 60 minutes.  While we can’t give you his famous expressions under those magnificent eyebrows or the sound of his voice and perfectly cadenced delivery, we can give you his words.  In Sincerely, Andy Rooney, it isn’t hard to see and hear him [...]

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