Mariah’s turn! BRELAND Cross Country SUCH a good album! Track 8 made me cry, track 3 made me dance in my car 🙂 Michael Franti Follow Your Heart and Work Hard & Be Nice This is my go-to happy music! Having a great day? Put these albums on to celebrate! Having a terrible day? Put… Read more »
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Books (and More) We Loved in 2022 Part 2!
Here are Tami’s top reading for 2022! The Rockton Series by Kelley Armstrong City of the Lost A Darkness Absolute This Fallen Prey Watcher in the Woods Alone in the Wild A Stranger in Town The Deepest of Secrets And by Anne LaBastille Woodswoman Beyond Black Bear Lake Here are Cyndi’s picks: Teen Adult
Books (and More) We Loved in 2022 Part 1!
We’re a little late with our top picks this year, so as it is February, we thought we’d keep with the theme and tell you the books (and media), the Topsham Public Library staff loved last year! From Jennifer:In no particular order here are my top picks of 2022: Extraordinary, Ordinary People by Condoleezza Rice… Read more »
You’re letting the flies eat the trees? On Purpose!?
That’s right! We’re just letting them…but for a very good reason. Last week, one of our garden fairies (volunteers) pointed out that we have dogwood sawflies munching on the dogwoods in the birdsong garden. Her research indicated that, if tolerable, it’s not a bad idea to let the sawflies be because they are a great… Read more »
Please include TPL Gardens on your Saturday, May 17
….to help us dig and have a good time this Saturday May 17th. Volunteers are tremendously important to the TPL Gardens. Saturday May 17, from 10AM until 1PM we are looking for energetic individuals to help us with a variety of duties. We’re building different sorts of raised beds. We’ll need extra muscle power to dig,… Read more »
The Banned Book I Bought at the Book Sale by Emma
Today I went to the Friends of Topsham Public Library’s book sale and bought a banned book! I purchased Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak for my niece and nephew. It was banned in many places but went on to win many awards including the Caldecott Medal. There have been many criticisms leveled… Read more »
Banned Books Week is here!
All this week we will be celebrating Banned Books week here at the library. There will be a special display at the library, a dedicated pinterest board (join us here) and TPL staff will share some of their favorite banned books here on the blog. Do you have a favorite banned or challenged book? Let… Read more »
Murder Mystery Dinner 2013
We had a great time this weekend at our annual Murder Mystery Dinner. A glamorous group from the 1920’s landed in a modern day London flat courtesy of H.G. Wells’ time machine! The only thing is, someone murdered Wells and the time machine was broken! Whodunnit? There were many suspects: Dame Agatha Christie, James Joyce,… Read more »