This is a story of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961. An exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past.

Looking for a good book to read? Tune in to hear three NH librarians offer recommendations. Catch their takes on their favorite emerging and diverse authors.

Ariel Lawhon joined us to discuss her novel The Frozen River on November 6, 2024.

A beautiful, tender, yet searing debut novel about intergenerational fractures and coming of age, following a young woman who immigrates to the United States from the Philippines and finds herself adrift between familial expectations and her own desires.

An unlikely production of Euripides in a prison quarry, set in ancient Greece with a contemporary Irish accent. As funny as it is moving, the novel is an ode to the power of art in a time of war, brotherhood in a time of enmity, and human will throughout the ages.

Based on (mostly) true events, The Bullet Swallower is a magical realism western about violence and revenge, a story that asks who pays for the sins of our ancestors, and whether it is possible to be better than our forebears.

A group of passengers on a grand,and fortress-like train known as the Trans-Siberian Express set out across a magical landscape known as the “Wastelands.” Can they trust each other even as the rules seem to be changing?

This debut novel uncovers the story of three generations of Black women, whose lives span the 20th century and reveal a much larger picture of prejudice and abandonment, of love and devotion. A story of friendships, family secrets, and how history shapes us.

Set around Maine’s Penobscot Reservation, a novel about one man’s family, divided, like the river that separates him from his childhood home. The novel is about belonging, the shifting nature of memory - and bloodlines.

Mo Rocca joined us on June 18, 2024 at The Music Hall in Portsmouth to discuss his latest, Roctogenarians.