Aaron Cutler Memorial Library

Winners are: Cathy Barillas, Debbie Bois, Judy Boudreau, Earl Corriveau, Liz Fay, Kathleen Follis, Kaz Francis, Amy Goldstein, Doreen Harvey, Janice Hood, Sheila Huston, Rhonda Landrau, Bethellen Ledoux, Trudy Lemmens, Becky Moore, Alex Robinson, Michelle Rousseau, and Diane Wirbal.

Consolation prizes (a McDonald’s sundae and $1 Book Buck to Friends of Library book sales) went to: Kelly Bois, Laura Dampolo, Darcy Donahue, Mary Franck, Diane Monico, Meagan Mycroft, Tina Phillips, Kerri Sullivan, and Barbara Trevains.

Fun Facts
Most books read: Sheila Huston (22)
Most activities completed: Doreen Harvey (28)
Most tickets earned: Doreen Harvey (40)

See you next summer!

Labels: ReC RooM News, summer reading club for adults

Get Your Green On Weekly Winner

Doreen Harvey is the final Weekly Raffle winner in the Get Your Green On summer reading club for adults. Doreen took home the book, Haley's Hints Green Edition: 1000 Great Tips to Save Time, Money and the Planet!

Labels: ReC RooM News, summer reading club for adults

 

A Nutty Squirrel Make 'n Take

Children can stop by the Young Readers' Room for our September Make 'n Take, A Nutty Squirrel, the week of September 15th. Make it here or take it with you for some crafting fun at home! Kits available Tuesday and Wednesday 12-8 pm or during normal library hours on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Labels: events/activities for kids, KiDS' RooM News, make 'n take

 

Electrical Storm Woes

Saturday's electrical storm fried our network here at the library. Nothing our IT guy and a wad of cash couldn't fix. The network is up and running again, so you should have no problem accessing the web catalog, unless you're using the wrong web address. The new router picked up a new IP address, so if you have the web catalog bookmarked, you'll want to update that to: http://75.67.231.143:85/winnebago/search/search.asp?lib=4576.

Labels: catalog, miscellaneous, website news

 

Summer Reading Sponsors are Priceless

Without sponsors, our three summer reading clubs would just limp along. With these sponors, they soar. A tremendous "Thanks" goes out to each of them!

Final Prize Sponsors:

• McDonald's of Hudson


• Bugaboo Creek


• Papa Gino's


• O'Neil Theatres

Other Prize Sponsors:

• American Defenders of NH


• Boucher's Greenhouse


• Build-a-Bear Workshop


• Canobie Lake Park


• Christmas Tree Shops


• Flowers on the Hill


• Friends of the Library


• Hannaford


• Mel's Funway Park


• The Painted Lady


• Papa Gino's


• Passaconaway Country Club


• Pizza Man


• Professor's Sports Pub


• Romano's Pizza


• Shaw's


• T-Bones/Cactus Jack's


• Water Country

Event Sponsors:

• Byrne Foundation


• CHILIS


• Cogswell Benevolent Trust


• Continental Paving


• DLB Paving


• Fred Fuller Oil Co


• Jolt Electric


• Litchfield Garage


• New England Small Tube


• NH Library Association


• Optimum Building Systems & Mgmt.


• Pantry Pride


• Tim's Turf

Labels: summer reading club for adults, summer reading club for kids, summer reading club for teens

 

Vamptastic Pizza and Prizes for Tweens and Teens

Tweens and Teens in the Sink Your Teeth Into a Good Book summer reading club enjoyed pizza, soda and cupcakes on Friday, August 14th. Having earned raffle tickets for reading and other activities over 7 weeks, they were ready to see who's names would get called out in the final giveaway. 15 lucky winners received prizes such as tickets to Water Country, Canobie Lake, Mel's Funway and Appletree Cinemas. Others won DVDs, books, pizza, and more. Congrats to Harrison Hildago, Rachel Stanhope, Kate Kuegler, Jeffrey Briggs, Ethan Wester, Heather Holmgren, Connor Robinson, Michael Devereaux, Katie Soraghan, Saren Dyac, Renatta Landrau, Katie Hood, Corey Chartier, Alana Rochford, and Hannah Rousseau!

Labels: events/activities for teens, summer reading club for teens, TeeN RooM News

 

The Final Meltdown was a Yummy Success!

Children in the Summertime and the Reading is Easy summer reading club gathered on Friday, August 7th for ice cream sundaes, final prizes, and the final raffle. Sharing ice cream with family and friends was the perfect way the end the 6-week event that featured reading, games, crafts, contests, performances, and more. Children exchanged their point logs for raffle tickets and waited with great anticipation to see if their names would be called. Miss Carrie-Anne helped the lucky raffle winners choose their prizes, and then handed out final prizes to all those who earned 36 points overall. Final prizes included a sundae from McDonald's of Hudson, a slice of pizza from Papa Gino's, and a kid's meal from Bugaboo Creek. Check out the pictures here.

Labels: events/activities for kids, KiDS' RooM News, summer reading club for kids

 

Get Your Green On Weekly Winner

Congratulations to Mary Pacheco, the 7th Weekly Raffle winner for the Get Your Green On summer reading club! Mary will choose from the remaining 4 prizes in the Gift Shop.

Labels: ReC RooM News, summer reading club for adults

 

Surf-It Week 8

Find us a song about a frog in the final Surf-It activity!

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This Week in Summer Reading...

Get Your Green On @ Cutler Library! (adults)

This is the final week folks!

Hollywood Hucksters
Match the Hollywood celeb to his/her "green" initiative and earn 1 weekly raffle ticket.

Surf-It
Watch this website and take part in the last online activity for the summer worth 1 weekly raffle ticket.

Take a Skinny Dip
Pick up the Book of the Month, Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen. Earn 2 weekly raffle tickets if you can finish it by Friday at 6:00 pm.

Raffle Prizes to be Awarded Next Tuesday
Make sure you wrap everything up by Friday at 6:00 pm so you can maximize the number of raffle tickets you will have in next week's drawing!

 

Surf-It Week 7

Are you a poet and you know it? Try out this week's Surf-It activity and we'll find out!

Labels: events/activities for adults, ReC RooM News, summer reading club for adults

 

Sink Your Teeth Into a Good Book Weekly Winner

Congratulations to Tommy Devereaux! He's the Week 6 winner in the Tween & Teen summer reading club. Tommy won a large cheese pizza from Professor's Pizza and a movie ticket to O'Neil Cinemas. There's only one week remaining, so keep those tickets coming in!

Labels: summer reading club for teens, TeeN RooM News

 

Get Your Green On Weekly Winner

Maureen Heiser is the winner of the Weekly Raffle for week 6 of the Get Your Green On summer reading club. Maureen will choose from the remaining 5 terrific prizes in the Gift Shop.

There are two prize drawings remaining. Don't miss out on your chance to win!

Labels: ReC RooM News, summer reading club for adults

 

Design-It Next Week

Make greeting cards with Ann on Tuesday, August 18th at 6:30 p.m. Registration required.

Labels: events/activities for adults, ReC RooM News, summer reading club for adults

 

This Week in Summer Reading...

Sink Your Teeth Into a Good Book! (grades 6 & up)

Vamptastic Pizza and Raffle Party
Celebrate the end of summer reading this Friday at 3pm. RSVP at the library.

Slitherin' Craft to Go
Pick up a kit to take home and make a slitherin' zipper pull.

Where's Batty
Figure out where Batty is for his final week. Earn 1 weekly raffle ticket.

The Search for Twilight
Find the hidden Twilight words and earn 1 weekly raffle ticket.


Get Your Green On @ Cutler Library! (adults)

Composting is A-Mazing
Get the apple core to the compost box and earn 1 weekly raffle ticket.

Surf-It
Watch this website for this week's online activity worth 1 weekly raffle ticket.

Take a Skinny Dip
Pick up the Book of the Month, Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen. Earn 2 weekly raffle tickets when you finish.

Labels: this week

 

New Stuff @ Your Library!

Here is some more new stuff to hit the shelf:

Adult Fiction
Black Hills by Nora Roberts
The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand
The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells
The Defector by Daniel Silva
Guardian of Lies by Steve Martini
Storm Cycle by Iris Johansen
Summer Knight by Jim Butcher

DVDs
Gran Torino
He's Just Not That Into You

Check the online catalog for availability. If the title you want has already been checked-out, place it on reserve through the online catalog or at the Circulation Desk.

Labels: new stuff for adults, ReaDiNG RooM News, ReC RooM News

 

All Booked Up Reads A Year in Provence for September

Pick up a copy of Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence and join the discussion on Wednesday, September 2nd at 6:30 p.m.

From the Publisher...

In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights in the glorious regional cuisine. A Year in Provence transports us into all the earthy pleasures of Provençal life and lets us live vicariously at a tempo governed by seasons, not by days.

Reading Group Guide

Coming next: The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd

Labels: all booked up, book discussion for adults, ReaDiNG RooM News

 

Rolling Stone On The Magazine Stand

Rolling Stone is a newcomer to our magazine stand this year. This month’s cover story is the ever popular boy band the Jonas Brothers, sure to be a crowd-pleaser with your younger daughters and their friends. With six pages devoted to the band, you get a real taste of what they are like in person.

I, however, being a seasoned rock fan, enjoyed the article on the recent Aerosmith tour stop at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, MA. Joe Perry is reported to have the phrase "I read a lot of historical novels" air brushed on their tour bus. (I'm always on the lookout for avid readers!) They devoted a good portion of the show to playing songs from their "album" Toy's In the Attic, peaking with a guitar solo by Perry during Sweet Emotion. This was one of the first records I bought with my own money as a kid. Am I dating myself?

If you can remember Woodstock, or hearing about it from relatives, be sure to read the article about the new book The Road To Woodstock by Michael Lang. He and former Rolling Stone editor George Waren relied on interviews with musicians and co-workers, audio tapes from the festival, and documentation from old files to jog their memories of 40 yrs ago. Greats like Jim Morrison passed on playing at the festival for fear of being assassinated on stage, and John Lennon couldn't make it due to an earlier drug bust that prevented him from traveling to America. However, the legend Jimi Hendrix did play and demanded $30,000 and a pound of cocaine to be donated to the crew on the first morning. As the 40th year anniversary approaches, Michael Lang seems to be trying to pull together another concert for late September, even though performers have yet to be invited. Can he pull it off again? We'll all have to wait and see.

Rolling Stone is also available full-text through MasterFile Premier from August 1990 to the present. Contact us for log-in information.

Labels: magazine stand

 

Vamptastic Pizza Party and Raffle

The Tween & Teen summer reading club, Sink Your Teeth Into a Good Book, is coming to an end next week. As usual, we intend to celebrate with pizza and prizes on Friday, August 14th at 3:00 p.m.! Raffle prize winners will be selected from all raffle tickets accumulated over the summer, and winners do not need to be present to win. Prizes include: 2 passes to Water Country, movie passes to O'Neil Cinemas, a Fun Pass to Mel's Funway Park, 2 tickets to Canobie Lake Park, pizza at Papa Gino's, and more!

Be sure to RSVP at the library, by email, or by phone, so we know how much pizza to order.

Labels: events/activities for teens, summer reading club for teens, TeeN RooM News

 

Skinny Dip is the Book of the Month in August

Skinny Dip is our featured novel for August. Pick up a copy and get lost in the Everglades in this screwball story by comic novelist Carl Hiaasen. Using Hiaasen's website, answer the handful of short questions included with the book and earn 1 weekly raffle ticket in the Get Your Green On summer reading club.

Kirkus Reviews had this to say...

Florida's preeminent satirist returns from a YA excursion (Hoot, 2002) to ask the eternal question: What happens when the wife you've killed isn't dead? Joey Perrone can't imagine why her husband married her or why he wanted to kill her. But it's too late to ask now that Joey's struggling to stay afloat several stories below the ship deck he pushed her from during their anniversary cruise. She doesn't know that Chaz was afraid his wife had discovered that he was nothing but big-ticket farmer Red Hammernut's "biostute," a State of Florida biological inspector who was faking the results of phosphate testing in order to give Red's mega-polluting farm a clean bill of health. Now that she's presumed dead, Joey and Mick Stranahan, the State's Attorney's investigator who's been pensioned off to the middle of nowhere so that he can rescue her, have all the time in the world to figure out why Chaz wanted to get rid of Joey and what naughty games he's been up to. Their interventions soon escalate from creepy pranks against the grieving widower to a blackmail demand backed up by a faked video of the murder. Meanwhile, Det. Karl Rolvaag, the investigator who's counting the days till he can leave South Florida and return to frigid Minnesota, develops suspicions of his own about Ricca Spillman, the stylist who's been solacing Chaz. And Earl Edward O'Toole, the apelike minder Hammernut has hung around Chaz's neck, begins to move beyond inarticulate resentment at the bullet lodged in his butt-crease when he's befriended by an elderly cancer patient whose Fentanyl patch he's swiping. The crew is rounded out by the usual cargo of zanies, with Hiaasen's signature attention to nonhuman members of the cast. "Ihad a feeling he didn't love me any more," muses bobbing Joey, "but this is ridiculous." It's also bitingly satirical, sublimely zany, and deeply satisfying.

Labels: book of the month club, ReaDiNG RooM News, summer reading club for adults

 

Cirque du Freak is the Tween & Teen Book of the Month

Be sure to borrow a copy of Darren Shan's Cirque du Freak #1: Living Nightmare. "Cirque Du Freak is the frightening saga of a young boy whose visit to a mysterious freak show leads him on a journey into a dark world of vampires. Filled with grotesque creatures, murderous vampires, and a petrifying ending, Cirque Du Freak will chill, thrill, and leave [you] begging for more." (from the publisher) With another 11 novels in the series, you won't have to beg for too long! Then watch for the movie release in October under the name The Vampire's Assistant.

Labels: summer reading club for teens, TeeN RooM News

 

Surf-It Week 6

Print the Week 6 Surf-It Coupon and make at least five words from the letters in the word ECOLOGY. Bring it to the library and exchange it for 1 weekly raffle ticket.

Labels: events/activities for adults, ReC RooM News, summer reading club for adults

 

Sink Your Teeth Into a Good Book Weekly Raffle Winner

Katie Hood is the latest weekly raffle winner in the Tween and Teen summer reading club! Katie won a large cheese pizza from Professor's Pizza and a movie ticket to O'Neil Cinemas. Pizza and a movie--sounds perfect to me.

There are two more chances to win, so be sure to come in and earn your raffle tickets!

Labels: events/activities for teens, summer reading club for teens, TeeN RooM News

 

Get Your Green On Weekly Winner

Congratulations to Melissa Pelletier, the Week 5 raffle winner in the Get Your Green On summer reading club! Melissa will get to choose from the 6 magnificent prizes remaining in the Gift Shop.

There's still time for you to be a winner too! Just read a book and get a raffle ticket. Pretty simple. You can also participate in other activities at the library to earn even more tickets. There's no excuse not to enter.

Labels: events/activities for adults, ReC RooM News, summer reading club for adults

 

Design-It @ the Library

Our adult patrons are invited to mark their calendars for a Design-It Card Making Workshop to be held on Tuesday, August 18th at 6:30 pm. Each Participant will make two greeting cards to take home. Registration is required. Don't miss out on the fun!

Labels: events/activities for adults, ReC RooM News, summer reading club for adults

 

This Week in Summer Reading...

Summertime and the Reading is Easy Final Week! (age 3 - 5th grade)

What-a-Melon Take 'n Make
Pick up a juicy watermelon craft kit to make at home. Earn 4 points.

Sunny Stories
Join Miss Carrie-Anne on the lawn Wednesday morning at 10:30 for the last story time of the summer. Bring a blanket to sit on. (Weather permitting.)

The Final Meltdown Ice Cream Party
Celebrate the end of the summer reading club on Friday at 3:00 with our annual ice cream party! Raffle prizes will be drawn, and coupons for final prizes will be available. (You don't have to be present to win.) Register by 8:00 pm on Wednesday.

Point Log Deadline

Return point logs by noon on Friday to be eligible for the afternoon raffle drawing. Return point logs anytime up until the end of August to receive final prizes.

Sink Your Teeth Into a Good Book! (grades 6 & up)

Supernatural Survivor
Find out if you're a survivor Tuesday night as you match wits with the Isle of Doom. Earn 1 weekly raffle ticket. Registration is required. Call for availability.

Tombstone Translation

Tombstones can be cryptic. Can you translate this one? Earn 1 weekly raffle ticket.

You Know You're With a Vampire When...
Finish that sentence 3 times and earn 1 weekly raffle ticket.

Book of the Month Available

Cirque du Freak by Darren Shan is now available for check-out! Get your copy while supplies last.


Get Your Green On @ Cutler Library! (adults)

All Booked Up Discussion

Discuss Ken Follet's World Without End on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

Just Shocking
Determine how many watts can be saved with spiral fluorescent light bulbs and earn 1 weekly raffle ticket.

Design-It

Registration begins Tuesday for Ann's greeting card making event to be held August 18th at 6:30 p.m.

Surf-It
Watch this website for this week's online activity worth 1 weekly raffle ticket.

Labels: this week

Remember to READ 4 THe FuN oF iT @ Aaron Cutler Memorial Library!