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Closings due to weather -- The Library closes if Oyster River Schools close due to snow.

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Library Hours

Monday 10 - 8
Wednesday 10 - 8
Thursday 10 - 4
Saturday 10 - 2

 

Holiday Closings:

New Year's Day
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Memorial Day
July 4th
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas

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What's Happening @ the Madbury Library

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Great Summer Happenings for Kids

9th Annual Bob Connors' Picturing-Writing Week

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Story Times

May 21 and May 24 - Ladybugs are All Aflutter!

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DAYTIME BOOK GROUP DISCUSSION on Mon., May 21st at 2:00 PM

That Used To Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum

Stop by the Library today to get a copy of That Used To Be Us...!

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EVENING BOOK GROUP

*meets the first Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm*

                                

  •    June 5th ~ Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman

DAYTIME BOOK GROUP

*meets the fourth Monday of the month at 2:00 pm* 

*Please note a change of dates for the months of May and June*

                             

  • May 21th ~ That Used To Be Us by Thomas Friedman
  • June 18th: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Copies of books are available at the library each month.

 

Call 743-1400 for additional information.  

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Elaine Sylvester is our featured artist. She has an Ink and Colored Pencil Drawing, titled "Lily," on display at the Library. Come see her beautiful work of art!

WRITING GROUP

Interested in writing? Join the Madbury Library Writing Group! Whether you write memoir, poetry or fiction, this a wonderful opportunity to share your work and receive input from other group members. Newcomers are always welcome to join the group for a fun, low-key and rewarding experience! The Writing Group meets every second Monday of the month at 5:30 P.M.

 

TRUSTEE MEETINGS

The Trustees meet on the first Wednesday of the month at 9:00 A.M.

 

FRIENDS OF THE MADBURY LIBRARY

 

Every patron is a Friend of the Library.  Friends support the Library with their enthusiasm, fresh ideas, and financial and volunteer support to many of the Library's programs. They welcome input from all of the Library's patrons and extend an on-going invitation to attend their meetings. New members are always welcome to join this supportive group! 

 

The Friends of the Madbury Library meet on the second Thursday of the month at 7:00 P.M. The FOML Fund Raising Committee also meets at various times. Please contact the library for more information.


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NEW ARRIVALS:


Adult Fiction
Adult Nonfiction
Adult Audiobooks 

 

Young Adult Fiction
* Isinglass Teen Read Award 2011-2012 nominees

Youth Fiction
Picture books

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Library Quotes

"It occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No...eight days a week."  Alan Bradley, Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.

"If you ask a question, Google will come back with 10,000 answers. A librarian will come back with the correct answer."
Neil Gaiman,

Portsmouth, NH 6/22/11

"Reading a book is like rewriting it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms." -Angela Carter, novelist and journalist (1940-1992) 

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends ... and the most patient of teachers."
Charles W. Eliot
 

"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
— Barbara Kingsolver