Did you now the library has a number of magazine subscriptions?  Patrons can browse thru the collection or borrow them to take home and read at a more leisurely pace.  Have a look at New Hampshire magazine or Yankee to get some “local” info, keep up on current events with Newsweek, Time, or Consumer Reports, grab Outside or Mother Earth News for some interesting and educational reading or hunker down this fall with some new recipes from Food and Wine, home ideas from Martha Stewart Living or Country Living!

  Subtitled Beyond the Kindertransport: A memoir of Music, Love and Survival, The Children of Willesden Lane is “A tale of one young woman’s courage…hopeful, personal, and true.” -Los Angeles Times.  Fourteen-year-old Lisa Jura was a musical prodigy who hoped to become a concert pianist.  But when Hitler’s armies advanced on pre-war Vienna, Lisa’s parents were forced to make a difficult decision.  Able to secure passage for only on of their three daughters aboard the Kindertransport, they chose to send gifted Lisa to London and safety.  Based on the true story of her mother, the author describes the inspirational story of  Lisa Jura’s escape from Nazi-controlled Austria.  Please join us on Tuesday, August 9th at 7 pm  when Linda Hastings facilitates this heartfelt tale.  Copies of the book are available in the library.

The Friends of the BPL have purchased a NH State Parks Library Pass that is available to our patrons. The pass is valid for 2 adults and up to 4 dependents to all day use parks with the following exceptions – Cannon Mountain Tram, Flume Gorge, Hampton Beach, South Beach and Wallis Sands State Park. The pass is only valid for the date of issue and does not guarantee access. The Division of Parks and Recreation requires advanced day-use reservations to guarantee access to a park. For additional information or to reserve a pass please call or e-mail the library, 374-2755 or

Three mixed-race girls are torn brutally from their Aboriginal mother and sent over a thousand miles away to a training camp for domestic workers as part of a government policy to integrate them into white society.  Linking the camp and their distant home territory is a vast rabbit-proof fence which stretches from one coast to another and just might help the girls find their way back.

Join us for a discussion of this book, loosely based on a true story concerning the author’s mother.  Dr. Gaye Gould will facilitate what promises to be a fascinating discussion.  Copies of the book are available at the library.