You can't go home again

For 20 years, American-born author Bill Bryson traveled the world, and wrote funny stories about it until he settled in England.

Back in the United States, he wrote a weekly British newspaper column with his humorous observations about the changes that have taken place since he lived here last. Those articles have been assembled into the book I'm a Stranger Here Myself.

Join us on Thursday, May 12 around noontime in the library.

The library has copies of the book and audio available for checkout.

Library Program for Kids

White Mountains Community College's Fortier Library is now hosting a semi-monthly story hour along with crafts and healthy snacks targeted mostly to pre-school age children.

Please join us in the library on Wednesday March 9th from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. The next story hour is on Wednesday, April 6th.

Stark Decency

Read Allen Koop's real life account of the WWII German prisoner of war camp in Stark, New Hampshire, Stark Decency and the remarkable stories of the people involved. Copies of the book are available for loan in the WMCC Library.

The discussion will be on Wednesday, April 6, around noon, in the WMCC Fortier Library. Bring your lunch!

Spring Break Hours

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Jamie Ford's debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet intertwines first love, racism, patriotism, family dynamics, cultural differences, and American history.

Bring your lunch to our March 9th discussion, meeting around noontime.

Copies of the book, including audio, are available in the library.

The Maine Woods Discussion rescheduled

The Northern Forest Series discussion of Thoreau's The Maine Woods led by Craig Doherty, with funding from the New Hampshire Humanities Council, is rescheduled for Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 at 7 p.m. at White Mountains Community College Fortier Library

Copies of the book are available at WMCC Fortier Library

Visit the Northern Forest at WMCC

The Northern Forest Center's National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Ways of the Woods exhibit will be open to the college community and the public at White Mountains Community College until April.

To accompany the exhibit, WMCC's Fortier Library and Berlin Public Library will host a Northern Forest series with three book discussions and one talk, thanks to funding from the New Hampshire Humanities Council.

The schedule:

The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau on February 2, 2011 led by Craig Doherty

Where the Rivers Flow North by Howard Frank Mosher on March 2, 2011 led by Craig Doherty

The Northern Forest edited by David Dobbs and Richard Ober on March 30, 2011 led by Michael Wilson, Senior Program Director of the Northern Forest Center

And, on April 13, 2011, Rebecca Rule will give her talk, Cross Cut

All of these events will take place at WMCC Fortier Library on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.