2016 Librarians’ Choice Is Now Available

We are proud to present the 2016 Librarians’ Choice; our favorite books of the year. We hope you enjoy them!

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, vol. 1: The Crucible by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa A Taste for Nightshade by Martine Bailey The Twenty-Three by Linwood Barclay The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett The Girl Who Drank The Moon by Kelly Regan Barnhill How To Set A Fire and Why by Jesse Ball Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin Letters from Paris by Juliet Blackwell The Immortals by Jordanna Max Brodsky Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton The Stargazer’s Sister by Carrie Brown Tumbledown Manor by Helen Brown Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis The Course of Love by Alain De Botton American Housewife by Helen Ellis Siracusa by Delia Ephron Jane Steele by Lindsay Faye Belgravia by Julian Fellowes Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer Paladin’s Odyssey by Bruce Fottler Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Helig Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen The Fireman by Joe Hill Faithful by Alice Hoffman Roses and Rot by Kat Howard

The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey The Tea Planter’s Wife by Dinah Jefferies News of the World by Paulette Jiles The Vegetarian by Han Kang The Lost Boy by Camilla Lackberg The Language of Sisters by Cathy Lamb The Children's Home by Charles Lambert The Children by Ann Leary Blood Wedding by Pierre Lemaitre Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat! vol. 1 by Kate Leth Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows The City Baker's Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty Sweetgirl by Travis Mulhauser Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny The Assistants by Camille Perri Barkskins by Annie Proulx Miller’s Valley by Anna Quindlen Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney The Visitors by Simon Sylvester Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by Jack Thorne Saga Vol. 6 by Brian K. Vaughan Flight Patterns by Karen White Girl Through Glass by Sari Wilson Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon Non-Fiction The Holistic Home by Laura Benko National Geographic  Rarely Seen by Susan Hitchcock They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Hold Still by Sally Mann Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton Hamilton: the revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda Girls & Sex by Peggy Orenstein Textbook by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

 

Get Free Books, Music and Movies Without Getting Cold!

It's shaping up to be a brutal New England winter. I didn't want to go outside today, and I don't want to go out tomorrow.  If you feel the same way, I have a suggestion as to how you can keep entertained when your library books, music and movies run out.
Sign up for a free account at Hoopla with your Dover Public Library card. 
Hoopla offers over 280,000 music albums, 145,000 eBooks, 37,000 audiobooks, and 12,000 movies and TV shows that you can stream or download instantly!

A free hoopla app is available for many Android, iOS and Kindle devices. Use the app to watch, listen to or read any hoopla titles.

You can also play titles on your computer. To play titles using Internet Explorer or Safari, you'll need to install the free Widevine plugin on your web browser.
You can watch hoopla movies and TV shows on your TV with the hoopla iOS or Android app and Apple TV or Chromecast devices. Or you can connect your device to your television using an HDMI adapter. 

You may borrow 8 items per month.
Most movie and TV content is available for 3 days (a very small number of movie titles are available for 2 days).
Music albums are available for 7 days,
Audiobooks are available for 21 days.

eBooks are available for 21 days.

Borrowed titles will be automatically returned when lending period is over.

December is a Busy Month @ Your Library

There are quite a few fun things going on at the Library this weekend!

 

Looking for unique Dover gifts?

Start your Christmas shopping at the Library. We offer an assortment of gifts unique to Dover.

Dover Public Library Bookbag. The latest design of our popular bookbags has a zippered pocket inside, handy for keys and library cards, as well as a pocket on the front of the bag. $15.00

Birds Eye View of Dover 1888, a poster sized map from the Friends of the Library.$5.00

Library Notepaper  $7.00

The Port of Dover: Two Centuries of Shipping on the Cochecho by Robert Whitehouse and Cathleen Beaudoin. $25.00

Factory on Fire! Cocheco Mill Blaze of 1907 Revealed DVD. $20.00

The Great Blaze: A Look Back at Dover's Deadly Mill Fire DVD. 12.95

Tri-Cities Memories photo book by Foster's Daily Democrat $39.50


Dover Jigsaw Puzzle $20.00

Come on in and see what else we have to offer!

Library Hours for the Thanksgiving Weekend

Library hours for the Thanksgiving Holiday will be:

Wednesday, Nov. 23 - 9am to 5:30pm
Thursday and Friday, Nov. 24 & 25 - Closed
Saturday, November 26 - 9am to 5:00pm
Sun., Nov. 27 - Closed

Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

 

Hour of Code Event

Dover Public Library
Celebrating Computer Science Education Week
with Hour of CodeTM Sessions

The Library is pleased to host 4 sessions of Hour of Code during Computer Science Education Week, December 5 – 11.  All ages sessions will be held on Monday, December 5 from 6pm to 7pm or 7pm to 8pm.  Sessions for kids in grades 3 and up will be on Saturday, December 10 from 10am to 11am or 11am to 12pm.

 Registration is required to use one of the Library’s computers.  No registration is required to use your own laptop.  Register by calling 516-6050 or online at library.dover.nh.gov.   "The Hour of Code is designed to demystify code and show that computer science is not rocket science—anybody can learn the basics," said Hadi Partovi, founder and CEO of Code.org. "Over 100 million students worldwide have tried an Hour of Code. The demand for relevant 21st century computer science education crosses all borders and knows no boundaries."  If you have any questions please call Denise LaFrance at 516-6050.

Send Us Your Best Bookface!

Gothic Victorian Tales by Candlelight

       On November 15 at 7pm, the Friends of the Dover Public Library will present an evening of theatrical storytelling by Rita Parisi of Waterfall Productions. “Gothic Victorian Tales by Candlelight” will feature a trio of stories by South Berwick’s noted author, Sarah Orne Jewett (1849—1909), one of the most prolific female writers of the 19^th century. The tales feature a father and daughter embroiled in a family curse, a stranger who comes to a small town and lives in the local haunted house, and a very old lady with a mysterious past.

       Sarah Orne Jewett’s stories mirrored the everyday lives of local New Englanders, and often reflected the mysterious and supernatural. Each character and the author will be acted out by Parisi.

Slideshow/talk on Dover's Cotton Mills, Mon. Nov. 21, 7pm

       They still physically dominate our downtown. They still influence our business community, our traffic patterns, and our commercial and residential development. They still affect our urban vibrancy and livability. And they still proudly stand as a symbol of Dover’s industrial heritage, even almost eight decades after they closed.

       They are the mills at the center of our town, perched over the Cochecho River and its Falls, the brick factories which began as the nascent Dover Cotton Factory, matured into the flourishing Dover Manufacturing Company, grew to become the renowned and highly prosperous Cocheco Manufacturing Company and Print Works, and sputtered to an inglorious close as the Pacific Mills.

       Along the way, from their beginnings in 1812 to their demise in 1937, both astounding and abysmal events occurred in these mills including the first strike by women in the United States (1828), a worldwide calico operation that printed 65 million yards of fabric annually during the 1880s, industrial spying, “dung baths”, waves of immigrants, and some disastrous fires and floods. The mills shaped not only the generations of people who worked there, but also the civic direction and economic development of the City of Dover.

      If you would like to know more about the history of these massive structures which have truly made Dover “Dover”, you are invited to the Dover Public Library on Monday, November 21 at 7pm for a talk and slide show by Library Director Cathy Beaudoin which will explore the cotton mills’ rollicking saga in our city. The lecture is free. For more information, please contact the Dover Public Library at 603-516-6050.

Where To Vote In Dover

Unsure where you are supposed to vote this election? The City of Dover web site has the answer to your question. Click on the Dover Votes picture at the top of the City's web page.

Then click on the map on the right hand side of your screen.

Click on the search box and enter your address and hit the enter key.

Your Ward number and city council representative will be listed on the left side of the screen.

Polling places are located in each City ward. Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on the day of the election, Tuesday, Nov. 8.

Dover has the following six polling places:

Ward 1 - St. Mary's Church Hall, Chestnut Street.
Ward 2 - First Parish Congregational Church, 218 Central Avenue
Ward 3 - Langdon Place, 60 Middle Road
Ward 4 - Elks Lodge, 282 Durham Road
Ward 5 - St John's Methodist Church, 28 Cataract Avenue
Ward 6 - Riverside Rest Home, 276 County Farm Road

Or you can skip all these steps and call the Library. We would be happy to tell you what ward you live in and where you will vote.