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Franklin Hampshire Career Center Partners with Forbes Library for Satellite Services
August 21, 2017 — The Franklin Hampshire Career Center and Forbes Library announce a partnership to provide Career Center satellite services at the Library. The Career Center will out-station staff on a weekly basis…ices offered at Forbes Library can be found on the Franklin Hampshire Career Center website at: https://www.masshirefhcareers.org or by calling the Career Center at 413-774-4361. Event information will be posted on the Forbes Library website at: https://forbeslibrary.org/events…
Stay Hungry
There’s just something about the “New Hollywood” films of the 1970’s… The budgets were smaller, but the films seem to resonate so much more than your typical, bloated Hollywood picture. …relative’s advice and teams up with a group of shady real estate sharks to buy out the businesses in a downtown building to may way for an office high-rise. His colleagues are quickly successful in securing the property and they impatiently await Blake’s seizure of the last independent establishment, a local gym. Here Blake meets a cast of interesting characters including the beautiful, small town receptionist Mary Tate Farnsworth (Sally Field) an…
The Cellist of Sarajevo
A haunting and memorable novel of hope, courage, and the daily struggle to survive that takes place during the 1992 siege of Sarajevo. After a mortar shell kills 22 people…ter a mortar shell kills 22 people who were lined up in the town square to buy bread, a once famous cellist who viewed this from his window vows to pay tribute to each one during the next 22 days. Every afternoon he brings his chair to the spot where the shell had fallen, and plays a beautiful rendition of Albinoni’s Adiagio. Arrow, a gifted female sniper, is assigned to protect him. A powerful depiction of how the human spirit endures and life co…
Down the Nile: alone in a fisherman’s skiff
I liked this independent, determined woman. In the late 1990s, Mahoney, an American writer and experienced recreational rower, got the idea of rowing herself down the Nile. This is not allowed…verty, and the restricted status of women. She quotes extensively from 19th-century European travelers, notably Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert, and gives a selective history of tourism in the region (including colonialism and theft of artifacts) which puts the present-day in context. So much has changed and so much is the same. In particular, her descriptions of the river and its natural environment — the wildlife, vegetation, water and…
Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini
This extraordinary reference work (350 entries, 275 full-color photographs, 500 recipes) provides nearly everything you might want to know about an unusual vegetable (she doesn’t deal with the familiar ones)—where it comes from and where in the world it is especially treasured (not always the same place), what other names it has, what it tastes like, what to look for when you buy it, and how it can be cooked. Schneider approached chefs, cooking t…
Here’s To Us
In Hilderbrand’s latest outing, three wives (two former, one current) and their children gather to mourn and celebrate the life of the man they all loved at the island home…ly. Nearly thirty years later, each of them changed by their relationship with him, his wives (high school sweetheart, award-winning actress, former nanny) address their rivalries while their children (travel writer and heroin addict, brilliant young chef, nine-year-old princess) grieve. Deacon’s best friend, manager, and executor has learned that the money is gone and the house is in arrears. No one wants to lose it, and only one of them has the…
Stay
A heartbroken woman, Van, tries to get on with her life after the man she is in love with marries her best friend. During a late night Rin Tin Tin…A heartbroken woman, Van, tries to get on with her life after the man she is in love with marries her best friend. During a late night Rin Tin Tin marathon, she accidentally buys a Slovakian German Shepard while under the influence of vodka. With the dog’s help, Van works to rebuild her life and meets a handsome veterinarian….
Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
Saying Morton Downey Jr. was a complex man would be the understatement of the century. Son of a famous singer, Jr. began his career in show business as a vocalist…in radio and eventually became involved with the world of sports by first buying an American Basketball Association team and later co-founding the World Baseball League. What brought Morton Downey Jr. national attention was his short run on the syndicated Morton Downey Jr. Show based out of New Jersey. The host who grew up hanging around the Kennedy family, became a loudmouth, conservative screamer on his late 80’s program. The documentary pulled…
Charles Ammi Cutter
Library systematizer extraordinaire by Pip Stromgren [ Originally published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette on Saturday, June 26, 2004 ] Hanging over the reference librarians’ desk in Northampton’s Forbes Library is a…d a month later. His father remarried and when his new wife had a baby, two-year-old Charles Ammi was sent to live with his grandfather and his three maiden aunts in West Cambridge. The aunts, who were independently wealthy, raised Cutter as their own, including later paying his tuition at Harvard College. One of the aunts was the town librarian so Cutter was exposed to books from an early age. Slight in build, of somewhat frail health and very ne…
The Boxcar Children
The original Boxcar Children tells the story of the four Alden children: Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny, who are orphans. One night, they take shelter in a bakery after buying…hree siblings but to take Benny to an orphanage because he is too young, they flee….
Local Authors
Local authors and illustrators in western Mass. libraries. Children’s authors are in blue. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Janet Aalfs Unmi Abkin John Allen Anna Alter Edgar C. Alward Louise Appell Margot Apple…rule Richard Brunswick Jane Buchanan Serena Burdick Augusten Burroughs Rob Buyea C James Francis Cahillane Tony Cape Eric Carle Elizabeth Pendergast Carlisle Nancy Carpenter Jonathan Carr Leslie Cerier Kari Chapin Thérèse Soukar Chehade Michael Chesworth Cassandra Clare Gail Cleare Maryann Cocca-Leffler Judy Cohen Lewis M. Cohen George Howe Colt Sheila Connolly Fred Contrada Deanna F. Cook Cornelia Cornelissen Bill Cosby David Costello Mary Cowhey…
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