"Borrow" seeds to start your gardens! Located on the third floor, the Seed Library is now available to "check out". The steps are simple: choose what seed varieties you want, fill out the sign-out sheet with your selections, and enjoy!

This project is based on the honor system, so a staff member is not needed to "check out" seeds. When using the Seed Library, take what you need but remember to leave enough for others.

We're also collecting harvested seeds at the end of the summer, so please note that you would like to participate in that when you're filling out the sign-out sheet.

Happy gardening and be sure to use #goffstownlibrary to share your Seed Library bounty!

The Goffstown Seed Library is made possible by the Friends of the Goffstown Public Library and the New Hampshire Free Seed Program.

Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900s Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steampunk, Monstress tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them the target of both human and otherworldly powers.

Now through October 31, 2023. Monstress Vol. 1: Awakening by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda, is available instantly, in e-book format in your hoopla app. There are unlimited digital copies - no holds, no waiting! You can read this title on a mobile device or computer.

• Visit theclub.hoopladigital.com/graphicnovel/ for a Discussion Guide, Author Q&A, "Why We Love - Monstress Vol. 1", and additional recommended titles for readers.

Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us.

Celebrate the right to read. The Goffstown Public Library supports your Constitutional right to access the information you want and hopes you will exercise that right by reading a challenged book. Visit the Library to interact with this week's banned book displays and check out a book.

Banned Books Week is an annual week-long event celebrating the freedom to read, highlighting the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community – librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types – in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.

The Library is open during Indigenous Peoples' Day.

The Friends of the Library will be hosting their book sale on the lawn of the Library. RAIN or SHINE.

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. is the $10 bag sale - bring your own reusable shopping bag.

• Books are: sorted & categorized, all new donations, not picked over, and never scanned.
• Volunteers for this event are always needed, please let us know if you can lend a hand at the email or phone # below. Please get in touch if you can volunteer for setup the week of and/or the day of the event.
• The Friends will also be collecting donations from the public through Friday, September 29. Just drop off books (in bags or boxes, please) at the Goffstown Public Library during business hours only. We cannot accept damaged or textbooks or damaged books, VHS cassettes, Reader's Digest condensed books, encyclopedias or magazines, or titles that are dusty or moldy. Book donation collecting will resume on Monday, October 23.
• See the event on Facebook at https://fb.me/e/2Nkh4E5OW

All knitters & crocheters are welcome, all ages, and all levels of experience! At the October meeting, we'll be collecting hats and scarves for women, men, and children to be donated to Families in Transition, www.fitnh.org. For each item, please bring in the yarn label, or tag it with fiber care and content. Thank you!

No registration required, join us on the fourth Tuesday of every month.

Please sign up if you would like an email reminder to attend. When you register - you will be signed up for reminders for each month in 2023.

"Borrow" seeds to start your gardens! Located on the third floor, the Seed Library is now available to "check out". The steps are simple: choose what seed varieties you want, fill out the sign-out sheet with your selections, and enjoy!

This project is based on the honor system, so a staff member is not needed to "check out" seeds. When using the Seed Library, take what you need but remember to leave enough for others.

We're also collecting harvested seeds at the end of the summer, so please note that you would like to participate in that when you're filling out the sign-out sheet.

Happy gardening and be sure to use #goffstownlibrary to share your Seed Library bounty!

The Goffstown Seed Library is made possible by the Friends of the Goffstown Public Library and the New Hampshire Free Seed Program.

This is the Friends monthly meeting.

The Friends of the Goffstown Public Library is an association interested in the Goffstown Public Library, which supports the Library Bill of Rights, and offers the opportunity to focus public attention on and stimulate the use of the library. Visit www.goffstownfriends.com for more information.

The Friends usually meet on the second Wednesday of every month, please check the Library calendar for up-to-date scheduling.

This event is hosted by the Goffstown Public Library Board of Trustees and the Goffstown Public Library Foundation. The Foundation is a not-for-profit organization formed to raise funds to support the capital needs of the Goffstown Public Library.

All knitters & crocheters are welcome, all ages, and all levels of experience!

No registration required, join us on the fourth Tuesday of every month.

Please sign up if you would like an email reminder to attend. When you register - you will be signed up for reminders for each month in 2023.

"Borrow" seeds to start your gardens! Located on the third floor, the Seed Library is now available to "check out". The steps are simple: choose what seed varieties you want, fill out the sign-out sheet with your selections, and enjoy!

This project is based on the honor system, so a staff member is not needed to "check out" seeds. When using the Seed Library, take what you need but remember to leave enough for others.

We're also collecting harvested seeds at the end of the summer, so please note that you would like to participate in that when you're filling out the sign-out sheet.

Happy gardening and be sure to use #goffstownlibrary to share your Seed Library bounty!

The Goffstown Seed Library is made possible by the Friends of the Goffstown Public Library and the New Hampshire Free Seed Program.

This is the Friends monthly meeting.

The Friends of the Goffstown Public Library is an association interested in the Goffstown Public Library, which supports the Library Bill of Rights, and offers the opportunity to focus public attention on and stimulate the use of the library. Visit www.goffstownfriends.com for more information.

The Friends usually meet on the second Wednesday of every month, please check the Library calendar for up-to-date scheduling.

All knitters & crocheters are welcome, all ages, and all levels of experience!

No registration required, join us on the fourth Tuesday of every month.

Please sign up if you would like an email reminder to attend. When you register - you will be signed up for reminders for each month in 2023.

Blow me down and brush me barnacles — International Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19! Make no bones about it — celebrating this holiday is fun for landlubbers and pirates alike.

Don’t just look like a pirate — talk like one, too. With Mango’s Pirate language course, you’ll learn everything you need to know to talk in perfect Pirate. Get started at www.goffstownlibrary.com/elibrary or when you download and install the Mango Languages app and sign in with your Goffstown Public Library card.