29 Reasons to Love Your Library — 10/02/2025

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10 Time to dust off that library card. Yes, libraries offer books but they also offer other goodies and services from streaming services with hard-to-find-films to opportunities to meet neighbors with similar interests IRL. Here are 29 reasons to love your library.

Also on the cover And take a break from the library to meet authors at the NH Book Festival (page 18). Crumbs on Cambridge offers a cart of cookies (page 22). And, while you’re in Concord for the Book Festival, check out the Fall Fiddle Festival (page 30).

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