‘Make Your Browser Better’ at Thursday tech talk

Internet browsers such as Chrome, Firefox and Safari fulfill a basic function: Type in the address of a website, and its content appears on your computer or mobile device. But modern browsers are capable of doing much more.  At 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 14, Newton Public Library’s resident tech expert, Nathan Carr, will highlight…
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Our newest DVDs and books

Exciting new book and DVD titles arrive at Newton Public Library almost every week. Here are a few that are being processed and will hit our shelves soon. Click the titles to be linked directly to their entries in our online catalog, where you can see availability and/or place a hold. You can also stop…
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New Arrivals at NPL

Exciting new book and DVD titles arrive at Newton Public Library almost every week. Here are a few that will be hitting our shelves soon. Visit our online catalog, stop in, or give us a call at 316-283-2890 to check availability or place a hold!

Library speaker’s family was part of ‘orphan train’ movement

In 1919, John Schroeder and his four older sisters, all orphans, boarded a train in Pennsylvania. When the siblings disembarked at the station in Newton, they were at the start of new, uncertain lives. They were among more than 200,000 orphaned children who rode the rails to escape crowded cities on the East Coast, hoping…
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Top 10 Circulating CD Fiction Titles in 2018

The Rooster Bar by John Grisham The Fallen by David Baldacci Camino Island by John Grisham Deliver Us From Evil by David Baldacci The Disappeared by C. J. Box Killing Season: a Thriller by Faye Kellerman The People vs. Alex Cross by James Patterson Tom Clancy: True Faith and Allegiance by Mark Greaney The Chemist…
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Guest Review: “Atom Land”

Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through The Strange (And Impossibly Small) World Of Particle Physics, by Jon Butterworth Review by Steve Richards Atom Land offers expeditions of discovery, challenging both imagination and physical sense of reality. Author Jon Butterworth is a professor of physics and astronomy. In the strange and counterintuitive territories of particle physics,…
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