October 29, 2025
 
HOURS
Sunday - Closed
Monday & Friday 9AM-6PM
Tuesday - Thursday 9AM-7PM
Saturday 10AM-2PM
 
Closed at 5 on the first Wednesday of
each month for a staff meeting

From the Director 
This is a fun-filled week in Kingston! 
 
We hope that you had a chance to participate in the Recreation Center's family Trunk or Treat event.
 
Tonight, join us for our fifth Annual Jack O'Lantern Jaunt, sponsored, planned and run by the Friends of the Kingston Community Library. Every year this event grows with more decorations, spooky thrills, and community attendance. We are thankful to the volunteers who enthusiastically get into the October spirit and provide what has become a staple seasonal event in Kingston.
 
This is the Library's entrance to the holiday season. Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, and the December celebrations are fast approaching. Join us in the children's room for Ms. Carolyn's learning activities in honor of the winter's approach. See our thematic book displays. Additionally, the Friends have decorated outside of the library for Autumn, but they will be switching to winter motifs soon. Their Winter raffle is just a few weeks away. Santa is coming. Our Senior holiday luncheon, cookie swap, and new ethnic food festival will be added to the calendar soon too!
 
As we get ready to turn back our clocks this weekend, keep the winter bright with activities for all ages at your library.
 
Have a wonderful week,
Melissa
 
Coming to KCL...

CHILDREN'S NEWS & PROGRAMS
Libraries Build Communities!

Here is a perfect example of how libraries build community. This is a photo of caregivers, parents, grandparents and kids who all met here at the Kingston Community Library! Meeting here and learning that they enjoy each other's company, they now spend time together beyond library walls. Thank you all for sharing this sweet photo with us!
 
 
 
ADULT NEWS & PROGRAMS
New in our Collections
 
Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas. It has no smell, color, or taste. Radon can enter
homes through cracks in the foundation, or for those with private wells, through water in sinks,
showers, and toilets. Indoor radon is the leading cause of lung cancer among non-smokers.
The only way to know if you have radon in your home is to test for it. If you have high levels of
radon in your home, the good news is that you can fix it! Borrow a radon monitor from the Kingston Community Library and start testing your home today. 
To learn more about radon in NH visit dhhs.nh.gov/radon.
 
 
Have you seen our Library of Things lately? Discover what you can borrow.
 
Recently, a family checked out most of our outdoor games, our cotton candy machine and more to add more festivity to their party.
 
 
Halloween Frightful fun on Kanopy

Use our library card for free streaming videos from Kanopy.
 
 
 
 
Avalyn Reed Trio

We had a wonderful turn out for the Avalyn Trio this past Saturday. Join us for our next quarterly music program, Granite State Ringers, on December 13th at 11:30am.
 
       
 

Upcoming Matinee Movies
      
October 29 - Bridge of Spies (2015) 2h 22m - Legal Drama
During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
 November 5 - Breakthrough (2019) 1h 56m - Medical Drama
When her 14-year-old son drowns in a lake, a faithful mother prays for him to come back from the brink of death and be healed.
 
Older Adults News
Older Adult Seminar - AI: Deep Fakes

 
KCL Tween and Teen News
Kanopy Streaming Videos

Use your library card for thousands of streaming videos from Kanopy. Check out their anime collection with rotating titles.
 
 

Friends News
Book Sale News
 
Thank you to community members who donated puzzles this past week. Due to high demand and low supply, we are limiting the number of puzzles sold to any one patron in a week to 5. That's still a lot of puzzle pieces to put together in a week! We appreciate your understanding and cooperation.
 
It's the last week of our hardcover fiction bag sale. Halloween books and DVDs are in a special area below the "Spotlight Section." Spooky hardcovers are $1 and scary paperbacks 50ยข until Friday, October 31st.
 
 
BOOK CLUBS
Director's Monday Book Club (Monday 11/3 at 3:00pm)
Tinkers by Paul Harding
Tinkers
by Paul Harding

On his deathbed, surrounded by his family, George Washington Crosby's thoughts drift back to his childhood and the father who abandoned him when he was twelve
Nonfiction Book Club (Tuesday 11/18 at 4:00pm)
The rural diaries : love, livestock, and big life lessons down on Mischief Farm by Hilarie Burton Morgan
The rural diaries : love, livestock, and big life lessons down on Mischief Farm
by Hilarie Burton Morgan

The actress best known for One Tree Hill chronicles her move from Los Angeles to Rhinebeck, New York where she and her husband manage a farm, raise their children, build chicken coops and make dandelion wine.
Romance Required Book Club (Friday 11/21 at 1:00pm) 
Devil in disguise : the Ravenels meet the Wallflowers by Lisa Kleypas
Devil in disguise : the Ravenels meet the Wallflowers
by Lisa Kleypas

A strong-willed young widow running her late husband's shipping company, Lady Merritt Sterling avoids scandal until she meets a rough-and-tumble Scottish whisky distiller on the run from a very determined killer.
Cook Book Club (Monday at 11/24 at 12:30pm)
What to cook when you don't feel like cooking by Caroline Chambers
What to cook when you don't feel like cooking
by Caroline Chambers

"With three little boys less than two years apart and a packed schedule as an online creator, Caroline Chambers often doesn't feel like cooking. Inspired by her wildly popular Substack newsletter of the same name, this book is brimming with efficient recipes that take the guesswork out of dinner-in fact, each one is a complete meal: protein, veg, starch, done! The recipes are organized by the amount of time they take to cook, so whether you have 15 minutes to throw together something or a little bit moretime on your hands, dinnertime is totally doable. On top of that, Caro gives you more ways to choose, so you can search by protein (chicken thighs waiting in the fridge? Make White Chicken Chili. Nothing but beans in the pantry? Cannellini Caprese with Burrata is it!) or mood (Tomato Farrotto is perfect for a cozy craving, and Crunchy Honey Harissa Fish Tacos are an excellent way to show off). Most importantly, these recipes include Caro's famously extensive swaps, riffs, tips, shortcuts, and more to be sure they work best for you, helping you save money, improvise, and even learn a thing or two"
Mystery Book Club (Tuesday 11/25 at 4:00pm)
The midnight feast : a novel by Lucy Foley
The midnight feast : a novel
by Lucy Foley

During the opening weekend of The Manor, a luxe coastal retreat built on top of old secrets, those in attendance all have an agenda but not everyone will survive.
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