Ancestry Library

Exciting news! We have added Ancestry Library to our database collection at Framingham Public Library!

There are lots of family records to browse and share. Download forms to make your very own family tree, review census and voter lists, and search and save records such as marriage certificates, ship passenger lists, and immigrant naturalization documents.

Ancestry Library is available at both the Main Library and the McAuliffe Branch (it is in-library use only.) Stop by today to get started!

FYI: In addition to Ancestry, we also have another genealogy database. This database is called Heritage Quest and is accessible from home (unlike Ancestry.) For more information, see our blog post about it!

Questions? Call Reference at 508-532-5570 x4361 or e-mail us.

Credo

We have an exciting new database for Framingham patrons called Credo!

With Credo you can do so many things.

2014 National Book Awards

The National Book Foundation presented the winners of the National Book Award for 2014 on November 19. The mission of the National Book Foundation and the National Book Awards is to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of great writing in America.

Here is the list of Nominees and Winners:

FICTION

Winner:

Phil Klay, Redeployment Fiction Klay 

Finalists: 

Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman Fiction Alameddine

Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See FictionDoerr

Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven  FictionMandel

Marilynne Robinson, Lila Fiction Robinson

Molly Antopol, The UnAmericans Fiction Antopol

John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van Fiction Darnielle
Elizabeth McCracken, Thunderstruck & Other Stories Fiction McCracken
Richard Powers, Orfeo Fiction Powers

Jane Smiley, Some Luck Fiction Smiley

NON FICTION

Winner:

Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China  951.06 Osnos 

Finalists: 

Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?  306.874

Anand Gopal, No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes 958.1074
John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh B Williams

Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence 128 Wilson
John Demos, The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic 973.5
Nigel Hamilton, The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941 - 1942 940.54

Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution 004.092
Ronald C. Rosbottom, When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 944.361
Matthew Stewart, Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic 322.1

POETRY: 

Winner:

Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night 811Glück

Finalists: 

Fanny Howe, Second Childhood 811 Howe

Maureen N. McLane, This Blue 811 McLane

Fred Moten, The Feel Trio 820 

Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American 814 Rankine

Linda Bierds, Roget's Illusion 811 Bierds

Brian Blanchfield, A Several World  

Edward Hirsch, Gabriel: A Poem 811 Hirsch

Spencer Reece, The Road to Emmaus

Mark Strand, Collected Poems 

YOUNG ADULT  

Winner:

Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming Y811 Woodson

Finalists:

Eliot Schrefer, Threatened  Y Fiction Schrefer
Steve Sheinkin, The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights  Y940.545Sheinkin

John Corey Whaley, Noggin Y Fiction Whaley

Deborah Wiles, Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two

Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory Y Fiction Anderson
Gail Giles, Girls Like Us Y Fiction Giles
Carl Hiaasen, Skink—No Surrender Y Fiction Hiaasen 

 Kate Milford, Greenglass House J Fiction Milford
Andrew Smith, 100 Sideways Miles