A detail from "Pink Morning," oil on canvas, 30 x 60"
Saturday March 21st
through
Thursday, March 26th
Semi-Annual Book Sale. Thank you to the Friends!
Friends get
first crack
at the books!
Join The Friends!
This year's theme is: TERROR
Science Is Everywhere
Library-recommended sites for free audiobooks and ebooks
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Get Advantage titles now!
Overdrive Advantage eBooks and Audio Books

Current Artist

Paintings by Priscilla Serafin are on display at the Hamilton-Wenham Library through March and April. Click here to visit her site!
For library art display information at Hamilton-Wenham, click here.

March Book Sale

Everything's sorted by genre and prices are excellent. All funds raised go to providing lectures, performers, summer reading programs, and exceptional extras like our 3-D printer and color copier.

Friends of the Library

...are invited to attend our Members Only Book Sale on Friday, March 20th, from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Membership forms will be available at the door - or, just visit the Friends' site to learn more about the wonderful team that does so much to support our library, and join online today!

Teen Poetry Contest

Submit your Terror-themed poems for our 5th Annual Teen Poetry Contest, February 1st through Thursday, April 30th, at midnight. Open to Essex County teens in grades 6-12. Click here for contest rules and more!

Science Is Everywhere

Find out about our Science Is Everywhere grant and sign up for STEM workshops now, while spaces are available. Click here for a brochure of STEM Workshops at the library for grades 3 - 8.

Free eBooks and Audiobooks Online

Visit our portal to the larger world of free audiobooks and ebooks online, including familiar names like Project Gutenberg and others that you may not have heard about...

Research Everything.

Need info for your homework or research topic? Search nearly 800 books at once across subjects in the Arts, Biography, Business, Education, the Environment, History, Law, and more. (Instant Access within the library; remote access requires a Ham-Wen library card.)

Just for Hamilton and Wenham Residents -

Visit our list of eBooks and Audiobooks purchased especially for our residents. (Not from Hamilton or Wenham? Ask your library about Overdrive Advantage.)

Sign up for Wowbrary!

Wowbrary is a new service which pulls items recently added to the catalog and compiles them into a weekly list, sorted by subject and format. Sign up today to receive your free weekly Wowbrary email about the newest books, movies, and music at your library.

We’ve made a change!

Welcome to our new web site for the Hamilton-Wenham Public Library, offering all of the same content in a responsive, mobile-friendly way. Some of our links may not have fully graduated along with our new look, so please report any broken links to slauderdale@mvlc.org.