Friends of the North End Branch Library

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Friends of the North End Branch Library

The mission of The Friends is to create public support for expanding programs and to intensify community awareness and use of the library.

The North End Branch's adult fiction collection offers the latest best-sellers, romances, mysteries, classics, large-print fiction, and audiobook CDs. The reference collection includes encyclopedias, specialized dictionaries, atlases and foreign-language dictionaries. The branch maintains a popular non-fiction collection, with books on cooking, health, literature, personal finance and computers. A

small Italian-language collection is also available. Also important is the extensive collection of DVDs and music CDs. The children's collection includes a variety of books and media for all ages including a robust picture book collection, first readers, mysteries, fiction, non-fiction, biographies, reference, and audio CDs and DVDs. The North End Branch maintains a local history collection which is mainly comprised of published monographs. The branch recently acquired the archives of the North End Union as a supplement to this collection,which has been moved to the Rare Books Department. The branch also has a large selection of popular magazines for adults, children and Italian-language readers and maintains subscriptions to several daily newspapers.

06/07/2026

05/07/2026

Join us on Wednesday, May 13, at 6:30 PM, to hear local author Karen Chalfen present her latest book "End to Beginning", and explore what inspired it!

Presented by: The Friends of the North End Library

Made possible by the generosity of the John D. McGonagle Foundation

03/23/2026

Join us on April 8th at 6:00 PM to Sing It With Flowers!

Celebrate spring in all of its flowery, song-filled wonder with stand-up Chameleon Jackson Gillman. Everyone will be invited to sing-along in this playful seasonal romp.

This event is sponsored by the John D. McGonagle Foundation and organized by the Friends of the North End Library. All our events are always FREE to attend and open to everyone!

02/17/2026

Wednesday, March 11, 2026
@ 6:00 PM
JOIN us for a legendary author presentation!

Stephen Puleo, noted historian, tells the remarkable story of Charles Sumner. Sumner was a principled man of unshakable conviction. Mr. Puleo has a wellspring of historical knowledge that brings his storytelling to life.

This event is sponsored by the Friends of the North End Library.

Address

25 Parmenter Street
Boston, MA
02113

Website

http://friendsnelibrary.org/

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