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Parish Library
Our parish library has been around for more than 30 years and has been located in many different areas. You can now find it on the lower level on the right just beyond the choir room. If you attend a Bible Study, take a religion course, teach Church School or have an inquisitive mind, the resources in our library maybe helpful.

The books in the collection are available for our parishioners to use at the church or to borrow and cover such topics as Church History, Prayer Book Studies, Comparative Religion, Bible Commentaries, Christian Ethics, The Sacraments and Lives of the Saints.

Our collection includes:
  • The Cambridge Bible Commentary
  • A Pilgrims Way by the Rt. Rev. Walter Righter, former CGS Rector and retired Bishop of Iowa
  • Seasons of the Spirit by the Rt. Rev. Robert Runcie, retired Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Atlas of the Bible
  • Good Shepherd Archives (scrapbooks of parish news and bound volumes of our Sunday Bulletin 1940-1981)
  • Episcopal Church and Diocese of NH Directories
The following books are kept in the Parish Office and do not circulate:
  • The Anchor Bible Dictionary
  • Psychotherapy By Clergy in a Parochial Setting by the Rev. Dr. Robert W. Odierna, CGS Rector
  • Theological Dictionary of the New Testament
  • Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible and The Hebrew-Greek Key Study Bible
All parishioners are invited to use and borrow from our library. A card catalog is available and borrowers are asked to sign out each book as directed and return them in a timely manner. If you have any books on a religious topic you wish to donate, please contact the church office.

Library Dedication

Memorial donations given in loving memory of the following parishioners were used toward maintaining the library and dedicated in 1981: Peg Allard, Blaylock Atherton, Walter Barker, Fernand Bergeron, Jason Bickford, Hazel Buxton, Dorothy Cox, Grace Emerson, Grace Fuller, Henry George, Alice Porter Hambleton, George Hambleton, Luther Hendrickson, Mary Mackay, David Madeira, Serena Niles, Stella Noble, Ida Priest, Vella Rees, Louis Steitz and George F. Thurber.

In 1986 "the parishioners of Good Shepherd, the friends and family of Elizabeth C. Spring offer special thanks and appreciation in her memory for the dedication and effort in the development of this parish library". Miss Spring was a life long parishioner and librarian at the Nashua Public Library.

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May 17, 2008