Monthly Archives: December 2016

For New Years,the library will be open on Friday, December 30th and Saturday the 31st for our regular hours. We will be closed Sunday, January 1st (Hogmanay!) and Monday the 2nd (Bank Day in the UK).  We re-open on Tuesday, … Continue reading →

Here is our Christmas holiday schedule: we will be open Friday, December 23rd and Saturday, the 24th for our regular hours.  We will be closed  Sunday December 25th (Christmas Day) and Monday the 26th (Boxing Day). For New Years, we will … Continue reading →

      For younger readers, Santa’s Tatty Old Boots is a fun spin on St Nick while in The Christmas Visitors, a family of bears visits a summer cottage for the holiday.  Both feature artwork by local artist Karel Hayes.  … Continue reading →

Author Peter Pezzelli rivals Adriana Trigiani for the ability to craft warm humorous tales about Italian-American families.   In Francesca’s Kitchen, the title character was the queen of her kitchen, dispensing garlic and advice as liberally.  Recently widowed, she hires on … Continue reading →

It’s snowing and slippery, so no library today.  Be careful out there.

The Whole Town’s Talking by Fannie Flagg, the living and the dead carry on a multi-generational conversation.  The place is Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the dead never quite go away.  They hang out and offer observations on what the living … Continue reading →

       In Island of Glass by Nora Roberts, archaeologist Riley Gwin joins forces with Doyle McCleary, a 300-year-old Irish immortal,  to find the  coveted Star of Ice and return it to the Island of Glass.  “Grounded in Celtic lore, … Continue reading →

The accused try to prove their innocence in new crime stories by Mary Higgins Clark and Brendan Dubois.  In The Sleeping Beauty Murder by  Clark, Casey Carter, who served a 15-year sentence for manslaughter in the death of her fiancé, … Continue reading →

In The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen,  Kelsea, the Tearling’s Queen, has turned herself and the sapphires she controls over to her enemy, the Red Queen of Mortmesne (The Invasion of the Tearling).   In the Queens’s dungeon, Kelsea … Continue reading →

Due to a wee winter storm, we are not opening the library today.  Stay safe if you have to get out on the roads.