Monthly Archives: January 2020

Winter travel advisory in effect, so the library will not be open today. Stay cozy if you can. If you need to go out, go safely.

Home Work by Julie Andrews takes off from her arrival in Hollywood from England. She achieved success and, with director Blake Edwards, a partner and collaborator. The pair worked together in numerous films, including Victor/Victoria , a gender-bending comedy that … Continue reading →

In The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys, eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, traveling with his parents, arrives in 1957 Madrid.  While they enjoy the sun and wine, Daniel hopes to connect more deeply with the country of his mother’s birth, using … Continue reading →

Before and After by Judy Christie true story behind last year’s bestseller Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate. Between 1920 and 1950, the Tennessee Children’s Home Society ran a black-market baby business.  They offered up more than 5,000 children … Continue reading →

For toddlers and tots. Fun starts at 11:000

In The Topeka School by Ben Lerner, a star student and debater from an academic family befriends a troubled loner. When he brings his new friend to a party, a “singular act of violence” occurs. This “powerful and heartbreaking story” … Continue reading →

The Andromeda Evolution is a sequel to Michael Chrichton’s original techno-thriller.  Fifty years ago, an extraterrestrial microbe nearly ended the human race.  The threat appeared to have ended, until a terrain-mapping drone detects a bizarre anomaly  in the Brazilian jungle. … Continue reading →

Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead Olga Tokarczuk won this yearNobel Prize). In a remote Polish village, an eccentric recluse inserts herself herself into the middle of a murder investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only … Continue reading →

Finding Chika by Mitch Albom.     Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010.  She was brought to The Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Mitch Albom and his wife Janine operate in Port … Continue reading →

Permanent Record by Edward Snowden tells how he helped build the NSA’s mass surveillance system and why he exposed it. Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow recounts the campaign of intimidation to keep him from breaking his story on serial abusers … Continue reading →