Did you know: BFPL is more than books!
Did you know you can borrow bikes, tools, snowshoes, and AV equipment at the library?
Beyond our huge collection of books and movies, our 110 "Library of Things" items were borrowed nearly 800 times last year.
That places BFPL #3 statewide among comparable libraries for non-traditional item borrowing per resident!
Need to borrow a sewing machine/serger? What about an infrared camera, an air quality meter, a laptop, or a birding backpack? Need seeds for your garden? Come on by for all those and much more!
New spooky reads in adult fiction:
“Trad Wife” by Sarah Langan. Desperate to save her tarnished career, journalist Jenny Kaplan arrives at Black Swan Farm to profile Mia, a trad wife influencer. Jenny is ready to write a scathing exposé, determined to expose the deception. But soon, Jenny has more to contend with than staged videos and camera-ready poses. There’s something wrong at the farmhouse. Something slithers through Jenny’s dreams, and at night, the children sing strange nursery rhymes. She’s losing time. She’s losing her hair. She starts to worry that she’s losing her mind.
“The Living Realm” by Jordan Tannahill. While cruising one evening by Teufelssee, a small glacial lake in the Grunewald forest on the edge of Berlin, a man spots a handsome stranger who bears an uncanny resemblance to his former lover. Only, Lukas died nearly thirty years ago. Yet the man cannot shake the feeling that it was really Lukas he saw. As the man spends a long, hot summer by the lake, he continues to encounter Lukas, and then other lost lovers as well. As he attempts to make sense of the strange occurrences and learns more of Teufelssee, he finds himself venturing deeper into the mystery of the forest, leading him to question not just his sanity but the nature of time itself.
“Miss Wolcott’s Ghost” by Louise Penny. In the early hours of the morning, Chief Inspector Gamache gets a call from a terrified man telling him there is a body in Lost Nation. But the line goes dead before Chief Inspector Gamache can question the caller. Armand has no idea where Lost Nation is, or who woke him in the small hours of the morning at his home in Three Pines. And so Armand is thrust out of a deep sleep and into the surrounding forests in search of the mythical Lost Nation. And a body. When he and his team of Jean-Guy Beauvoir and Isabelle Lacoste find both, the situation only grows more bizarre. The unidentified dead man appears to be from an era more than a century old. He’s lying in a long-abandoned cemetery, on top of a grave with a date, but no name.
“Quaint Folk” by Bitter Karella. From the outside, it looks like Jessica has the perfect life. She's a stay-at-home mom and her family is as wholesome as all-American pie. But deep down, Jessica knows there's something wrong with her; she knows she can't escape her past. When her husband’s job has them move abroad, Jessica thinks this is her chance for a fresh start. On the remote island of Hasenhurst, the modern world can’t get in. The people there grow their own herbs, make their own jam, and mind their own business. They believe in folk tales and the power of dreams. They tell visitors, we’re a quaint, quiet people. The right sort of family would do well here. But as she tries to befriend the townsfolk and learn their ways, she soon realizes that beneath the town’s cozy idyll, something sickly-sweet and rotten lies buried.
“The Witch” by Freida McFadden. When Julia Barlow loses her job and her apartment, she has nowhere left to go but Pemberton, her family's sprawling 17th-century estate in rural Massachusetts. Officially, she's there to check in on her aging grandmother. Unofficially, she's hoping the old house will give her a place to disappear. Instead, Pemberton begins to unravel her. Every night, the grandfather clock stops at exactly 3:41 a.m. The lights flicker without warning. A disembodied voice cries for help outside Julia's bedroom door. When she uncovers the story of a woman executed for witchcraft in 1692, and decades of family lies begin to surface, Julia must confront a terrifying truth: Pemberton may be haunted by women whose voices refuse to stay silent.
