Did you know: BFPL’s interlibrary loan program gives you statewide access?
Your Brandon Free Public Library account connects you to collections across Vermont!
• Last year, we brought in 317 requested items from other libraries for local patrons, sent 453 items out to neighboring towns, and made 30 direct home deliveries.
• No matter where a book or resource is in the state, we can almost always bring it to our circulation desk or even straight to your doorstep if you can't get out.
• Your library account is a portal to the whole state!
Upcoming family event: Author M.T. Anderson presents Elf Dog & Owl Head on Oct. 24, 1 p.m. Anderson will talk about the bond between human and animal — and how it might be different in Vermont than in some other places. Kids are encouraged to bring and tell their own stories of the extraordinary animals they’ve known.
New in adult fiction:
“Luna, Phoenix, Queen” by Julie Orringer. Dava and Barr Pennington, professors at a Midwestern university, both harbor potent secrets. Dava is unhappy in their marriage, and secretly in love with a colleague, Svetlana White, who teaches in the Russian Studies department. Spurred by their complicated liaison, she spends her nights working on a novel. Though Dava loves the work and the refuge it provides, the writing becomes increasingly difficult as her memory begins to fail; tests reveal that she's suffering from early-onset Alzheimer's. After a precipitous decline, she moves to a memory-care facility in a neighboring town. Soon afterward, her husband, alone in the house at night, discovers her hidden manuscript, which he reads with envy, and then with anger, as he extrapolates his wife's affair from the relationship described in the novel's pages. Over the next two years he rewrites the novel and publishes it as his own, to wide acclaim. But persistent feelings of guilt lead him to confess his theft to an unlikely party, who leads others to the truth.
“Every Story is a Love Story” by Imbolo Mbue. Three years ago, Wolo's wife was killed in a tragic car accident. In an instant, the great love of his life was gone, and so was their beautiful future. In the face of a loss that seemed insurmountable, Wolo has slowly rebuilt a semblance of a life: he goes to work, hangs out with a small circle of friends, and fends off the matchmaking efforts of the older women in his family. The grief that dogged him has, with time, become a little gentler. Until one day a letter arrives from Victoria, the woman who was behind the wheel that terrible day. Wolo's family pastor tells him the letter is the work of the devil; his mother expressly forbids him from making further mention of it; his father's second wife calls, from Cameroon, to tell him to destroy it. But Wolo ponders it for days, and ultimately agrees to meet with the woman who killed his wife. When he does, the compassion and deep remorse of the woman affects him in ways he had never imagined, and he begins to wonder if the long road to healing can be shared.
“Peck & Peck” Bonnie Garmus. It's 1982, New York City. Crime is on the rise, muggings are in the streets, and Batter Gray, recent college graduate with a skill that no one wants – an 'ear' for poetry – is worried about his future. While all of his friends have real jobs, he is folding T-shirts at the Gap. As for love? No. Not unless you count Sallie Mae, the student loan tyrant. He hears from Sallie all the time. But when Batter gets a dream job at Peck & Peck, the most prestigious poetry quarterly in the world, his life moves into the literary fast lane. Soon Batter is knee-deep in the secret war between the two editors in chief, the famous Peck brothers – twins and enemies – as well as being privy to the private affairs of their thirty-nine editors, whose professed mission is the same: Find originality. Reward creativity. Burn the rest.
