Did you know that BFPL serves more visitors with fewer staff hours than similar-sized Vermont libraries?

• Our team works hard to keep operations efficient, welcoming, and high-energy for the entire community.

• In addition to maintaining a great book collection, the staff supports diverse evening programs, a wide variety of kids' activities, and are always there to help in any way they can. They even perform notary services for free!

Coming up:
Nov. 12, 5:30 p.m. Meeting Mary “Badass” Anderson: Healing Dissociation through Adventuring. Mary has hiked the Long Trail, AT, CDT, and PCT, e-biked to all 251 Vermont towns, skied the Catamount Trail, and more! 

Nov. 18, 7 p.m. Brandon author Gary Meffe presents his newest book, “Return to Odd,” a sequel to “The Wizard of Odd.” He will discuss how he found the small, quirky Vermont town of “Odd” and its cast of characters, and will read from his new book.

New DVDs:

“Young Washington” (Rated PG-13) A single misstep thrusts young George Washington into the center of a global conflict – and onto a collision course with the most dangerous men on the continent. Outranked, outgunned, and far from home, he must navigate the brutal politics of empire and the chaos of a frontier on fire. 

“Hadestown: The Musical” The intertwining of two ancient Greek myths: the story of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice and the story of King Hades and Queen Persephone. The musical follows their journeys to the underworld and explores themes of love, trust, hope and the power of imagining a better world.

New adult fiction:

“Crescendo” by Robert J. Harris. Hollywood, 1959. When struggling mystery writer Bobby Burgoyne is hired by Alfred Hitchcock to work on the script for his new film Crescendo, he thinks his future success is assured at last. Instead, he is swept into a swirling mystery of madness and revenge. Someone, it seems, is willing to kill to keep the film from being made and Hitch needs Bobby to find who or what is behind the sabotage.

“The Hill in the Dark Grove” by Liam Higginson. The discovery of an ancient hidden structure on their Welsh sheep farm leads Carwyn into a deep obsession to uncover it. The farm falls into a state of neglect, the sheep fall sick more easily than ever before, and a tragic accident occurs on market day. Through it all, Carwyn becomes convinced that uncovering the site and determining its original purpose will be the key to solving everything. But there was a reason his ancestors kept the past buried, and in disturbing the earth, he has called forth a power greater and more terrible than he could have imagined. 

“As We Fall Through Time” by Claire North. In the beginning, the world will end. This is the story of what happens next. When Cal meets a soldier of the French Revolution, he knows he is destined to die. But what's the point of being a time traveler if you can't make a few small tweaks to the course of history? A little paradox here, an alteration there – nothing Cal can't fix. When Fadimatu walks into a museum in 2018, she stumbles upon her own mummified corpse, setting her on the path to a betrayal that has already killed her, and a murder that has not yet come to pass. And when a sudden rupture in the fabric of history rips through the lives Cal and Fadimatu have built, breaking both past and future, they must reckon with a secret that will shatter time itself.