Did you know:
May 30, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Join us for Gardening With Kids at Miller Hill Farm, Rt. 73, Sudbury. Storytime and planting a Wax Begonia. For ages 4-6. Please preregister as spaces are limited: 802-247-8230 or [email protected].
Grief Support Group meets every 2nd Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.
Storytime for little ones every Thursday and Saturday at 10:30 a.m.
New Fiction:
“A Parade of Horribles” by Matt Dinnaman, book #8 of Dungeon Crawler Carl series. As chaos and mass panic spread outside the dungeon in the wake of Faction Wars, Carl and Donut find themselves on the tenth floor, where they’re forced to compete in a surprisingly normal set of tasks. Well, normal for the dungeon.
“Dissection of a Murder” by Jo Murray. When Leila Reynolds is handed her first murder case, she’s shocked by the victim: a well-known, well-respected judge, whose death sent shockwaves through the legal community. She’s also incredulous. She’s nowhere near experienced enough to handle such a high-profile assignment. But the defendant is insistent: he wants her to represent him. And Leila soon learns her opponent is the most ruthless prosecutor she’s ever known: her husband.
“The Things We Never Say” by Elizabeth Strout. Artie Dam is living a double life. He spends his days teaching history to eleventh graders, expanding their young minds. He goes to holiday parties with his wife of three decades, talks with neighbors, and, on weekends, takes his sailboat out. He is, by all appearances, present and alive. But inside, Artie is plagued by feelings of isolation. He looks out at a world gone mad — and turns a question over and over in his mind: How is it that we know so little about one another, even those closest to us? And then, one day, Artie learns that life has been keeping a secret from him, one that threatens to upend his entire world.
“The Calamity Club” by Kathryn Stockett. Oxford, Mississippi, 1933. Abandoned by her mother one Christmas Eve, eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Now one of the unadoptable "big girls" at the Lafayette County Orphan Asylum, she fights each day to keep her spirit unbowed. Birdie Calhoun, unmarried and outspoken, has come to Oxford to ask her socialite sister to help the struggling family she’s left behind. Then, Birdie encounters Charlie, a woman running low on luck with little left to lose. When their fates — and Meg’s — converge, Charlie comes up with an audacious plan for them to take control of their lives.
“Theo of Golden” by Allen Levi. One spring morning, a stranger named Theo arrives in the small Southern city of Golden. He doesn't explain much about where he came from or why he's there — but when he visits the local coffeehouse, where pencil portraits of the people of Golden hang on the walls, he begins purchasing them, one at a time, and giving each portrait to the person depicted. In exchange, he asks only for the person's story. And so portrait by portrait, ordinary lives are profoundly altered.
“Homebound” by Portia Elan. It’s 1983 and Becks can’t wait to get out of Cincinnati. She’s nineteen, blasting her Walkman, and hiding from the fact that her beloved uncle, the only person who understood her, is dead. But she has work to do: he left her a half-finished game to complete — one last collaboration to find her way out of loneliness. Little does she know, what Becks is making will echo far into the future and shape the lives of a scientist, a sentient automaton, and a flinty sea captain in ways she cannot imagine. All are bound together by their search for connection — and by a futuristic traveler on a mysterious mission through space.
