Did you know? BFPL is turning 199 years young this month! The Articles of Association that created the original library were signed by 17 founders on August 28, 1827. Come see our display of unique library items, photos and more in our upstairs gallery space.
The following large print book was donated by Brenda Whittaker: "Not What It Seems" by Lisa Jackson, in memory of Ann Livak. When Billy Huber’s body is discovered, the police at first assume he fell from a ladder, injuring his throat and smashing his head in the process. Only on closer inspection do they see the polished stone nearby, with a number on one side etched in blood, and a strange symbol on the other. Reporter Nikki Gillette seizes on the story and visits Huber’s sprawling property in Georgia’s low country. She gains little except the uneasy feeling of being watched. Soon more victims are discovered, and a stone engraved with a different number and symbol. With the killer closing in, Nikki soon realizes just how close to danger she really is.
New Fiction:
“Beginning Middle End” by Valeria Luiselli. A mother, whose memory is deteriorating, and her daughter, whose marriage has crumbled, have traveled to Italy. While the mother tries to figure out how to reconstruct their lives as a duo — cooking meals side by side, reading out loud to each other, playing chess, bickering and making up — her daughter takes the reins of the story. Their journey soon becomes a quest for origins, not just to the familial past across continents, languages, and generations, but also farther back, to a mythical and even geological past. “How do you begin again?” the narrator wonders, pondering her family line.
“The Night Hunter” by Natalie Moss. When their conservationist mother passes, Danielle and her sister Grace must return to their isolated family house in a wild-game reserve. While Grace clings to nostalgia, Danielle carries the knowledge of her final request: “Find the storehouse . . . Burn everything inside.” What starts as an adventure with extra friends along for the ride, turns into a nightmare when there is a murder the first morning. In the chaos that follows, they crash their vehicle, with no way to call for help. Now, with dwindling supplies and only one rifle, a truth emerges: someone is sabotaging their escape.
“Yellow Pine” by Claire Vaye Watkins. In her homestead deep in the Mojave, Rose has found a way to live “on the other side of the portal,” with an intentionality that’s brought her hard-won peace and freedom. She’s navigating single parenthood, and she’s found a community out at Yellow Pine, where a group of spirited misfits have mounted a stand against the “green energy gold rush.” Enlisting her on-again-off-again lover, her fellow activists, and her oddball neighbors, Rose embarks upon an unorthodox scheme to recover from her rugged individualism, embrace love in all its pain and grace, and come home to the divine.
“The Great Wherever” by Shannon Sanders. At thirty-two, Aubrey Lamb is stumbling through adulthood. An underpaid gig worker in Washington, DC, she’s grieving the end of a serious relationship and the recent loss of her father. When Aubrey learns she has inherited his stake in a sizable Tennessee farm she sees an opportunity to get out of the city ― and to erase a mounting pile of debt. Watching her arrival with great interest are four ghosts ― Aubrey’s ancestors, who’ve staked their own claims to the farm and who never hesitate to pass judgment on the mistakes made by the living, whether romantic, financial, or sartorial. As the clock ticks on a potential sale of the farm, the ghosts fear expulsion from the home they’ve made, and Aubrey must weigh the hopes and burdens of her forebears with the very real needs of her future.
