Adult Fiction Bark to the Future, Spencer Quinn Bruno’s Challenge and Other Stories of the French Countryside, Martin Walker Every Summer After, Carley Fortune Horse, Geraldine Brooks Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting, Clare Pooley The Locked Room, Elly Griffiths November 9, Colleen Hoover Rizzoli and Isles: Listen to Me, Tess Gerritsen Sparring Partners, John Grisham […]
Adult Fiction The Big Dark Sky, Dean Koontz Hour of the Witch, Chris Bohjalian Overkill, Sandra Brown Sparring Partners, John Grisham Rising Tiger, Brad Thor Heretics of Dune, Frank Herbert Chapterhouse Dune, Frank Herbert The Man Who Died Twice, Richard Osman All Your Perfects, Colleen Hoover It Ends With Us, Colleen Hoover It All Comes […]
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“The best thing that we’re put here for’s to see; The strongest thing that’s given us to see with’s a telescope. Someone in every town seems to me owes it to the town to keep one. In Littleton it may as well be me.” -Robert Frost, from “The Star-Splitter,” from the collection New Hampshire, 1923 […]
October 26 at 7 PM; in person or Zoom
The October Book Club selection is Xochitl Gonzales’s debut novel, Olga Dies Dreaming. From BookOfTheMonth.com: It is 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro “Prieto” Acevedo are well known in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular Congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn, and Olga is the wedding planner for Manhattan’s […]
Adult Fiction The 6:20 Man, David Baldacci Alias Emma, Ava Glass The Bodyguard, Katherine Center Brother Alive, Zain Khalid The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston Elektra, Jennifer Saint The Girl in His Shadow, Audrey Blake The Girl Who Survived, Lisa Jackson The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina, Zoreida Cordova The It Girl, Ruth Ware The Measure, Nikki […]
Adult Fiction A Face To Die For, Iris Johansen Fellowship Point, Alice Elliott Dark The Hotel Nantucket, Elin Hilderbrand Escape, James Patterson and David Ellis Children of Dune, Frank Herbert The 6:20 Man, David Baldacci Aunt Dimity and the Enchanted Cottage, Nancy Atherton Listen To Me, Tess Gerritsen Suspects, Danielle Steel Down A Dark Road, […]
My thrice weekly walk, referred to commonly as “going around the lake,” takes me down Old College Road, along the Rail Trail to Channel Road, then all the way up Maple Street before I turn right and return home to the corner of Elbow Pond and Old College Roads. Neighbors and dogs greet me, as […]
Good grief! It’s still summer, and that’s the way I like to see August – full of sunny possibilities for reading. However, two of the tomes that await me might actually block out the sun. One is Annie Proulx’s “Barkskins,” a 713-page exploration of the woodcutters and loggers in the New World from 1693 onward. […]