Shelburne Library news

February 19, 2014 · 0 Comments

Just think another week or so and March will be here… For us, it means looking at a very busy March Break as we are offering lots of programs for our young families.

On Tuesday, March 11, we will be featuring Creature Quest; there will be many exotic creatures for the children to look at and touch. This program will be in the library at 2 p.m. On Wednesday, March 12 at 10:30 a.m., we will be featuring Robin Hood, a lively production by the ever-exciting Dufflebag Theatre troupe. Finally, on Thursday, March 13 at 2 p.m. it will be the lively musical entertainer Erick Traplin. The last two shows will be held at the Grace Tipling Theatre thanks to the support of the Town of Shelburne.

And the best part is… the tickets are only $8 for all three shows! They are on sale now at the library and they usually go quite quickly so do get yours now.

Another huge event that we are working on is a giant Book Sale during the March Break week. It will start on Wednesday, March 12th at 10 a.m. and run through Thursday, Friday and Saturday during library open hours. We have an incredible assortment of great books. As usual, we have the ever popular $2 a bag books and then some very high end new books. We have received a wonderful donation of authors’ books such as James Patterson and Nora Roberts with at least 15- 20 books in the series… could I suggest that you might want to stock up for some summer reading? Or at the very least pick up some vacation books.

I have just finished reading two books in the same vein, The Secret of Magic by Deborah Johnson and The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd who also wrote The Secret Life of Bees.

Both have very strong themes about the treatment of black men and women and of slaves.

The Secret of Magic deals with a more contemporary time after WWII while The Invention of Wings is set in the early- nineteenth-century in Charleston. Both are heart-wrenching in their depiction of the life and struggles of the main characters and yet, both have characters with strong redemptive spirits. They are excellent reads if you can stand the sometimes painful events that are described.

New Books, Fiction:

Private L.A. by James Patterson

River of Dreams by Lynn Kurland

Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

The Truth about you by Susan Lewis

Drakenfeld by Mark Charan Hewton

Dominion by C.J. Sansom

For Today I am a Boy by Kim Fu

Independence by Cecil Foster

Dead Man’s Fancy by Keith McCafferty

Eggs in a Casket by Laura Childs

Non Fiction: