Librarying

June 2024

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”

—Fran Lebowitz

Upcoming Events

Adult Craft Night: Bamboo Wind Chimes

Wednesday, June 19, 6:30 - 7:30

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Memoir Writing Workshop

with Caroline Joy Adams

Open to anyone interested in writing true-to-life stories and to writers of all experience levels. This free 4-week workshop runs June 24 through July 15, from 6-8pm. Attend one, a few or all.

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New Book Spotlight

Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony’s parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on in this still-new country. Though her ties to Ireland remain stronger than those that hold her to her new land and home, she has not returned in decades.

One day, when Tony is at his job and Eilis is in her home office doing her accounting, an Irishman comes to the door asking for her by name. He tells her that his wife is pregnant with Tony’s child and that when the baby is born, he will not raise it but instead deposit it on Eilis’s doorstep. It is what Eilis does—and what she refuses to do—in response to this stunning news that makes Tóibín’s novel so riveting.

It’s been twenty years since Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s sister vanished when they were teenagers, and ever since she’s been searching: for signs, for closure, for other missing girls. But happy endings are rare in Chelsey’s line of work.

Then a glimmer: local teenager Ellie Black, who disappeared without a trace two years earlier, has been found alive in the woods of Washington State.

But something is not right with Ellie. She won’t say where she’s been, or who she’s protecting, and it’s up to Chelsey to find the answers. She needs to get to the bottom of what happened to Ellie: for herself, and for the memory of her sister, but mostly for the next girl who could be taken—and who, unlike Ellie, might never return.

Nashquitten, MA, is a decaying coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town's industries for generations. When a young woman dies at a house party, the circumstances around her death suspiciously unclear, the tight-knit community is shaken. As a mother grieves her daughter, a teacher her student, a best friend her confidante, the events around the tragedy become a lightning rod: blame is cast, secrets are buried deeper. Some are left to pick up the pieces, while others turn their backs, and all the while, a truth about that dreadful night begins to emerge.Told through the eyes of ten local women, Grabowski's Women and Children First is an exquisite portrait of grief and a powerful reminder of life's interconnectedness.

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“And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.”

― Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

Book Clubs

June 18

3:30 pm

Four Seasons in Rome

by Anthony Doerr

June 21

4:00pm

The Lost Summers of Newport

by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig and Karen White

Book List of the Month

100 Must-Read Strange and Unusual Novels

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”

— Henry David Thoreau