No Story Time This Week
Page Turners Read Icefall for October
Synopsis from the Author
Trapped in a hidden fortress tucked between towering mountains and a frozen sea, Solveig, along with her brother the crown prince, their older sister, and an army of restless warriors, anxiously awaits news of her father’s victory at battle. But as winter stretches on, and the unending ice refuses to break, terrible acts of treachery soon make it clear that a traitor lurks in their midst. A malevolent air begins to seep through the fortress walls, and a smothering claustrophobia slowly turns these prisoners of winter against one another.
Those charged with protecting the king’s children are all suspect, and the siblings must choose their allies wisely. But who can be trusted so far from their father’s watchful eye and unchallenged authority? Can Solveig and her siblings survive the long winter months and expose the traitor before he succeeds in destroying a king, his empire, and his children?
Labels: book discussion for tweens, events/activities for tweens, KiDS' RooM News, page turners, TeeN RooM News
Book Bunch Reads Pictures of Hollis Woods for October
Summary
Hollis Woods has been in so many foster homes she can hardly remember them all. When Hollis is sent to Josie, she’ll do everything in her power to make sure they stay together.
A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.
Labels: book bunch, book discussion for kids, events/activities for kids, KiDS' RooM News
Interested in a Good Haunting? Try Haunted Lighthouses of New England
Designed to mark perilous coastlines, treacherous shoals and reefs, and
guide sailors to safe harbor entries, the isolated nature of lighthouses makes
them the perfect backdrop for mysterious tales.
Join us on Wednesday, October 17 at 7:00 p.m. in the Campbell High School
Auditorium for the multi-media presentation Haunted Lighthouses of New England with Portsmouth historian Jeremy
D’Entremont.
In this presentation, D’Entremont shares firsthand knowledge of the mystifying
tales and spine-chilling events that have taken place in a number of New
England lights.
As a recognized expert
of New England lighthouse history, D’Entremont has taken part in many paranormal
lighthouse investigations during the more than 25 years he has been
photographing and writing about lighthouses.
He has appeared on the Travel Channel’s Haunted
Lighthouses of America, and SyFy’s Ghost Hunters, and has authored 9 books,
the most recent of which is Ocean-Born Mary: The Truth Behind the New
Hampshire Legend.
Labels: events/activities for adults, events/activities for teens, ReC RooM News, TeeN RooM News
All Booked Up Reads The Pale Blue Eye and more for October
In celebration of The Big Read in New Hampshire, All Booked will discuss Louis Bayard's novel The Pale Blue Eye and/or Graphic Classics Volume 1: Edgar Allan Poe for the October 3rd meeting at 6:30 p.m. Copies of the books are available at the upstairs Circulation Desk.
Summary of The Pale Blue Eye
It's a baffling case Landor must pursue in secret, for the scandal could do irreparable damage to the fledgling institution. But he finds help from an unexpected ally—a moody, young cadet with a penchant for drink, two volumes of poetry to his name, and a murky past that changes from telling to telling. The strange and haunted Southern poet for whom Landor develops a fatherly affection, is named Edgar Allan Poe.
Summary of Graphic Classics Volume 1
This contains adaptations of a number of Poe's better-known short stories, with a few lesser-known stories and several poems.
Coming Next Month: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Labels: all booked up, big read, book discussion for adults, events/activities for adults, ReaDiNG RooM News
Sex Wars is September's Book of the Month
From the Publisher
PostCivil War New York City is the battleground of the American dream. In this era of free love, emerging rights of women, and brutal sexual repression, Freydeh, a spirited young Jewish immigrant, toils at different jobs to earn passage to America for her family. Learning that her younger sister is adrift somewhere in the city, she begins a determined search that carries her from tenement to brothel to prison—as her story interweaves with those of some of the epoch's most notorious figures: Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Susan B. Anthony; sexual freedom activist Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president; and Anthony Comstock, founder of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, whose censorship laws are still on the books.
In the tradition of her bestselling World War II epic Gone to Soldiers, Marge Piercy once again re-creates a turbulent period in American history and explores changing attitudes in a land of sacrifice, suffering, promise, and reward.
Next month: The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard
Labels: book of the month club, ReaDiNG RooM News, reading suggestions
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