To Be Seen At Herrick....

Hey Everybody!



If you haven't dropped in to the library lately, it's time to stop in and visit! Our newest holiday installation has arrived and is ready for all to see!

We're pretty proud of it, and while the picture is cool, it's nothing compared to the real thing.

Come see us soon!

Attention Reading Groups

The latest Book Group to Go bag is Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South in search of a better life.

622 pages, nonfiction

From Page to Screen -- My Week With Marilyn

On my list of Books to Read Before Seeing the Movie is this: My Week With Marilyn.

It caught my attention several months ago, and I promptly forgot about it, but now that the trailer has resurfaced, well, it's time to get cracking.



I mean, how could you resist this? It's Marilyn Monroe, with a smaller role for Emma Watson, formerly of Harry Potter fame and Judi Dench! It got a warm reception at the New York Film Festival, and will be available for the rest of us on November 23. So, read fast!

From Page to Screen -- The Hunger Games

Okay, it's true: some of us really do live under rocks. I have a nice cozy little moss-lined spot that I've been so busy redecorating, I didn't even realize that a new trailer for The Hunger Games was released earlier this week.

In case you've been preoccupied as well....



Anyone else as curious as I am yet? Happy Hungering--you only have to wait until March 23 to see the rest!

Attention Book Groups

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helene Simonson

Retired Major Ernest Pettigrew leads a quiet life in the village of St. Mary, England, until his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Available as a Book Group To Go bag

National Book Award Finalists!

Attention Red Carpet Hounds! The nominees for readers' answer to the Emmys have been announced! To fill out your reading list between now and November 16 (because then, of course, you'll have already read the winner when no one else can find a copy of it), read on...

In Fiction:

The Sojourn by Andrew Krivek

Jozef Vinich, WWI marksman, manages the daily life of trench warfare and confronts his own past in order to return to life and love. "Emotionall charged."

The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht

Natalia Stefanovi, a doctor when not on suspension, digs into her history by travelling to the village of her beloved grandfather. "Her unsentimental faith in language, dream and memory is a pleasure."

The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
Eight intertwined stories of eight young women brought from Japan to San Fransisco nearly a century ago as "picture brides." "Spare yet poignant...clear, elegant prose."

Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman
A collection of short fiction that is both previously published and previously unpublished, many are calling this the quintessential Pearlman colume. For fan of Alice Munro and Nicole Krauss.

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

A motherless family pulls together to take care of one another without aid from their self-absorbed father. The story take place over the course of 12 days as a hurricane builds in the nearby Gulf.

Attention Book Groups

A new fiction title, Wonderland Creek by Lynn Austin is now available as a Book Group to Go bag:

When Alice Ripley's boyfriend breaks up with her and she loses her job at the library during the Great Depression, she heads to the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, where she volunteers to stay for a while to help the librarian there.