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Don't miss this extra special opportunity to see Sebastian Lockwood as Odysseus at the Library on Mon. Dec. 2 at 7pm. Using the well known scenes of Homer’s Odyssey, Sebastian Lockwood delivers the passion and intensity of the great epic that deserves to be heard told as it was by Bards in the days of old.
We are privileged to have Carl Majewski from the NH Cooperative Extension Service and our own Ann McEntee to give this series of talks for beginning and advanced gardeners. The next in the series will be on Sat. Jan. 18, at 9am when Carl will give an overview of getting started in gardening, including site selection, soil fertility, crop planning, and pest management.
Charley's mother died just a short time ago, and the 12-year-old is faced with a miserable summer recuperating from a car accident that has left her with a slowly healing leg. On her first day out, she encounters a stray dog. She names him Coyote and sets out to see if she can tame him. Books available at the Library!
I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore. Despite the amazing powers that many of the people of Lorien possess, the planet was defeated and its natural resources looted by Mogadorians in a matter of days. Only nine children escaped with their guardians to Earth, where they planned to hide until they developed their powers in order to defeat their enemies and revive Lorien. The Mogadorians hunt the Nine and have already killed three of them. And that's just the backstory. When Number Four, bearing the name "John Smith," moves to Paradise, OH, he runs afoul of the school bully, falls for the most beautiful girl in town, and befriends the local alien conspiracy nerd in short order. Come pick up your copy of the book!
Most of the emotional bite is taken from Sherman Alexie's "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" leaving a great yet simple story about two Indians (Alexie himself dislikes the label "Native American") on the road from the upper Northwest to Arizona. The mission: collect the remains of the father of Victor Joseph-- played with great complexity by Adam Beach. Along for the ride is Thomas, the local reservation geek who brings along with him a vast array of stories from the past mixed with humor and pain played with resilience by Evan Adams, to the constant annoyance of Victor who has no time for stories or memories, only "truth" and the present tense.
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, we are reading The Round House by Louise Erdrich, last year's National Book Award winner. One of the most revered novelists of our time—a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life—Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The Round House, transporting readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. It is an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family. Books available at the Library. 