The Four Fifths Barbershop Quartet featuring Tom Liebert, Brian Weaver, Tim Knipp and Buzz Ziegler will perform at Art Circle Public Library at noon tomorrow, Wednesday, May 14. Sensational is a byword.
Join us at noon Wednesday, May 21, as the roof will come tumbling down with the big band sounds of the Cumberland Swing Experience. It’s an experience not to be missed.
The library is at 3 East St., Crossville. Go to artcirclelibrary.info or call 931-484-6790 for information.
Great New Books
Where the Rivers Merge by Mary Alice Monroe. In 1988, Eliza Rivers Chalmers DeLancey, 88, intends to put the remaining thousand acres surrounding Mayfield, her ancestral home, into a conservation easement to protect its legacy. Her son, however, wants to develop the property.
To help ensure Mayfield’s future, Eliza shares the property’s history with her 18-year-old granddaughter, Savannah, and her grand-niece, Norah, who is also her childhood friend Covey’s granddaughter, hoping the younger generation will carry out her wishes. Eliza begins the story in 1908 when she loved hanging around the stables where her father started breeding Marsh Tackys. Her tomboy nature upset her mother, as did her friendship with Covey, a Black girl who lived with her father on the property. In telling her story, Eliza endears herself to the two younger women and to the reader.
Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson. It’s 2007 when Boston mystery author Rube Hill learns he has three younger half-siblings. He rents a car and drives south to look up his half-sister, Madeline “Mad” Hill, an organic farmer in Tennessee.
Rube convinces Mad to join him on a road trip to visit their other two half-siblings — Pepper “Pep” Hill, a college basketball sensation in Oklahoma, and Theron, who’s still a young child, in Utah — before continuing to California in search of their father. As the group assembles in this cross-country trek, they compare memories of their father and the lingering hurt over his sudden disappearances.
Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen. Twilly Spree, the independently wealthy sometime ecowarrior reappears in this latest saga that also features Dale Figgo, a right-wing nutcase who was too crazy for the Proud Boys; Viva Morales, who’s renting a room from Dale, and whose bosses, a pair of alleged philanthropists, are almost certainly up to no good; an ambitious and deeply corrupt congressman; Dale’s mom, who isn’t thrilled about what her son is doing with his life; and a bunch of other delightfully weird characters.
This serious story is interspersed with giant belly laughs, embarrass-yourself-in-public spleen-busters. This could be his funniest book yet.
Library Laugh I
What did the dad volcano say to his son? “I lava you.”
Stingy Schobel Says
Did you know that nearly 15 billion single-use alkaline batteries are sold worldwide every year?
When you’re gifting an electronic item that needs a battery, consider upgrading to rechargeable. Unlike alkaline batteries, rechargeable batteries can be reused up to 1,000 times before needing to be replaced. And these batteries often only take about 15 minutes to fully charge.
The long-term effect is dramatic: less waste to the landfill and less money wasted on buying new