At noon tomorrow, Wednesday, Aug. 27, in the Cumberland Room, Moosestock (comprised of Blind Date and others) will provide a lunchtime buffet of tunes, fun and frivolity. Hooray!
September kicks off with Legends of the Past and Present at noon Wednesday, Sept. 3, in the Cumberland Room. This amazing show features a variety of performers from the Playhouse. It features Rachel Love, Michael Ruff, Carla Corder, Kyana Love, and Regina Pullin.
Tai chi will start up Sept. 8 with the intermediate class starting at 9 a.m. and the beginners class starting at 10 a.m. Register by calling the library at 931-484-6790.
Art Circle Public Library is at 3 East St. Call 931-484-6790 or visit artcirclelibrary.info for more information.
Great New Books
Forget Me Not by Stacy Willingham. It’s been 15 years since Claire returned home to South Carolina, a place haunted by the disappearance of her older sister Natalie at age 18. Having been called back to her hometown by her father, Claire gravitates to nearby Galloway Farm, where Natalie spent time before she disappeared.
Hoping to escape her estranged mother and feel closer to her sister, Claire takes a job at the farm and moves into its guest cabin, where she discovers an old journal belonging to one of the farm’s owners. The diary recounts a story of young love that soon takes on more sinister form. It also hints at unsolved crimes that lead Claire to investigate Natalie’s ties to the farm.
When she uncovers evidence of another woman’s disappearance, Claire begins to wonder if these are more than coincidences–and if she’s getting too close to the truth.
The Break-In by Katherine Faulkner. Art restorer Alice Rathbone has created the perfect life with her high-powered husband and their young daughter. It’s all turned upside down when Alice kills an intruder who has interrupted a Friday night glass of champagne with her mom friends at the Rathbones’ upscale home.
Although they live in the gentrifying London neighborhood of Hackney, where property crime is not uncommon, Alice becomes obsessed with the idea that the intruder, 18-year-old Ezra Jones, targeted their house for a reason. Alice seeks out his family and starts a hunt for the truth, soon revealing not just Ezra’s past but also a spate of secrets and lies among her own friends and family.
Faulkner keeps the twists coming, in the style of Lisa Jewell, and shows how the psychological ripple effect of one crime can change multiple lives, as in the best of Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley novels.
The Book of Lost Hours by Hayley Gelfuso. Eleven-year-old Lisavet has no way of returning home after her watchmaker father shoves her through a strange portal as the Nazis draw near on the eve of Kristallnacht. Trapped for ages to wander the shelves of the time space — an eerie place where people’s memories are recorded in books, and talented timekeepers can travel into those memories — Lisavet finds purpose in saving memories that others want to burn.
When she falls in love with a handsome young man working for the U.S. government, Lisavet is faced with a devastating choice. Year later, in 1962, a young woman named Amelia is thrust into the time space after her uncle’s death. While attempting to unravel his secrets, Amelia discovers that people will kill to control the place and the memories it contains. Gelfuso’s sci-fi/historical fiction mash-up delivers excitement.
Library Laugh I
What did the bride say when she dropped her bouquet? “Whoopsy-Daisies.”
Stingy Schobel Says
Buy veterinary medications online. Before filling your pet’s prescriptions through your vet’s pharmacy, see whether you can find a better price from an online pharmacy. If so, ask your vet to write scripts you can fill that way.
Carry cash again. Credit card companies have increased the processing fees they charge businesses-up to 3% of purchases. More and more small businesses are passing the fee on to you, unless you pay cash. And research has shown that people who pay cash spend less.
Library Laugh II
What do you get when you cross a pig and a centipede? Bacon and legs.
Libraries=Information
We live in a world where when something breaks, you simply buy a new one to replace it, and hopefully the old one gets recycled.
But a movement for repair is growing, and the platform IFixIt is a community with the motto “never take broken as an answer.”
With over 119,000 free manuals, 230,000 solutions and 100 million-plus repairs done, it’s a helpful website to give you the know-how to fix your electronic devices yourself.
Help reduce e-waste and save money by giving repair a try.
Summer Sizzle Bonus
What would you get if we threw all the books in the ocean? A title wave!