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Durham, CT 06422
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10:00am - 5:00pm * Friday and Saturday

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"You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians."--Monty Python


Wednesday, September 26, 2012

STAFF PICKS -- Wonder Show

Gina's staff pick is Wonder Show, by Hannah Barnaby

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step inside Mosco’s Traveling Wonder Show, a menagerie of human curiosities and misfits guaranteed to astound and amaze!  But perhaps the strangest act of Mosco’s display is Portia Remini, a normal among the freaks, on the run from McGreavy’s Home for Wayward Girls, where Mister watches and waits.  He said he would always find Portia, that she could never leave.  Free at last, Portia begins a new life on the bally, seeking answers about her father’s disappearance. Will she find him before Mister finds her? It’s a story for the ages, and like everyone who enters the Wonder Show, Portia will never be the same.

Gina says:  Cute circus story.  Light read with excitement and a lot of story.

Saturday, September 8, 2012

STAFF PICKS -- The Dressmaker

Gina's staff pick is The Dressmaker, by Kate Alcott.  (This is the second recommendation for this book.)

A vivid, romantic, and relentlessly compelling historical novel about a spirited young woman who survives the disaster only to find herself embroiled in the media frenzy left in the wake of the tragedy.

Gina says:  It's like a gentle read that most would enjoy!"