Learn the simple ways of square foot gardening and basic gardening tips on when to plant and where to plant with Chef Courtney Contos. Participants will learn techniques for growing more, planting early, and weeding less, while nurturing soil life. Tuesday, March 20th 6:30 at the library. Sponsored by the library and the Bristol Farmer’s Market.
Non-Fiction
Boo, Katherine. Behind the beautiful forevers : [life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity]
Hacker, Jacob S. Winner-take-all politics : how Washington made the rich richer, and turned its back on the middle class
Moorehead, Caroline. A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
Teachout, Terry. Pops : a life of Louis Armstrong
Kimball, Kristin. The dirty life : a memoir of farming, food, and love
Gerzina, Gretchen. Mr. and Mrs. Prince : how an extraordinary eighteenth-century family moved out of slavery and into legend
Fiction
Boyden, Joseph Three day road
Clancy, Tom Locked on
Hassman, Tupelo Girlchild
King, Stephen 11/22/63
Murakami, Haruki 1Q84
Schulman, Helen. This beautiful life
Sendker, Jan-Philipp. The art of hearing heartbeats
Childress, Mark. One Mississippi
Desai, Anita, 1937- The zigzag way
Gardner, Lisa. Catch me
Hannah, Kristin. Home front
Hegi, Ursula. Sacred time
Leonard, Elmore Raylan
Livesey, Margot. The flight of Gemma Hardy
Mosley, Walter. All I did was shoot my man
Mystery
Connelly, Michael The drop : a novel
Cornwell, Patricia Red mist
Crais, Robert. Taken
Evanovich, Janet. Love in a nutshell
King, Laurie R. Justice Hall : a Mary Russell novel
King, Laurie R. The language of bees : a Mary Russell novel
King, Laurie R. The moor : a Mary Russell novel
King, Laurie R. O Jerusalem
Mosley, Walter. Known to evil
Patterson, James 10th anniversary
Patterson, James Private : #1 suspect : a novel
Stabenow, Dana. Restless in the grave
Winspear, Jacqueline. Elegy for Eddie : A Maisie Dobbs Novel.
Starting January 30th, the Lawrence Memorial Library will have an intern on site, Mondays 10-4 to offer free, walk-in assistance for basic internet and computer questions.
Topics may include:
General introductory basic computer skills, help with online application of benefits ie. social security, 3 squares, and unemployment, downloading and using ebooks and other software, Basic internet Skills including navigating email, social networking sites, and other everyday applications, and Troubleshooting computer issues.
Non Fiction
Muir, Nancy Computers for seniors for dummies
Kerr, John A most dangerous method
Lewis, Michael Boomerang : travels in the new Third World
Moss, Cynthia. Elephant memories : thirteen years in the life of an elephant family : with a new afterword
Isaacson, Walter Steve Jobs
Books on CD
Cornwell, Patricia Daniels. Red mist
Murakami, Haruki 1Q84 Part 1
Murakami, Haruki, 1949- 1Q84 Part 2
Fiction
Campbell, Bonnie Jo American salvage : stories
Dunmore, Helen The betrayal
Huddle, David Nothing can make me do this
Lively, Penelope How it all began
Moriarty, Liane. What Alice forgot
Perlman, Elliot. The street sweeper
Thompson, Craig Habibi
Towles, Amor. Rules of civility
Mystery
Barr, Nevada. The rope
Evanovich, Janet. Explosive eighteen
James, P. D. Death comes to Pemberley
King, Laurie R. Pirate king
McDermid, Val. The retribution
Nesbø, Jo The leopard
Penney, Stef. The invisible ones
Perry, Anne. Callander Square
Rankin, Ian. The impossible dead
Ridpath, Michael. Where the shadows lie
Non Fiction
Sebold, Alice Lucky
Patterson, James The murder of King Tut
O’Reilly, Bill. Killing Lincoln
Fiction
Barnes, Julian. The sense of an ending
Benjamin, Melanie. The autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
Cussler, Clive. Devil’s gate
Grisham, John. The litigators
Harbach, Chad. The art of fielding
Henderson, Eleanor. Ten thousand saints
Hollinghurst, Alan. The stranger’s child
Kunstler, James Howard. The witch of Hebron
Nadzam, Bonnie. Lamb
Mysteries
Baldacci, David. Zero day
Burke, James Lee Feast day of fools
Grafton, Sue. “V” is for vengeance
Muller, Marcia. City of whispers
Patterson, James Kill Alex Cross
Perry, Anne. The Cater Street hangman
Sandford, John Shock wave
The Lawrence Memorial Library will present “Creepy Classics”, an hour of spooky stories for adults, on Thursday, October 27th, at 7pm. The reader will be Jim Stapleton, a trustee of the Library. The presentation will be part of the Library’s year-long celebration of its hundredth birthday, “A Century of Stories”. The Library is located at 40 North Street, 2 blocks north of the traffic light in Bristol. The presentation is free and refreshments will be served.
Stapleton will read bone-chilling tales, tidbits, and poems from a variety of nightmarish sources, some well known, some not. His authors will include Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, William Shakespeare, and Walter de la Mare. He has promised to introduce his listeners to a “mystery author” by reading one of his tales.
Jim Stapleton moved to Bristol 2 years ago with his wife, Diana Bigelow, from the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. He and Diana have performed locally in various contexts, including his own play “Henry & Emily, The Muses in Massachusetts” at the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury, as well as “The Importance of Being Earnest” and the recent Talent Show/Fundraiser, both at Holley Hall in Bristol.
The Lawrence Memorial Library presents Lyn Elder in a program of early English ballads and folk songs for Halowe’en and the harvest season. There will be songs about witches, ghosts, murderers, magicians, and Druids, as well as a few harvest songs for good measure.
Mr. Elder is a longtime collector of folklore and early music and an experienced performer in these fields. He will be singing and playing several instruments of his own making, including guitars, gittern, hurdy-gurdy, and percussion. This program is recommended for adults and young adults, but not children, on account of its serious nature.
Tuesday, October 25th at 7:00 at the the Lawrence Memorial Library, 40 North Street, Bristol.
Non-fiction
Wickenden, Dorothy. Nothing daunted : the unexpected education of two society girls in the West
Soto, Jock. Every step you take : a memoir
Leavy, Jane. The last boy : Mickey Mantle and the end of America’s childhood
Larson, Erik. In the garden of beasts : love, terror, and an American family in Hitler’s Berlin
Tamm, Eric Enno. The horse that leaps through clouds : a tale of espionage, the Silk Road, and the rise of modern China
Fuller, Alexandra Cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness
Fiction
Adiga, Aravind. Last man in tower : a novel
Bohjalian, Chris The night strangers
Brown, Sandra Lethal
Clancy, Tom Against all enemies
Cussler, Clive. The race
Dilloway, Margaret. How to be an American housewife
Eugenides, Jeffrey. The marriage plot
Frazier, Charles Nightwoods : a novel
Goldman, Francisco. Say her name
Jordan, Hillary When she woke
Kadare, Ismail. The siege
Kittle, Katrina. The kindness of strangers
Martin, George R. R. A clash of kings
Martin, George R. R. A game of thrones
Martin, George R. R. A storm of swords
Morgenstern, Erin. The night circus : a novel
Morton, Kate The house at Riverton
Oliveira, Robin. My name is Mary Sutter
Otsuka, Julie The Buddha in the attic
Sharratt, Mary The vanishing point
Silva, Daniel The unlikely spy
Sullivan, J. Courtney. Maine : a novel
Trussoni, Danielle. Angelology
Watson, Larry American boy
Wilson, Kevin The family Fang
Mystery
Atkins, Ace. The ranger
Boyd, Noah. Agent X
Boyd, Noah. The Bricklayer
Brandman, Michael. Robert B. Parker’s Killing the blues
Burke, James Lee Feast day of fools : a novel
Child, Lee. The affair : a Reacher novel
Coben, Harlan Shelter : a Mickey Bolitar novel
Arnaldur Indriason Operation Napoleon
King, Laurie R. A monstrous regiment of women
Malliet, G. M Wicked autumn : a Max Tudor novel
Mankell, Henning A bridge to the stars
Mankell, Henning The dogs of Riga : a Kurt Wallander mystery
Mankell, Henning The fifth woman
Mankell, Henning The pyramid : and four other Kurt Wallander mysteries
Mayor, Archer. Tag man
McCrumb, Sharyn The ballad of Tom Dooley : a ballad novel
Patterson, James Kill me if you can
Patterson, James Now you see her : a novel
Penny, Louise. A trick of the light
Ritter, Todd. Bad moon
Woods, Stuart. Son of Stone : a Stone Barrington novel
Non Fiction
Kenison, Katrina. The gift of an ordinary day : a mother’s memoir
Sheff, David. Beautiful boy : a father’s journey through his son’s addiction
Wickenden, Dorothy. Nothing daunted : the unexpected education of two society girls in the West
Vaillant, John. The tiger: a true story of vengeance and survival
Kessler, Brad. Goat song : a seasonal life, a short history of herding, and the art of making cheese
Costenbader, Carol W. The big book of preserving the harvest
Garfield, Simon, Just my type : a book about fonts
Braham, Jeanne Made by hand : art and craft in the heartland of New England
Fey, Tina Bossypants
Mann, Charles C. 1493 : uncovering the new world Columbus created
Perry, Michael Coop : a family, a farm, and the pursuit of one good egg
Fiction
Abu-Jaber, Diana. Birds of paradise
Andrews, Mary Kay Hissy fit
Byrd, Sandra. To die for
Chiaverini, Jennifer. The Union quilters
Currimbhoy, Nayana. Miss Timmins’ School for Girls
Eisdorfer, Erica. The wet nurse’s tale
Garwood, Julie. The ideal man
Gross, Andrew Eyes wide open
Hand, Dana. Deep Creek
Hilderbrand, Elin. Silver girl : a novel
Hoffman, Alice. The red garden
Kittle, Katrina. The kindness of strangers
Lawrenson, Deborah. The lantern : a novel
Lowell, Elizabeth Chain lightning
Rice, Luanne. The silver boat
Schoolhouse brides : teachers of yesteryear fulfill dreams of love in four novellas
Silva, Daniel Portrait of a spy
Unger, Lisa Darkness, my old friend
Ward, Jesmyn. Salvage the bones
Welty, Eudora The collected stories of Eudora Welty.
Wilson, Kevin The family Fang
Wong, Shawn Homebase
Mystery
Adler-Olsen, Jussi. The keeper of lost causes
Barclay, Linwood. The accident
Bass, Jefferson. The bone yard
Boyd, Noah. Agent X
Boyd, Noah. The bricklayer
Kepler, Lars. The hypnotist
Lescroart, John T. Damage
Lippman, Laura The most dangerous thing
Mankell, Henning The troubled man
Perry, Anne. Acceptable loss : a William Monk novel
Reichs, Kathy. Flash and bones
Sandford, John, Silent prey
Watson, S. J. Before I go to sleep : a novel
Non Fiction
Tavris, Carol. Mistakes were made (but not by me): why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts
Brooks, David, 1961- The social animal: the hidden sources of love, character, and achievement
Vaillant, John. The golden spruce: a true story of myth, madness, and greed
ASVAB : the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery.
Gonzales, Laurence Deep survival: who lives, who dies, and why : true stories of miraculous endurance and sudden death
Armstrong, Kristin. Mile markers: the 26.2 most important reasons why women run
McDougall, Christopher Born to run : a hidden tribe, superathletes, and the greatest race the world has never seen
Bryson, Bill. Notes from a small island
Zuckoff, Mitchell. Lost in Shangri-La : a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II
Coleman, Melissa. This life is in your hands : one dream, sixty acres, and a family undone
Fiction
Baldacci, David. One summer
Brooks, Geraldine. Caleb’s crossing
Cussler, Clive. The kingdom
Dubus, Andre Townie : a memoir
Gee, Darien. Friendship bread : a novel
Henry, Joe. Lime Creek
Kenemore, Scott. Zombie, Ohio : a tale of the undead
Marlantes, Karl. Matterhorn : a novel of the Vietnam War
Obreht, Ta. The tiger’s wife : a novel
Patchett, Ann. State of wonder
Russell, Mary Doria Doc : a novel
Mystery
Baldacci, David. The sixth man
Carter, Maureen. A Question of despair
Clark, Mary Higgins. I’ll walk alone
Connelly, Michael The fifth witness : a novel
Nesbø, Jo The snowman
Parker, Robert B Sixkill
Sandford, John Buried prey
Scottoline, Lisa. Save me
Winspear, Jacqueline A lesson in secrets : a Maisie Dobbs novel
Woods, Stuart. Bel-Air dead : a Stone Barrington novel