Adult Books

1.  Public parks are great for reading. The Waterfront Park near our library has benches, a view of the river and a statue, or, The Common at the top of the hill in Gardiner, are great little places to escape with a book. I feel parks have plenty of open places to spread out a blanket in the shade. You can sit back and feel like you are playing like a child, again.   2.  Any comfortable chair cries out for a book. I picture an old high wing chair that you can feel the softness of the upholstery, one …

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FICTION: And the mountains echoed by Khaled Hosseini.  Here is a multi-generational family saga that follows a close-knit but oft-separated Afghan family through love, wars, and losses more painful than death. The apple orchard by Susan Wiggs.  When a woman inherits half a hundred-acre apple orchard to be shared with a half-sister she never knew she had, she discovers the pleasures of family and love. Best kept secret by Jeffrey Archer.  In the third installment of this family saga, the focus shifts to a new generation – Sebastian, the son of Harry and Emma Clifton. The best of us by …

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I would highly recommend Stephen King’s 11/22/63.  It is the story of time traveling and what may have happened if we were able to stop Lee Harvey Oswald before he assassinated JFK.  Would there be a “butterfly” effect” that would change history so dramatically, that things could be even worse?  Very interesting premise! Anne Davis, Library Director     I just finished reading The Light Between Oceans: a Novel by M. L. Stedman. The setting is a remote lighthouse off the coast of Western Australia.  Poor choices are made concerning a rescued infant which bring heartbreak to two families.  The …

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