Happy (rainy) spring! It is good weather for our new gardens and our winter weary lawns as well as good reading weather. We have many new books purchased with our wonderful grant from the Walters Family Foundation. Some of the fiction titles added in the last few weeks include Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Pearl of Kuwait by Tom Paine, Birthright by Nora Roberts, and Only Child by Andrew Vachss. Non-fiction includes Vermont Farm Women by Peter Miller, Green Mountain Ghosts, Ghouls, and Unsolved Mysteries by Joe Citro, The Mist Grill: Rustic Cooking from Vermont by Stephen Schimoler, and Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafasi. Over two hundred books crowd the shelves that hold our new books. We have begun offering an e-mail list of new books to anyone who wants to subscribe. The first list will be e-mailed in June and will offer the opportunity for e-mail reserves for any books on the list.
We have also started a small but excellent collection of foreign films on VHS. I appreciate any suggestions for additions to this collection. We would like our video collection to be different than that offered by the video stores in town. We have many classics and musicals appropriate for family viewing. If anyone has suggestions for other types of films we should add to our collection I would love to hear them.
Our musical CD collection continues to grow. We’ve received a wonderful gift of a set of classical music CDs and books that outline the history of the music contained in the CD. It is a beautiful set and well worth a look.
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