SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2024 CALENDAR
Cribbage Tuesdays and Fridays 10:00 a.m. – noon. Come when you can, stay as long as you are able.
Gentle Yoga Mondays and Wednesdays @10:00 a.m. Call the library for more information.
Toddler Time Thursdays 10:00 – 10:45 a.m.
Early-Out Kids’ B.I.N.G.O. Monday, September 30th @ 3:00 p.m.
US Senator Chuck Grassley’s Listening Post October 4th 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Book Club Monday, October 7th @ 5:00 p.m.
NEW BOOKS
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt. After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In [this book], social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the ‘play-based childhood’ began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the ‘phone-based childhood’ in the early 2010s”
The Christmas Tree Farm by Melody Carlson. Bestselling and award-winning author Melody Carlson charms and delights with this uplifting Christmas story full of old memories and new beginnings.
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore. Out of this gripping beginning, Liz Moore weaves a … textured drama, both emotionally nuanced and propelled by a double-barreled mystery.
The Sisters of Corinth by Angela Hunt. When the new provincial governor arrives in Corinth, the esteemed Chief Magistrate Narkis Ligus, father to Mariana and Prima, is delighted. He sees a golden opportunity to propel himself to greater power and fortune by uniting his and the governor’s households through the marriage of one of his beautiful unwed daughters to the governor’s firstborn son.
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout.With her “extraordinary capacity for radical empathy” (The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst; fall in love and yet choose to be apart; and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it: What does anyone’s life mean?