The library will close at 3 pm the next two Thursdays: Dec. 24 and Dec.31. We hope you'll have time in this busy season to stop in and borrow a book (or DVD or audiobook) and find some time to relax and enjoy a good read. 

Many end of the year "best of 2015" lists are appearing ----- they are so subjective that they appear to be "all over the place". Here is a site that has combined 12 "best of" lists, and you can see that many of the books on the list only get mentioned on a couple of lists:
http://graphics.wsj.com/best-of-the-best-books-2015

The Reading Group will not meet again until Thursday, Jan. 28 to discuss a classic: "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen.

New titles include: non-fic.:"Gratitude" - Oliver Sacks, "Invention of Nature" - Andrea Wulf, "Sexploitation"-Cindy Pierce (from Lyme!), "Let's talk About Death" - Steve Gordon & Irene Kacandes, "Thing Explainer" - Randall Munroe, "Selected Poems of Donald Hall";Fiction:"Tightrope" - Simon Mawer, "House of the Rising Sun" - James Lee Burke, "Corrupted" - Lisa Scottoline, the Elena Ferrante series (4 books); along with some audiobooks, children's books and DVD's.