Talespinner’s Story Time for preschool children and their caregivers will start up again on Monday, January 9 at 10:30 with special guest Jan Malone and a snowmen theme. Please bring your kids down to enjoy stories, songs, and simple crafts.
Are you determined to read more books this year? Interested in making new friends? Having more interesting conversations? A great way to do just that is to join the library’s book club Alger Reads. Our next meeting will be Tuesday, January 24 at 6:00pm and we will be discussing the book Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May. A full list of book selections and meeting dates can be found on the library’s website msplonline.org.
The library will be closed to the public on Monday, Jan. 16th in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
New Book: Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro.
Signal Fires opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything on Division Street changes. Each of their lives, and that of Ben Wilf, a doctor who arrives on the scene, is shattered. For the Wilf family, the circumstances of that fatal accident will become the deepest kind of secret, one so dangerous it can never be spoken.
On Division Street, time has moved on. When the Shenkmans arrive- a young couple expecting a baby boy- it is as if the accident never happened. But when Waldo, the Shenkmans’ brilliant, lonely son who marvels at the beauty of the world and has a native ability to find connections in every-thing, befriends Dr. Wilf, now retired and struggling with his wife’s decline, past events come hurtling back in ways no one could ever have foreseen.
In Dani Shapiro’s first work of fiction in fifteen years, she returns to the form that launched her career, with a riveting, deeply felt novel that examines the ties that bind families together- and the secrets that can break them apart. Signal Fires is a work of haunting beauty by a masterly storyteller (from publisher).
