Ballston Reader
What's Happening at the Town of Ballston Community Library
Friday, May 4th, 2018
Family Storytime
Music Medley
Tuesdays at 10:30am
American Red Cross Blood Drive
Use the link below to make your appointment to give blood!
Tuesday, May 8th from 1:00pm - 6:00pm
Friends of the Library Spring Raffle! Drawing Saturday, May 5th
Check Out These Books!
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
"BookPage Top Pick in Fiction, May 2018
Much of the action of Rachel Kushner’s brilliant new novel is set in California prisons. She has done her research, and the novel is filled with distressing factual details like death-row inmates sewing sandbags and prison staff using a powerful, probably toxic disinfectant called Cell Block 64. And of course there are the stultifying, dehumanizing prison routines.
But the moral scope of The Mars Room is really too large for it to be considered a prison novel. Through its vividly rendered characters, it asks the reader to ponder bigger questions—Dostoyevskian questions—about the system of justice, the possibility of redemption and even the industrialization of the natural landscape." - Excerpt from Book Page Book Review article
A Brotherhood of Spies by Monte Reel
"BookPage Top Pick in Nonfiction, May 2018
The Cold War between the U.S. and Russia was at its iciest from the early 1950s until well into the 1960s. Neither side knew a great deal about the other’s military capabilities and even less about any grand designs for world supremacy. The information the two superpowers did possess came mostly from spies, diplomats, gossip and news reports. Although securing reliable intelligence was clearly in the Pentagon’s interest, its chief focus was on improving its weaponry. However, the nascent Central Intelligence Agency was interested in experimental aerial reconnaissance projects." - Excerpt from Book Page Book Review article
My Ex-Life by Stephen McCauley
"Stephen McCauley’s bittersweet seventh novel gives the lie to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s pronouncement that there are no second acts in American lives. Because for all their missteps, the angst-ridden characters that populate My Ex-Life seem determined, in their endearingly flawed ways, to make the best of their unique circumstances.
Most of the novel’s action unfolds in the slightly shabby seaside resort of Beauport, just north of Boston. It’s home to Julie Fiske and her restless daughter, Mandy, who’s on the cusp of high school graduation. In the midst of a fractious divorce and pressured by her husband to sell the rambling home they once shared, Julie reaches out to her first ex-husband, David Hedges, a college admissions consultant, in a desperate bid to help her daughter and bring order to the chaos of her life. David left Julie three decades earlier after discovering his true sexual orientation, and he now lives in San Francisco, where he faces his own real estate crisis—an impending eviction." - Excerpt from Book Page Book Review article
Board of Trustees Monthly Board Meeting
Wednesday, May 30th at 7:00pm
Community Display Spaces
Calling all artists & collectors!
Town of Ballston Community Library
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Website: toblibrary.sals.edu
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Phone: 5183998174
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