Ballston Reader
What's Happening at the Town of Ballston Community Library
Friday, January 24th, 2019
Valentine's Yoga
*Registration Required
Save the Date! Library Mini Golf!
Table Top Games
Try out new games at the Library's Table Top Game Night. Games to be announced
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
"Storyteller par excellence Isabel Allende brings to life an epic saga in A Long Petal of the Sea.
During the Spanish Civil War in 1938, medic Victor Dalmau aids the fight against ruthless General Franco by tending the wounded under the worst possible conditions, while Roser Bruguera, a young piano student, becomes the lover of Victor’s soldier brother. After Victor’s brother is killed and the Franco-led fascists gain control of Spain, Victor and Roser, fearing even greater atrocities, join the sea of desperate refugees fleeing to France. There, they are detained under horrific conditions in a camp by the sea." - Excerpt from Book Page Book Review article
Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston
"Twenty-one stories—many long forgotten—from a major writer of the Harlem Renaissance come together for the first time.
Over the past 50 years, Zora Neale Hurston has been restored from nearly forgotten to a canonical writer, in no small part due to the efforts of Alice Walker and Toni Morrison. One of the seminal writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston is most known today for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God and for her nonfiction works of black history and folklore. But before she published those books, she honed her craft by writing short stories.
Between 1921 and 1937, Hurston published 21 stories, some widely anthologized but many virtually lost—until now. Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick collects all 21, including eight “lost” stories, for the first time in one volume." - Excerpt from Book Page Book Review article
The Wife and the Widow by Christian White
"Screenwriter Christian White knows his way around a plot twist. Even the most die-hard thriller reader will be surprised at the direction The Wife and the Widow takes, but even without its truly shocking reveal, White’s thriller stands out for its penetrating examination of marriage and the lies that build between spouses.
Abby and her husband, Ray, are eking out a living on a gothic, windswept island off the coast of Victoria, Australia. When the police find the body of a man who died under suspicious circumstances, it disrupts the sleepy island community—and makes Abby notice how strangely Ray has been acting. Suddenly distant and secretive, Ray has disposed of his work clothes and can’t account for all his time away from home." - Excerpt from Book Page Book Review article
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