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How do I love thee, let me count the ways (Sonnet 43)….So many lovely things happening in tiny town in the month of February. Tune in for chatter about library events and up coming Town Meeting. Catch our interview with resident Lou Springer, Chairman of the Cemetery Trustees and so much more!

NOTE: Our Galentine’s Day program and Super Bowl Sledding Party were cancelled post podcast recording. We shall try again next year.

Amy’s Book Recommendations:

The Gravity of Birds by Tracy Guzeman

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

New Releases Coming Soon:

Our American Friend by Anna Pitoniak Feb. 15

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley, Feb. 22

This Might Hurt by Stephanie Wrobel, Feb. 22

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Tune into this episode for a quick recap of the holiday season in tiny town, a review of Amy’s Best of 2021 book list, and New Year’s resolutions. Happy New Year!

Amy’s Best of 2021 Books

Lists in no particular order

Fiction Top Ten:
1. Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

2. The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson

3. Sin Eater by Megan Campisi

4. Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

5. Mr. Rochester by Sarah Shoemaker

6. Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

7. The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

8. Matrix by Lauren Groff

9. The Overstory by Richard Powers

10. Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

Thrillers Top Ten:

1. Pretty Things by Janelle Brown

2. His & Hers by Alice Feeney

3. The Last Flight by Julie Clark

4. The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

5. Falling by T. J. Newman

6. Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

7. For Your Own Good by Samantha Downing

8. The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

9. Verity by Colleen Hoover

10. The Last One by Alexandra Oliva

Non Fiction Top 5

1.These Precious Days by Ann Patchett

2. Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

3. Finding Freedom by Erin French

4. Food Saved Me by Danielle Walker

5. Tinsel by Hank Stuever

Books I’m Looking Forward To in 2022:

1. Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins – January

2. Violeta by Isabel Allende – January

3. How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu – January

4. Jane and the Year Without a Summer by Stephanie Barron #14 – February

5. Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘Em Dead by Elle Cosimano – February

6. This Might Hurt by Stephanie Wrobel – February

7. All the Queen’s Men by S.J. Bennett – March 

8. Woman on Fire by Lisa Barr – March

9. The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd – March

10. The Fell by Sarah Moss – March

11. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel – April

12. The Candy House by Jennifer Egan – April

13. The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz – May

14. When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill – May

15. The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian – May

16. The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner – May

17. You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi – May

18. Gilt by Jamie Brenner – June

19. How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix – July 

20. Prince Harry’s As-Yet-Untitled Memoir, Pub Date TBA

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Amy:

Older Releases:

• Mr. Rochester by Sarah Schumaker 

New-ish Releases:

• The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan
• Where the Stars Go Dark by Paula McClain
• Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

New Releases:

• The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Yo
• The One Hundred Years of Lenny and Margo by Marianne Cronin
• The Gunckle by Stephen Raleigh
• The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid

Coming Soon:

• Survive the Night by Riley Sager
• The Husband by Chandler Baker
• Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte Mcconagh
• A Slow Fire Burnings Paula Hawkins
• Velvet Was the Night by Silva Morano Garcia

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Are you a Friend of the Library? We are dedicating a good portion of this episode to highlighting and thanking the Friends of the Library for all they do for the staff and the community. Our dear Friend of the Library, Sue Ries, stopped by for a chat and all the details about the upcoming Library Plant Sale!

Amy:

New-ish Releases:

• Good Company by Cynthia Sweeny D’Aprix
• Heartwood by The Art of Living With The End of World In Mind by Barbara Becker

Upcoming Releases:

• Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
• The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
• Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
• State of Terror by Louise Penny and Hilary Rodham Clinton
• The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny

Recent Reads:

• Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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We missed you in February and are catching up with a full episode for March. Spring is in the air, the vaccine is rolling out, and we are looking forward to better days. We welcome the new principal of the Mont Vernon Village School, Dr. Kim Sarfde to the podcast and look forward to hearing good news from the school.

Amy:

• Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
• The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse
• A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
• Who is Maud Dixon by Alexandra Andrews
• Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi
• Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
• Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge

Bonnie:

• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

JoAnn:

• The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

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We are all going to be spending a little more time at home for this holiday season, and the library is here to make that time well spent. We’ve stocked out shelves with this year’s bestsellers, holiday movies, audiobooks and magazines. Check out the library website and our facebook page for virtual events and activities for kids and adults!

For more information about SHARE, visit: https://www.sharenh.org/

Amy:

• The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult
• Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
• The Bean Tree by Barbra Kingslover
• Pigs in Heaven by Barbra Kingslover
• Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
• Nick by Michael Farms Smith

Bonnie:

• Group: How One Therapist and Circle of Strangers Saved My Life by Christie Tate
• Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Kate May

JoAnn:

• Our Rule Against Murder by Louis Penny

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