Brenda Metterville

GOING PLACES!, the Summer Reading Program, will kick off on Tuesday, July 5 with Sidewalk Art from 6 to 7 p.m. Come help decorate the sidewalk along the Library with chalk art, and pick up your reading logs. Five books are the ticket to the Friends of the Library-sponsored Ice Cream Social on Thursday, Aug. 11 at 6 p.m. Other events include studio classes—a water-based media series, Wingmaster’s Birds of Prey on Thursday, July 27 at 4 p.m. and drop-in crafts. Join us for a great summer!

The library now has wireless service available for our patrons!

Tantasqua Regional High School has announced a new summer reading list. All students in grades nine through 12 will be required to read Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest for Dr. Paul Farmer by Tracy Kidder. Students are also required to read one other title from the list, which is available at the Library. Students with overdue books (last summer’s reading list books) will not have any borrowing privileges until their record is cleared.

A description of Mountains Beyond Mountains from School Library Journal:

"Thought-provoking and profoundly satisfying, this book will inspire feelings of humility, admiration, and disquietude; in some readers, it may sow the seeds of humanitarian activism. As a specialist in infectious diseases, Farmer's goal is nothing less than redressing the "steep gradient of inequality" in medical service to the desperately poor. His work establishing a complex of public health facilities on the central plateau of Haiti forms the keystone to efforts that now encompass initiatives on three continents. Farmer and a trio of friends began in the 1980s by creating a charitable foundation called Partners in Health (PIH, or Zanmi Lasante in Creole), armed with passionate conviction and $1 million in seed money from a Boston philanthropist. Kidder provides anecdotal evidence that their early approach to acquiring resources for the Haitian project at times involved a Robin Hood type of "redistributive justice" by liberating medical equipment from the "rich" (Harvard) and giving to the "poor" (the PIH clinic). Yet even as PIH has grown in size and sophistication, gaining the ability to influence and collaborate with major international organizations because of the founders' energy, professional credentials, and successful outcomes, their dedicated vision of doctoring to the poor remains unaltered."

Lynn Nutwell, Fairfax City Regional Library, VA
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BANISTER BOOK GROUP
On Tuesday, June 28, at 7:30 p.m., discuss Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier.

Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is the most impressive and enthralling first novel I have read in a long time. It is a magnetic story, ambitious in scope, with richly developed characters and beautiful evocations of landscape. Though set in an earlier time, it is contemporary in the profoundest sense, with resonance of A Farewell to Arms.

HOME DELIVERY
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