JANUARY 2025
Wish you had more time to read or perhaps a commute would be more interesting with an audio book in the car. Acworth Library has joined the NH State Library downloadable eBooks and audiobooks program. Acworth residents and property owners can participate free of charge. Contact the Library at 603-835-2150 or acworthlibrary@gmail.com or stop in to sign up and/or get more Information.
Kathi’s recommendations: Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner is not your ordinary secret agent story. It is told by a competent, young woman undercover agent privately contracted to infiltrate a group of political activists in rural France. The group takes their inspiration from a leader who encourages them to look to prehistory for solutions to society’s capitalist ills. Against a backdrop of the region’s prehistoric cave paintings, they look to Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens for the seeds of contemporary man’s errant ways. Ultimately, our undercover agent finds herself affected by these musings and their capacity to alter expected events. An interesting winter diversion.
Susan’s recommendation: Havoc by Christopher Bollen is set at the Royal Karnak Palace Hotel on the banks of the Nile. This creepy yet hilarious tale hits the spot for an escapist novel. Maggie appears to be the “sweet old lady” in Room 309. Otto, a skinny awkward 8 year boy, checks in with his mother. Havoc ensues. To say more would be a spoiler.
New Fiction:
Bollen, Christopher; Havoc
Child, Lee; In Too Deep
Dugoni, Robert; Beyond reasonable doubt
Gervais, Simon; The Elias Network
Hamilton, Steve; An Honorable Assassin
Harkaway, Nick; Karla’s Choice
Harvey, Samantha; Orbital
Heywood, Joseph; Out of Service
Idov, Michael; The Collaborators
Johnson, Craig; First Frost
Kim, Juhea; City of Night Birds
Pek, Jane; The Rivals
Nesbo, Jo; The Thirst
Raybourn, Deanna; A dangerous collaboration
Tokarczuk, Olga; The empusium
Non-Fiction:
Fuller, Thomas; The Boys of Riverside
Garten, Ina; Be ready when the luck happens
Grush, Loren; The Six
Kimmerer, Robin; The serviceberry
Perelman, Deb; Smitten Kitchen Every Day
Rundell, Katherine; Vanishing Treasures
Mulley, Clare; Agent Zo
New Children’s Books:
Blabey, Aaron; Bad guys in one last thing
Clarkson, Giselle ; The observologist
Farina, Katy; Babysitters Little Sister, Karen’s Roller Skates
Pilkey, Dav; Dog Man, Big Jim Begins
Simon, Coco; Mia’s Baker’s Dozen
