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Local stores will be holding a Breakfast Food Drive for the Montpelier Food Shelf later this month. January 18th - 25th customers can get discounts at participating stores if they bring in a breakfast food item. Breakfast item suggestions are: cereal, canned ham, peanut butter, jelly, canned fruit and dried milk. Food pantry shelves are low and this should be a great help to the Food Shelf! Stay tuned for details.
by Ron Rash
The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton travel from Boston to the North Carolina mountains where they plan to create a timber empire. Their desire for wealth is as passionate and cruel as their marriage. Serena, in particular, shows no kindness- whether to the loggers who work long hours to [...]
Tuesday, January 13 7PM
In Promised Land Parini reminds us that, to a great extent, we Americans are people of the book. He examines the life and times of thirteen books and how these books entered American life and altered how we think and act in the world. Parini is a Axinn Professor [...]
A Yes-Or-No Answer: Poems
by Shore, Jane
In her acclaimed collections Happy Family and Music Minus One, Jane Shore traced her life from childhood to coming of age to parenthood. Now, in A Yes-or-No Answer, Shore etches the persistence of the past in a life that has moved into a mature new phase as a member of [...]
by Susan Collins
Ages 12 and up
An unput-downable sci-fi dystopia that is part political fable (yet chillingly imaginable!), part love story and part gangbusters thriller. This is the first book in a trilogy by the author of the bestselling Gregor series for kids. The Hunger Games is a survival tournament in the “wild” (a government controlled [...]