Happy New Year! Open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 1pmpm and Saturday ampm. Located at the front of our makerspace on the second floor, the Electric City Creative Craft Cafe is a space where patrons can work on a monthly rotating craft! Tweens, Teens, and Adults are invited to construct their creations using LEGO sets and timers provided by the library. Our staff will have the bird feeders full and ready for our winged visitors. In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers.
In the spring of , Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.
A TV meteorologist and a sports reporter scheme to reunite their divorced bosses with unforecasted results in this electrifying romance from the author of The Ex Talk. Ari Abrams has always been fascinated by the weather, and she loves almost everything about her job as a TV meteorologist.
The only person who seems to understand how she feels is sweet but reserved sports reporter Russell Barringer. Between secret gifts and double dates, they start nudging their bosses back together. But their well-meaning meddling backfires when the real chemistry builds between Ari and Russell. Working closely with Russell means allowing him to get to know parts of herself that Ari keeps hidden from everyone. Will he be able to embrace her dark clouds as well as her clear skies?
