The View From Circulation - What's Trending, Unique, & Informational

This week brings us into July with beach trips, road trips, camping trips, and enjoying our national parks. Looking for books set in your destinations (or to daydream)? Through the month of July and August we are selecting favorites and displaying them in the "Reader's Challenge" bookshelf across from the circulation desk. Authors Nancy Thayer and Elin Hildebrand will transport you to Nantucket.  Traveling to Maine? Enjoy mysteries by Linda Greenlaw (America's famous woman Swordfishing captain). The variety of displayed selections will transport you all over the United States and will change throughout the summer. Looking for ebooks to download set throughout the United Status check out this list "The Most Famous Book Set in the United States" published by Business Insider. Does your selection have a hold list? Don't forget Duxbury library code holders can check out books in the Sails Library Network and Minuteman Library Network. ...

We are seeing the bestselling memoir,  "The Glass Castle"  by Jeannette Walls, gaining popularity once again due to recent release of the movie. " The Mountain Between Us " by one of my favorite authors, Charles Martin, or the classic  "Murder on the Orient Express" , by Agatha Christie, have movie adaptations to be released this fall. Most people find the book is better than its adaptation. In a book you can "sit with the words on the page" and take your time with your thoughts and emotions. The author goes to great lengths to describe a scene, provide background, and give you perspective to immerse yourself in their story.  In a movie it is more visually engaging and you are a captive audience for a limited amount of time. They immerse you in the story and use background sounds and music to illicit the feeling.   Both can be equally entertaining, but most will find a greater connection to the story told by the author versus in a film. We ...