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A few last things...
As we enter the last week of Adult Summer Reading, here are a few things to do before August 22: - Get your final raffle tickets in before noon
- RSVP for the Adult Summer Reading ice cream party here
- Hand in your yellow booklet—it's your ticket to the last raffle!
We're super excited for our first-ever Adult Summer Reading wrap-up party! We'll enjoy ice cream, discuss our favorite reads this summer, and preview some of the most-talked about fall books.
Congrats to this week's winners, Cindy and Lindsey! The Sox Snuggles raffle received 131 tickets from 33 Red Sox fans. The Liqueur & Leisure raffle received 309 tickets (wow!!) from 64 participants.
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Looking to complete one more reading challenge before the end of summer reading? Look to the future! These books that will help you complete the "book about the future" challenge.
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Crosstalk by Connie Willis
In the not-too-distant future, a simple outpatient procedure to increase empathy between romantic partners has become all the rage. Briddey is delighted when her boyfriend suggests undergoing the operation prior to a marriage proposal—to enjoy better emotional connection and a perfect relationship with complete communication and understanding. But things don't quite work out as planned, and Briddey finds herself connected to someone else entirely—in a way far beyond what she signed up for.
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Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food by Timothy A. Wise
A major new book that shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds. From the Small Planet Institute expert, few challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050, at a time when climate change is making it increasingly difficult to successfully grow crops.
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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She can remember the years before, when she was an independent woman, had a job of her own, a husband and child. But all of that is gone now...everything has changed. |
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Suicide Club: A Novel About Living by Rachel Heng
With the right balance of HealthTechTM, rigorous juicing, and low-impact exercise, Lea Kirino might never die. But Lea's perfect life is turned upside down when she is drawn into his mysterious world of the Suicide Club, a network of powerful individuals and rebels who reject society's pursuit of immortality, and instead chose to live—and die—on their own terms. In this future world, death is not only taboo; it's also highly illegal.
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Obscura by Joe Hart
In the near future, an aggressive and terrifying new form of dementia is affecting victims of all ages. Dr. Gillian Ryan is on the cutting edge of research and desperately determined to find a cure.
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The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually. This is only a preview of the changes to come. And they are coming fast. |
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What the Future Looks Like edited by Jim Al-Khalili
Every day, scientists conduct pioneering experiments with the potential to transform how we live. Yet it isn't every you hear from the scientists themselves! Now, a team of top-notch experts explain how today's earthshaking discoveries will shape our world tomorrow—and beyond.
For a more humorous look at future technologies, check out Soonish by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith |
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Raffles: Wine Wanderlust, Drama Delight, and Summer Supernova!
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If you're attending the Adult Summer Reading wrap-up party, you can hand in your booklets at the party! |
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We're always looking to improve and serve the community, and sometimes that means shamelessly copying other libraries. So tell us about a service or program you've seen at another library or museum that you'd like to see at Berlin-Peck!
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This challenge is worth 1 ticket. |
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Questions, comments, concerns?
Feel free to reply to this email, call 860-828-7126, or stop by the Reference Desk.
If you can't make it to the library and need special accommodations, please reply to this email or call 860-828-7126.
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