Annette Curtis Klause
The Silver Kiss
Zoe’s mom is dying of cancer, her father is distracted, and her best friend moved away. She feels utterly alone until she meets Simon, who wants to avenge his own mother’s death, over 300 years ago.
Blood & Chocolate
Hot Romance & werewolves; much better than the movie.
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Are you addicted to listening to audiobooks as you walk around the Lake, or on your commute to work?
Beebe Library is pleased to announce the availability of free downloadable audiobooks, provided by a company called OverDrive, and courtesy of our membership in the NOBLE network (North of Boston Library Exchange). The collection includes fiction and nonfiction for adults, teens and children. You can audiobooks out with your library card, and download them for two weeks. Then you can listen to the books on your PC, or transfer them to an MP3 player or iPod. Some titles can also be burned to a CD.
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Quoted in Library Journal
When it comes to “Readers Advisory” (RA) – the art of linking readers with books – Beebe Librarian Leane Ellis has been enjoying a growing reputation. She was recently quoted in a national magazine, Library Journal, regarding a Reader’s Advisory training program she conducted for staff at Beebe Library. The article by Neal Wyatt in the November 1, 2008 issue of the magazine quotes Ellis discussing “genre studies” as part of the Wakefield staff training.
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Thursday, December 4, at 7 p.m.

(Photo by Asia Kepka)
Novelist and short story writer Jennifer Haigh will speak at Beebe Library on Thursday, December 4, at 7 p.m. Her first book, Mrs. Kimble, won the 2004 PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Her second, Baker Towers, was a New York Times bestseller and won the PEN/L.L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author. Her latest novel is The Condition.
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As we get closer to Thanksgiving and the gateway to the winter holidays, it becomes more difficult to find time for pleasure reading. However, if you do find yourself with time on your hands and craving something with a Thanksgiving theme or setting, look over our Thanksgiving Fiction list, or our Edible Fiction list, because this holiday is all about the food! Continue »

As we get closer to Thanksgiving and the gateway to the winter holidays, it becomes more difficult to find time for pleasure reading. However, if you do find yourself with time on your hands and craving something with a Thanksgiving theme or setting, look over our Thanksgiving Fiction list, or our Edible Fiction list, because this holiday is all about the food!
Looking for dysfunction in someone else’s family? In Suzanne Berne’s Ghost at the Table, Thanksgiving at a perfect colonial house in Concord, Massachusetts marks a reunion between the three Fiske sisters. Cynthia, the youngest, is an author writing a book about Mark Twain’s daughters in this portrait an unraveling family, set against the famous nineteenth-century author’s own family dysfunction.
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Jurassic Park author dies at age 66.