Dear Friends,

Most of the golden leaves are on the ground but there is the occasional pop of color..and on a sunny day, the blues are still magnificent. It's been a gorgeous fall but it looks like we're moving on. It's time to think gift giving, here are some ideas and if you need some more suggestions give us a call or check out our website!

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Happy November, Happy Thanksgiving

Jenny, Kim, Anne, Amy, Patti

and Sue



The November

Selection of the Month is:

The Berry Pickers

By Amanda Peters

Catapult $17.99

July 1962. Following in the tradition of Indigenous workers from Nova Scotia, a Mi'kmaq family arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister's disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren't telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret.

~Recommended by Anne and Sue

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Countdown to Fall

Apple Pie Tired

By Beth Charles 

Illustrated by Hannah Brandon

Sleeping Bear Press $18.99

Lola's family has an apple orchard and every year they sell hundreds of apple pies for customers' Thanksgiving tables. It's always a big job, so this year Lola is going to cook Thanksgiving dinner on her own to help out. She has a plan and a list. But Mom and Dad need her help making all the pies too. Luckily, aunts and uncles and cousins arrive ready to help the family prepare a Thanksgiving feast! Just...no apple pie, please! (Ages 3 and up)

At Our Table

By Patrick Hulse

Illustrated by Madelyn Goodnight

Little Brown $18.99

At our table there is room to share a seat... room for old traditions and new ones... room to remember where our food comes from... and room to give thanks.There are countless ways we celebrate and give to others on Thanksgiving. The goodness we share lasts the rest of the year. (All ages)

Give Back

By Gina Bellasario 

Illustrated by Alicia Was

Orchard. $18.99

Follow a little girl and her multigenerational family as they prepare for a community meal and clothing drive. With charming, lyrical text from Gina Bellisario, Give Back celebrates kindness, community, and the various ways we can give to those around us. (Ages 2 and up)

Just Us

By Molly Griffin

Illustrated by Anait Semirdzhyan

Charlesbridge $17.99

When a snowstorm prevents all the relatives from coming in for the holidays, a family has to adapt their traditions and find new ways to celebrate. (Ages 2 and up)

Thank You

By Jarvis

Candlewick $17.99

The moon brings nighttime, and the sun the day. With no yellow and blue, we'd be a world without green lights, and without itches we'd never know the relief of a scratch. From oversized plants that offer hiding places to boots that somehow know the way, from siblings who bravely take the first plunge to yourself for being you. (All ages)

The Cottage

Children's Book Club

 The perfect gift for all of the little people in your life. Give the gift of a book a month!

Our knowledgeable staff will personally choose a hardcover book for each child. A passion for reading can begin at a young age and this special gift will foster the love of books and reading!

Here's how it works:

~ each month or bi-monthly the child will receive a recently published, age appropriate hardcover book matched with the child's interests.

(we can also choose classic children's books if requested)

~gifts will be wrapped and arrive with a book plate from the giver.

~the cost of the book (less a 15% discount) and shipping (USPS) is less than $22.00 per month. The amount will be charged to your credit card monthly or bimonthly.

Glen Lake Book Club

Meet the 3rd Friday of the month at Glen Lake Community Library at 10:00 a.m

November 15

The Covenant of Water

By Abraham Verghese

Grove $32.00



December 13

The Measure

By Nikki Erlick

William Morrow $18.99

New Releases

Blue Hour

By Paula Hawkins

Mariner. $30.00

Welcome to Eris: an island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day. Once home to Vanessa: A famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now home to Grace: A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation. But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery far away in London, a visitor comes calling.And the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge…. ~Recommended by Jenny

Grey Wolf

By Louise Penny

Minotaur $30.00

Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watches with increasing unease as her husband refuses to pick up, though he clearly knows who is on the other end. When he finally answers, his rage shatters the calm of their quiet Sunday morning. A missing coat, an intruder alarm, a note for Gamache reading "this might interest you", a puzzling scrap of paper with a mysterious list--and then a murder. All propel Chief Inspector Gamache and his team toward a terrible realization. Something much more sinister than any one murder or any one case is fast approaching.

Karla’s Choice: A John LeCarre Novel

By Nick Harkaway

Viking $30.00

It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West's spy war against the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only for a more peaceful life. And indeed, with his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumor that George Smiley might almost be happy. But Control has other plans. A Russian agent has defected in the most unusual of circumstances, and the man he was sent to kill in London is nowhere to be found. Smiley reluctantly agrees to one last simple task: interview Szusanna, a Hungarian émigré and employee of the missing man, and sniff out a lead. But in his absence, the shadows of Moscow have lengthened. Smiley soon finds himself entangled in a perilous mystery that will define the battles to come and set him on a collision course with the greatest enemy he will ever make.

Last One at the Wedding 

By Jason Rekulak

Flatiron. $28.99

Frank Szatowski is shocked when his daughter, Maggie, calls him for the first time in three years. He was convinced that their estrangement would become permanent. He's even more surprised when she invites him to her upcoming wedding in New Hampshire. Frank is ecstatic, and determined to finally make things right. He arrives to find that the wedding is at a private estate--very secluded, very luxurious, very much out of his league. It seems that Maggie failed to mention that she's marrying Aidan Gardner, the son of a famous tech billionaire. Feeling desperately out of place, Frank focuses on reconnecting with Maggie and getting to know her new family. But it's difficult: Aidan is withdrawn and evasive; Maggie doesn't seem to have time for him; and he finds that the locals are disturbingly hostile to the Gardners. Frank needs to know more about this family his daughter is marrying into, but if he pushes too hard, he could lose Maggie forever.

~Recommended by Anne

Like Mother, Like Mother

By Susan Rieger 

Dial. $29.00

Detroit, 1960. Lila Pereira is two years old when her angry, abusive father has her mother committed to an asylum. Lila never sees her mother again. Three decades later, having mustered everything she has--brains, charm, talent, blond hair--Lila rises to the pinnacle of American media as the powerful, brilliant executive editor of The Washington Globe. Lila unapologetically prioritizes her career, leaving the rearing of her daughters to her generous husband, Joe. He doesn't mind--until he does. But Grace, their youngest daughter, feels abandoned. She wishes her mother would attend PTA meetings, not White House correspondents' dinners. As she grows up, she cannot shake her resentment. She wants out from under Lila's shadow, yet the more she resists, the more Lila seems to shape her life. Grace becomes a successful reporter, even publishing a bestselling book about her mother. In the process of writing it, she realizes how little she knows about her own family. Did Lila's mother, Grace's grandmother, die in that asylum? How can you ever be yourself, Grace wonders, if you don't know where you came from?

~Recommended by Anne

From Here to the Great Unknown

By Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough

Random House $32.00

In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-gestating memoir. A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and the world would never know her story in her own words, never know the passionate, joyful, caring, and complicated woman that Riley loved and now grieved. Riley got the tapes that her mother had recorded for the book, lay in her bed, and listened as Lisa Marie told story after story about smashing golf carts together in the yards of Graceland, about the unconditional love she felt from her father, about being upstairs, just the two of them. About getting dragged screaming out of the bathroom as she ran toward his body on the floor. About living in Los Angeles with her mother, getting sent to school after school. About motherhood. About deep addiction. About ever-present grief. Riley knew she had to fulfill her mother's wish to reveal these memories, incandescent and painful, to the world.

~Recommended by Sue

What I Ate in One Year (And Related Thoughts)

By Stanley Tucci

Gallery $35.00

Food has always been an integral part of Stanley Tucci's life: from stracciatella soup served in the shadow of the Pantheon, to marinara sauce cooked between scene rehearsals and costume fittings, to home-made pizza eaten with his children before bedtime. Now, in What I Ate in One Year Tucci records twelve months of eating--in restaurants, kitchens, film sets, press junkets, at home and abroad, with friends, with family, with strangers, and occasionally just by himself. Ranging from the mouth-wateringly memorable to the comfortingly domestic and to the infuriatingly inedible, the meals memorialised in this diary are a prism for him to reflect on the ways his life, and his family, are constantly evolving. Through food he marks--and mourns--the passing of time, the loss of loved ones, and steels himself for what is to come. ~Recommended by Sue

Lakeshore Readers

Meet the last Wednesday of the month at Glen Lake Library at 11:00 a.m.

December 4

Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

By Ryan J. Stradel

Penguin $18.00

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