Fall 2026

What’s New at the Talking Book Library?

Summer always goes by so fast! Outside of the Library's ever-popular Summer Reading challenge, Access Services Librarian Babak Zarin visited library branches in Fredericksburg, Stafford, Spotsylvania, and Westmoreland, as well as one of its two satellite locations. It was great getting to see everyone!

There's still plenty to read and do at the library this fall. Learn more below!

Best-Selling Talking Book Titles

Fiction

• Twice: A Novel by Mitch Albom (DB133500)

• Dear Debbie by Freida McFadden (DB135559)

• The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories by Salman Rushdie (DB133916)

• Gone Before Goodbye: A Novel by Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben (DB133207 10)



• Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett (DB136238)

Nonfiction

• The Greatest Sentence Ever Written by Walter Isaacson (DB134372) 

• Mark Twain by Ron Chernow (DB130052)

• The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon (DB133490)

• We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America by Norah O'Donnell and Kate Andersen Brower (DB136239)



• Enough: Your Health, Your Weight, and What It's Like to Be Free by Ania M. Jastreboff and Oprah Winfrey (DB135805)

2026 Rappahannock Writers' Conference

Central Rappahannock Regional Library will hold the tenth annual Rappahannock Writers’ Conference online and in-person at Germanna Community College,10000 Germanna Point Dr., Fredericksburg, VA 22408 on Saturday, November 14, 8:45 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

A day to celebrate writers, the conference will feature keynote speeches from the acclaimed, multi-award-winning authors Alma Katsu and Donna Andrews, as well as informational workshops and panel discussions aimed at adults and teens at all writing levels led by nationally recognized and local authors. For more information, visit librarypoint.org/writers-conference. Registration begins Friday, October 2. Space is limited for in-person attendance.

Central Rappahannock Regional Library (CRRL) At Your Library Magazine

The latest issue of At Your Library is now available online. Take a moment to browse the issue to see all the exciting events happening this quarter!

Upcoming Holidays and Your Next Issue of Sightlines



Thanksgiving

• On Wednesday, November 25, IdeaSpace, Cooper, and Newton locations will be closed, with all other locations closing at 1:00. 
• All CRRL branches will be closed November 26-27. 

Your next Sightlines newsletter will come out in early December.

Contact Us

For book requests, to provide feedback, to arrange a visit by Access Services staff, or for more information on any of the Library's services, contact Access Services Librarian Babak Zarin at 540-372-1144, extension 7454; toll free at 1-800-628-4807; or email, talking-books@crrl.org.