Author Archives: Walpole Town Library

“New from Ian McEwan, Booker Prize winner and international bestselling author of Atonement and The Children Act Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like thisContinue reading “Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan”

Longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize Winner of Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards Winner of the Costa Novel Award Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize “[Rooney] has been hailed as the first great millennial novelist for her stories of love and late capitalism…[she writes] some of the bestContinue reading “Normal People by Sally Rooney”

Join us at the library to watch Mary Poppins Returns on the big screen! The movie will start at 10am. Feel free to bring a snack. This program is free and open to the public.

“NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * ESQUIRE * VULTURE * BUZZFEED * BOSTON GLOBE * AV CLUB’s * NYLON * MEDIUM * THE MILLIONS * HUFFINGTON POST * THE RUMPUS * LIT HUB * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY * THE WEEK * AM New York “This amazing, sad, shocking, butContinue reading “Women Talking by Miriam Toews”

“From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, Jojo Moyes, the story of a young woman who finds new meaning in life after opening an eclectic shop and comes to terms with the secrets of her past In the sixties, Athene Forster was the most glamorous girl of her generation. Nicknamed the Last Deb, sheContinue reading “The Peacock Emporium by Jojo Moyes”

A sure sign that Spring is coming: The Friends of the Walpole Town Library Annual Plant Sale is just around the corner! Due to library construction, the plant sale will be held on the front lawn of the Historical Society.

The million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. Now Lost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline’s mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris under the shadow of World War I. “Not only a brilliant historical tale, but a loveContinue reading “Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly”

Stop by the library this week (April 8-13, 2019) and share one reason why you love the library. Let’s fill the mantle with love!  

“In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life–and heart–to take back her country in this exhilarating historical novel from the author of Next Year in Havana, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. Beautiful. Daring. Deadly. The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez–her family, her people, her country. Recruited by theContinue reading “When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton”

“The never-before-told story of one woman’s heroism that changed the course of the Second World War In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: “She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her.” The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her wayContinue reading “A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II”