Bailey Cove Branch Library

Valentine Roncalli struggles to save her decades-old family business, finding love and the life she wants along the way.

Two humans and two aliens, who are traveling to distant reaches of space to prevent a future catastrophe, crash on a ringworld apparently created by superior technologies. Tom Parker captures the personalities of the travelers through individual vocalization and provides smooth, expressive narration. The listener is soon caught up in the adventures of these vivid characters as they struggle to survive.

Note: This meeting of the Bailey Cove Science Fiction Book Club will take place in "The Reading Room" instead of the general meeting room.

The old fairy stories live again, subtly altered. By the prize-winning author of "Wise Children", "Nights at the Circus", "American Ghosts and Old World Wonders" and "Expletives Deleted".

Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: min your own business, fix what’s wrong and move on to the next job. Everything neat and according to spec, just the way he liked it. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Could you just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless mega-corporation?

Join us this evening for a free art/craft "getaway" for grown-ups each 3rd Thursday of the month at 6:00 (please note the "new & improved" start time!). This evening our theme will be the art of greeting cards and Valentines. We will begin with a brief slide show of everything from antique Valentines to contemporary paper art and craft.