Every month, we’re profiling new-ish releases that are getting critical and commercial buzz. For September, we’re looking at the first book in two very different romance series, a space opera, the latest Lisa See book, a historical suspense novel that involves Jack the Ripper, a novel that made the Booker Longlist this year, an epic fantasy written by an author known as the Korean J. R. R. Tolkien, a rom com set on a ship, and nonfiction about iconic American food.
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Free to Be: September
This year marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It’s an important historical birthday for the United States, and we will be celebrating it all year-round with our new Free to Be series. With respect to Marlo Thomas, our Free to Be posts will be celebrating unique freedoms we enjoy as Americans. And this month, we’re looking at how we’re free to create.
Continue reading “Free to Be: September”Exploring Genres: Science Fiction
Stuck in a reading rut? Want to expand your reading horizons in 2026? You’re in luck! Every month this year, we will be delving deep into popular genres at the library. If you’re already a fan, find readalike suggestions for popular authors and ideas for similar genres to explore. If you’re brand new to the genre in question, you will find a helpful explanation of the hallmarks of the genre, a breakdown of its most common subgenres, and explanations of what readers find so appealing about the most popular authors writing those types of books. Let’s explore science fiction for August since we made pigs fly earlier this month when we opened our new building. 🙂
Continue reading “Exploring Genres: Science Fiction”Maggie O’Farrell’s Land
Maggie O’Farrell has been having quite a moment as a writer in 2026. Earlier this year, she was Oscar-nominated for cowriting the screenplay for Hamnet, based on her own 2020 novel, and now, she had a new bestseller with Land this summer.
O’Farrell has been writing literary fiction for years now, with an increasing focus on historical figures. In her two previous novels, she concentrated on relatively famous figures–William Shakespeare and his wife for Hamnet and Lucrezia de’ Medici for The Marriage Portrait. For her latest, she picks an equally real but more obscure historical person to center the novel on, her own great-great-grandfather.
Continue reading “Maggie O’Farrell’s Land”Berryville Library Grand Opening!
We had so much fun at our grand opening last Friday! Thank you so much to everyone who turned out for the ribbon cutting and the open house!
Continue reading “Berryville Library Grand Opening!”Free to Be: August
This year marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It’s an important historical birthday for the United States, and we will be celebrating it all year-round with our new Free to Be series. With respect to Marlo Thomas, our Free to Be posts will be celebrating unique freedoms we enjoy as Americans. And this month, as we plan to open our new facility, we’re looking at how we’re free to play.
Continue reading “Free to Be: August”You’re Invited to Our Grand Opening!
We hope to see you at the Grand Opening of the new Berryville Library on Friday, August 7!
We will be doing the ribbon cutting at 10 am and then hosting the Grand Opening until 2 pm.
Continue reading “You’re Invited to Our Grand Opening!”Behind the Scenes of the Move!
We have had a lot of people in the weeks leading up to the move ask exactly how you move a library. Well, the answer is very methodically.
Continue reading “Behind the Scenes of the Move!”Exploring Genres: Historical Fiction
Stuck in a reading rut? Want to expand your reading horizons in 2026? You’re in luck! Every month this year, we will be delving deep into popular genres at the library. If you’re already a fan, find readalike suggestions for popular authors and ideas for similar genres to explore. If you’re brand new to the genre in question, you will find a helpful explanation of the hallmarks of the genre, a breakdown of its most common subgenres, and explanations of what readers find so appealing about the most popular authors writing those types of books. Let’s explore historical fiction for July as we’re making history moving to our new library!
Continue reading “Exploring Genres: Historical Fiction”Letter from Penelope, the Library Goose
Dear gentle readers,
This is Penelope, the library goose, checking in. When the staff sent me around the world a few years ago, I signed off from my journeys with the hope that, in a few years, we would be moving into a new library that will better accommodate my quarters and wardrobe.
Well, that time has come. Today is the last day we are open at 104 Spring Street. The next time you’ll see me in the, well, feathers, we will be at our new location on 207 S. Springfield.
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