Community Corner

Spring Book Picks from Brighton Library

Ed Rutkowski, assistant director of the Brighton District Library, highlights three new adult book releases.

Out of the hundreds of new titles the library has added already this year, beside the latest blockbusters from Patterson and Picoult, here are a few noteworthy books that you may want to check out.Β 

  • The October Killings, by Wessel Ebersohn. This deft new thriller, after a long hiatus from South African author Ebersohn, follows Abigail Bukula, an official in the new South African government, as she tries to protect the white soldier who saved her life in an apartheid-era raid, the other participants in which have turned up dead.
  • Among Others, by Jo Walton. This novel is the diary of a young Welsh woman enrolled by her enigmatic father’s family at a mundane prep school after a magical cataclysm involving her dangerous mother. As she devours science fiction and fantasy (her reading list is a terrific bibliography of genre classics), Mori Phelps engagingly comes to terms with enchantment and adolescence.
  • My Father at 100, by Ron Reagan. Reagan wrote this biography/memoir of his dad, the 40th president of the U.S., the centenary of whose birth was in February. Well-researched and written, this book gives an intimate view of the complex character of one of the major figures of the past American century.


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