Today marks the Lunar New Year, the beginning of the Year of the Tiger! Celebrate by picking up one of these 8 books highlighting Asian heritage.
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Prefer eBook or audio options? Find those here…
Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune: eBook | audiobook
My Year Abroad: eBook | audiobook
The Island of Sea Women: eBook | audiobook
The Night Tiger: eBook | audiobook
Xi’an Famous Foods: eBook
Mooncakes and Milk Bread: eBook
Looking for activity ideas for the chilly winter months? Sign up for Winter Reading! (It’s like Summer Reading but with more sweaters.) This year’s program will run from January 3-March 31, 2022.
Sign up here starting December 27 and every activity you complete will enter you into the end-of-challenge raffles. Prizes include gift cards to local businesses and a $100 WooSox (the Boston Red Sox’s minor league baseball team) gift card!
Looking to escape the cold and dreary weather? Check out these selection’s from the Children’s collection! You can armchair travel across the world, to fantastical lands, and even to strange places!
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The Friends of the Belmont Public Library is delighted to bring to Belmont critically acclaimed author Sanjena Sathian to speak on her breakout novel, Gold Diggers, on Wednesday, January 12 at 7:30pm. A magical realist coming-of-age story, Gold Diggers skewers the model minority myth to tell a hilarious and moving story about immigrant identity, community, and the underside of ambition.
Sanjena Sathian is the author of GOLD DIGGERS (Penguin Press, April 2021), which was named a Top 10 Best Book of 2021 by the Washington Post, longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and India’s Tata Literature First Novel Prize, chosen as an Amazon Best of 2021 pick, a Good Morning America Buzz pick, and more. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is currently working on the television adaptation of Gold Diggers with Mindy Kaling’s production company, Kaling International.
Registration is required; please register here. Zoom information will be sent in your registration confirmation. Thanks to the Friends of the Belmont Public Library for making this author series possible.
To build on the successes of 2021 in the New Year, we invite you to let us know what programs you want to see next year. You can find our adult programming survey here. Children’s programming feedback can be submitted here while feedback for Young Adults is welcome here. With your insights, we can create more innovative programming in 2022 that fits the needs and interests of our community.
THANK YOU!
Start off 2022 by checking out one of the highest circulating books or films from 2021!
Nonfiction
1. Say I’m Dead by E. Dolores Johnson
2. Myers+Chang at Home by Joanne Chang
3. A Promised Land by Barack Obama
4. The Premonition by Michael Lewis
5. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
6. Modern Comfort Food by Ina Garten
7. Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
8. Jubilee by Toni Tipton-Martin
9. The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
10. Ottolenghi Flavor by Yotam Ottolenghi
Fiction
1. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
2. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
3. The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
4. Sooley by John Grisham
5. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
6. Win by Harlan Coben
7. When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain
8. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
9. The Guest List by Lucy Foley
10. Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
DVD/Blu-ray
1. Knives Out
2. Minari
3. News of the World
4. Mulan
5. Soul
6. Promising Young Woman
7. The Father
8. 1917
9. Nomadland
10. Wild Mountain Thyme
Many of our museum passes are back for your enjoyment! Belmont residents can use their library card to reserve a pass; just make sure to call the museum too as some are limiting entry (library pass availability does not guarantee entry).
Did you make a resolution to read more this year? These eight books are two biographies for the price (free, of course) of one!
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Prefer eBook and audio options? Find those here…
The Sword and the Shield: eBook
Vincent and Theo: eBook | audiobook
Romantic Outlaws: eBook
The Professor and the Madman: eBook | audiobook
Paper Bullets: eBook | audiobook
The Zealot and the Emancipator: eBook
Did you know that those awesome, cheesy, awesomely cheesy tv holiday movies come out on DVD? They do and we’ve got ’em! Come in today to check one out or place a hold in time for your holiday season viewing pleasure. And for streaming options, be sure to check out the ‘Season Favorites’ section of Kanopy!
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Journalist and documentary producer Bill Lichtenstein will speak about his book WBCN and the American Revolution: How a Radio Station Defined Politics, Counterculture and Rock and Roll on Wednesday, December 1st at 7:30pm. Lichtenstein is the winner of more than sixty major journalism awards, he has written for publications including the New York Times, the Nation, the Village Voice, and the Boston Globe, and produced and directed the feature-length documentary, WBCN and the American Revolution. He worked at WBCN from 1971 to 1977, beginning as a teenage volunteer on the station’s “Listener Line.”
The book, which will be released by MIT Press/Penguin Random House on Tuesday November 23, is a companion to the film festival sensation WBCN and The American Revolution. The popular rock documentary will air on PBS World on Friday, November 19 at 8 p.m. EST and Saturday, November 20 at 1 a.m., 9 a.m., and 3 p.m. EST. The film will also be re-broadcast on public television stations around the country throughout the fall and winter (check local listings). In the Boston area it will be airing on WGBH2 on Thursday, Nov. 11 at 9 p.m. and on WGBX44 on Sat. Nov. 13 at 8 p.m.
Registration is required; please register here. Zoom information will be sent in your registration confirmation. Thanks to the Friends of the Belmont Public Library for making this author series possible.
