Friends of the Library – Are you interested in supporting our library as part of a Friends of the Library group? Please contact Amy Garoutte at either branch for more information.
Overdue Books? Do you have an overdue library book causing you grief every time you look at it? Feel free to bring it back anytime without worrying about fines. Our libraries do not charge late fees for overdue books.
Our new books:
Fiction:
The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny
The nineteenth novel in Louise Penny’s #1 New York Times-bestselling series! A missing coat, an intruder alarm, a note for Gamache reading “this might interest you”, a puzzling scrap of paper with a mysterious list―and then a murder. All propel Chief Inspector Gamache and his team toward a terrible realization. Something much more sinister than any one murder or any one case is fast approaching.
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties―successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women―his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.
For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude―a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary people’s lives. The Mighty Red is a novel of tender humor, disturbance, and hallucinatory mourning. It is about on-the-job pains and immeasurable satisfactions, a turbulent landscape, and eating the native weeds growing in your backyard. It is about ordinary people who dream, grow up, fall in love, struggle, endure tragedy, carry bitter secrets; men and women both complicated and contradictory, flawed and decent, lonely and hopeful. It is about a starkly beautiful prairie community whose members must cope with devastating consequences as powerful forces upend them. As with every book this great modern master writes, The Mighty Red is about our tattered bond with the earth, and about love in all of its absurdity and splendor.
Non Fiction:
The Absinthe Forager: A True Story of Deception, Betrayal and the World’s Most Dangerous Spirit
Thought to be hallucinogenic and banned globally for a century, absinthe is once again legal and popular. Yet it is still associated with bohemian lifestyles, just as when it was the favorite drink of avant-gardists like Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh and Baudelaire. And today, when vintage, pre-ban bottles are discovered, they can sell for exorbitant prices to private collectors. But such discoveries are increasingly rare.
Which is why the absinthe demimonde of rich collectors was electrified when a mysterious bon vivant claimed to be in possession of a collection of precious, pre-ban bottles.
Is his secret tranche of 100-year-old bottles real? And just who is the shadowy person selling them? And what about rumors of another secret cache, hidden away in an Italian palazzo?
Journalist Evan Rail sets out to discover the truth about the enigmatic dealer and the secret stashes. Along the way, he drinks with absintheurs frantically chasing down the pre-bans, visits modern distillers who have seen their status rise from criminal bootleggers to sought-after celebrities, and relates the legendary history of absinthe, from its birth in Switzerland through its coming of age in France, and on to its modern revival.
The Ultimate Guide to Wiring – 10th Edition
This DIY guide demystifies home wiring and residential electrical systems with easy-to-understand language, step-by-step photography, and detailed illustrations. This 10th edition has been fully updated to comply with the latest National Electrical Code standards and includes insight on smart home automation, renewable energy, LED wafer lighting, dimmer switches, indoor and outdoor emergency systems, and more.
Medicare for Dummies
This newly updated guide covers the latest changes in benefits, including expanded coverage for mental health and chronic pain. In simple language and clear step-by-step instructions, this bestseller walks you through the enrollment process and helps you avoid costly mistakes along the way.
Our new DVDs:
The Long Game The Long Game is a beautiful, inspirational true story about five young Mexican-American caddies in 1957 who, barred from playing on the courses where they caddied, decided to build their own golf course in the South Texas desert and ultimately won the state championship with the help of their superintendent-turned-coach. Starring Jay Hernandez, Dennis Quaid, and Cheech Marin.
The Bikeriders The Bikeriders captures a rebellious time in America when the culture and people were changing. After a chance encounter at a local bar, strong-willed Kathy (Jodie Comer) is inextricably drawn to Benny (Austin Butler), the newest member of Midwestern motorcycle club, the Vandals led by the enigmatic Johnny (Tom Hardy). Much like the country around it, the club begins to evolve, transforming from a gathering place for local outsiders into a dangerous underworld of violence, forcing Benny to choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the club.
RECURRING PROGRAMS at the libraries
- Preschool-age Storytime (ages preK – 3rd grade) every Monday at the Saguache Public Library at 1:30PM and every Monday at the Baca Grande Library at 10:30 AM
- Tech Help every Friday from 10 a.m.-noon at the Baca Grande Library and every Monday at 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. at the Saguache Public Library
- In Town Hours every Wednesday from 12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. at the Little Shepherd Church, Crestone.
- Poetry Night – Every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. at T-Road Brewing Co.
- Colorado Room Coffee and Connections – every Thursday from 10 a.m. – 11 a.m. at the Saguache Public Library
- Write a Book Workshop every Thursday from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Saguache Public Library and every Saturday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Baca Grande Library
- Free Food Friday every Friday from 10 a.m.-noon at the Baca Grande Library and the Saguache Public Library.
- Storytime w/ Ani K every Saturday from 10-11 at the Baca Grande LIbrary
CLOSURES THIS MONTH
- Monday, November 11th the libraries will be closed to observe Veterans Day
- Thursday, November 28th-29th the libraries will be closed for Thanksgiving
For questions concerning programming, please call the Baca Grande Library at 719-256-4100
LIBRARY HOURS
Baca Grande Library hours are Monday to Friday, 10am-5pm and Saturday, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Saguache Public Library hours are Monday to Friday, 10am-5pm, and Saturday, 10am-4 pm.