It's that time of year again; sign up for the Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library's adult winter reading club! For each book you read & review, you get a chance to win one of 8 different prize baskets, including a crockpot, yoga supplies, chocolate, tea, and a bingo set. Not sure what to read? Try "shake, rattle, and read"-ing one of these new books set in and inspired by the 1950s: Life for white farmers in 1950s South Africa was full of promise — young and newly married, Milla raised a son and created her own farm out of a swathe of Cape mountainside. Forty years later her family has fallen apart, the country she knew is on the brink of huge change.
Elegy for April by Benjamin Black
Junior doctor April Latimer is something of a scandal in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin. When she disappears, her friend Phoebe suspects the worst and resolves to investigate.
