This evening (Thursday) is the last-of-the-season Town House Forum, with Jim Rooney -- musician, award-winning music producer and author; and poet Jeffrey Harrison, often featured on NPR's "The Writer's Almanac" at 7pm.

The library will be closed on Monday (Labor Day).

New titles include "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage" - Murakami, "Lisette's List"- Susan Vreeland, " "The Long Way Home" - a new Louise Penny (!) (as an audiobook also), "Strange Shores" - Arnaldur Indridason,  "A Colder War" - Charles Cumming; for younger readers: "Sisters" - Raina Telgemeier, " The Fourteenth Goldfish" - Jennifer Holme, "Quest" - Aaron Becker. Next week brings "The Bone Clocks" - David Mitchell and "The Secret Place' - Tana French and "Personal - Lee Child.