
Newsletter – February 2023
In this issue learn about: Library New Releases & Recommended Reads | BMI Art Workshops & Events | Twilight Talks | New Curator | BMI Tours | Our Retailers
The Reading Room (2pm in the Library for a start @ 10.30am – 12noon)
MAY SESSION
Caleb’s Crossing | Geraldine Brooks
In 1665, a young man from Martha’s Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. From the few facts that survive of his extraordinary life, Geraldine Brooks creates a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.
When Bethia Mayfield, a spirited twelve-year-old living in the rigid confines of an English Puritan settlement – and the daughter of a Calvinist minister – meets Caleb, the young son of a Wampanoag chieftain, the two forge a secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other.
As Bethia’s father feels called to convert the Wampanoag to his own strict faith, he awakens the wrath of the medicine men. Caleb becomes a prize in a contest between old ways and new, eventually taking his place at Harvard, studying Latin and Greek alongside the sons of the colonial elite.
Fighting for a voice in a society that requires her silence, Bethia becomes entangled in Caleb’s struggle to navigate the intellectual and cultural shoals that divide their two cultures.
Once again, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks brings to vivid life a shard of little-known history, and through Bethia and Caleb explores the intimate spaces of the human heart.
released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.
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In this issue learn about: Library New Releases & Recommended Reads | BMI Art Workshops & Events | Twilight Talks | New Curator | BMI Tours | Our Retailers
Katrina Hill (BMI Arts & Events Officer) who, in conjunction with Marilyn Furness (BMI Volunteer Coordinator) lead our team of volunteer tour guides spoke with Edwina Williams, Ballarat Times last week, if you would like to see the full article go to the Tuesday, January 17th, issue of the Ballarat Times, Times News Group We have reproduced the article, below courtesy Ballarat Times.For more information go to:Tours > Tours
Thank you to everyone participated in our December Book Sale. From those who donated valued and loved books to assist us in raising funds over the weekend 17 & 18 December and those volunteers who worked long hours sorting and assisting with the sale and pack up, we treasure you. Out of our donated books we have selected some books that belong in loved hands. This collection of children’s stories by Madonna is an example, if you would like to
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