AT THE LIBRARY
New items are available at the Hancock County Public Library.
The following items are available at the Hancock County Public Library, 900 W. McKenzie Road. For more information on the library’s collection or to reserve a title, visit hcplibrary.org.
Adult Fiction
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“A Good Neighborhood,” by Therese Anne Fowler
In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son, Xavier, who’s headed to college in the fall. All is well until the Whitmans — a family with new money and a troubled teenage daughter — raze the house and trees next door to build themselves a showplace. With little in common except a property line, the two families quickly find themselves at odds: first, over a historic oak tree in Valerie’s yard, and soon after, the blossoming romance between their two teenagers. “A Good Neighborhood” asks big questions about life in America today: What does it mean to be a good neighbor? How do we live alongside each other when we don’t see eye to eye?
Adult Nonfiction
“Travel Light, Move Fast,” by Alexander Fuller
After her father’s sudden death, author Alexandra Fuller realized that if she was going to weather his loss, she would need to become the parts of him she missed most. So begins “Travel Light, Move Fast,” the story of Tim Fuller, a self-exiled black sheep who moved to Africa to fight in the Rhodesian Bush War before settling as a banana farmer in Zambia. A man who preferred chaos to predictability, to revel in promise rather than wallow in regret, and who was more afraid of becoming bored than of getting lost. He taught his daughters to live as if everything needed to happen all together, all at once —or not at all. A master of time and memory, Fuller moves seamlessly between the days and months following her father’s death, as she and her mother return to his farm with his ashes and contend with his overwhelming absence, and her childhood spent running after him in southern and central Africa.
